In the wake of the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill, a number of government agencies,
academic institutions, consultants, and nonprofit organizations conducted lab-and field …

The lack of a conceptual understanding and unifying quantitative framework to guide
conduct and interpretation of laboratory oil toxicity tests, has led investigators to divergent …

Whether the result of an oil well blowout, vessel collision or grounding, leaking pipeline, or
other incident at sea, each marine oil spill will present unique circumstances and …

Oil fate and exposure modeling addresses the complexities of oil composition, weathering,
partitioning in the environment, and the distributions and behaviors of aquatic biota to …

Laboratory preparation of aqueous test media is a critical step in developing toxicity
information needed for oil spill response decision-making. Multiple methods have been …

During toxicity testing, chemical analyses of oil and exposure media samples are needed to
allow comparison of results between different tests as well as to assist with identification of …

Standardized oil toxicity testing is important to ensure comparability of study results, and to
generate information to support oil spill planning, response, and environmental …

While meta-analyses are common in the health and some biological sciences, there is a lack
of such analyses for petroleum-related marine research. Oil is a highly complex substance …

Oil pollution remains a significant local threat to shallow tropical coral reef environments, but
the environmental conditions typical of coral reefs are rarely considered in oil toxicity testing …

Coral reefs are keystone coastal ecosystems that can be exposed to petroleum
hydrocarbons from multiple sources, and when selecting spill response methods to limit …