General Information Sources

1. EPA Oil Spill Program
   This website gives information about the U.S. EPA's oil spill prevention and response programs.
    
2. NOAA Office of Response and Restoration
   This comprehensive site describes the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency's oil and hazardous material response and restoration program.
    
3. US Coast Guard
   Coast Guard activities and background for oil spill response are described.
    
4. Mineral Management Service Oil Spill Response Research Program
   The Minerals Management Service (MMS) describes the MMS comprehensive, long-term research program to improve oil spill response technologies.
    
5. Environment Canada
   The comprehensive program of oil spill studies being conducted in Canada is described.
    
6. International Tanker Owner's Pollution Federation (ITOPF)
   ITOPF is a non-profit making organisation, funded by the vast majority of the world's shipowners that devotes considerable effort to a wide range of technical services, the most important of which is responding to oil spills. Their technical advisers have attended on-site at 500 spills in 88 countries
    
7. US Coast Guard Spill Statistics 1973-2001
   This site presents graphs and tables which summarize oil spill data from 1973 to 2001.
    
8. Oil Spill Case Histories
   This is a document from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency Office of response and restoration that provides case histories of a large number of oil spills.
    
9. American Petroleum Institute Spill Response
   This page and its links provides a cuurent review of oil spill prevention and response technology.
    
10. http://response.restoration.noaa.gov/oilaids/spilldb.pdf
    National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: Case histories of 62 oil spills world-wide. Summaries of significant U.S. and international spills between 1967 and 1991.
     

Oil Spill Fate and Effects

1. What Happens to Spilled Oil?
   An Australian Government site that descibes the factors that affect spilled oil at sea.
    
2. EPA
   US Environmental Protection Agency oil spill learning center
    
3. IPIECA Oil Spill Pubications
   the International Petroleum Industry Environmental Conservation Association (IPIECA) is a voluntary non-profit organization whose membership includes both petroleum companies and associations at the national, regional or international levels. IPIECA holds formal United Nations status, which allows it access as a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) to all UN negotiations. The Association represents the views of its members in public fora and provides an interface between the petroleum industry and the United Nations Agencies.
    
4. Oil in the Sea III: National Academic of Science
   This links to the web-readable version of a recent summary of current view of oil spill inputs, fates and effects.
    
5. Oil in the Sea II: National Academy of Science (1985)
   Although 20 years old, this volume remains a comprehensive review of relevantinformation on oil spill fates and effects. It is available to readfreely online.
    
6. Oil Spill Studies: 1974-Present
   This summarizes a number of oil spill studies by Dr. David S. Page and Dr. Edward S. Gilfillan at Bowdoin College.
    

Oil Spill Response, Cleanup and Remediation

1. NOAA
   This links to the part of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency's office of response and restoration website dealing with response and cleanup.
    
2. http://epareachit.org/
   EPA REACH IT, sponsored by EPA's Office of Superfund Remediation and Technology Innovation (OSRTI), is a system that lets environmental professionals use the Internet to search, view, download, and print information about innovative remediation and characterization technologies.
    
3. Bioremediation 
   Notes on biomremediation of oil spills from Biology 596 Microbial Ecology, Dr. Davd Lipson, San Diego State Univeristy, California.
    
4. Use of Dispersants: Fate and Effects
   This links to the website for the National Academies Committee on Understanding Oil Spill Dispersants. This study is funded by NOAA, MMS, the American Petroleum Institute, and the U.S. Coast Guard. On this site you will find: the study's Statement of Task Statement of Task (the "charge" to the committee), a list of those serving on the committee , and a bibliography of publications.
    
5. http://www.environmentalreview.org/vol03/foster.html
   This is a thoughtful discussion of the pros and cons of oil spill cleanup.
    
6. http://response.restoration.noaa.gov/oilaids/monterey/monterey
   National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: Introduction to Coastal Habitats and Biological Resources for Spill Response. This is a 1992 training manual covering physical, geological, and biological considerations relevant to oil spill response and cleanup.
    

Oil Spill Modelling

1. ASA
   Applied Science Associates in Rhode Island has a website that describes their oil spill trajectory modelling software.
    
2. NOAA
   This US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency site describes various programs that can be used to describe the behavior and fate of spilled oil.
    
3. SINTEF 
   This Norwegian group has extensive modelling software to describe oil spills.
    

Oil Spill Photo Galleries

1. Global Marine Oil Pollution Information Gateway
   The Global Marine Oil Pollution Information Gateway is the oil pollution node of the GPA Clearing House Mechanism, the result of a co-operative effort of the United nations Environment Programme (UNEP) GPA Clearing-House Mechanism and the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency.
    
2. NOAA
   Here are guided tours and photos taken by NOAA OR&R scientists, spill response experts, and colleagues.
    
3. EPA
   This photo gallery links to photographs of various response techniques and oil spill effects. These images are intended to help you understand the potential for environmental damage and the complexity of oil spill cleanup.