Contents
1 Variability of the Deepwater Horizon Surface Oil Spill Extent
and Its Relationship to Varying Ocean Currents
and Extreme Weather Conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Gustavo J. Goni, Joaquin A. Trinanes, Amy MacFadyen,
Davida Streett, María Josefina Olascoaga, Marc L. Imhoff,
Frank Muller-Karger and Mitchell A. Roffer
2 A Strategy for Bioremediation of Marine Shorelines
by Using Several Nutrient Release Points. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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David Parra-Guevara and Yuri N. Skiba
3 Prediction of the Formation of Water-in-Oil Emulsions . . . . . . . . .
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Merv Fingas
4 Equilibrium Theory of Bidensity Particle-Laden Flows
on an Incline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Sungyon Lee, Jeffrey Wong and Andrea L. Bertozzi
5 Operational Oil Spill Modelling: From Science to Engineering
Applications in the Presence of Uncertainty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Ben R. Hodges, Alejandro Orfila, Juan M. Sayol and Xianlong Hou
6 Application of a Numerical Statistical Model to Estimate
Potential Oil Spill Risk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Weijun Guo and Tiaojian Xu
7 Structural Analysis of Oil-Spill Booms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Frédéric Muttin
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