Leading journal makes Exxon Valdez and other oil-related studies available free

(May 27, 2010) - The Rice University-led international journal Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (ET&C) this week released a special free virtual edition that makes available 25 previously released full studies on the Exxon Valdez oil spill. It also provides access to abstracts of more than 70 oil-related science studies published over the publication's 29-year history. The special online edition is available at http://www.setacjournals.org/view/0/virtualissueoilspills.html.

ET&C founder and editor-in-chief Herb Ward, professor of civil and environmental engineering and ecology and evolutionary biology at Rice University, said the journal is releasing this material as a public service.

"While the Exxon Valdez accident was a wholly different type of oil spill than what we are facing in the Gulf of Mexico, through the years we have published many peer-reviewed articles on the occurrence, fate and effects of oils and oil spills in the environment, including the Exxon Valdez oil spill," Ward said. "We are providing these previously released studies for free to help educate decision-makers, the public and the media in the wake of the April 20 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico."

Wiley-Blackwell co-publishes and distributes the journal for the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry.

The following are the 25 papers representing ET&C's complete archive on the Valdez incident from an electronic search of its database; the only modification of the search results has been to arrange the papers in chronological order. For extensive additional reading on oil-spill-related topics, such as toxicity and bioaccumulation, degradation and fate, and surfactants, go to http://www.setacjournals.org/view/0/etcrelatedarticles.html.

ET&C's sister journal, Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management, has published its collection on oil-spill-related topics at http://www.setacjournals.org/view/0/ieamfeaturedoilspills.html.

Cytochrome P4501A biomarker indication of oil exposure in harlequin ducks up to 20 years after the Exxon Valdez oil spill

Daniel Esler, Kimberly A. Trust, Brenda E. Ballachey, Samuel A. Iverson, Tyler L. Lewis, Daniel J. Rizzolo, Daniel M. Mulcahy, A. Keith Miles, Bruce R. Woodin, John J. Stegeman, John D. Henderson, Barry W. Wilson.

Temporal and spatial variation in solar radiation and photoenhanced toxicity risks of spilled oil in Prince William Sound, Alaska

Mace G. Barron, Deborah Vivian, Susan H. Yee, Steve A. Diamond.

Risk of weathered residual Exxon Valdez oil to pink salmon embryos in Prince William Sound

Ernest L. Brannon, Keya M. Collins, Mathew A. Cronin, Lawrence L. Moulton, Keith R. Parker, William Wilson.

Bioavailability of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons from buried shoreline oil residues thirteen years after the Exxon Valdez oil spill: A multispecies assessment

Jerry M. Neff, A. Edward Bence, Keith R. Parker, David S. Page, John S. Brown, Paul D. Boehm.

Comment on "Toxicity of weathered Exxon Valdez crude oil to pink salmon embryos"

Ron A. Heintz, Jeffrey W. Short, Stanley D. Rice, Mark G. Carls.

Toxicity of weathered Exxon Valdez crude oil to pink salmon embryos

Ernest L. Brannon, Keya M. Collins, John S. Brown, Jerry M. Neff, Keith R. Parker, William A. Stubblefield.

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon levels in mussels from Prince William Sound, Alaska, USA, document the return to baseline conditions

Paul D. Boehm, David S. Page, John S. Brown, Jerry M. Neff, William A. Burns.

Oil spill impact modeling: Development and validation

Deborah P. French-McCay.

Comment on "hydrocarbon composition and toxicity of sediments following the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound, Alaska, USA"

David S. Page, E. S. Gilfillan, Paul D. Boehm, Battelle, W. A. Stubblefield, K. R. Parker, J. M. Neff, A. W. Maki.

Comment on "hydrocarbon composition and toxicity of sediments following the Exxon valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound, Alaska, USA"

Stanley D. Rice, Mark G. Carls, Ron A. Heintz, Jeffrey W. Short.

Photoenhanced toxicity of aqueous phase and chemically dispersed weathered Alaska North Slope crude oil to Pacific herring eggs and larvae

Mace G. Barron, Mark G. Carls, Jeffrey W. Short, Stanley D. Rice.

Hydrocarbon composition and toxicity of sediments following the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound, Alaska, USA

David S. Page, Paul D. Boehm, William A. Stubblefield, Keith R. Parker, Edward S. Gilfillan, Jerry M. Neff, Alan W. Maki.

Natural exposure of coastal river otters to mercury: Relation to age, diet, and survival

Merav Ben-David, Lawrence K. Duffy, Gail M. Blundell, R. Terry Bowyer.

Exposure of pacific herring to weathered crude oil: Assessing effects on ova

Mark G. Carls, Jo Ellen Hose, Robert E. Thomas, Stanley D. Rice.

High frequency of K-ras mutations in pink salmon embryos experimentally exposed to Exxon Valdez oil

Nirmal K. Roy, Joseph Stabile, James E. Seeb, Christopher Habicht, Isaac Wirgin.

Sensitivity of fish embryos to weathered crude oil: Part II. Increased mortality of pink salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha) embryos incubating downstream from weathered Exxon Valdez crude oil

Ron A. Heintz, Jeffrey W. Short, Stanley D. Rice.

Sensitivity of fish embryos to weathered crude oil: Part I. Low-level exposure during incubation causes malformations, genetic damage, and mortality in larval pacific herring (Clupea pallasi)

Mark G. Carls, Stanley D. Rice, Jo Ellen Hose.

A principal-component and least-squares method for allocating polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in sediment to multiple sources

William A. Burns, Paul J. Mankiewicz, A. Edward Bence, David S. Page, Keith R. Parker.

Estimation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon concentrations in the water column based on tissue residues in mussels and salmon: An equilibrium partitioning approach

Jerry M. Neff, William A. Burns.

Characterization of mussel beds with residual oil and the risk to foraging wildlife 4 years after the Exxon Valdez oil spill

Paul D. Boehm, Paul J. Mankiewicz, James E. O. Reilly, Rolf Hartung, Jerry M. Neff, David S. Page, Edward S. Gilfillan, Keith R. Parker.

The natural petroleum hydrocarbon background in subtidal sediments of Prince William Sound, Alaska, USA

David S. Page, Paul D. Boehm, Gregory S. Douglas, A. Edward Bence, William A. Burns, Paul J. Mankiewicz.

Effects of naturally weathered Exxon Valdez crude oil on mallard reproduction

William A. Stubblefield, Gregg A. Hancock, Harold H. Prince, Robert K. Ringer.

Acute and subchronic toxicity of naturally weathered Exxon Valdez crude oil in mallards and ferrets

William A. Stubblefield, Gregg A. Hancock, William H. Ford, Robert K. Ringer.

Chronic effects of the Exxon Valdez oil spill on blood and enzyme chemistry of river otters

Lawrence K. Duffy, R. Terry Bowyer, J. Ward Testa, James B. Faro.

In vitro red blood cell assay for oxidant toxicity of petroleum oil

C.M. Couillard, F.A. Leighton.

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