Accidental spills at sea – Risk, impact, mitigation and the need for co-ordinated post-incident monitoring

Kirby, Mark F.; Law, Robin

doi:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2010.03.015

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“…Secondly, the well-known Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) model (Figure 2), widely used in several management processes, standardised by ISO [38,39] and also being applied by some authors in the field of emergency response [40]. Additionally we observed similar cyclic models; presented by Smith [41] as well as the special accidental spill response cycle diagram, developed by Kirby and Law [42]. The emergency management cyclic model(s) served as an example mostly for the curriculum design and the PDCA model for compiling the application mechanism.…”

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Development of marine and coastal pollution training curriculum for master’s study level

2012

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This paper discusses the development of a marine and coastal pollution training curriculum and learning materials for enhanced management level competence. Currently, the existing training programmes in this field embrace mostly specific subjects and target groups. For instance, short courses for rescue services, police and border guards as well as volunteers exist in the Baltic Sea region. Simultaneously, background studies brought out, that no comprehensive high level training curriculum covering this field exists in the countries of the region. The results of the analyses of pollution case reports demonstrated an urgent need for an extensive course programme, enabling the specialisation of marine and coastal pollution prevention, control and response. The curriculum was worked out on the basis of a Master's Programme of the Estonian Academy of Security Sciences, being available also for students of other countries in the region. The study and development work were carried out within the framework of the Interreg IV A EnSaCo "Environment and Safety Management Cooperation on Shoreline Oil Spill Response". This curriculum is designed to utilise the unified competence of several research and development institutions as well as civil services and foreign experts. The essential endeavours of the developed course are a proportional coverage of all the steps of pollution management, and a balanced approach to coastal and marine pollution subjects.

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2012

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“…Accidents involving spills of oil and its derivatives in marine ecosystems typically cause contamination of a large area due to the large volumes of stored or transported oil (Kirby and Law, 2010). The growing concern about environmental problems of great magnitude has led to increased demand for ways of preventing and mitigating the environmental impacts that may occur (Kirby and Law, 2010;Anderson, 2002).…”

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Prospect, isolation, and characterization of microorganisms for potential use in cases of oil bioremediation along the coast of Trindade Island, Brazil

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2015

Journal of Environmental Management

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In the present study, acrylic coupons with a thin layer of oil on the surface were incubated in the coastal water of Trindade Island, Brazil, for 60 days. The microorganisms adhered to the coupons were isolated using enrichment medium with hexadecane and naphthalene as the sole carbon and energy source. A total of 15 bacterial isolates were obtained, and the ability of these isolates to use different hydrocarbons as the source of carbon and energy was investigated. None of the isolates produced biosurfactants under our experimental conditions. Subsequently, identification methods such as partial sequencing of the 16S rRNA gene and analysis of fatty acids (MIDI) profile were employed. Among the 15 isolates, representatives of Actinobacteria, Firmicutes, and Alphaproteobacteria were detected. The isolates Rhodococcus rhodochrous TRN7 and Nocardia farcinica TRH1 were able to use all the hydrocarbons added to the culture medium (toluene, octane, xylene, naphthalene, phenanthrene, pyrene, hexadecane, anthracene, eicosane, tetracosane, triacontane, and pentacontane). Polymerase chain reaction amplification of the DNA isolated by employing primers for catechol 2,3-dioxygenase, alkane dehydrogenase and the alpha subunit of hydroxylating dioxygenases polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon rings genes demonstrated that various isolates capable of utilizing hydrocarbons do not exhibit genes of known routes of catabolism, suggesting the existence of unknown catabolic pathways in these microorganisms. Our findings suggest that the microbiota associated to the coast of tropical oceanic islands has the ability to assist in environmental regeneration in cases of accidents involving oil spills in its shore. Thus, it motivates studies to map bioremediation strategies using the autochthonous microbiota from these environments.

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“…International ports that seek to transform themselves into green ports must first pay attention to pollution risk management in the port area. This study investigated pollution risk factors under the three aspects of air pollution, seawater pollution, and noise pollut ion based on a review of the literature [3,4,7,8,[14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33] and collection of recommendations from interviews with experts and scholars. The following Table 1 contains explanations of the assessment criteria obtained by this study.…”

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Brod

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SummaryThe main purpose of this paper is to use the fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (FAHP) approach to evaluate the key environmental risk factors for pollution at international ports in Taiwan. Relying on the literature and experts' opinions, a hierarchical structure with three risk aspects and thirteen risk factors is first constructed, and a FAHP model then proposed. Based on data from the AHP experts' questionnaires, we use the FAHP approach to determine key environmental risk factors. Finally, the results show that: (1) Air pollution is the most important aspect of environmental pollution at international ports in Taiwan. (2) In order of relative importance, the top five key environmental risk factors for pollution at international ports in Taiwan are the oil leaks from ships, volatile organic compounds (VOCs), exhaust emissions from ships at berth, harmful coatings on ships' hulls, and ships' failure to use lowpollution fuel. Furthermore, some discussions are provided for port authority in Taiwan.

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Accidental spills at sea – Risk, impact, mitigation and the need for co-ordinated post-incident monitoring

Cited by 94 publications

References 44 publications

Development of marine and coastal pollution training curriculum for master’s study level

Development of marine and coastal pollution training curriculum for master’s study level

Prospect, isolation, and characterization of microorganisms for potential use in cases of oil bioremediation along the coast of Trindade Island, Brazil

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