Abstract:More than 20 years after 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound, Alaska, the oil still persists on some of the previously polluted beaches. As part of the investigation for the persistence of oil, we conducted a field study for water flow and solute transport along a clean transect of a tidal beach in Smith Island, Prince William Sound (PWS), Alaska that was heavily polluted by the spill. Field measurements of water table and pore water salinity were obtained, and the results were modeled numerica… Show more
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