Proceedings of the 27. Arctic and Marine Oilspill Program (AMOP) Technical Seminar

The papers presented at this Arctic and Marine Oilspill Program (AMOP) conference reviewed the latest technologies that can be applied to the recovery and mitigation of marine oil spills. The AMOP conference is international in nature and is the only technical conference on oil spill science and technology in the world. While technical presentations about oil spills are the primary focus of the conference, many presentations also deal with other topics of interest, including contingency planning and legislation. In recent years, the conference has attracted approximately 200 people from around the world. The different sessions at this conference were entitled: (1) physical and chemical properties and behaviour of spilled oil, (2) containment and recovery, (3) in-situ burning, (4) activity updates and contingency planning, (5) detection, tracking and remote sensing, (6) spill modelling, (7) shoreline protection and cleanup, and (8) biological effects of oil and oil biodegradation. The conference also featured a technical seminar on chemical spills with a special session on counter-terrorism. Several presentations described the process of oil in water interactions and were aimed at optimizing response functions, strategy development for marine oil spill response, equipment deployment, containment, recovery, and shoreline assessment. Several studies also presented new treatments for oil spills. All 59 presentations were indexed separately for inclusion in this database. refs., tabs., figs