It’s a depressingly familiar sight when an oil well blows or a tanker runs aground: thousands of stranded, helpless animals wallowing in cloying crude oil. ‘Birds are often used as the poster children for the deadly effects of oil’, says Ivan Maggini from Western University, Canada, recalling the shocking images of struggling animals that accompanied the catastrophic Deepwater Horizon oil spill...

It’s a depressingly familiar sight when an oil well blows or a tanker runs aground: thousands of stranded, helpless animals wallowing in cloying crude oil. ‘Birds are often used as the poster children for the deadly effects of oil’, says Ivan Maggini from Western University, Canada, recalling the shocking images of struggling animals that accompanied the catastrophic Deepwater Horizon oil spill...

The thermodynamic phase diagram of an agrochemical active ingredient (AI) in water and acetone was determined using array process analytical technology (PAT) tools equilibrium experiments. This ternary system found to separate into multiple liquid phases at certain temperatures concentrations (oiling out). Furthermore, agglomeration the solid particles observed specific conditions. Signals from...

Avian mortality events are common following large-scale oil spills. However, the sublethal effects of oil on birds exposed to light external oiling are not clearly understood. We found that American oystercatchers (area of potential impact n = 42, reference n = 21), black skimmers (area of potential impact n = 121, reference n = 88), brown pelicans (area of potential impact n = 91, reference n ...

Salt marshes in northern Barataria Bay, Louisiana, USA were oiled, sometimes heavily, in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Previous studies indicate that fiddler crabs (in the genus Uca) and the salt marsh periwinkle (Littoraria irrorata) were negatively impacted in the short term by the spill. Here, we detail longer-term effects and recovery from moderate and heavy oiling over ...

Unprecedented recruitment of Gulf menhaden (Brevoortia patronus) followed the 2010 Deepwater Horizon blowout (DWH). The foregone consumption menhaden, after their many predator species were killed by oiling, increased competition among for food, resulting in poor physiological conditions and low lipid content during 2011 2012. Menhaden sampled length weight measurements, beginning 2011, exhibit...