Offshore Oil and Gas Environmental Effects Monitoring. Approaches and Technologies
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Author(s): S. L. Armsworthy, P. J. Cranford and K. Lee (Eds)
Publisher: Battelle Press
ISBN: 1574771469
Format: hardback
631pp
Price: $87.50
Review Date: 24 January 2005
Review: This volume comprises papers and discussions from the Workshop held at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography in May 2003. It gives an overview of current practices in the field of environmental effects monitoring (EEM) in offshore waters, and discusses the detection of change in marine ecosystems. The papers cover a broad range of issues that loosely fall into three categories: environmental management; EEM approaches and technologies; and regional experiences obtained through the application of EEM methods. Topics covered include: cost effectiveness and utility of monitoring pollution effects before they occur; plans for the management of environmental accidents; improving environmental management methodologies by linking EEM with ecological risk assessment; techniques used for detecting contaminants and predicting their fates; methodologies used for estimating biological effects; concerns regarding seismic activity effects on living resources; approaches to oil and gas development in sensitive and deep-sea environments; and effective experimental design of offshore EEM.