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Progress in Operational Modeling in Support of Oil Spill Response by Barker, Christopher H., Kourafalou, Vassiliki H., Beegle-Krause, CJ, Boufadel, Michel, Bourassa, Mark A., Buschang, Steve G., Androulidakis, Yannis, Chassignet, Eric P., Dagestad, Knut-Frode, Danmeier, Donald G., Dissanayake, Anusha L., Galt, Jerry A., Jacobs, Gregg, Marcotte, Guillaume, Özgökmen, Tamay, Pinardi, Nadia, Schiller, Rafael V., Socolofsky, Scott A., Thrift-Viveros, Dalina, Zelenke, Brian, Zhang, Aijun, Zheng, Yangxing

“…Following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon accident of a massive blow-out in the Gulf of Mexico, scientists from government, industry, and academia collaborated to…”
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Modeling study on oil spill transport in the Great Lakes: The unignorable impact of ice cover by Song, Yang, Fujisaki-Manome, Ayumi, Barker, Christopher H., MacFadyen, Amy, Kessler, James, Titze, Dan, Wang, Jia

“…The rise in oil trade and transportation has led to a continuous increase in the risk of oil spills, posing a serious worldwide concern. However, there is a…”
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A generic approach to construct pseudo components for oil weathering models by Geng, Xiaolong, Barker, Christopher H., MacFadyen, Amy, Boufadel, Michel C., Thrift-Viveros, Dalina L., Jones, Robert K., O’Connor, Caitlin, Lee, Kenneth

“…Oil weathering models are essential for predicting the behavior of spilled oil in the environment. Most models use a “Pseudo Component” (PC) approach to…”
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Oil biodegradation in permeable marine sediments: Effects of benthic pore-water advection and solute exchange by Geng, Xiaolong, Barker, Christopher H., MacFadyen, Amy, Boufadel, Michel C., Lee, Kenneth, Thrift-Viveros, Dalina L., Jones, Robert, O’Connor, Caitlin

“…Oil spills have been recognized as among the worst kinds of environmental disasters, causing severe coastal ecological and economic damages. Although benthic…”
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Oil spill modeling in deep waters: Estimation of pseudo-component properties for cubic equations of state from distillation data by Gros, Jonas, Dissanayake, Anusha L., Daniels, Meghan M., Barker, Christopher H., Lehr, William, Socolofsky, Scott A.

“…Deep-water oil spills represent a major, localized threat to marine ecosystems. Multi-purpose computer models have been developed to predict the fate of…”
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Simulations of underwater plumes of dissolved oil in the Gulf of Mexico by Adcroft, Alistair, Hallberg, Robert, Dunne, John P., Samuels, Bonita L., Galt, J. A., Barker, Christopher H., Payton, Debra

“…A simple model of the temperature‐dependent biological decay of dissolved oil is embedded in an ocean‐climate model and used to simulate underwater plumes of…”
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Wave-Driven Transport of Surface Oil by SOBEY, R. J, BARKER, C. H

“…The potential of surface gravity waves to transport a surface oil spill in coastal waters is investigated. A small wave- averaged surface current, directed…”
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PREPAREDNESS, PLANNING, AND ADVANCES IN OPERATIONAL RESPONSE by Westerholm, David G., Ainsworth, Cameron H., Barker, Christopher H., Brewer, Peter G., Farrington, John W., Justić, Dubravko, Kourafalou, Vassiliki H., Murawski, Steven A., Shepherd, John G., Solo-Gabriele, Helena M.

“…During the last 50 years, the numbers and sizes of oil spills have been significantly reduced through prevention. But spills still occur, and it is critical to…”
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Analysis of Methods Used in Spill Response Planning: Trajectory Analysis Planner TAP II by Barker, Christopher H., Galt, J.A.

“…Long records of geophysical forcing have been used in numerous studies to estimate a statistical distribution of oil spill scenarios. The resulting set of…”
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