Oil Biodegradation and Bioremediation: A Tale of the Two Worst Spills in U.S. History
By R. Atlas, T. Hazen. Environmental Science and Technology, 2011
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The devastating environmental impacts of the Exxon Valdez spill in 1989 and its media notoriety made it a frequent comparison to the BP Deepwater Horizon spill in the popular press in 2010, even though the nature of the two spills and the environments impacted were vastly different. Fortunately, unlike higher organisms that are adversely impacted by oil spills, microorganisms are able to consume petroleum hydrocarbons. These oil degrading indigenous microorganisms played a significant role in reducing the overall environmental impact of both the Exxon Valdez and BP Deepwater Horizon oil spills.
Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Pollution
View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/04e2b67e632a71639917019ce57761f745e3724b
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Citations in the corpus
- Marine Biofilms: A Successful Microbial Strategy With Economic Implications (2018, background): “During the 2010 accident in BP’s Deepwater Horizon, an estimated 780 million liters of light Louisiana crude oil were released (with 0.8 million barrels being recovered before reaching the water column) at a depth of more than 5,000m (Atlas and Hazen, 2011).”
- Micro‐by‐micro interactions: How microorganisms influence the fate of marine microplastics (2020, neutral): “Low nutrient 185 concentrations and low temperatures limit oil degradation (Atlas et al. 2011).”