Chapter 1 Oil Spills: Why Do They Happen and How Often?
Chapter 2 Response to Oil Spills
Chapter 3 Types of Oil and their Properties
Chapter 4 Behavior of Oil in the Environment
Chapter 5 Analysis, Detection, and Remote Sensing of Oil Spills
Chapter 6 Containment on Water
Chapter 7 Oil Recovery on Water
Chapter 8 Separation, Pumping, Decontamination, and Disposal
Chapter 9 Spill-treating Agents
Chapter 10 In-situ Burning
Chapter 11 Shoreline Cleanup
Chapter 12 Oil Spills on Land
Chapter 13 Effects of Oil Spills on the Environment
Reading for Further Information
Glossary
Index
Biography
Merv Fingas, M.Sc., MBA, PhD., has worked in the field of oil spill technology for more than 50 years. He was chief of Environment Canada’s Environmental Emergencies Technology Centre in Ottawa, Canada, for more than 30 years. After this, Merv continued research and projects in the private sector in Edmonton, Alberta. Over the years, he has conducted research in spill dynamics and behaviour, studies of spill treating agents, in-situ burning of oil, and oil spill chemistry and analysis.
Dr. Fingas earned his doctorate in environmental sciences from McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. He also holds master’s degrees in science and in business from the University of Ottawa in Ontario. He also holds a bachelor's degree in the arts and technical training, in both machining and electronics.
Dr. Fingas has authored or co-authored more than 1000 technical reports and papers on various aspects of oil or chemical spills. These include topics such as oil emulsion formation, oil evaporation, testing and use of treating agents, studies of oil analysis and fingerprinting, in-situ oil burning, oil spill remote sensing, and personal protection equipment. This is his fourteenth book.
Dr. Fingas is on many editorial boards for scientific journals. He served as an editor of the Journal of Hazardous Materials for a six-year term and is currently an editor of two journals related to remote sensing. He is a reviewer for numerous journals. He is the chairman of the in-situ oil spill burning, the treating agent and the remote sensing subcommittees of ASTM F-20 on hazardous Materials. Dr. Fingas has been a member of several committees of the United States National Academy of Sciences on oil spill topics.
