{"id":935,"date":"2021-04-30T11:36:37","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T15:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/csllab\/?page_id=935"},"modified":"2023-02-02T10:38:50","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T14:38:50","slug":"oil","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/csllab\/projects\/oil\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<h1>Oil<\/h1>\n<p>We have investigated the use of portable X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy (XRF) for identification of oil sources. This methodology was\u00a0 used for investigating Deep Water Horizon samples along with oil samples resulting from the 1964 earthquake and from the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound, Alaska. These studies demonstrate how XRF and ATR-FTIR can rapidly distinguish oil sources, with implications for oil spill response.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\t<h3>Funding Agencies<\/h3>\n<p>The National Academies Gulf Research Program funded this research.<\/p>\n\n\t<h3>Acknowledgements<\/h3>\n<p>A special thanks to the Captain and crew of the Auklet for their assistance and generosity in helping with this study.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\t<h3>Partners\/Collaborators<\/h3>\n<p>This is a collaboration with H. White (Haverford College)).<\/p>\n\t<h3>Research Papers<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S0025326X20308365?via%3Dihub\">Identification of persistent oil residues in Prince William Sound, Alaska using rapid spectroscopic technique<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/10.1021\/acs.estlett.8b00589\">Rapid Identification of Deepwater Horizon OilResidues Using X-ray Fluorescence<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil We have investigated the use of portable X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy (XRF) for identification of oil sources. This methodology was\u00a0 used for investigating Deep Water Horizon samples along with oil samples resulting from the 1964 earthquake and from the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound, Alaska. These studies demonstrate how XRF and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":0,"parent":21,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/csllab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/935"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/csllab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/csllab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/csllab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/csllab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=935"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/csllab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1164,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/csllab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/935\/revisions\/1164"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/csllab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/csllab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}