ReadTheBoard!

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ReadTheBoard!
Monday AP Style!

• Please bring your field journal in the box on Lab
  Table 3
• Please get out your Venn Diagram for a stamp.
  Compare your diagram with your neighbor and add
  missing details.

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Exxon Valdez accident March, 1989
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hypothermia
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• Pooled oil from the Exxon Valdez sits between
  rocks on the shore. Most of the spilled oil
  decomposed. Cleanup crews recovered about 14
  percent 13 percent sank to the sea floor about
  two percent remained on the beaches, but today,
  very little remains. - NOAA

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What were the effects of Macando?

• BP Gulf spill effects

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Clean up strategies

• Physical
• Chemical
• Biological (bioremediation)

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Oil Spill Hair mat
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Double hull required now
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• Oil spills account for only about five percent of
  the oil entering the oceans. The Coast Guard
  estimates that for United States waters sewage
  treatment plants discharge twice as much oil each
  year as tanker spills. - Smithsonian Institution

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Do oil companies have an interest in protecting
the environment?