Coastal Environment V: Incorporating Oil Spill Studies

by C. A. Brebbia (Editor), J. M. Saval Perez (Editor), L. Garcia Andion (Editor), L. Villacampa (Editor)

Overview

This book contains papers from the Fifth International Conference on Environmental Problems in Coastal Regions and its associated Fourth International Seminar on Hydrocarbon Spills, Modeling, Analysis, and Control. The coastal environment meeting dealt with problems related to monitoring, analysis, and modeling of coastal regions, including sea and air phenomena. An important part of the meeting involved discussing ecological and environmental problems and water quality. The seminar addressed topics related to soil and land oil spills, with papers on modeling oil slicks, the development of adequate oil spill contingency plans, and issues related to prevention and clean up. The US office of WIT Press is Computational Mechanics. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781853127106
Publisher:	WIT Press
Publication date:	04/06/2004
Series:	Environmental Studies , #10
Pages:	484
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.06(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Part I	Coastal Environment
Section 1	Ecology and the environment
	Effective use of geophysical sensors for marine environmental assessment and habitat mapping	5
	The use of ecological models in the sustainable management of estuaries	17
	Planning of protection zones and management costs in protected coastal areas	27
	Environmental considerations for sustainable development of the coastal region of Makri in the Evros prefecture, Greece	35
	The management of the coastal grasslands of Estonia	45
	The development of vessel wave wake criteria for the Noosa and Brisbane Rivers in Southeast Queensland	55
Section 2	Water quality issues
	Observations of nutrient release into semi-enclosed macrotidal lagoons	73
	A stochastic-dynamic model to predict fecal coliforms at the mouth of the Anasco River	83
	Development of a biomarker to detect bird fecal waste in environmental waters	95
	Faecal coliform, Escherichia coli or what?	103
	Increase sensitivity in detection and quantitation of virulence factors of Aeromonas hydrophila and Aeromonas caviae using quantitative PCR	113
	Coastal pollution monitoring by an automatic multisampler coupled with a fluorescent antibody assay	125
	Pollution source tracking to meet the demands of a revised European Union bathing water Directive	135
	Distribution and sources recognition of PAHs and PCBs in the sediment of Kaohsiung Harbour, Taiwan	145
	Salinity intrusion in coastal flood mitigation drains and creeks	155
	Flood events and the hydrology of a complex catchment: the drainage basin of the Venice Lagoon	163
Section 3	Wetlands
	A surface flow constructed wetland as a measure to maintain the natural habitat of a reserve and a way to reuse wastewaters	175
	Effects of wrack accumulation on Spartina alterniflora, Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, New York City	183
	Nitrogen removal in constructed wetland treating wastewater from the seafood industry	191
Section 4	Sediment problems
	Integrated monitoring system of littoral and fluvial sediment transport in Basilicata	199
	The geotechnical properties of the sediment body in the estuary of the Rasa River, Croatia	209
Section 5	Coastal restoration
	Artificial headlands for coastal restoration	221
	Building up the future: participative design of a rural development plan for the coastal communities of the arid regions of Baja California, Mexico	231
	Survey of fishermen attitudes in Japan	245
Section 6	Atmospheric aspects
	An assessment of the sea/valley breeze and its impact on ozone behaviour	257
	Coastal breezes and breeze induced waves in the Bay of Naples	267
	The evaluation of representative day and least representative day in a complex coastal area	279
Section 7	Sea states forecasting
	Sea storms which affected central Tyrrhenian coasts of the Italian peninsula in 2002	291
	Wave spectral evolution on the coastlines of southern Italy	301
	On the maximum wave height in the lifetime of a sea structure	311
	Semiprobabilistic integrated model for real sea forecasting	321
Part II	Oil Spill Studies
Section 1	Modelling of trajectory and fate of spills
	Mathematical modelling of oil spills in the Atlantic Iberian coastal waters	337
	Deepwater oil-spill modeling for assessing environmental impacts	349
	Oil spills in harbour area: a conservative approach to risk assessment and emergency planning	359
	Modelling the behaviour of an oil spill near coastal zones	371
	Simulation of multiphase flows of LNAPLs using experimental data of the soil water characteristic curves	381
Section 2	Bioremediation
	The use of molecular biology techniques for monitoring hydrocarbon degrading thermophilic bacteria as agents for monitoring soil contamination and/or natural attenuation	393
	Bioremediation of hydrocarbon contaminated gasoline station soil by a bacterial consortium	401
Section 3	Detection, prevention and cleanup measures
	Preliminary design criteria for oil spill confinement booms	411
	Experimental, numerical and optimisation study of oil spill containment boom	421
	An investigation of the applicability of oil fingerprinting as a tool in soil contamination in Flanders	431
	Complex treatment of soils contaminated by organic compounds	441
	Methodology and tools for the assessment of oil spills from land pipelines	449
	Saturation distribution prediction method for the spilled hydrocarbon in soil	459
	Author Index	469