Oil Spill Impacts Taxonomic and Ontological Approaches

298 Pages·2016·16.908 MB·English

by  Wu, Yejun

OIL SPILL
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OIL SPILL IMPACTS
IMPACTS
Taxonomic and Ontological Approaches
Starting with the 2010 Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Horizon oil spill incident, Oil Spill Impacts: Taxonomic
and Ontological Approaches chronicles a timeline of events that focus on the impact of oil spills and
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provides an understanding of these incidents using a number of approaches. The book includes an Taxonomic and
interdisciplinary oil spill taxonomy, an oil spill topic map, and highlights information–organization tools, I
such as indexes, taxonomies, and topic maps that can be used to connect information resources with L
Ontological Approaches
concepts of interest.
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The topic map combines the function of ontology with the function of organized information resources, P
and contains thousands of concepts and their relationships extracted from approximately 300
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documents stemming from various academic conference presentations, journal articles, news reports, L OIL SPILL INCIDENTS
and web pages.
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COASTAL AND OFF SHORE ENVIRONMENTS

Divided into four chapters, the book begins with a brief introduction of the Gulf of Mexico Deepwater I
Horizon oil spill events followed by a breakdown of the taxonomy concepts distributed into categories M OIL, DISPERSANT AND OTHER CHEMICALS EXTENT AND FATE
and their subcategories. The book then describes the oil spill topic map separated by concepts,
relationships, and references. P OIL AND DISPERSANT IMPACTS ON HUMAN HEALTH AND LIVING RESOURCES
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IMPACTED WILDLIFE
This interdisciplinary reference provides to its readers:
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OIL AND DISPERSANT IMPACTS AND MITIGATION ON SOCIOECONOMIC SYSTEMS
• The perspective of multiple disciplines instead of just one discipline T
• An indication of the most important topics in the oil spill domain S DISASTER RESEARCH PLANNING AND PREPAREDNESS
• Developed research in the oil spill and oil drilling areas
DISASTER RESPONSES
• A broad and detailed view of oil spill issues

POLITICAL, ADMINISTRATIVE, AND LEGAL ISSUES
The book serves students, teachers, and researchers interested in oil spill issues, oil spill incidents, and

addresses their impacts that involve coastal and marine environmental sciences, biological sciences, ORGANIZATIONS AND PERSONS

chemistry, disaster management, geology, sociology, and government policy.
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OIL SPILL
IMPACTS
Taxonomic and
Ontological Approaches

OIL SPILL
IMPACTS
Taxonomic and
Ontological Approaches
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Contents
Acknowledgments ....................................................................................................vii
Author .......................................................................................................................ix
Contributors ..............................................................................................................xi
Introduction ............................................................................................................xiii
Chapter 1 Methodology ........................................................................................1
Yejun Wu
Chapter 2 Deepwater Horizon Circle of Life and Death ....................................13
Judith Sylvester
Chapter 3 Oil Spill Taxonomy ............................................................................29
Yejun Wu, David J. Dunaway, and Amanda Lehman
Chapter 4 Oil Spill Topic Map: Concepts, Relationships, and References .......171
Yejun Wu, Amanda Lehman, and David J. Dunaway
Appendix: Oil Spill Research Information Resources .....................................265
References .............................................................................................................271
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Acknowledgments
The book is a partial result of the research project “An Interdisciplinary Oil Spill
Topic Map for Understanding the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Incident,” supported by
the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative Year One Block Grant.
We recognize the contributions to this project made by the domain experts who
wrote manuscripts on the impact of the Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Horizon oil spill
incident for us: Professors Gary King (Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana
State University [LSU], Baton Rouge), Judith Sylvester (Manship School of Mass
Communication, LSU), Christopher Weber (Department of Political Science,
LSU), and Peter H. Yaukey (Department of Geography, University of New Orleans,
New Orleans, Louisiana). Dr. Matthew R. Lee and Holly Carruth (LSU Office of
Research and Economic Development) kindly sent us the slides of the presenters
of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Conference held at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on
April 29, 2011. Valuable comments, critiques, and suggestions were also received
from other domain experts, including Professors Gary King, Judith Sylvester,
Ronald D. DeLaune (Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, LSU),
Maud M. Walsh (School of Plant, Environmental and Soil Sciences, LSU), and
Rachel Dowty Beech (Department of Geography and Anthropology, LSU).
We are grateful to Barbara C. DeCuir, chemistry and biology instructor in the
University Laboratory School at LSU, who allowed us to do a formative evalua-
tion of the topic map using her chemistry classes (90 students) and organized the
evaluation. The comments and feedback received from the high school students were
invaluable in developing the topic map.
We are also grateful to Dr. Yingfan Gao, visiting scholar in the School of Library
and Information Science at LSU and research professor at the Institute of Scientific
and Technical Information of China, who assisted us in extracting concepts and rela-
tionships automatically from the documents we collected. We thank Rachel Gifford,
Carrie Moffett, and Steven Buras, who were graduate assistants in the School of
Library and Information Science, for their assistance in editing the taxonomy and
topic map. We also wish to thank the publisher, designers, and editors for their work
in making this book look so fabulous.
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