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Hydrologic science priorities for the U.S. Global Change Research Program : an initial assessment
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ISBN: 0309066484 9786610185689 1280185686 030959376X 0585213003 9780585213002 6610185689 9780309066488 0309172691 Year: 1999 Publisher: Washington, DC : ©1999 National Academy Press,


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Review of USGCRP plan for a new science initiative on the global water cycle
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ISBN: 0309084067 0309500494 9780309500494 9780309084062 0309169720 Year: 2002 Publisher: Washington, D.C. National Academy Press


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Approaches for ecosystem services valuation for the Gulf of Mexico after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill : interim report
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ISBN: 0309211794 9786613527028 0309211808 1280123168 9780309211802 9781280123160 9780309211796 0309211824 Year: 2012 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press,

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On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon platform drilling the Macondo Well in Mississippi Canyon Block 252 (DWH) exploded, killing 11 workers and injuring another 17. The DWH oil spill resulted in nearly 5 million barrels (approximately 200 million gallons) of crude oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico (GoM). The full impacts of the spill on the GoM and the people who live and work there are unknown but expected to be considerable, and will be expressed over years to decades. In the short term, up to 80,000 square miles of the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) were closed to fishing, resulting in loss of food, jobs and recreation. The DWH oil spill immediately triggered a process under the U.S. Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (OPA) to determine the extent and severity of the "injury" (defined as an observable or measurable adverse change in a natural resource or impairment of a natural resource service) to the public trust, known as the Natural Resources Damage Assessment (NRDA). The assessment, undertaken by the trustees (designated technical experts who act on behalf of the public and who are tasked with assessing the nature and extent of site-related contamination and impacts), requires: (1) quantifying the extent of damage; (2) developing, implementing, and monitoring restoration plans; and (3) seeking compensation for the costs of assessment and restoration from those deemed responsible for the injury. This interim report provides options for expanding the current effort to include the analysis of ecosystem services to help address the unprecedented scale of this spill in U.S. waters and the challenges it presents to those charged with undertaking the damage assessment.

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