During and after the Exxon Valdez oil spill, she directed the Valdez Sea Otter Rescue Center and coordinated a scientific research team to assess the effects of crude oil on marine birds and mammals.

When otters get oiled, their the fur becomes saturated with water. “It’s like a tear in a wetsuit–water infiltrates the fur,” said Williams, who directed the Valdez Sea Otter Rescue Center during the ...

The Shedd Aquarium announced Wednesday that animal care and veterinary staff have euthanized Kenai, a geriatric female and one of only two remaining sea otters rescued from the 1989 Exxon Valdez ...

The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council estimates the spill killed a quarter million seabirds, 2,800 sea otters, 300 harbor seals, 250 bald eagles, up to 22 killer whales and billions of fish eggs.

Dec. 17, 2008— -- Next year will mark the 20th anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spill - perhaps the most notorious human-caused environmental disaster in history. But, according to the ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska | Before the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico, there was the Exxon Valdez disaster in Alaska, at the time the nation's largest ...

Exxon Valdez (Ship) Notes Cover title. Special issue of: Alaska's Wildlife, Vol. 25, No. 1 (Jan.-Feb., 1993). "Biological effects of the Exxon Valdez oil spill"--P. [2] of cover. Date 1993 Call number ...

Exxon Valdez likely headed for scrap heap in India. Mar 23, 2012, 11:56 PM. Share . ... 1989, and spewed 11 million gallons of crude oil into the rich fishing waters of Prince William Sound.

In the aftermath of the 1989 oil spill off the Alaskan coast, scientists expected the worst damage to be short-lived. Instead, the spill shattered conventional wisdom about oil's affect on wildlife.

SAN FRANCISCO — The Exxon Valdez oil tanker can not return to the Alaskan sound it fouled 13 years ago with nearly 11 million gallons of crude, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday. The 9th U ...