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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 22 -- A federal appeals court on Friday cut in half a $5 billion jury award for punitive damages against Exxon Mobil in the 1989 oil spill that smeared black goo across 1,500 ...

COVINGTON, La. (AP) - An untested procedure to plug the blown-out oil well in the Gulf of Mexico seemed to be working, officials said Thursday, but new estimates from scientists showed the spill ...

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.