Oil Spill Overview and Recommendations for Moving Forward

PRESENTATION August 16, 2010

Speaker / Author

Edward B. Overton, Ph.D.

Dr. Overton's expertise lies in environmental toxicology and remediation, analytical instrument development, tech transfer, environmental science, oil and gas development, pollution and research instrumentation. His research interests include the evaluation and interpretation of analytical, chemical, physical and toxicological data. He also studies the development of field deployable analytical instrumentation to detect and identify toxic volatile chemicals. Additionally, he researches the development of accurate and sophisticated field analytical equipment. He also studies the evaluation of data from chemical spill incidents and subsequent recommendations for remediation, as well as tech transfer and commercialization of products of research. Dr. Overton educates the NOAA and USCG chemical response ... Read More