NOAA's Office of Response and Restoration: Historical Oil and Chemical Spill Incidents Database
The Historical Incidents database contains reports and images from oil and chemical spills that occurred between 1968 and 2002. The database includes reports on incidents to which NOAA responded, as well as some significant incidents in which NOAA was not involved. The database includes mainly U.S. incidents, but also significant incidents that occurred elsewhere. Generally, it includes incidents that occurred either in navigable waters (including large freshwater bodies such as the U.S. Great Lakes) or in coastal waters, but does not include inland incidents.
Complete Metadata
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| description | The Historical Incidents database contains reports and images from oil and chemical spills that occurred between 1968 and 2002. The database includes reports on incidents to which NOAA responded, as well as some significant incidents in which NOAA was not involved. The database includes mainly U.S. incidents, but also significant incidents that occurred elsewhere. Generally, it includes incidents that occurred either in navigable waters (including large freshwater bodies such as the U.S. Great Lakes) or in coastal waters, but does not include inland incidents. |
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| identifier | gov.noaa.nmfs.inport:40830 |
| issued | 2003-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00 |
| keyword |
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"environmental monitoring",
"USCG district",
"bioremediation",
"chemical accidents",
"chemical spills",
"countermeasures",
"dispersants",
"in-situ burning",
"mitigation",
"oceans",
"oil spills",
"resources at risk",
"Atlantic Ocean",
"Australia",
"England",
"France",
"Indian Ocean",
"Mediterranean Sea",
"Pacific Ocean",
"Persian Gulf",
"South Africa",
"U.S. Coastal Waters",
"U.S. Navigable Waters",
"United States",
"DOC/NOAA/NOS/ORR > Office of Response and Restoration, National Ocean Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce",
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|
| landingPage | https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/40830 |
| language |
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|
| license | https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ |
| modified | 2003-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00 |
| publisher |
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"name": "Office of Response and Restoration",
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|
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| spatial | 180.0,-65.0,-180.0,57.0 |
| temporal | 1968-01-01T00:00:00+00:00/1968-01-01T00:00:00+00:00 |
| title | NOAA's Office of Response and Restoration: Historical Oil and Chemical Spill Incidents Database |
