Prof. Mervin Floyd Fingas

National Academy of Sciences, USA

Committee member

Email: fingasmerv@shaw.ca

Qualifications

1996 Ph.D., Environmental Sciences, McGill University

1982 M.Sc., Chemistry, University of Ottawa

1978 M.Sc., General Business and Managerial Sciences, University of Ottawa

1973 B.Sc., Chemistry, University of Alberta

1968 B.Sc., Greek and Latin, Concordia Senior College

Publications (Selected)

Books

1.      Fingas, M.F. In-situ Burning as an Oil Spill Countermeasure, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.463 pp., 2018

2.      Fingas, M.F., Oil Spill Science and Technology, Elsevier Publishers, 1054 pp., 2017

3.      Fingas, M.F., Handbook of Oil Spill Science and Technology, John Wiley and Sons Inc., NY, 688 pp., 2015.

4.      Fingas, M.F., The Basics of Oil Spill Cleanup, Taylor and Francis, 245 pp., 2012.

5.      Fingas, M.F., Oil Spill Science and Technology, Elsevier Publishers, 1155 pp., 2011.

6.      Fingas, M.F. The Handbook of Hazardous Materials Spill Technology, Editor, McGraw-Hill Handbooks, 2001, 880 p.

7.      Fingas, M.F., The Basics of Oil Spill Cleanup: Second Edition, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 256 pp., 2000.

8.      Fingas, M.F. and M. Punt, In-Situ Burning: A Cleanup Technique for Oil Spills on Water, Environment Canada Special Publication, Ottawa, Ontario, 214 p., 2000.

9.      Fingas, M.F., J. Charles, P.G. Langille, and L.B. Solsberg, Survey of Chemical Spill Countermeasures, Lewis Publishers, New York, 241 p., 1998.

10.  Fingas, M.F., W. Duval and G. Stevenson, The Basics of Oil Spill Cleanup, Government Publishing Centre, Ottawa, Ontario, ISBN 0-660-10107-7, 153 p., 1979.

Journals

11.  Fingas, M. and C.E., Brown, “An Update on Oil Spill Remote Sensing,” Ch. 3 in Advances in Environmental Research, Vol. 80, Nova Science Publishers, NY, NY, pp. 95-137, 2021

12.  Fingas, M., Visual Appearance of Oil on the Sea. J. Mar. Sci. Eng. 2021, 9, 97.

https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse9010097

13.  Fingas, M.,“Diluted Bitumen: Composition and Spill Behaviour,” in An in-Depth Guide to Oil-in-Water Emulsions, Nova Science Publishers, NY, NY, pp. 1-30, 2021.

14.  Fingas, MF, Yetilmezsoy K and Bahramian M (2020) Development of an Algorithm for Chemically Dispersed Oil Spills. Front. Mar. Sci. 7:600614. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2020.600614.

15.  Fingas, M., “Introduction to Oil Chemistry and Properties Related to Oil Spill,” Chapter in Handbook of Hydrocarbon and Lipid Microbiology Series. Hydrocarbons, Oils and Lipids: Diversity, Origin, Chemistry and Fate, H. Wilkes, Editor, Springer, Germany, pp. 49-80, 2020.

16.  Fingas, M.“Fundamentos da Limpeza de Derramamento de Óleo,” Translation of “The Basics of Oil Spill Cleanup” into Portugese, Taylor Francis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 296 pp. 453-472, 2019.

17.  Lehr, W., D. Simecek-Beatty, M. Fingas,“Whither Oil Spill Models in the Next Decade,” in Proceedings of the AMOP Technical Seminar on Environmental Contamination and Response, Environment Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, pp. 453-472, 2019.

18.  Fingas, M., “Carbonyls: Relatively -Unknown Burn Emissions,” in Proceedings of the AMOP Technical Seminar on Environmental Contamination and Response, Environment Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, pp. 636-662, 2019.

19.  Fingas, M., “Surface Chemistry and Oil-in-Water Emulsion Stability,” in Proceedings of the AMOP Technical Seminar on Environmental Contamination and Response, Environment Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, pp. 940-1023, 2019.

20.  Fingas, M. and C. Brown,“Oil Spill Remote Sensing,” in Horizons in Earth Science Research, Volume 19, Nova Science Publishers, NY, NY, pp. 71-141, 2019.

21.  Fingas, M., “Appendix: Volatile Organic Compounds,” in M.F. Fingas, Editor In-situ Burning as an Oil Spill Countermeasure, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL. pp. 397-456, 2018.

22.  Fingas, M., “The Fate of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons Resulting from In-Situ Oil Burns,” in M.F. Fingas, Editor, In-situ Burning as an Oil Spill Countermeasure, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL. pp. 349-396, 2018.

23.  Fingas, M., and P. Lambert, “The Newfoundland Offshore Burn Experiment,” in M.F. Fingas, Editor, In-situ Burning as an Oil Spill Countermeasure, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL. pp. 285-348, 2018.

24.  Fingas, M., “In-Situ Burning on Ice, Snow or in the Arctic,” in M.F. Fingas, Editor, Insitu Burning as an Oil Spill Countermeasure, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL. pp. 221-246, 2018.

25.  Fingas, M., “In-Situ Burning an Update,” in M.F. Fingas, Editor, In-situ Burning as an Oil Spill Countermeasure, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL. pp. 1-172, 2018.

26.  Fingas, M., “Development of a Practical Model for Chemical Oil Spill Dispersion,” in Proceedings of the Forty-First Arctic and Marine Oil Spill Program Technical Seminar, Environment Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, pp. 920-942, 2018.

27.  Fingas, M., “Simplified Procedures to Predict Water-in-Oil Emulsions,” in Proceedings of the Forty-First Arctic and Marine Oil Spill Program Technical Seminar, Environment Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, pp. 716-746, 2018.

28.  Fingas, M., “Measuring Oil Slick Thickness: A Review,” in Proceedings of the Forty-First 11 Arctic and Marine Oil Spill Program Technical Seminar, Environment Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, pp. 138-172, 2018.

29.  Fingas, M., “Remote Sensing for Marine Management,” in World Seas: An Environmental Evaluation Volume III: Ecological Issues and Environmental Impacts, Edited by Charles Shepherd, Academic Press, London, U.K. pp. 110-113, 2019

30.  Fingas, M., “Oil Spills,” in World Seas: An Environmental Evaluation Volume III: Ecological Issues and Environmental Impacts, Edited by Charles Shepherd, Academic Press, London, U.K. pp. 113-119, 2019