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