E The Magazine For Today's Female Executive August 2018 issue

Technical write-ups of her new bird and wildlife
cleaning protocol include immediate onsite
application of the EA agent by handlers
with the use of spray bottles and aerosol
mists. The oil cleaning agent used in her science
project, manufactured under the
name Oil Spill Eater II, can be applied in the
bird and wildlife holding areas.
Such a measure ensures
that, once the oil spill victims
reach the cleaning facility,
a more thorough and
exactly timed application
blankets the animals while
awaiting treatment. This
new procedure also includes
aerated holding
tanks with water quality meters
which measure toxicity
levels as the bioremediation
agent treats the effluent.
Alana advances her experiments
to validate
EA Oil Spill Technology
as 'First Response Tool'
But Alana didn't stop there --
she continued her study and
experiments conducting toxicity
and adhesion tests on
the three types of bioremediation
agents listed on the
EPA NCP (National Contingency
Plan) listings. Her
goal this year was to determine
if bioremediationbased
protocols would be an
effective 'First Response'
tool.
In her study of oil
spill cleanup issues,
Alana found
out that the current
Bioremediation
Fact Sheet, which
Alana conducting adhesion tests to Watson
Bros. Precision Balances in Burbank
government agencies use to determine when
and how these agents are used, is 14 years
behind the times. It is also missing current science
on the more advanced applications currently
available and uses of this oil spill technique.
Alana learned from the BP Gulf oil spill that applying
chemical dispersants broke up the oil
into smaller droplets, sinking them into the water
column. This process was utilized over the
course of the spill with the incorrect understanding
that the oil would become more available
for microbes to digest.
In actuality, subsequent studies showed that
the dispersant used -- COREXIT -- created an
oil droplet many times more toxic than the
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