Prof. Mervin Fingas
College of Alberta, Concordia University, Canada
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. Charles, Jennifer
& Fingas, Merv & Langille, P.G. & Solsberg, L.B.. (2024). Survey of
Chemical Spill Countermeasures. 10.1201/9781003578925.
2. Fingas, Merv
& Brown, Carl. (2023). Review of Oil Spill Remote Sensing.
3. Fingas, Merv.
(2023). Canadian storage tank spill risk analysis.
10.1016/B978-0-323-85728-4.00009-7.
4. Fingas, Merv.
(2023). An overview of typical legislation governing the design, construction,
and operation of storage tanks. 10.1016/B978-0-323-85728-4.00008-5.
5. Fingas, Merv.
(2022). 1 Introduction to oil chemistry. 10.1515/9783110694529-001.
6. Yang, Chun &
Wang, Zhendi & Yang, Zeyu & Hollebone, Bruce & Fieldhouse, Ben
& Lambert, Patrick & Fingas, Merv. (2022). 2 Chemical fingerprints and
chromatographic analysis of crude oils and petroleum products.
10.1515/9783110694529-002.
7. Fingas, Merv.
(2021). Introduction to Oil Spills and their Clean-up. 10.1201/9780367456252-4.
8. Fingas, Merv. (2021).
Introduction to Oil Spill Behavior. 10.1201/9780367456252-3.
9. Fingas, Merv
& Brown, Carl. (2021). An Update on Oil Spill Remote Sensing.
10. Fingas,
Merv. (2020). Introduction to Oil Chemistry and Properties Related to Oil
Spills. 10.1007/978-3-319-90569-3_29.
Journals
11. Lambert, Patrick
& Jones, Natalie & Brown, Carl & Thomas, Graham & Percy, Roger
& Fingas, Merv & Sergy, Gary. (2023). Environment and Climate Change
Canada Spill Research: An Update on a Project to Digitize and Make Available
Decades of Publications.
12. 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
13. Fingas, M.,
Visual Appearance of Oil on the Sea. J. Mar. Sci. Eng. 2021, 9, 97. https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse9010097
14. 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.
15. 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.
16. 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.
17. 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.
18. 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.
19. 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.
20. 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.
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