Lecture focuses on life after Exxon Valdez spill
October 17, 2014
Suzanne Bishop
907-474-6997
10-30-2014
In commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, a new project highlights the effect it had on the people of Prince William Sound. “Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Project Jukebox” will be presented on Thursday, Nov. 13, at 4 p.m. in the Murie Building auditorium at University of Alaska Fairbanks.
The project, an online multimedia website, debuted in June and features 20 interviews, video footage taken during the cleanup activities and links to photographs, movies and documentaries. Leslie McCartney, oral history curator at UAF’s Rasmuson Library, and Alicia Zorzetto, digital collections librarian at the Prince William Sound Regional Citizens’ Advisory Council, will present the many resources found on the website and discuss its research potential.
Extensive interviews address such topics as the impact the spill had on subjects’ lives and the environment, the cleanup, the long-term effects of the spill and the resulting changes in the oil industry monitoring system. Interviewees include author and environmental advocate Riki Ott, former Valdez Mayor John Devens Sr. and former biology professor Robert Benta.
This is a joint project with the PWSRCAC and was made possible with funding from the Alaska State Library, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Alaska Resources Library and Information Services, and the PWSRCAC.
For more information, contact Leslie McCartney at the Alaska and Polar Regions Collections and Archives, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, at 907-474-7737 or lmccartney@alaska.edu.
ON THE WEB: http://jukebox.uaf.edu/site7/exxonvaldez