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Merv Fingas is affiliated with Environment and Climate Change Canada and has focused their research primarily in the fields of Environmental Science, Engineering, and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work spans multiple subfields including Pollution, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, and Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty.

The scientist's main research topics include Oil Spill Detection and Mitigation, Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact, Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Risk and Safety Analysis, Atmospheric Chemistry and Aerosols, and Mass Spectrometry Techniques and Applications.

Their recent scholarly contributions include papers published in recognized marine science journals. Notable publications are:

  • Visual Appearance of Oil on the Sea, 2021, Journal of Marine Science and Engineering
  • Development of an Algorithm for Chemically Dispersed Oil Spills, 2020, Frontiers in Marine Science

Merv Fingas has collaborated frequently with coauthors such as Carl E. Brown, Kaan Yetilmezsoy, Majid Bahramian, Mariano P. Ameijeiras, and Luis A. Godoy.

Their work has appeared primarily in publication venues including the Journal of Marine Science and Engineering and Frontiers in Marine Science.

Best Publications

  • Oil spill identification

    Zhendi Wang;Merv Fingas;David S Page

  • Development of oil hydrocarbon fingerprinting and identification techniques

    Zhendi Wang;Merv F. Fingas

  • Review of oil spill remote sensing.

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  • A Review of Oil Spill Remote Sensing

    Merv Fingas;Carl E. Brown

  • The Basics of Oil Spill Cleanup, Second Edition

    Merv Fingas

  • Comparison of oil composition changes due to biodegradation and physical weathering in different oils.

    Zhendi Wang;Merv Fingas;Sandra Blenkinsopp;Gary Sergy

  • Fractionation of a Light Crude Oil and Identification and Quantitation of Aliphatic, Aromatic, and Biomarker Compounds by GC-FID and GC-MS, Part I

    Zhendi Wang;Merv Fingas;Ken Li

  • Forensic Fingerprinting of Biomarkers for Oil Spill Characterization and Source Identification

    Zhendi Wang;Scott A. Stout;Merv Fingas

  • Quantitative characterization of PAHs in burn residue and soot samples and differentiation of pyrogenic PAHs from petrogenic PAHs -- The 1994 Mobile burn study

    Zhendi Wang;Merv Fingas;Y. Y. Shu;Lise Sigouin

  • Study of 22-Year-Old Arrow Oil Samples Using Biomarker Compounds by GC/MS.

    Zhendi. Wang;Merv. Fingas;Gary. Sergy

  • Developments in the analysis of petroleum hydrocarbons in oils, petroleum products and oil-spill-related environmental samples by gas chromatography

    Zhendi Wang;Merv Fingas

  • Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon emissions from the combustion of crude oil on water

    Bruce A. Benner;Nelson P. Bryner;Stephen A. Wise;George W. Mulholland

  • Differentiation of the source of spilled oil and monitoring of the oil weathering process using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry

    Zhendi Wang;Merv Fingas

  • Formation of water-in-oil emulsions and application to oil spill modelling

    Merv Fingas;Ben Fieldhouse

  • Studies of the formation process of water-in-oil emulsions.

    Merv Fingas;Ben Fieldhouse

  • Headspace solid phase microextraction (HSSPME) for the determination of volatile and semivolatile pollutants in soils.

    Maria Llompart;Ken Li;Merv Fingas

  • Chemical characterization of crude oil residues from an Arctic beach by GC/MS and GC/FID

    Z Wang;M. Fingas;G. Sergy

  • Study of the 25-Year-Old Nipisi Oil Spill: Persistence of Oil Residues and Comparisons between Surface and Subsurface Sediments

    Zhendi Wang;Merv Fingas;Sandra Blenkinsopp;Gary Sergy

  • Characterization and identification of a “mystery” oil spill from Quebec (1999)

    Zhendi Wang;Merv Fingas;Lise Sigouin

  • Studies on crude oil and petroleum product emulsions: Water resolution and rheology

    Merv Fingas;Ben Fieldhouse

  • Long-term fate and persistence of the spilled metula oil in a marine salt marsh environment degradation of petroleum biomarkers.

    Zhendi Wang;M Fingas;E.H Owens;L Sigouin

  • Characterization and source identification of hydrocarbons in water samples using multiple analytical techniques.

    Zhendi Wang;K Li;M Fingas;L Sigouin

  • Solid-phase microextraction and headspace solid-phase microextraction for the determination of polychlorinated biphenyls in water samples.

    Maria Llompart;Ken Li;Merv Fingas

Frequent Co-Authors

Zhendi Wang
Zhendi Wang Environment and Climate Change Canada
Maria Llompart
Maria Llompart University of Santiago de Compostela
Chun Yang
Chun Yang Nanyang Technological University
Julia M. Foght
Julia M. Foght University of Alberta
Orlando J. Rojas
Orlando J. Rojas University of British Columbia
Xianzhi Peng
Xianzhi Peng Chinese Academy of Sciences
David S. Page
David S. Page Bowdoin College
Martin A. Hubbe
Martin A. Hubbe North Carolina State University

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