Session 4
EXXON VALDEZ Oil Spill : Application to Today
Richard R. Lessard
Position Oil Spill Technology Coordinator, Exxon Research and Engineering Company, U.S.A.
Education MS and PhD Chemical Engineering, the University of Marine / Member of the Executive Committee of ASTM F-20 / Chairman of the Marine Preservation Association / Heads of the American Petroleum Institute's Marine Research Work Group coordinating oil spill research in US.
Involved in the clean-up of the 1989 EXXON VALDEZ spill as coordinator of laboratory studies to develop new techniques for cleaning the beaches, such as by bioremediation and chemical washing.
