The Rice University-led international journal Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (ET&C) on Thursday, May 27, 2010, released a free virtual edition of the journal that makes available 25 previously released full studies on the Exxon Valdez oil spill. It also provides access to abstracts of 71 oil-related science studies published over the publication's 29-year history. The special edition is available at www.setacjournals.org/view/0/virtualissueoilspills.html.

"While the Exxon Valdez accident was a wholly different type of oil spill than what we are facing in the Gulf of Mexico, through the years we have published many peer-reviewed articles on the occurrence, fate and effects of oils and oil spills in the environment, including the Exxon Valdez oil spill," said ET&C founder and editor-in-chief Herb Ward, who is also an engineering professor at Rice. "We are providing these previously released studies for free to help educate decision-makers, the public and the media in the wake of the April 20 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico."

The 25 papers represent the journal's complete archive on the Valdez incident from an electronic search of its database; the only modification of the search results has been to arrange the papers in chronological order. The papers include the following:

Cytochrome P4501A biomarker indication of oil exposure in harlequin ducks up to 20 years after the Exxon Valdez oil spill
Daniel Esler, Kimberly A. Trust, Brenda E. Ballachey, Samuel A. Iverson, Tyler L. Lewis, Daniel J. Rizzolo, Daniel M. Mulcahy, A. Keith Miles, Bruce R. Woodin, John J. Stegeman, John D. Henderson, Barry W. Wilson.

In vitro red blood cell assay for oxidant toxicity of petroleum oil
C.M. Couillard, F.A. Leighton. Temporal and spatial variation in solar radiation and photoenhanced toxicity risks of spilled oil in Prince William Sound, Alaska
Mace G. Barron, Deborah Vivian, Susan H. Yee, Steve A. Diamond.

In vitro red blood cell assay for oxidant toxicity of petroleum oil
C.M. Couillard, F.A. Leighton. Risk of weathered residual Exxon Valdez oil to pink salmon embryos in Prince William Sound
Ernest L. Brannon, Keya M. Collins, Mathew A. Cronin, Lawrence L. Moulton, Keith R. Parker, William Wilson.

In vitro red blood cell assay for oxidant toxicity of petroleum oil
C.M. Couillard, F.A. Leighton. Bioavailability of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons from buried shoreline oil residues thirteen years after the Exxon Valdez oil spill: A multispecies assessment
Jerry M. Neff, A. Edward Bence, Keith R. Parker, David S. Page, John S. Brown, Paul D. Boehm.

In vitro red blood cell assay for oxidant toxicity of petroleum oil
C.M. Couillard, F.A. Leighton. Comment on "Toxicity of weathered Exxon Valdez crude oil to pink salmon embryos"
Ron A. Heintz, Jeffrey W. Short, Stanley D. Rice, Mark G. Carls.

In vitro red blood cell assay for oxidant toxicity of petroleum oil
C.M. Couillard, F.A. Leighton. Toxicity of weathered Exxon Valdez crude oil to pink salmon embryos
Ernest L. Brannon, Keya M. Collins, John S. Brown, Jerry M. Neff, Keith R. Parker, William A. Stubblefield.

In vitro red blood cell assay for oxidant toxicity of petroleum oil
C.M. Couillard, F.A. Leighton. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon levels in mussels from Prince William Sound, Alaska, USA, document the return to baseline conditions
Paul D. Boehm, David S. Page, John S. Brown, Jerry M. Neff, William A. Burns.

In vitro red blood cell assay for oxidant toxicity of petroleum oil
C.M. Couillard, F.A. Leighton. Oil spill impact modeling: Development and validation
Deborah P. French-McCay.

In vitro red blood cell assay for oxidant toxicity of petroleum oil
C.M. Couillard, F.A. Leighton.   Comment on "hydrocarbon composition and toxicity of sediments following the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound, Alaska, USA"
David S. Page, E. S. Gilfillan, Paul D. Boehm, Battelle, W. A. Stubblefield, K. R. Parker, J. M. Neff, A. W. Maki.

In vitro red blood cell assay for oxidant toxicity of petroleum oil
C.M. Couillard, F.A. Leighton. Comment on "hydrocarbon composition and toxicity of sediments following the Exxon valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound, Alaska, USA"
Stanley D. Rice, Mark G. Carls, Ron A. Heintz, Jeffrey W. Short.

In vitro red blood cell assay for oxidant toxicity of petroleum oil
C.M. Couillard, F.A. Leighton. Photoenhanced toxicity of aqueous phase and chemically dispersed weathered Alaska North Slope crude oil to Pacific herring eggs and larvae
Mace G. Barron, Mark G. Carls, Jeffrey W. Short, Stanley D. Rice.

In vitro red blood cell assay for oxidant toxicity of petroleum oil
C.M. Couillard, F.A. Leighton. Hydrocarbon composition and toxicity of sediments following the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound, Alaska, USA
David S. Page, Paul D. Boehm, William A. Stubblefield, Keith R. Parker, Edward S. Gilfillan, Jerry M. Neff, Alan W. Maki.

In vitro red blood cell assay for oxidant toxicity of petroleum oil
C.M. Couillard, F.A. Leighton. Natural exposure of coastal river otters to mercury: Relation to age, diet, and survival
Merav Ben-David, Lawrence K. Duffy, Gail M. Blundell, R. Terry Bowyer.

In vitro red blood cell assay for oxidant toxicity of petroleum oil
C.M. Couillard, F.A. Leighton. Exposure of pacific herring to weathered crude oil: Assessing effects on ova
Mark G. Carls, Jo Ellen Hose, Robert E. Thomas, Stanley D. Rice.

In vitro red blood cell assay for oxidant toxicity of petroleum oil
C.M. Couillard, F.A. Leighton. High frequency of K-ras mutations in pink salmon embryos experimentally exposed to Exxon Valdez oil
Nirmal K. Roy, Joseph Stabile, James E. Seeb, Christopher Habicht, Isaac Wirgin.

In vitro red blood cell assay for oxidant toxicity of petroleum oil
C.M. Couillard, F.A. Leighton. Sensitivity of fish embryos to weathered crude oil: Part II. Increased mortality of pink salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha) embryos incubating downstream from weathered Exxon Valdez crude oil
Ron A. Heintz, Jeffrey W. Short, Stanley D. Rice.

In vitro red blood cell assay for oxidant toxicity of petroleum oil
C.M. Couillard, F.A. Leighton. Sensitivity of fish embryos to weathered crude oil: Part I. Low-level exposure during incubation causes malformations, genetic damage, and mortality in larval pacific herring (Clupea pallasi)
Mark G. Carls, Stanley D. Rice, Jo Ellen Hose.

In vitro red blood cell assay for oxidant toxicity of petroleum oil
C.M. Couillard, F.A. Leighton. A principal-component and least-squares method for allocating polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in sediment to multiple sources
William A. Burns, Paul J. Mankiewicz, A. Edward Bence, David S. Page, Keith R. Parker.

In vitro red blood cell assay for oxidant toxicity of petroleum oil
C.M. Couillard, F.A. Leighton. Estimation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon concentrations in the water column based on tissue residues in mussels and salmon: An equilibrium partitioning approach
Jerry M. Neff, William A. Burns.

In vitro red blood cell assay for oxidant toxicity of petroleum oil
C.M. Couillard, F.A. Leighton. Characterization of mussel beds with residual oil and the risk to foraging wildlife 4 years after the Exxon Valdez oil spill
Paul D. Boehm, Paul J. Mankiewicz, James E. O. Reilly, Rolf Hartung, Jerry M. Neff, David S. Page, Edward S. Gilfillan, Keith R. Parker.

In vitro red blood cell assay for oxidant toxicity of petroleum oil
C.M. Couillard, F.A. Leighton. The natural petroleum hydrocarbon background in subtidal sediments of Prince William Sound, Alaska, USA
David S. Page, Paul D. Boehm, Gregory S. Douglas, A. Edward Bence, William A. Burns, Paul J. Mankiewicz.

In vitro red blood cell assay for oxidant toxicity of petroleum oil
C.M. Couillard, F.A. Leighton. Effects of naturally weathered Exxon Valdez crude oil on mallard reproduction
William A. Stubblefield, Gregg A. Hancock, Harold H. Prince, Robert K. Ringer.

In vitro red blood cell assay for oxidant toxicity of petroleum oil
C.M. Couillard, F.A. Leighton. Acute and subchronic toxicity of naturally weathered Exxon Valdez crude oil in mallards and ferrets
William A. Stubblefield, Gregg A. Hancock, William H. Ford, Robert K. Ringer.

In vitro red blood cell assay for oxidant toxicity of petroleum oil
C.M. Couillard, F.A. Leighton. Chronic effects of the Exxon Valdez oil spill on blood and enzyme chemistry of river otters
Lawrence K. Duffy, R. Terry Bowyer, J. Ward Testa, James B. Faro.

In vitro red blood cell assay for oxidant toxicity of petroleum oil
C.M. Couillard, F.A. Leighton.