Cruise ships deliver chemical cocktails to Caribbean marine life: Colonial infrastructures in feral waters

TY - ICOMM

T1 - Cruise ships deliver chemical cocktails to Caribbean marine life

T2 - Colonial infrastructures in feral waters

AU - Brichet, Nathalia Sofie

PY - 2020

Y1 - 2020

N2 - This is a story of a chemical compound called TBT (Tributyltin). Since the mid-20th century, this chemical product has found its way into the global seas in various concentrations. The formula of TBT is well-known by now and its use is banned. Its effects still linger, and I first encountered TBT in the harbor of St Thomas on the US Virgin Islands as a cause for hormone disorder in snails....

AB - This is a story of a chemical compound called TBT (Tributyltin). Since the mid-20th century, this chemical product has found its way into the global seas in various concentrations. The formula of TBT is well-known by now and its use is banned. Its effects still linger, and I first encountered TBT in the harbor of St Thomas on the US Virgin Islands as a cause for hormone disorder in snails....

M3 - Net publication - Internet publication

PB - Stanford University Press

ER -