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UAA Professor Gives Presentation - With a presidential commission slated to issue a report on the cause of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill Monday, local environmentalist Rick Steiner shared some of the key findings in his research on the spill at Alaska Pacific University Sunday. More than six months after the Deepwater Horizon spill, Alaskans are constantly reminded of the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill -- and Steiner, a University of Alaska Anchorage marine conservation professor, says his work identifies similarities between the two disasters. Both government agencies and the general public are finding the spill’s effects still fresh, although it happened in April. UAA Professor Gives Presentation