Alan J. Mearns; Resolving Alaska and West Coast oil dispersant issues, Proceedings of MTS/IEEE OCEANS'99 Conference, pp. 1469 - 1473, September 1999.

Alan J. Mearns, Kirk P. Van Ness; Order from Chaos? History of Chlorinated Pesticide Contamination of the U.S. Coastal Fauna, Proceedings of MTS/IEEE OCEANS'87 Conference, pp. 1538 - 1543, September 1987.

Alan J. Mearns; Trends in PCBS and Chlorinated Pesticides in U.S. Fish and Shellfish, Proceedings of MTS/IEEE OCEANS'86 Conference, pp. 1046 - 1049, September 1986.

Alan J. Mearns, David R. Young; The Manner in Which Organisms Concentrate Pollutants, Proceedings of MTS/IEEE OCEANS'83 Conference, pp. 927 - 931, August 1983.

David R. Young, Alan J. Mearns, Tsu-Kai Jan, Robert P. Eganhouse; The Cesium-Potassium Ratio and Trace Metal Biomagnification in Two Contaminated Marine Food Webs, Proceedings of MTS/IEEE OCEANS'81 Conference, pp. 570 - 574, September 1981.