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Joint Industry Program
Opening Arctic Seas
Research
Education/Research
Arctic News
Archive Resources
The Coastal Response Research Center (a joint
partnership between NOAA's Office of Response & Restoration
(ORR) and the University of New Hampshire) continues its mission
to develop new approaches to spill response and restoration through
research/synthesis of information and to serve as a hub for spill
research, development, and technical transfer in the Arctic Seas.
Oil spills in arctic waters (i.e., oil in, on, or under ice, as well as, in broken ice, ice-infested or ice-covered waters) pose significant challenges for response, recovery, and restoration to minimize biological effects and reduce oil impacts on natural resources including human activities such as fishing and tourism due to complications associated with an ice-covered environment and the difficulty of operations in remote regions. With increasing shipping activity in the Arctic as the ice-cover retreats and as greater demand for oil drives exploration and production, there is a higher risk of serious spills in that region. This has raised interest in the unique problems associated with responding to oil spills in ice environments.
- Increase emergency response assets/supplies/equipment/planning in Arctic regions, especially in active regions
- Expand Arctic communications and vessel transit networks
- Improved baseline/information data for Arctic regions for resources or activities that could be affected by potential incidents (e.g., biological, cultural, subsistence, hydrographic, charting)
- Increased investment in research and development for Arctic spill response
- Develop environmental risk assessments and impact assessments for the Arctic seas, shipping routes, and ports (multi-layered approach).
Opening
the Arctic Seas: Envisioning Disasters and Framing Solutions
- a one-page information sheet. View it
here>>
The Center co-directors participated in the
ICCOPR and USARC meeting held on March
4, 2010. View Nancy E. Kinner's presentation here>>
THE JOINT INDUSTRY PROGRAM
Oil spill contingency for Arctic and ice covered
waters (JIP Oil In Ice) is responsible for the arrangement of
two workshops every year located on the American and the European
continent alternatively.
- Proposal - Joint Industry Program: Oil Spill
Contingency for Arctic and Ice-infested waters. More>>
- Membership: Coastal Response Research Center
Co-Director, Amy Merten (NOAA) is an active member of the JIP
committee
- Workshop I:
Svalbard, Norway, April 2007. More>>
- Workshop II: Anchorage, Alaska, October
2007. More>>
- Biological Effects of Oil-in-Ice, JIP Project,
Add-On Project to SINTEF's Ongoing Oil-in-Ice Joint Industry
Program (JIP), April 2007. More>>
- Workshop III: St. Johns, Canada, October
2008. More>>
- Charter II.A.5 Projects 2000 to 2008 More>>
- SINTEF JIP Oil in Ice Overview (November
2009) More>>
- SINTEF JIP Oil in Ice FEX 2009 Overview
& Preliminary Results (November 2009) More>>
- SINTEF JIP Oil Spill Response in Ice (November
2010) 33 reports More>>
OPENING THE ARCTIC SEAS: ENVISIONING DISASTER AND FRAMING SOLUTIONS
This Center-hosted workshop was held March
18-20, 2008 with the goal of identifying key strategies and research
needs that will improve the ability of Arctic Nations and communities
to prepare for, and respond to, marine incidents in the Arctic.
- Workshop Details
here>>
- Common Recommendations
here>>
- Final Workshop Report here>>
- AMSA, Infrastructure Chapter >> pending
- There's an oil spill in the Arctic Ocean.
What do you do? Interview with
UNH Co-Director Nancy Kinner on Alaska Public Radio, 03.17.08.
Listen
here>>
RESEARCH
Alaska Work Group Research
www.newfields.com/dl/alaskaworkgroup
[user: alaskaworkgroup; password: guest]
As a part of JIP, Coastal Response Research
Center/NOAA proposed a study, Impact
of Spilled Oil in Sea-Ice Communities.
This project is in collaboration
with Rainer Lohmann, Ph.D., University of Rhode Island and Christian
Petrich, Ph.D., University of Alaska, Fairbanks.
EDUCATION/RESEARCH
Due to the Center's involvement in this Oil-in-Ice
partnership, UNH sent graduate student Whitney Blanchard to SINTEF
for the Academic Year 2007-2008 where she learned the state-of-the-art
in ice modeling from the world's leading experts. The product
resulting from this student's Ph.D. dissertation will be the incorporation
of the biological data into the SINTEF fate and transport oil-in-ice
spill response model, another example of integrated modeling.
For more about Whitney's experiences at SINTEF, click here>>
- Project paper, Biodegradation
of Oil in Arctic First-Year Sea Ice here>>
- Numerical Modeling of Oil Fate and Transport
in Ice, poster by Whitney Blanchard,
Dr. Mark Reed, Dr. Nancy Kinner, and Dr. Amy Merten here>>
ARCTIC NEWS
- BOEM Special Issue on Traditional Knowledge
(Alaska) here>>
BOEM Ocean Science, Vol 9 Issue
2 - April/May/June 2012
- A technical report commissioned by
the Pew Environment Group and prepared by Nuka Research and
Planning Group, LLC, and Pearson Consulting, LLC (November 2010)
Report>>
- The policy reforms are the recommendations
of the Pew Environment Group’s U.S. Arctic Program. Recommendations>>
- What if an oil spill happened at an Arctic
well? Los AngelesTimes, 05.06.10
More>>
- Science Lags on Saving the Arctic From
Oil Spills - U.S. government is accused of failing
to design and carry our needed research, www.sciencemag.org,
09.11.09 More>>
- Arctic Shortcut Beckons Shippers
as Ice Thaws,
New York Times, 09.10.09 More>>
- The US Arctic Research Commission
testified before the Senate Committee on Appropriations on August
20, 2009 at the University of Alaska Anchorage. See testimony
here>>
Read the press release here>>
- Extreme Ice Survey View
Video >>
- Declaration on coexistence of oil &
gas activities and indigenous communities on Nenets and other
territories in the Russian North,
Arctic Centre. More>>
- Arctic Waters Preparedness:
Global Warming Invites Danger and Fleets Worldwide Aren't Ready,
Popular Mechanics, 02.09.09.
More>>
- Arctic Melt: Reopening
a Naval Frontier, U.S. Naval
Institute's Proceedings Magazine, February 2009. More>>
- Arctic thaw raises security
concerns for NATO, CNN.com, January 29, 2009.
More>>
- Arctic
Symposium Speaker Presentations, July 10-12, 2007,
Washington, DC. More>>
- Northern Exposure,
The Wall Street Journal, February 11, 2008. More>>
- Shell Says No Beaufort
Oil Drilling in 2008, Anchorage Daily News,
February 19, 2008. More>>
- U.S. and Canada on Collision
Course over Arctic Rights: U.S. Official,
canada.com, February 12, 2008. More>>
- Obama's Commerce Secretary
Pick No Environmental Champion, Environment News
Service, February 3, 2009 More>>
- UNH/NOAA Report: Arctic
Region Underprepared for Maritime Accidents, UNH
Media Relations Press Release, January 29, 2009 More>>
ARCHIVE RESOURCES
- Arctic
Marine Shipping Assessment of the Arctic Council (2005-2008)
A Basic Briefing (pdf)
- U.S.
Coast Guard - Arctic Research Activities (pdf)
- CCMA
Emergency Prevention, Preparedness and Response Working Group
(pdf)
- The Center recently participated in the
workshop, Reducing environmental risks and
impacts in Arctic coastal and offshore oil and gas exploration.
This workshop was part of the University of Alaska International
Polar Year North by 2020 Forum. More>>
- 19th IAHR International
Symposium on Ice, Vancouver,
British Columbia, Canada, July 6-11, 2008. More>>
- Center Co-Directors Amy Merten and Nancy Kinner
attended the International Oil & Ice
Workshop in Anchorage, Alaska,
October 10-11, 2007. More>>
- Advancing Oil Spill Response in Ice-Covered
Waters, Prince Williams Sound
Oil Spill Recovery Institute and U.S. Arctic Research Commission,
March 2004. More>>
- Workshop to Determine the Scope of an Experiment
Oil Spill in Pack Ice, Helsinki
Commission, November 1-2, 2005, Halifax More>>
- Research and Development
Priorities: Oil and Ice Workshop,
Prince William Sound Oil Spill Recovery Institute, November
4-5, 2003. More>>
- Modelling the Interrelationships Between
Permeability, Effective Porosity and Total Porosity in Sea Ice,
Chris Petrick, Pat J. Langhorne, Zhifa
F. Sun (Science Direct)
Got questions? Please
contact: Kathy Mandsager at kathy.mandsager@unh.edu
or 603.862.1545
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