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Two vessels collide
near Port Arthur, Texas releasing about 450,000 gallons of high-sulfur
Mexican crude oil. More>> ERDC-CRREL and UNH Form Partnership in Education The U.S. Army Engineer Researcher and Development Center's (ERDC) Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) and the UNH recently formed a "Partnership in Education" program. More>> UNH Campus Journal, 05.27.09 Oil Spill Surface Cleanup Ignores Fish Below Dispersants seen as especially damaging to fish eggs. More>> Discovery News, 04.10.09 Coastal Response Research Center Hosts Workshop on Oil Spill R&D (OR&R) From March 17 to 19, the Center hosted a workshop at UNH focused on setting research and development (R&D) priorities for oil spills. Participants identified current applied science needs that could improve decision making across the continuum of oil spill preparedness, response, and restoration. The outcome will be a five year R&D strategy covering spill response during disasters; response technologies; acquisition, synthesis & management of information; human dimensions; ecological monitoring & recovery following spills; biofuels; ecological effects of oil spills; and environmental forensics. The workshop included international and national experts from academia, governments, and industry. Further details are available online. For more information, contact Amy Merten. National Ocean Service (NOS) Weekly Update, 03.30.09 Oil Toxicity Field Guide for Aquatic Habitats This CRRC Synthesis Product is now available here>> The Center has hosted several workshops recently. True to the Center's mission to be a hub for the oil spill community, these workshops have brought forth cutting-edge ideas with a wide audience. For specific information on these workshops, please click here>> Let's Not Forget Exxon Valdez More>> Boston Globe, 03.24.09 The Pacific States/British Columbia Oil Spill Task Force was authorized by a Memorandum of Cooperation signed in 1989 by the Governors of Alaska, Washington, Oregon, and California and the Premier of British Columbia following the Nestucca and Exxon Valdez oil spills. More>> Science Lags on Saving the Arctic From Oil Spills U.S. government is accused of failing to design and carry our needed research. More>> www.sciencemag.org, 09.11.09 You are invited to participate in OCEAN INNOVATION 2009: Greener Ships – Bluer Waters, October 20– 22, 2009 in Victoria, British Columbia. More>> Visit the conference website here>> ERDC-CRREL and UNH Form Partnership in Education The U.S. Army Engineer Researcher and Development Center's (ERDC) Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) and the UNH recently formed a "Partnership in Education" program. More>> UNH Campus Journal, 05.27.09 Technology Workshop for Oil Spill Response in the Marine Environment February 17-19, 2009 (sponsored by CA OSPR and Chevron). For details, click here>> News from the Oil Spill Recovery Institute (a partnership project with CRRC) More>> The Breakwater, Newsletter of the Prince William Sound Science Center, Fall 2008 3rd International Workshop: Oil Spill Containment Boom Dec 11-12, 2008 (EIGSI, LaRochelle, France) For details, click here>> Chilean Ship Rescues Leaking Antarctic Cruiser The Chilean navy rescued all 122 people from a leaking cruise ship off Antarctica on Friday. More>> Associated Press, 12.05.08 Gregg Hall Goes Green CRRC staff members participate in an effort to make our building as sustainable as possible. More>> Campus Journal, 11.05.08 Blast on Iraqi - Turkish Oil Pipeline in Şanlıurfa Causes Spill A blast caused by a sudden change in pressure on an Iraqi-Turkish oil pipeline halted the flow of oil between Turkey and Iraq. More>> Today's Zaman, 11.07.08 NOAA Issues Stronger Protections for Elkhorn and Staghorn Corals in Southeast United States More>> NOAA Press Release, 10.28.08 Stonington, Maine Company Fined for Oil Spill Prevention Violations An oil distribution company will pay $8,000 for failing to adequately prepare and implement Spill Prevention, Control and Countermeasure (SPCC) plans at two of its Stonington, Maine facilities. More>> EPA Region 1 News Release, 10.28.08 Gov. Schwarzenegger Signs Legislation to Enhance State’s Oil Spill Prevention and Response More>> California Office of the Governor Press Release, 09.29.2008 Hurricanes and Oil Pipelines UNH Co-Director Nancy Kinner was featured on NH Public Radio's Word of Mouth on Sept. 2, 2008. The podcast is available here>> A SETAC short course on Ecological and Economic Concepts and Methods for Scaling Restoration, held on Sunday, Nov. 16, presented the results of a two-year effort to synthesize methods for restoration scaling, including innovative contributions from the field of natural resource damage assessment. The synthesis and course were a collaboration between Pete Peterson and Christine Voss of UNC and Eric English of Stratus Consulting, with generous support from the Coastal Response Research Center. More>> Update on Hurricane Omar's impact on the Caribbean here>> Opportunities within the Marine Program
Arctic sea ice now second-lowest on record. More>> National Snow and Ice Data Center, 08.26.08 The Center hosted a short course, Efficacy and Effects of Dispersants in Oil Spill Response: Progress since the 2005 NRC Report, at the 2008 International Oil Spill Conference on May 4, 2008. View the presentations here>> U.S. Supreme Court Rules on Exxon Valdez Damages. More>> Oil Spill Intelligence Report, 06.26.08 There’s an oil spill in the Arctic Ocean. What do you do? Interview with UNH Co-Director Nancy Kinner on Alaska Public Radio. Listen here>> 03.17.08 Coastal Response Research Center Funds New Projects for 2007 The Center is pleased to announce funding for four new projects. More>> The Center is pleased to offer graduate student, Whitney Blanchard's project paper Biodegradation Potential of Oil in Arctic First-Year Sea Ice here>> Clean Gulf 2008 was held October 28-30, 2008 in San Antonio, TX. Tthe Center sponsored a pre-conference workshop on Research Development Updates held on October 28, 8:00 am - 12:00 pm. More>> Tugboat operators involved in collision not properly icensed. More>> The Times-Picayune, 07.23.08 Oil Spill Response Research and Decommissioning-Broad Agency Announcement The Minerals Management Service (MMS) has released the FY 09 Oil Spill Response Research (OSRR) Broad Agency Announcement (BAA). (Posted July 16, 2008; Deadline August 18). Research topics include:
For additional details for the FY 09 OSRR, click here>> UNH research breaks down Seacoast beach trash figures An article about UNH Marine Debris Research. More>> Foster's Daily Democrat, 04.21.08 Are We Nearing The Peak Of Fossil Fuel Energy? Has Twilight In The Desert Begun? Energy analyst Matthew Simmons recently spoke at UNH (co-sponsored by the Center). Simmons, one of the world’s leading experts on peak oil, is the author of Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy. View a video of the talk here>> See the presentation here>> The Incident Specific Preparedness Review (ISPR) report for the Cosco Busan is now available here>> 01.11.08 National Response Framework Released. See the U.S. Department of Homeland Security press release here>> 01.22.08 Dr. Amy Merten Recipient of the National Ocean Service (NOS) Employee of the Year Award Dr. Merten is one of 6 NOS employees who received NOS's highest award at the NOS Employee Recognition Ceremony on December 18, 2007. Dr. Merten is being recognized for her leadership and exceptional work at the CRRC and for her efforts towards accomplishing the NOS's mission. The Center is honored to have Dr. Merten as our Co-Director. More>> The 20th Triennial International Oil Spill Conference on Prevention, Preparedness, Response and Restoration will be held May 4-8, 2008 at the Savannah International Trade & Convention Center in Savannah, Georgia, USA. Over 2,000 people from 50 countries are expected to attend the technical sessions and view more than 250 exhibits. There is still time to submit entries to the 2008 IOSC Film Festival. The IOSC Film Festival is seeking films that highlight recent activities in oil spill preparedness, response, restoration, education and training. Films must be submitted on CD or DVD in North American (NTSC) format. Agencies and organizations submitting entries must provide a representative to introduce the film and to answer questions following its presentation. Ample display space will be provided for literature and handouts that support your presentation. All entries must be received by the Minerals Management Service (MMS) by Friday, February 1, 2008. The submission guidelines for the Film Festival can be found at www.iosc.org. The 2008 IOSC Film Festival will spotlight the two winning entries from the 2005 conference, Safety First in Oiled Wildlife Response submitted by the Australian Maritime Safety Administration and M/T Prestige Oil Recovery Operations submitted by S.A.T.E. – Systems & Advanced Technologies Engineering S.r.l. If you are aware of other organizations that could submit entries to the 2008 IOSC Film Festival, please forward them this e-mail. Information on all activities at the 2008 International Oil Spill Conference, including the Film Festival can be found on the conference website at www.iosc.org. If you have any questions, please contact Joseph Mullin, Chairman of the 2008 IOSC Film Festival, at Joseph.Mullin@mms.gov or 703.787.1556.Puerto Rican Mystery Spill. Oil Spill Intelligence. 09.06.07, Vol. 30 Issue 37, p1-1, 1p; (AN 26537460). Slick Death: Oil-spill treatment kills coral Science News, August 2007 Did you know that OR&R has a website where you can look up information on hazardous materials? Check out this chemical database - that's part of CAMEO. http://cameochemicals.noaa.gov/ Graduate student, Whitney Blanchard, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship. She will participate in research activities with SINTEF next year in Norway. In addition, Ms. Blanchard received a fellowship from the American Scandinavian Foundation and will also be attending classes at Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Congratulations Whitney! On Feb 13, 2007, NOAA Co-Director, Amy Merten, was an instructor for an EPA On-scene Coordinator Readiness Course on Inland In-situ Burning for Oil Spills in Miami, FL. This was a new course presented to EPA On-scene Coordinators and included presentations by an EPA Emergency Response Team Lead, Fire and Smoke Management expert from the US Department of Agriculture, and a representative from Inland EPA Region 5. Dr. Merten discussed two Louisiana coastal marsh case studies where in-situ burning was used as a oil spill cleanup and restoration technique. Topics covered included: oil burning characteristics, favorable and unfavorable conditions for conducting inland burns, planning resources, communications within the Incident Command System and with the public, and methods for documenting biological and chemical recovery of oiled and burned wetlands. For more information, please contact Amy Merten. OR &R recently had an opportunity to train 12 Panamanians to become Scientific Support Coordinators (SSCs). The Panama Canal Authority funded a group of OR&R Emergency Response specialists to travel to Panama and train Port Authority personnel to prepare for and respond to a hazardous material event. SSC Brad Benggio, Chief Oceanographer CJ Beegle-Krause, and Marc Hodges put together an ambitious training agenda for the trip. This included Incident Command System training, environmental countermeasures, Shoreline Cleanup Assessment Team (SCAT) training, cleanup response, cleanup endpoints, ESI, overflights, chemical tools, and oil spill tools. The OR&R team trained four separate SCAT teams with a final exercise having the teams complete their own shoreline cleanup assessment, on a completely different beach, without assistance. The team also led four overflights, training 12 Panamanians to use the helicopter as a tool to conduct ocean science, shoreline review and infrastructure/biota identification. The course concluded with each SSC team briefing the instructors on their SCAT and overflight results. The team is conducting a brief to determine what needs to be modified to make this course more viable. The Panama group was extremely focused and impressed the instructors with their dedication and enthusiasm. For more information, please contact Marc Hodges at Marc.Hodges@noaa.gov. The Department of Technology at the University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS), Svalbard, Norway, invites applications for a . For more information, click here>> The UC TAD was approved by the NRT and is available for public distribution. The final version is available from the NRT website (click Guidance, Technical Assistance, and Planning and then Incident Command System/Unified Command) or click here>> Industry, Agency and NGO Representatives are cordially invited to attend a half-day workshop on the Oil-Spill-Response Prize hosted by the Prince William Sound Oil Spill Recovery Institute and conducted by a scientific advisory from InnoCentive. The workshop will take place on Wednesday, February 7, 2007. For more information, click here>> NOAA Co-Director, OR&R/Coastal Response Research Center, Amy Merten, participated in the initial planning for Clean Pacific (Seattle Convention Center, 11-14 September, 2007). This is the inaugural conference for a Pacific-focused Oil Spill Conference and is an extension of the successful Pacific States/British Columbia Oil Spill Task Force Meetings which includes the following organizations: Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation, British Columbia Province, California Department of Fish and Game, Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, Hawaii State Department of Health, and Washington State Department of Ecology. Session tracks will focus on Prevention, Planning and Preparedness, Response, and Restoration pertaining to spills, including All-Hazards emergencies. This is an opportunity for NOAA to demonstrate its leadership capabilities for providing the best science and technology to minimize environmental impacts due to human and natural forces. For more information check out www.cleanpacific.org. For NOAA coordination, please contact Amy Merten at amy.merten@noaa.gov. : January 17-18, 2007, Homenkollen Park Hotel, Oslo. This conference is sponsored by Tekna, the Norwegian Society of Chartered Scientific and Academic Professionals - Norway's largest society of professionals with a master's degree or equivalent science or technology background. For more information, click here>> Ohmsett is hosting a Visitor's Day to observe dispersant effectiveness (DE) experiments with Alaskan crude oils and also a tour of the facility. This event is scheduled for January 31, 2007. For more information and to RSVP please contact Joseph Mullin at (703)787-1556. On October 9-10, 2006, Co-PIs Ken Lee and Al Venosa performed a demonstration on their project . For more information, click here>> Whitney Blanchard, an Entry Point! Intern funded by the Coastal Response Research Center, presented the research she conducted under Dr. John Incardona ( Northwest Fisheries Science Center ). Ms. Blanchard's research focused on the influence of chemical dispersants on oil toxicity in fish embryos. She used a novel experimental design to separate particulate/droplets of oil from dissolved oil constituents. The exposure regime influenced the effects reported. Although the results are preliminary, this work presented a pilot approach for studying a NOAA-relevant research question. Ms. Blanchard is a graduate student in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of New Hampshire . This fall semester, she was a visiting scientist at the NWFSC and a visiting student at the University of Washington . For more information, please contact John Incardona at John.Incardona@noaa.gov or Amy Merten at Amy.Merten@noaa.gov. The Coastal Response Research Center (CRRC) hosted a workshop to identify The workshop (by invitation only) was held at the University of New Hampshire on June 13 - 15, 2006. A Workshop Report will be available later this summer. Ken Lee presented his Center-funded research at the in London in April 2006. His presentation, A Wave Tank Facility to Assess Chemical Oil Dispersant Effectiveness as a Function of Energy Dissipation Rate, is available here>> The Center's Project Investigators made their annual presentations to the Science Advisory Panel at a workshop held on March 14, 2006. See these presentations for each of our projects through the Project Explorer.
Center-funded student, Jacqueline Walters of the University of Maryland's Center for Environmental Science, recently made a presentation about her work on . Read her abstract here >> See her poster here >> This document from the U.S. fish and Wildlife Services is available here >> Read the press release here >> 11-14-05 This National Academy report is available online here >> This article from The Oil Spill Intelligence Report is available here >>
(Cordova, Alaska) and the United States Arctic Research Commission (Arlington, Virginia and Anchorage, Alaska) have produced a report entitled, "Advancing Oil Spill Response in Ice-Covered Waters." Click here>> to read the full report. |
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