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News The Incident Specific Preparedness Review (ISPR) report for the Cosco
Busan is now available here>> National Response Framework Released. See the U.S. Department of Homeland Security press release here>> Dr. Amy Merten Recipient of the National Ocean Service (NOS) Employee of the Year Award 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. Marine Debris work in Beaufort, NC More>> Puerto Rican Mystery Spill. Oil Spill Intelligence. 9/6/2007, Vol. 30 Issue 37, p1-1, 1p; (AN 26537460). 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 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 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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