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UPCOMING OUTREACH

red block bullet RRT III Meeting in Rehoboth Beach, DE May 13-15, 2008 Co-Director, Nancy Kinner will be presenting Center updates.
 
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International Oil Spill Conference (IOSC), May 4 - 8, 2008 in Savannah, GA.

  • A Dispersants Short Course, Efficacy and Effects of Dispersants in Oil Spill Response: Progress since the 2005 NRC Report, will be held on Sunday, May 4; 8:30 - 4:30. See the course description here>> and the course agenda here>>

  • A seminar, Integrated Emergency Response Data Platform (ERMA™), will be held on Wednesday, May 7, at 1:45 pm. See the course description here>>

  • Please visit our Booth #650. Stop in to see an ERMA™ demonstration and register for the Lobster Dinner for 2 drawing!
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ANNUAL REPORTS

red block bullet The Center's 2007 Annual Report is available here>>
 
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red block bullet The Center's 2005 Annual Report is available here>>
 
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PAST OUTREACH

red block bullet An ARD Workshop, “Habitat Equivalency Analysis Metrics,” was held December 4 - 6, 2007 on the UNH campus in Durham, NH. The workshop (for invitees only) identified and ranked measures of ecosystem function for the HEA model. More>>
 
red block bullet Center Staff attended CLEAN GULF, November 15 - 16, 2007 in Tampa, FL. More>>
 
red block bullet Several Center-funded projects were presented at a special Pre-Conference Workshop, Applied Research for the Spill Response Community, held on Wednesday, November 14, 2007 at the Clean Gulf Conference in Tamp, Florida. See the schedule of presenters here>> See the presentation by UNH Co-Director Nancy Kinner, Current Research for Future Modeling, here>>
 
red block bullet Michele Jacobi, Environmental Scientist, NOAA Office of Response and Restoration presented Oil Spill Response in the Piscataqua River at UNH's Environmental Engineering and Science Seminar Series on November 9, 2007. View the presentation here>>
 
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On October 29-30, 2007, Center Co-Directors met with numerous staff at NOAA Headquarters, Silver Spring, MD as well as National Ice Center NOAA Satellite Operations Facility in Suitland, MD.
 
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CDR Andrew Tucci visited the Coastal Response Research and other NOAA Centers at the University of New Hampshire on October 26, 2007. He also spoke to the students in the Marine Pollution class.
 
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Center Co-Directors visited U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in North Chelmsford, MA and Naragansett, RI on October 26, 2007. View their presentation here>>
 
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CRRC’s Advisory Board met for their Annual Fall meeting on October 23, 2007 at the University of New Hampshire.  Highlights were presentations from Zachary Magdol (UNH Undergraduate student); Tom Safford, Center Affiliate, (Assistant Professor, Sociology, UNH); and Center’s Science Advisory Panel members, Yvonne Addassi (CA OSPR) and Charlie Henry (NOAA SSC). The Center wishes to thank the board members for their leadership and support of the Center.
 
red block bullet Center Co-Directors Amy Merten and Nancy Kinner will attend the International Oil & Ice Workshop in Anchorage, Alaska on October 10 - 11, 2007.
 
red block bullet UNH Co-Director, Nancy Kinner and NOAA Affiliate Michele Jacobi spoke at the RRT 1 Fall Meeting on September 27, 2007 at the Ashworth-by-the-Sea hotel. View their presentation here>>
 
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Along with NOAA's Marine Debris Program, the Center sponsored a workshop on Environmental Response Data Collection Standards on September 25-27 on the UNH Durham campus. The goal of this invitation-only workshop is to create a common data standard that can accommodate a variety of field collected data. More>>
 

red block bullet CRRC staff members Kathy Mandsager and Zachary Magdol traveled to Seattle to attended CLEAN PACIFIC 2007. This conference and exhibition, held September 12 - 14, 2007, concentrated on the new realities of environmental and security concerns. Kathy and Zach manned the CRRC booth.  To see a picture of the booth group, click here>>  For more about Clean Pacific, click here>> To view the Conference Program, click here>>
 
red block bullet NOAA Co-Director, Dr. Amy Merten, presented at the National Ice Center Symposium, Impact of an Ice-Diminishing Arctic on Naval and Maritime Operations in Washington, DC on July 10-12. Dr. Merten was invited to present details on NOAA’s international research and collaboration to develop a state-of-the-art oil spill contingency plan for ice-infested waters. More>> To view Dr. Merten's presentation, click here>>
 
red block bullet A Modeling Summit was held June 26, 2007 on the UNH campus in Durham, NH. This one-day event, sponsored by the Center, NOAA and the Dispersants Working Group (DWG), was a unique opportunity to bring modelers together to discuss common elements, state-of-the-art models in use, and discover ways to improve spill response modeling.
 
red block bullet The Portsmouth Harbor Emergency Response Initiative met on June 27, 2007 at the New England Center on the UNH campus in Durham, NH. The Center is leading an effort to develop a web-based data delivery platform to support emergency response. This effort was in collaboration with other NOAA-funded centers located at UNH including those focused on coastal and ocean mapping, coastal and estuarine environmental technology, ocean observing and environmental database management. The platform was able to assimilate static mapping elements (e.g., resources at risk, nautical charts, and baseline data) with real-time data sets (e.g., weather conditions, and connections to observational systems). Portsmouth Harbor, NH was selected as the site for this demonstration project because of its proximity to UNH; its diverse shoreline development (e.g., industry, residential, protected habitats, tourist / recreational use); and the active partnership among the two states abutting the harbor, industry, and environmental agencies and NGO's.
 
red block bullet NOAA Co-Director, Amy Merten, will participate in the JIP Oil in Ice Workshop in Svalbard, Norway on April 22 - 26, 2007. More>>
 
red block bullet Center Staff, Kimberly Newman, Kathy Mandsager and Kristin Bailey-McCarthy, attended NOAA's Science of Spills course on April 17-19, 2007 in Seattle, WA.
 
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On March 28-29, 2007 in Durham, NH, the Center and the Emergency Response Division teamed up with SINTEF, a Norwegian research group, to design a NOAA-specific experiment to better understand oil interactions with and transport through sea ice. The experiment will focus on the mechanisms in which dissolved components of oil (also, the toxic components) are transported through dynamic sea ice through a freezing and thawing cycle to better quantify routes of exposure to the sensitive Arctic food web. The experiment will also quantify the extent and rates of biodegradation of the oil components, and it will support a larger field-based experiment in Norway in 2009. The data collected will improve NOAA's predictive capabilities when oil is spilled into ice-infested waters, a scenario that will increase as oil exploration activities expand in the northern latitudes, and as northern routes become more accessible to shipping.
 

red block bullet The Center Co-Directors participated in NOAA's Emergency Response Division's All-Hands Retreat on March 20 - 23. View their poster here >>
 
red block bullet The Center Co-Directors visited NOAA, Silver Spring, MD in March. While there, they also attended the SAG meeting in Washington, DC. View their presentation given at the SAG meeting held on March 8 in Washington, DC here>>
 
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Coastal Response Research Center, NOAA Co-Director Instructor for EPA On-scene Coordinator Readiness Training

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 

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In January 2007, UNH Co-Director, Dr. Nancy Kinner, visited several organizations in Europe. To view her overview presentation on the Center, click here>>

Please click on the organization name to visit it's website.

  • ITOPF (United Kingdom) (International Tanker Owners Pollution Federation)

  • IMO (United Kingdom) (International Maritime Organization)

  • IPIECA (United Kingdom) (International Petroleum Industry Environmental Conservation Association)

  • CEDRE (France) (Centre de Documentation, Recherche et Experimentations)

  • SINTEF (Norway)
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  • MCA (United Kingdom) (Maritime and Coastguard Agency)

  • OSRL (United Kingdom) (Oil Spill Response Limited)

During her visit with CEDRE, the MSC Napoli issued a distress call in the French waters of the English Channel. Dr. Kinner was able to observe the response teams initial activities. Later, during the trip, she was able to visit the Incident Command in Weymouth, England near where the ship was beached. 
   
red block bullet Co-Director, Dr. Amy Merten, presented Use of in-situ burning to restore an oiled intermediate marsh following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita at the University of New Hampshire's Environmental Engineering Seminar Series on December 15, 2006. Read the abstract here>>
 
red block bullet UNH Co-Director, Dr. Nancy Kinner attended the RRT 2 - New York on October 4, 2006. View Dr. Kinner's presentation here>>
 
 
red block bullet CRRC Co-Directors Dr. Nancy Kinner and Dr. Amy Merten, along with NOAA Project Liason, Dr. James Farr, participated in a Project Site Visit on October 9 - 10, 2006. They visited Ken Lee, project investigator at Bedford Institute of Oceanography whose project is Wave Tank Studies on Dispersant Effectiveness as a Function of Energy Dissipation Rate and Particle Size Distribution. For more on Dr. Lee's project, click here>> View Al Venosa's presentation here>>
 
   
red block bullet CRRC was represented at the "Workshop on Oil Spill Response" held in Canada from October 12 - 13, 2006 under the auspices of NATO/CCMS and hosted by the Centre for Offshore Oil and Gas Environmental Research.
 
   
red block bullet The CRRC had a booth at Clean Gulf, New Orleans, LA on October 17-19, 2006.
 
   
red block bullet Dr. Nancy Kinner attended the Regional Environmental Emergencies Team (REET) Meeting in New Brunswick on October 19-20, 2005. View Dr. Kinner's presentation here>> Learn more about REET here>>
 
   
red block bullet The CRRC participated in the Oil Spill Contingency for Artic and Ice-Infested Waters Program (JIP Program) in Norway. Co-Director Dr. Amy Merten attended the committee meeting in September 2006.
   
red block bullet Co-Director Dr. Nancy Kinner attended the Alaska RRT meeting on August 14, 2006 in Anchorage, AK. View her presentation here>>
 
   
red block bullet The CRRC supported and participated in Safe Seas 2006. This exercise of NOAA's emergency response capabilities took place August 7-11 in the Cordell Bank, Gulf of the Farallones and Monterey Bay national marine sanctuaries in Central California. Specifically, the CRRC was involved with integrated shoreline assessment and marine debris training, partially funding a fluorescein dye experiment to simulate dispersed oil, and the exercise evaluation. Visit the Safe Seas 2006 website here>>
 
 
red block bullet The Coastal Response Research Center, along with several other UNH research centers, shared presentations and updates with visiting guests from USCG New England Sector on July 6, 2006. View the Center's presentation here>>
 
   
red block bullet Co-Director Dr. Nancy Kinner attended the RRT IX Meeting on June 21-22, 2006 in Sacramento, California. View Dr. Kinner's presentation here>>
 
 
red block bullet Co-Director Dr. Amy Merten participated in the James Payne Research Project on June 20-21, 2006 in southern California.
 
   
red block bullet NOAA Co-Director, Dr. Amy Merten attended the Sixth Biennial Freshwater Spills Symposium, May 2-4, 2006 in Portland, OR.
 
   
red block bullet The Center held its bi-annual Advisory Board meeting on Friday, April 28, 2006. View the presentation here>>
 
   
red block bullet Co-Director Dr. Nancy Kinner will attend the ERA Area Committee Meeting on April 19, 2006 in Philadelphia. View Dr. Kinner's presentation here>>
 
   
red block bullet The Center was represented at the Interspill Conference in London, March 21-23, 2006. Learn more about the conference here>>
 
   
red block bullet Co-Director Dr. Nancy Kinner attended the RRT X meeting on February 2, 2006 in Everett, WA. View Dr. Kinner's presentation here>>
 
   
red block bullet Co-Director Dr. Nancy Kinner attended the Ecological Risk Assessment (ERA) meeting on January 11-13 in Philadelphia, PA.
 
   
red block bullet Co-Director Kinner presented at a joint meeting with NOAA ORR on January 9, 2006 in Seattle, WA. View Dr. Kinner's presentation here>>
 
   
red block bullet Center-funded student, Jacqueline Walters of the University of Maryland's Center for Environmental Science, recently made a presentation about her work on Assessing the Acute and Sublethal Effects of oil and Dispersed oil to Sensitive Cnidarian-algal Symbioses. Read her abstract here>> See her poster here>>
 
   
red block bullet Co-Director Dr. Nancy Kinner attended the RRT V meeting on October 24-25, 2005. View Dr. Kinner's presentation here>>
 
   
red block bullet Dr. Joy McGrath's poster, Predicting the Acute and Chronic Effects of PAHs Using the Target Lipid Model of Narcotic Toxicity: Is a New Paradigm Needed? was presented at SETAC 2005. View the poster here>>
 
   
red block bullet Dr. Nancy Kinner attended the Regional Environmental Emergencies Team (REET) Meeting in New Brunswick on October 19-20, 2005. View Dr. Kinner's presentation here>> Learn more about REET here>>
 
   
red block bullet Co-Director Kinner presented at an EPA Region 1 meeting on September 27, 2005. View Dr. Kinner's presentation here>>
 
   
red block bullet Dr. Kinner participated in the RRT Region 3 meetings in Scranton, PA on September 13-14, 2005. View Dr. Kinner's presentation here>>
 
   
red block bullet The Center sponsored a Dispersants Workshop on the UNH campus in Durham, NH on September 20-21, 2005.
 
   
red block bullet The Center had a booth at this year's International Oil Spill Conference (IOSC) in Miami Beach, Florida, May 15-19 2005. Learn more about IOSC here >>
 
   
red block bullet Researchers funded by the Center presented their work at a workshop in Silver Spring, MD on March 22, 2005. To view the agenda, posters, and presentations, please click here>>
 
   
red block bullet Dr. Kinner (UNH Co-Director) spoke to the National Weather Service on March 8, 2005 and the National Marine Sanctuaries Program on April 7, 2005. To view the presentation, click here>>
 
   
red block bullet Region 4 RRT meeting February 15-16, 2005.
 
   
red block bullet Center Exhibit at Clean Gulf in Tampa Bay, Forida - November 17-18, 2004. Learn more about Clean Gulf here>>
 
   
red block bullet Dr. Nancy Kinner spoke about the Center at the Maine and New Hampshire Area Committee meeting on June 9, 2004 in Portsmouth, NH. To view the presentation, click here>>
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