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Upcoming Outreach
Annual Reports
Past Outreach
UPCOMING OUTREACH
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The Center encourages your participation in the Clean Gulf 2009 Conference, November 17-19, 2009, in New Orleans. For more details on Clean Gulf, click here>> Center-funded project researchers will participate in the Pre-Conference R&D Workshop to be held on Tuesday, November 17; 7:30am - 12:30pm.
The Applied Research for the Spill Response Community Pre-Conference event will take place at Clean Gulf on 11/17/09, 7:30 AM – 12:30 P.M. in the
Morial Convention Center, New Orleans, LA. For details, click here>> |
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ANNUAL REPORTS
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The Center's 2008 Annual Report is available here>>
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The Center's 2007 Annual Report is available here>>
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The Center's 2006 Annual Report is available here>>
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The Center's 2005 Annual Report is available here>> |
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PAST OUTREACH
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Co-director, Nancy Kinner participated in the 2nd Annual Arctic Shipping Conference Meeting the Opportunities and Challenges, held in Newfoundland, Canada, October 6-7, 2009. See Dr. Kinner’s presentation, Opening the Arctic Seas: Envisioning Disasters and Framing Solutions here>>
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Co-director, Nancy Kinner participated in the Department of Defense's workshop "Climate Change Impacts on Defense Assets in Alaska", July 6-9, 2009 in Anchorage, AK. See Dr. Kinner's presentation, Implications of Climate Change and Research Needs for Coastal Processes in Cold Regions here>>
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Co-director, Nancy Kinner, along with CRRC PI, Thomas Webler of the Social and Environmental Research Institute spoke at the Long Island Sound Area Committee Meeting, on Tuesday, December 16, 2008, in New Haven, CT. See Tom Webler's presentation, Social disruption from oil spills and spill response: Characterizing effects, vulnerabilities, and the adequacy of existing data to inform decision-making Presentation here>>
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CRRC was pleased to participate 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. The purpose of the workshop was to stimulate stakeholder dialogue at the frontiers of Arctic technology, science, local knowledge, and adaptive management, to work together to minimize environmental risks and impacts of offshore oil and gas, particularly in the exploration phase. The meeting was held at the Barrow Arctic Research Center in Barrow, Alaska (USA), from November 12-14, 2008. Center Co-Director, Nancy Kinner was moderator of Session on Oil spill response and clean-up in Arctic waters.
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Co-Director, Nancy Kinner and Whitney Blanchard, UNH Graduate Student participated in the JIP Oil In Ice Workshop, October 22-24, 2008 in St Johns Newfoundland. View their presentation here>>
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Clean Gulf 2008, October 28-30, San Antonio, Texas
The Coastal Response Research Center (along with Texas General Land Office (TGLO); the Louisiana Oil Spill Coordinator’s Office (LOSCO)/ Louisiana Applied and Educational Oil Spill Research and Development Program (OSRADP) were pleased to sponsor a no-cost pre-conference workshop, “Applied Research for the Spill Response Community.” CRRC sponsored presenters:
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On September 30, 2008, the Center invited the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services to be guests of UNH in order to review numerous research activities and further collaborative opportunities, including: (click on the name to view the presentation)
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Louisiana Collaborators were invited to learn more about ERMA on July 22, 2008 at 9:00 am at the Louisiana State University SeaGrant office. For more details contact kathy.mandsager@unh.edu or Don Davis at (225) 578-3481.
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U.S. EPA Region II in Edison, NJ viewed a demonstration on ERMA on August 5, 2008 at 8:00 am. For more information contact Eric Mosher at(732) 321-4368.
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The Center gave an update on recent Center activities to RRT I on September 24, 2008.
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RRT III Meeting in Rehoboth Beach, DE May 13-15, 2008 Co-Director, Nancy Kinner presented Center updates. See her presentation here>>
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International Oil Spill Conference (IOSC), May 4 - 8, 2008 in Savannah, GA. The Center held a Dispersants Short Course, Efficacy and Effects of Dispersants in Oil Spill Response: Progress since the 2005 NRC Report, and participated in a seminar, Integrated Emergency Response Data Platform (ERMA). More>>
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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>>
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Center Staff attended CLEAN
GULF, November 15 - 16, 2007 in Tampa, FL. More>>
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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>>
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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.
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Center Co-Directors Amy Merten
and Nancy Kinner will attend the International
Oil & Ice Workshop in Anchorage, Alaska on October
10 - 11, 2007.
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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>>
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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>>
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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>>
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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.
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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.
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NOAA Co-Director,
Amy Merten, will participate in the JIP
Oil in Ice Workshop in Svalbard, Norway on April 22 -
26, 2007. More>>
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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.
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The Center Co-Directors
participated in NOAA's Emergency Response
Division's All-Hands Retreat on March 20 - 23. View their
poster here
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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)
Please click on the preview to see a larger image.
- 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.
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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
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UNH Co-Director, Dr. Nancy Kinner
attended the RRT 2 - New York
on October 4, 2006. View Dr. Kinner's presentation here>>
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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>>
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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.
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The CRRC had a booth at Clean
Gulf, New Orleans, LA on October 17-19, 2006.
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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>>
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The CRRC participated in the
Oil Spill Contingency for Artic and Ice-Infested
Waters Program (JIP Program) in Norway. Co-Director Dr.
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Co-Director Dr. Nancy Kinner
attended the Alaska RRT meeting
on August 14, 2006 in Anchorage, AK. View her presentation here>>
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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>>
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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>>
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Co-Director Dr. Nancy Kinner
attended the RRT IX Meeting on
June 21-22, 2006 in Sacramento, California. View Dr. Kinner's
presentation here>>
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Co-Director Dr. Amy Merten participated
in the James Payne Research Project
on June 20-21, 2006 in southern California.
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NOAA Co-Director,
Dr. Amy Merten attended the Sixth Biennial
Freshwater Spills Symposium, May 2-4, 2006 in Portland,
OR.
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The Center held its bi-annual
Advisory Board meeting on Friday, April 28, 2006. View the presentation
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Co-Director
Dr. Nancy Kinner will attend the ERA
Area Committee Meeting on April
19, 2006 in Philadelphia. View Dr. Kinner's presentation
here>>
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The Center was represented at
the Interspill Conference in London,
March 21-23, 2006. Learn more about the conference here>>
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Co-Director
Dr. Nancy Kinner attended the RRT X
meeting on February 2, 2006 in Everett, WA. View Dr. Kinner's
presentation here>>
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Co-Director Dr. Nancy Kinner
attended the Ecological Risk Assessment
(ERA) meeting on January 11-13 in Philadelphia, PA.
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Co-Director Kinner presented
at a joint meeting with NOAA ORR
on January 9, 2006 in Seattle, WA. View Dr. Kinner's presentation
here>>
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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>>
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Co-Director Dr. Nancy Kinner
attended the RRT V meeting on
October 24-25, 2005. View Dr. Kinner's presentation here>>
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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>>
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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>>
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Co-Director Kinner presented
at an EPA Region 1 meeting on
September 27, 2005. View Dr. Kinner's presentation here>>
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Dr. Kinner participated in the
RRT Region 3 meetings in Scranton,
PA on September 13-14, 2005. View Dr. Kinner's presentation
here>>
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The Center sponsored a Dispersants
Workshop on the UNH campus in Durham, NH on September
20-21, 2005.
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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
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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>>
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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>>
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Region
4 RRT meeting February 15-16, 2005.
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Center Exhibit at Clean
Gulf in Tampa Bay, Forida - November 17-18, 2004. Learn
more about Clean Gulf here>>
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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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