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Spill responders row towards the grounded BAHIA PARAISO, leaking diesel fuel near Palmer Station, Antarctica January 1989. Photo courtesy of NOAA / Department of Commerce.
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WORKSHOP GOAL
To identify key strategies, action items, and research needs that will improve the ability of Arctic Nations and communities to prepare for, and respond to, marine incidents in the Arctic.
See common recommendations concluded by workshop participants here>>
PRESENTATIONS
Arctic Search & Rescue Envisioning Disasters and Framing Solutions Plenary Session
Larry Trigatti, Canadian Coast Guard, Fisheries and
Oceans Canada
Arctic Marine Shipping Assessment: What Is Driving Arctic Marine Use??
Lawson W. Brigham, U.S. Arctic Research Commission
Opening the Arctic Seas Arctic Peoples – the Saami
Gunn-Britt Retter, Arctic and Environmental Unit, Saami Council
Arctic Peoples
Charles Johnson, Alaska Nanuuq Commission
Arctic Tourism: Past, Present and Future
John Snyder, Strategic Studies, Inc.
Oil and Gas Activities in the Arctic
Dennis Thurston, Minerals Management Service
Arctic Biological Consequences or Implications
Jeep Rice, NOAA
RESOURCES
Abbreviations/Acronyms List
19th IAHR International Symposium on Ice
Vancouver,
British Columbia, Canada, July 6-11, 2008
2007-2009 International Polar Year Alaska: North by 2020: A Forum for Local and Global Perspectives on the North
Advancing Oil Spill Response in Ice-Covered Waters
Prince Williams Sound Oil Spill Recovery
Institute and U.S. Arctic Research Commission
Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA)
Arctic Symposium Speaker Presentations
Washington DC, July 10-12, 2007
Biological Effects of Oil-in-Ice, JIP Project
Add-On Project to SINTEF's Ongoing Oil-in-Ice
Joint Industry Program (JIP), April, 2007
Circumpolar Map of Resources at Risk from Oil Spills in the Arctic
Cruising to the End of the World
John Snyder
Executive Summary of the AMAP Oil & Gas Report
Dennis Thurston, Chair
Ice melt means spike in CG Arctic operations
NavyTimes
Impact of Spilled Oil in Sea-Ice
Communities
Coastal Response Research Center/NOAA project proposal
Increased Need for Arctic Oil Spill Prevention and Response Preparedness
Dr. Amy Merten, Co-Director, Coastal Response Research Center, NOAA Office of Response & Restoration (OR&R)
International Oil & Ice
Workshop
Vancouver, British Columbia, July 6-11, 2008
JIP Oil in Ice Workshop
Svalbard Norway, April 22-26, 2007
Modelling the interrelationships between permeability, effective porosity and total porosity in
sea ice
Chris Petrick, Pat J. Langhorne, Zhifa F. Sun (Science Direct)
Numerical Modeling of Oil Fate and Transport in Ice
Poster by Whitney Blanchard, Dr. Mark Reed, Dr. Nancy Kinner, Dr. Amy Merten
Oil transport from the Russian part of the Barents Region (January 2005) - Alexei Bambulyak and Bjørn Frantzen, Svanhovd Environmental Centre
Oil transport from the Russian part of the Barents Regions (January 2007) - Alexei Bambulyak and Bjørn Frantzen, The Norwegian Barents Secretariat & Akvaplan-niva AS
Research and Development Priorities: Oil and Ice Workshop
Prince William Sound Oil Spill
Recovery Institute, November 4-5, 2003
St. Lawrence Island Army Corps of Engineers (ACOE) "Removal Action Report"
The Changing Arctic: Indigenous Perspectives (ACIA)
Thinking about the Arctic's Future: Scenarios for 2040
The Futurist
Where the Sea Breaks its Back - Corey Ford
Workshop to Determine the Scope of an Experiment Oil Spill in Pack Ice
Helsinki,
November 1-2, 2005
WWF: Oil Spill Response Challenges in Arctic Waters
MAPPING IMAGES
Download ibcao.scene.zip here>> To view the scene, you will need to download iView 3D here>>
View Arctic Vessel Traffic - 2006 Summer Season (Shockwave file) here>>
Provided by Canadian Coast Guard, Icebreaking Program
View AMSR-E Sea Ice Concentration which shows ice moving from the Arctic Ocean, through the Bering Straits, and south into the Bering Sea (John Whitney) here>>
View a political map of the North Circumpolar Region showing national boundaries, country names and oceans here>>
LOGISTICS
Agenda
View the Agenda here>>
Incidents
View the Incidents here>>
Participants
View the Partipants List here>>
Location of Workshop
Great Bay Conference Room
New England Center
15 Strafford Avenue
University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824
603.862.2801 / 800.590.4334
Lodging
New England Center
15 Strafford Avenue
University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824
www.newenglandcenter.com
Participants do not need to make their own hotel reservations.
Center organizers have a block of rooms. Confirmations,
along with other workshop details will be sent prior to the
workshop. ($109 regular/$89 government)
Directions
- For a map of the UNH campus, click here>>
- For driving directions from the nearest
airports, click here>>
Airports/Flights
The Manchester
Airport (in NH) is about 40 minutes away. Boston's Logan
Airport is about 90 minutes.
If you would like assistance in making your flight arrangements, please contact Patty at University Travel at 603.868.5970.
Airport Shuttle
Flightline
800.245.2525
Please note: Center organizers will arrange airport transportation. Please forward your flight details as soon as possible in order to be included in shuttle opportunites. You will receive a confirmation via email.
Reimbursement
NOAA & U.S. Federal employees, please contact Amy Merten as soon as possible.
Foreign participants, please contact Kathy Mandsager for approval. The reimbursement form (in Excel) is here>>
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Douglas Bancroft, Canadian Ice Service, Environment Canada
Ole Kristian Bjerkemo, Emergency Prevention Preparedness & Response (EPPR)
Lawson Brigham, US Arctic Research Commission
Larry Hamilton, UNH, Professor Sociology
Nancy Kinner, University of New Hampshire/Coastal Response Research Center
Bjørn Kristoffersen, StatoilHydro Barents Region
Kari Lampela, Finnish Environment Institute (Syke)
Tom Laughlin, NOAA Office of International Affairs
Lexia Little, US Coast Guard, Stanford Graduate Student
Amy Merten, NOAA /Coastal Response Research Center
Andrew Tucci Andrew, US Coast Guard
Mark Meza, US Coast Guard
NEWS
There’s an oil spill in the Arctic Ocean. What do you do?
Interview with UNH Co-Director Nancy Kinner on Alaska Pubic Radio.
Monday, March 17, 2008
Global Warming Melts New Sea Lanes for Norilsk, ConocoPhillips
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Shell, Conoco say they're sensitive to Chukchi concerns
Reuters, February 25, 2008
Got questions? Please
contact: Kathy Mandsager at kathy.mandsager@unh.edu or 603.862.1545
Norway, Canada, Denmark and Russia are all actively pursuing drilling and extraction of oil and
natural gas from the Arctic in newly opened passages through and beneath existing pack ice. The
US government and many American oil companies are pondering whether to pursue a similar
course of action. Even if they choose not to do so, our natural resources in the Arctic are likely to
be impacted by spills resulting from maritime transport through American waters. The
Norwegian agency SINTEF is leading a multi-national research effort to develop technologies to
improve spill response when oil is released in the proximity of the ice. This $6 million effort,
which will culminate in two planned spills in the marine environment of the Norwegian coast, is
funded by a consortium of oil companies and governmental agencies. [N.B., Such deliberate
environmental spills are forbidden in the US.] The Center was invited in 2006 to serve as one of
the few research-focused entities on the steering committee for this effort. The Center, NOAA
and SINTEF are conducting experiments to answer the following questions:
- What are the transport and degradation processes (partitioning, diffusion, and
biodegradation) and rates that govern the fate of oil components frozen in ice?
- How does the change of the structure of ice affect transport?
- What are the exposures (e.g., composition, concentrations and durations) to which
ice-associated organisms may be exposed?
- How will response options affect transport and biodegradation processes?
Due to the Center's involvement in this Oil-in-Ice partnership, UNH has sent graduate student Whitney Blanchard to
SINTEF for the Academic Year 2007-2008 where she will learn 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>>
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