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February 1-2, 2007
The Oyster Point Hotel
Red Bank, NJ 07701
The Coastal Response Research Center (CRRC) and
the Dispersants Working Group (DWG) hosted a Dispersed
Oil Research Forum on February 1 and 2, 2007 in Red Bank,
NJ. Over 100 participants attended the Forum. The Forum consisted
of half-hour presentations on dispersant-related research conducted
since the May 2005 release of the National Research Council's Report
entitled "Understanding Oil Spill Dispersants: Efficacy and
Effects". The forum ended with a panel discussion informing
which research needs had been satisfied and targeting areas for
future research. The Forum followed the U.S. Minerals Management
Service (MMS) Visitor's Day where a cold-water dispersant test occurred
on January 31, at the OHMSETT facility held at the nearby U.S. Naval
Weapons Station Earle (www.ohmsett.com).
By dove-tailing events, both events were will attended and represented
by several State contingents from Alaska, California, Texas, Louisiana,
New Jersey and New York, by all of the major oil companies, several
clean-up contractors, Federal agencies, non-governmental organizations
and international participants from Canada, Norway, Sweden, England,
and France.
Presentations
Welcome
(wmv)
Nancy E. Kinner, Amy Merten Co-Directors,
Coastal Response Research Center
SESSION: Effects of Dispersing
Oil
Factors
Affecting the Chemistry of Water-Accommodated Fractions of Oil
(wmv)
Mark G. Carls
Multiphase
Partitioning of Oil Components Controls Exposure to Aquatic
Organisms (wmv)
Joel Baker
Mechanisms
of PAH Toxicity in Fish: Connecting Recent Discoveries to Future
Research on Dispersed Oil (wmv)
Nathaniel Scholz
Behavioral
Response of Pink Salmon Fry (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha)
to Fresh, Weathered, and Dispersed Crude Oil and to the Dispersant
COREXIT 9527 (wmv)
Mark G. Carls
Acute
and Chronic Effects of Crude and Dispersed Oil on Chinook Salmon
Smolts (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) (wmv)
Ronald Tjeerdema
Predicting
PAH Toxicity Under Varying Dispersant Scenarios (wmv)
Deborah French-McCay
SESSION: Fate of Dispersed Oil
Effects
of Mixing Energy and Hydrodynamics on Chemical Dispersion of
Crude Oil in Bench-Scale Tests (wmv)
Brian A. Wrenn
Measurement
of Energy Dissipation Rate in a Wave Tank under Three Conditions:
Regular Non-Breaking, Spilling, and Plunging (wmv)
Michel C. Boufadel
Dispersant
Effectiveness as a Function of Energy Dissipation Rate in a
Wave Tank (wmv)
Albert D. Venosa
Wave
Tank Studies on Dispersant Effectivness: Influence of Energy
Dissipation Rate on Oil Droplet Size and Concentration (wmv)
Kenneth Lee
Fate
of Dispersed Oil: Field Trials with Dispersant Application -
Importance for Development and Calibration of Operational Model
Tools
Per Daling
Field
Verification of Dispersed Oil Fate and Transport Modeling and
Linking CODAR Observation System Data with Model Predictions
(wmv)
James Payne
Investigation
of the Fate of Dispersed Oil in Aquatic Systems (wmv)
James Bonner
Movement
of Oil Under Non-Breaking Waves (wmv)
James W. Weaver
An Annotated Dispersants Bibliography
John Conover
SESSION: Efficacy of Dispersing Oil
Post-Atomization
Impact Behavior of COREXIT 9500 and COREXIT 9527 on Oil Slicks
(wmv)
Timothy Ebert
Improvement
of the French Efficiency Test AFNOR 90-345 (IFP Dilution Test)
(wmv)
Francois X. Merlin
Dispersant
Effectiveness Testing on Viscous, U.S. Outer Continental Shelf
Crude Oils (wmv)
Randy Belore
Calm
Seas Application of Dispersants and Chemical Dispersibility
of Outer Continental Shelf Crude Oils in Non-Breaking Waves
at OHMSETT (wmv)
Kenneth Trudel
SESSION: Cold Water Dispersant Use
ExxonMobil
Research on Dispersants in Cold Water (wmv)
Tim Nedwed
Dispersant
Testing on Alaskan Crude Oils in Very Cold Water (wmv)
Joseph Mullin
SESSION: Ongoing and Future Dispersant Related Research
A Panel Discussion of
Ongoing and Future Dispersant Research
Susan Saupe, Bruce Hollebone, Al Venosa, Jim Clark, Kurt Hansen,
Nat Scholz, Mike Sowby, Per Daling
Participants
To see a listing of forum participants, click
here>>
Agenda
To view the agenda, click here>>
Forum Organizing Committee
Nancy E. Kinner, UNH Co-Director, Coastal Response
Research Center
Amy Merten, NOAA Co-Director, Coastal Response
Research Center
Albert Venosa, EPA
David Fritz, BP
Don Davis, LA OSRADP
Joseph Mullin, US MMS
Katey Walter, OSRI
Mike Sowby, CA OPSR
Robin Jamail, TX GLO
Tom Purcell, API
Reading Materials
Improving Oil Spill
Response in Ice-Covered Waters - Leonard Zabilansky, Ice
Engineering
This article is available in pdf here>>
Understanding Oil Spill Dispersants: Efficacy
and Effects
This National Academy report is available online here
>>
Research & Development
Needs For Making Decisions Regarding Dispersing Oil, September
20-21, 2005
The workshop report is available in pdf here>>
Logistics
Hotel: The
venue for the forum will be the Oyster
Point Hotel, 146 Bodman Place, Red Bank, NJ 07701. For lodging,
please contact the hotel directly at (732) 530-8200 and ask for
the special group rate ($94) for the Dispersed
Oil Forum.
Airport Shuttle: Olympic
Shuttle Service. Call (800) 822-9797 or make your online reservation
here>>
There will be no registration fee for
the forum, however, you must RSVP to the CRRC's Program Coordinator,
Kathy Mandsager (email: kathy.mandsager@unh.edu;
(603) 862-1545) on or before January
24, 2007.
In addition, there will be an opportunity
for a State Meeting
to be held at 7:00 pm [ET] on January 31, 2007 in the Palm A Room
at the Oyster Point Hotel. This is for state employees only in
order to discuss more specifically the dispersant issues in their
state.
Got questions? Please
contact: Kathy Mandsager at kathy.mandsager@unh.edu
or 603.862.1545
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