JUNE 5, 2015--Three OR&R Emergency Response Division staff members attended the Arctic and Marine Oilspill Program (AMOP) Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on June 2 – 4, 2015. AMOP is an annual conference sponsored by Environment Canada, with a strong focus on the science of oil and chemical spills.

OR&R staff chaired a session on oil spill modeling, presented papers on the NOAA oil spill modeling tools, a new algorithm for bio-degradation, and a poster about OR&R’s new CAFE database.

The conference is also an opportunity to interface and share information with a wide variety of international scientists from Canada, Australia, Norway, Great Britain, and France, as well as U.S. partners from other agencies such as U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the U.S. Department of Interior’s Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE), and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM).

Attending from OR&R were Christopher Barker, Amy MacFadyen, and Dalina Thrift-Viveros. For further information, contact Chris.Barker@noaa.gov.

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