NOVEMBER 20, 2015--University of Washington Library Science graduate students Amy Trost and Sally Pine depart NOAA today after nearly a year of service organizing spill science literature for OR&R’s Emergency Response Division.

Last spring Amy and Sally developed an EndNote data base system, and for six months, populated it with peer reviewed and gray literature documents partly from the office of Dr. Alan Mearns in Seattle. The system now contains 8000 references. Amy and Sally also have nearly completed scanning 35 years of papers from the Canadian Arctic and Marine Oilspill Proceedings (AMOP), none of which have been available electronically until now.

Ms. Trost is moving to Washington, D.C. where she will be working on information management at NOAA's sister agency, the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Ms. Pine will continue her graduate studies at the University of Washington.

We thank Amy and Sally for their dedicated service and wish them safe sailing as their careers progress!

For further information, contact Alan.Mearns@noaa.gov.

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