Oilapalooza! An Oiled Wildlife Response Workshop
OCT. 20, 2017 — California’s Oiled Wildlife Care Network (OWCN) is world renowned for its response, rescue, rehabilitation, and research capabilities.
This week (October 18-19), OR&R’s Emergency Response Division was invited to participate in OWCN’s eighth Oilapalooza Workshop to give a talk on on-line tools for spill response for 170 attendees representing 48 different wildlife rehabilitation organizations and primary care facilities across the state. This workshop is a regular training and team-building opportunity for OWCN’s members ranging in size from a handful of staff and volunteers to long-established facilities like Sea World. All have oil spill training and are prepared to respond, but some have limited experience with actual oil spills. The first day included a wide variety of talks on rehab and oil spill-related topics, such as:
- Distribution of Guadalupe Fur Seals (Arctocephalus townsendi) off the California Coast
- Use of Technology for Improving Wildife Recovery during Oil Spills
- Evaluation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Detection of Oiled Wildlife
- From Paper to Pixels: Some Online Tools for Spill Response
- Advancing Tag Technology: A Peer-to-Peer Tracking Network for Rehabilitated and Wild Sea Otters
- Inland Oil Spills: Species Data & Implications for Wildlife Responders
- Regional Intravenous Antibiotic Perfusion for Digital Lesions in Seabirds
- Predator Consumption of Forage Fish in the California Current
- Movement Patterns of Oiled Brown Pelicans (Pelecanus occidentalis) Following Rehabilitation
The second day focused on hands-on laboratories, including:
- Clinical pathology
- Facilities management
- Intro to beach surveillance programs
- On-water capture
- Pelagic bird necropsy
- Sea otter necropsy
- Sea otter reconnaissance
- Herptile 101
- Pinniped 101
- Sea Turtle 101
For more information, contact Jordan.Stout@noaa.gov.