DECEMBER 11, 2015--During the week of December 7, OR&R’s Emergency Response Division conducted a Science of Oil Spills (SOS) class at the Inouye Regional Center in Honolulu, Hawaii.
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DECEMBER 11, 2015--On December 8, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine released a study, Spills of Diluted Bitumen from Pipelines: A Comparative Study of Environmental Fate, Effects and Response.
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DECEMBER 11, 2015--OR&R’s Dr. Amy Merten chaired the Arctic Council’s Emergency Prevention, Preparedness and Response (EPPR) Work Group meeting in Reykjavik, Iceland, December 2-3, 2015.
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DECEMBER 11, 2015--In a continued effort to improve preparedness for response to and recovery from acute waterway debris incidents NOAA’s Marine Debris Program along with Apalachicola National Estuarine Research Reserve co-hosted the Florida Marine Debris Regional Response Planning Workshop in Tallahassee Florida on December 1- 2, 2015.
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DECEMBER 11, 2015--OR&R’s Emergency Response Division helped plan a recent oil spill exercise for the University of Miami and U.S. Coast Guard Sector Miami.
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DECEMBER 11, 2015--At the request of the U.S. Department of State, OR&R will participate in Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Regional Forum (ARF) Workshop on Maritime Oil Spill Emergency Response Management and Disposal Cooperation.
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DECEMBER 11, 2015—Earlier this week, OR&R attended the NOAA Western Regional Team meeting in Seattle and discussed OR&R’s role in spill response and Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA).
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DECEMBER 11, 2015--Mark Miller and LTJG Steven Wall of the OR&R’s Emergency Response Division prepared a modeled trajectory and participated in the U.S. Coast Guard District 8 Sector New Orleans Annual Area Maritime Security Training and Exercise Program functional exercise.
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DECEMBER 11, 2015--On December 15, University of Washington students and staff will brief interested OR&R staff on a joint project they are working on concerning emerging risks in marine transport.