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SEPT. 16, 2024 — U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) Sector Northern New England recently completed a salvage operation of a historic sardine fishing vessel that sank in Maine during a January 2024 nor'easter. William Whitmore, the NOAA Scientific Support Coordinator for Sector Northern New England provided guidance to the USCG during the response and salvage efforts.
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SEPT. 16, 2024 — On September 6, over 300 people gathered at the William S. Cahill Pier in Oswego, New York to witness and celebrate the designation of Southeastern Lake Ontario as the nation’s 16th national marine sanctuary.
SEPT. 16, 2024 — On September 4, NOAA Scientific Support Coordinator for the Pacific Islands, Ruth Yender, participated in the 2024 U.S.-Taiwan Coast Guard Marine Environmental Response Group Online Symposium Program. The objective of the symposium was to deepen the cooperation between Taiwan and the U.S. in marine environmental response by providing an opportunity for dialogue and enhancing understanding of each other.
May 2015
MAY 8, 2015--On April 30, 2015, Scientific Support Coordinator Ed Levine was part of a panel discussion concerning crude oil transportation on railways.
MAY 8, 2015--Teams who train together play better. This spring OR&R, the Texas General Land Office (TGLO), and the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) put that thought into action.
MAY 8, 2015--In support of the NOS Roadmap and with the primary goal of improving emergency response capabilities across NOS, OR&R, and Office for Coastal Management teamed up to plan and execute a one-day drill that simulated a small-scale tsunami wave inundating the east coast.
MAY 8, 2015--Chemical herders, can be applied to oil slicks to make them thicker and more stable, which creates conditions that are easier for burning in open water (in situ burn).
MAY 8, 2015--On Thursday, April 30, 2015, Sarah Lowe, NOAA Marine Debris Program Great Lakes Regional Coordinator, gave a marine debris presentation to the American Chemical Society (ACS) to wrap up a series of ACS Earth Month Science Lectures and events in Midland, Michigan.
April 2015
APRIL 30, 2015--On May 6, 2015, nearly 60 staff from across NOS offices will be participating in a NOS Concept of Operations (CONOPS) Exercise.
APRIL 30, 2015--The OR&R website is accessible on your mobile phone now.
The Hudson River Natural Resource Trustees released an updated injury determination report on Hudson River fish consumption advisories due to PCBs. The current report confirms that the public’s use of the fishery in the 200 mile Hudson River Superfund Site, whether for a livelihood, a source of recreational enjoyment, or for nutrition, has been and continues to be severely curtailed as a result of the closures and health advisories detailed in this report.
APRIL 30, 2015 -- U.S. Coast Guard District 5 and OR&R’s Emergency Response Division co-hosted a three-day Shoreline Cleanup Assessment Technique (SCAT) class that took place at the Assateague National Seashore, Virginia from April 19-21, 2015.
APRIL 30, 2015--A new data warehouse and custom query tool, developed by OR&R to support the Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA) for the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, is now available for the public to use.
APRIL 30, 2015--On Earth Day, the NOAA Marine Debris Program along with NOAA's Ocean Today, launched its first "Trash Talk" video, part of an upcoming series of videos that explores many questions about marine debris from the impacts debris has on our ocean to what we can do to prevent it.
APRIL 24, 2015--This week, 52 representatives from 15 states, four federal agencies, and Canada gathered at the NOAA Disaster Response Center in Mobile, Alabama, for a NOAA Marine Debris Program workshop focusing on abandoned and derelict vessels (ADVs).
APRIL 24, 2015--On April 15 and 22, 2015, OR&R’s Alan Mearns teamed up with retired oil toxicologist Dr. Jim Clark, to give two morning lectures at Edmonds Community College on lessons learned since the Exxon Valdez.
APRIL 24, 2015--On April 16, 2015, the Hudson River Summit, in Poughkeepsie, New York, brought together about 400 people to hear about the Hudson River Estuary Program's 2015-2020 Action Agenda, a conservation and restoration blueprint.
APRIL 24, 2015--While Deepwater Horizon is on many policy-makers minds the week of April 20, OR&R participated in a briefing to help inform Senate offices about spill response.
APRIL 24, 2015--On April 15 and 16, 2015, emergency planners and responders gathered at NOAA's Gulf of Mexico Disaster Response Center in Mobile, Alabama, for an in-depth discussion of the CAMEO software suite in light of Presidential Executive Order (EO) 13650 to improve chemical facility safety and security.
APRIL 24, 2015--For years, OR&R has been concerned about staff’s ability to operate safely and effectively in the harsh arctic environment in the event of a major incident, given the wide range of weather-related and environmental hazards.
APRIL 15, 2015--A partial boat, approximately 25’ long, was spotted off the Oregon Coast near Newport on April 9, 2015. OR&R was notified and provided a trajectory showing the partial boat making landfall the next day, south of its reported location.
APRIL 17, 2015--OR&R Assessment and Restoration Division staff from the Northeast will participate in a regional workshop that will address remediation and restoration challenges in the Mid-Atlantic region. The Hudson Delaware Chapter of the Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, in coordination with the Rutgers University Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, will hold their spring 2015 meeting at the Rutgers New Brunswick, N.J. campus on April 20-21, 2015.
APRIL 17, 2015--Hello! For those of you who don’t know me, I’m Jessica White, the Deputy Director at the Gulf of Mexico Disaster Response Center (DRC) in Mobile, Alabama.
APRIL 15, 2015--On April 11, 2015, Pennsylvania’s Department of Conservation and Natural Resources and the Pennsylvania Recreation & Park Society honored Lardner’s Point Park with its Green Park Award.
APRIL 10, 2015--During the week of April 6, 2015, OR&R’s Emergency Response Division provided Inland Shoreline Cleanup Assessment Technique (“SCAT”) Training in Boise, Idaho. The training, conducted in collaboration with trainers from U.S. EPA Region 10 and Washington Department of Ecology, was focused on techniques for conducting surveys of shorelines impacted by oil spills in freshwater environments. The class also covered considerations for appropriate cleanup methods for different types of shorelines in freshwater environments.
APRIL 10, 2015--OR&R provided training to all four shifts of the Seattle Fire Department's Hazardous Materials (HAZMAT) Team this week.
APRIL 10, 2015--The week of April 6, 2015, Marine Debris Program Director Nancy Wallace presented at the Global Partnership on Marine Litter (GPML) meeting in New York City, co-hosted by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). NOAA is the chair of the steering committee for the GPML.
APRIL 10, 2015--Veteran spill responder Mark W. Miller is the new co-director of the University of New Hampshire Coastal Response Research Center (CRRC), a partnership with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Office of Response and Restoration (OR&R), effective April 3, 2015.
APRIL 10, 2015--Bradford Benggio, OR&R Scientific Support Coordinator for the southeast U.S., provided Shoreline Cleanup Assessment Techniques (SCAT) training for thirty-five state, federal, and industry representatives on April 7-9, 2015 at the U.S. Coast Guard Sector in Charleston.
APRIL 3, 2015--Staff from OR&R's Emergency Response Division (ERD) and the Assessment and Restoration Division (ARD) gave presentations at the Coastal GeoTools conference in Charleston, S.C. the week of March 30, 2015.
APRIL 3, 2015--The NOAA Marine Debris Program, in partnership with the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, published a report recently that assesses the current state of science on “ghost fishing” and the derelict fishing gear that causes it.
APRIL 3, 2015--OR&R and the NOAA Restoration Center have been working together to highlight a collection of stories, images, and maps relating to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill that occurred on April 20, 2010.
APRIL 3,2015--On April 1, 2015, Marine Debris Program staff presented to members of the Golden Gate Chapter of the Institute of Packaging Professionals (IoPP), an organization for networking and education within the packaging industry.