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 IOSC 2008 Home / Short Courses / Evaluating Environmental Tradeoffs in Spill Response and Planning |
IOSC 2008 Short Course |
Evaluating Environmental Tradeoffs in Spill Response and Planning Instructors: Dr. Alan Mearns, Senior Staff Scientist, NOAA ERD; John Tarpley, Operations Director, NOAA ERD; Robin Lewis, Cal OSPR; Ed Levine, NY SSC, NOAA ERD; Glen Watabayashi, Simulation and Modeling Team leader, NOAA ERD and one other to be determined. Objective: provide a basis and strategy for pre-planning reponse alternatives and improving response planning. Level/Audience: This introductory level course is targeted for trustees and response planners, including but not limited to NRT and regional RRT representatives as well as local and state trustees. Language: English Course Description: All response actions involve environmental tradeoffs. No response is 100% effective in removing the pollutant and all actions involve collateral ecological risks and injuries. A focus of response should be on minimizing injury and maximizing ecological and environmental recovery using all the available tools. This course explores information and ways to evaluate environmental benefits and tradeoffs of all oil spill response and clean up options. It is intended to help both responders and resource trustees understand and work quickly toward consensus on developing the most effective and least injurious suite of response actions. The course will follow as a scenario develops, with presentations and discussion on tradeoffs associated with open water and shoreline spill clean up methods, collateral impacts of response, and “How Clean is Clean Enough?” concepts. We begin with several very short refresher trainings on oil composition and fate and on oil spill clean up methods (open water and shoreline), with an emphasis on their relative effectiveness, benefits and collateral impacts. Participants will be introduced to a consensus-building method: Consensus Ecological Risk Assessment. The major portion of the session will be devoted to class working groups evaluating response tradeoffs associated with a specific spill scenario with alternative response outcomes. To help speed the learning process, attendees will be asked to prepare by reviewing basic on-line information on Places of Refuge, oil composition and fate, open water response methods (mechanical, in situ burn, dispersion) and shoreline cleanup methods (manual, mechanical, hydraulic, chemical cleaners, bioremediation).
Minimum/Maximum Attendance: Minimum 20, Maximum 35 Intended Audience: This course would be directed to both trustees and response planners, including but not limited to NRT and regional RRT representatives as well as local and state trustees. The intent is to provide a basis and strategy for pre-planning reponse alternatives and improving response planning. Contact Information: Alan J. Mearns John Tarpley, Chief Robin Lewis, Supervisor Ed Levine Glen Watabayashi, Supervisor |
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