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 IOSC 2008 Home / Short Courses / In-Situ Burning for Coastal Marshes and Inland Oil Spills |
IOSC 2008 Short Course |
In-Situ Burning for Coastal Marshes and Inland Oil Spills Course Length: 3.5 hours Note: This 3.5 hour course will be taught in sequence with the Short-Course on Weather Forecasting for Emergency Response (Lead Instructor: Larry Van Bussum (NOAA/NWS)). Instructors: Alexis Steen (ExxonMobil), David Fritz (BP), Amy Merten (NOAA/Coastal Response Research Center), Larry Van Bussum (NOAA/National Weather Service) and Representative from the US Forest Service National Interagency Fire Center. Objective: to give potential incident commanders and technical advisors tools for planning and using in-situ burning in coastal marshes and in-land areas; to bring in expertise from the US Forest Service prescribed fire arena to the oil spill response community to improve safety and efficiency in planning for and using in-situ burning. Level: The intended audience is for future incident commanders, natural resource trustees, and responders who may need to use or to recommend using in-situ burning as response tool to remove oil on land/wetland areas. Course Justification: Historically, the oil spill community has focused on in-situ burning of oil on water. In practice, however, most in-situ burns take place on land, including in coastal marshes. Although there is regional guidance and approval processes for conducting burns, the level of expertise applied to a site-specific burn is ad hoc. Thus, this course is the beginning of a training program for collectively understanding best practices for inland and coastal marsh burning after an oil spill. Prescribed burns take place in a structured, ongoing manner throughout the U.S and other countries. One of the questions being asked in this course is: Can the oil spill community adapt tools, methods, and processes from the US Forest Service to improve in situ burning safety and capabilities in a cost-effective manner? This course will outline relevant case studies and lessons learned from recent in-situ burns in inland and coastal marsh environments. Participants will have an introduction to planning for ISB, safety considerations, best practices, tools available to help decision-making, services available to help predict smoke plume transport (e.g., spot forecasts) and smoke management techniques. Minimum/Maximum Attendance: no more than 40 people Contact: Alexis Steen Amy A. Merten, Ph.D. Dave Fritz |
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