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The Coastal Response Research Center (CRRC) was established as a partnership between the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), through the Office of Response and Restoration (OR&R) and the University of New Hampshire (UNH) in 2004. |
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The Center for Spills and Environmental Hazards (CSE) is a University center that expands the scope of interaction and cooperation with the private sector, other government agencies and universities. |
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The Centers are administered by, and located at, the UNH campus in Durham, NH. Both centers are affiliated with the UNH School of Marine Science and Ocean Engineering (SMSOE). Center one-pager here>> |
News
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Exxon Valdez Oil Spill – Lessons learned 30 years after the eventEnvironment, Wednesday, February 6, 2019
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Oil Trains Make Comeback as Pipeline Bottlenecks WorsenThe Wall Street Journal, Thursday, January 31, 2019
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The Government Shutdown's Effects on the Maritime IndustryThe Maritime Executive, Wednesday, January 23, 2019
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Recent Oil Spill Response & Monitoring DevelopmentsISCO, Tuesday, January 15, 2019
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MSC Starts Clean up in Dutch Waters after Container SpillMarine Link, Monday, January 14, 2019
Features
What happens when oil comes into contact with marine snow and what are the ramification for Cook Inlet? Research by CRRC graduate student Jesse Ross. |
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In December 2017, for the first time ever in winter, a tanker sailed without an icebreaker through the Northern Sea Route, a shipping lane that runs along the Arctic coast of Russia. Newer, tougher ship hulls and shrinking Arctic ice are now opening up this shorter, cheaper shipping route for business. But as Nancy Kinner, director of the Coastal Response Research Center and Center for Spills in the Environment tells Living on Earth’s Jenni Doering, oil spills there could spell disaster for fragile Arctic ecosystems. |
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In response to Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, CRRC reconvened one of the Environmental Disaster Data Management (EDDM) Working Groups to quickly identify the environmental sampling tools that can be used by researchers in the post-hurricane setting. The EDDM Working Groups provided information and data services that improved the quality and speed of decision making in response to environmental disasters. The Working Groups, organized by CRRC, consists of scientists and researchers, industry, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), federal and state agencies, data managers, data collectors, and data retrieval personnel. The list of environmental sampling tools than can be used in response to a hurricane is posted on the U.S. Health and Human Services National Library of Medicine Disaster Lit website. |
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This is to announce that the 2017 International Oil Spill Conference (IOSC) Proceedings are now available online.The IOSC body of knowledge, dating back to the inception of IOSC in 1969, is available free of charge online. |
Workshop Reports
- DWH Long Term Data Management Coordination (released November 2017)
- SCAT for Tomorrow (released June 2017)
- Addressing Public Concerns During Spill Response (released March 2017)
- Natural Disaster Causing Technology Disasters in Mobile Bay Area (released Nov 2016)
- Oil Spill Response Options for the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary (released Sept 2016)
- Oil Observing Tools Workshop Report (released July 2016)
- CAMEO Stakeholders Report (October 2015)
- EDDM (Environmental Disasters Data Management Workshop Report (February 2015)
- NOAA's Assessment & Restoration Division Data Management Strategy Report (April 2015)
- Dispersants Forum: Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference
- Marine Oil Snow Sedimentation & Flocculent Accumulation (MOSSFA) Workshop Report
- Discussion on Research Priorities in Relation to Federal Oil Spill Response and Restoration
- Oil Spill Dispersant Research Workshop Report (March 2013)
- Oil Sands Forum and Working Group
- North Slope Borough, An Oil Spill Workshop on NRDA & ERMA®
- NORTHWEST ARCTIC BOROUGH Oil Spill Workshop: NRDA & ERMA®
- The Future of Dispersant Use in Spill Response
- Coordinating R&D on Oil Spill Response in the Wake of Deepwater Horizon
- A Summary Report of "Coordinating R&D on Oil Spill Response in the Wake of the Deepwater Horizon" workshop (April 2011) Here>>