International Oil Spill Modeling Workshop

Dates:

September 24 - 26, 2024

Final Workshop Report

    Here>>

Agenda:

     Here>>

Participants:

     Participant List here>>

Presentations:

Welcome & Logistics - David Wright, NOAA GLERL

Background & Objectives - Nancy Kinner, CRRC

Topic 1: Uncertainty:

•  Rachael Mueller, NOAA ERD
• Hossein Babaei, Environment Canada
• Rodrigo Duran, Planetary Science Institute

Topic 2: Shorelines:

• Chris Barker, NOAA ERD
• Kuo-Hsien Chang, Environment Canada
• Aurelien Hospital, TetraTech

Topic 3: Coastal Environments

• Amy MacFadyen, NOAA ERD
• Debbie French McCay, TetraTech - RPS Response Modeling
• Kuo-Hsien Chang, Environment Canada

Topic 4: Countermeasures

• Dalina Thrift-Viveros, NOAA ERD - In Situ Burn Overview
• Sebastien Legrand, RBINS, Belgium
• Ana Abascal Santillana, IHCantabria

Topic 5: Standardization

• Chris Barker, NOAA ERD - ADIOS Database
• Sebastien Legrand, RBINS, Belgium - Introduction to Standardization
• Knut-Frode Dagestad, Met Norway
• Chris Barker, NOAA ERD - CF Metadata Standards

Resources:

• International Oil Spill Modeling Working Group
• Modeling Working Group (2007-2023)
• Manuscripts Database
• Lagrangian modelling of multi-dimensional advection-diffusion with space-varying diffusivities: theory and idealized test cases.  author Darya Spivakovskaya, et al, (on how to handle anisotropies in diffusivity in a particle model)
• Impact of flow field resolution on produced water transport in Lagrangian and Eulerian models.  Author Raymond Nepstad, Tor Nordam, et al, (compared tracer advection and diffusion in an ocean model and a particle model)
• On the use of random walk schemes in oil spill modelling, author Tor Nordam, Raymond Nepstad, Emma Litzler, Johannes Röhrs (vertical diffusivity in oil spill modelling)
• Chapter 4 - Vertical mixing in oil spill modeling. author Tor Nordam, Jørgen Skancke, Rodrigo Duran, Christopher H. Barker (free pdf version of the text available here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2010.11890)
• The objective of WP 4 is to be able to give recommendations regarding the applicability of different response methods and equipment to the new generation fuel oils, report on mechanical recovery, IMAROS 2022. Project website here>>
• The project website for IMAROS-2 (on-going project) is here>> 

Location:

     NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory
     4840 S. State Rd
     Ann Arbor, MI 48108

Questions? Please contact Kathy Mandsager