Northeast Marine Mammal NRDA Workshop

Tuesday, June 7, 2022 to Wednesday, June 8, 2022
10:00 am to 3:00 pm ET (each day)
A Virtual Event

Overview

This workshop will provide the opportunity for NOAA line offices to develop a common understanding of the process, hurdles, and possibilities for injury assessment for marine mammals in the Northeast Region prior to the next oil spill. The workshop will use a spill scenario for participants to use as they develop approaches for NRDA injury assessments. Potential baseline information that might be available, species to address, methodologies, platforms for assessments, and overarching collaboration between the potential NOAA line offices will be identified. The workshop will identify priorities where further pre-spill planning and workplan development could assist in improving marine mammal assessments, particularly for time-sensitive data collection early in an oil spill response and NRDA.

Agenda
Participants

Pre-workshop Presentations

This information is offered to you prior to the workshop for baseline information and to kick off our workshop discussions.

• Marine Mammal Assessment Guidelines
• Long-term Impacts of DWH Oil on Barataria Bay Dolphins

Workshop Presentations

• Introduction, Nancy Kinner, Coastal Response Research Center
• Workshop Objectives, Laurie Sullivan, NOAA ORR ARD and Teri Rowles, NOAA NMFS OPR
• NMFS Research Overview:
  • Northeast Fisheries Science Center, Danielle Cholewiak
  • Greater Atlantic Regional Fisheries Office, Mendy Garron
  • Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Tammy Silva
• NRDA and Response Overview :
  • NOAA's Role in Response, John Tarpley
  • Introduction/Elements to NRDA and Resotration, Ken Finkelstein
  • NMFS Protected Resources, Teri Rowles
  • Wildlife Response Activities, Michael Ziccardi and Sarah Wilkin
  • NRDA and Response Internactions, Laurie Sullivan

Day 2 - Scenario

• Overview of Cape Cod Bay Scenario, Matthew Dorsey
  • NOAA ERMA^(R) scenario 
• Scenario Strandings, Mendy Garron
•  Conceptual Model, Laurie Sullivan
• Overview of #6 Fuel, Ken Finkelstein
• Breakout Group Template

Additional Resources

• Whale Watching in Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary: Understanding Passengers and their Economic Contributions, (November 2020), National Marine Sanctuaries Conservation Science Series ONMS-20-12
• Example of a Stellwagen Drill
• Passive Acoustic Research in the Atlantic Ocean
• WhaleMap - near-real-time large whale sightings and acoustic detections, with some historic data
• Whale Alert
• Whale Insight
• AMAPPS model viewer
• OBIS-SEAMAP
• Passive Acoustic Cetacean Map-current and historic cetacean acoustic detection data 
• NE Ocean Data Portal 

Steering Committee

• Nancy Kinner, CRRC, UNH
• Laurie Sullivan, NOAA ORR ARD
• Matt Dorsey, NOAA ORR Spatial Data Branch
• Ken Finkelstein, NOAA ORR ARD
• Mendy Garron, NOAA NMFS Greater Atlantic Region
• Teri Rowles, NOAA NMFS
• Susan Snyder, NOAA ORR ARD
• Daniel Takaki, NOAA ORR ARD
• Sarah Wilkin, NOAA NMFS, OPR Marine Mammal Health and Stranding Response Program

Questions? Please contact Kathy Mandsager.