Tuesday, April 20, 2010 to Thursday, April 22, 2010
Anchorage, Alaska
Co-sponsored with Alaska's Oil Spill Response Institute (OSRI)
Meeting Goal
The immediate goal of this workshop is to initiate a dialogue among NRDA practitioners and Arctic scientists that will identify the most significant data gaps in our understanding of the ecologies of resources potentially at risk from oil released into Alaskan Arctic waters, including fate and exposure pathways. Overview
Overview of Workshop Outcomes
Agenda
Presentations
- Welcome & Introductions (Nancy E. Kinner & Amy A. Merten, Co-Directors, CRRC)
- Background & Workshop Goals (Mary Baker, NOAA ARD)
- Workshop Structure, Logistics & Outcomes (Jon Hockman, OLA Consulting)
- Overview of NRDA Process (Gordon Robilliard, ENTRIX)
- NRDA: An Economist's Perspective (Norman Meade, NOAA ARD)
- Ice Primer/Overview (Christian Petrich, University of Alaska, Fairbanks)
- Scenario: Open Water (Jacqui Michel, Research Planning, Inc.)
- Scenario: Under Ice (Mike Bronson, BP)
- Scenario: Broken Ice (Ken Lee, Fisheries & Ocean Canada)
Plenary Session: Restoration Panel Discussion
- Restoration: fish, fish habitat, human services (Erika Ammann)
- Restoration: arctic revegetation, habitat (Steve McKendrick)
- Restoration: birds, marine mammals (Jenifer Kohout)
Workshop Resources
- Discussion Questions
- Definitions
- Arctic Map
- North Slope Imagery and ESI
- An annotated example of ice conditions in early September 2006
Pre-Reading Materials
Coastal & Aquatic Habitats & Species Reading Resource
Additional Resources
- Estimates of Oil Spill Dispersion Extent in the Nearshore alaskan Beaufort Sea Based on In-Situ Oceanographic Measurements (2007) Seth Danielson, Thomas Weingartner, Institute of Marine Science, University of Alaska, Fairbanks.
- North Slope Nearshore and Offshore Breakup Study Literature Search and Analysis of Conditions and Dates (2007) Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation.
- SINTEF Report: Joint Industry Program on Oil Spill Contingency for Arctic and Ice-Covered Waters (2010)
- Alaska North Slope Borough; Department of Wildlife Management
- Alaska Ocean Observing System
- International Oil & Ice Workshop, Anchorage, October 10-11, 2007
- Institute of Marine Science: the Alaskan Beaufort Slope: SCICEX-99
- Institute of Marine Science: Research Data Archives
- U.S. Minerals Management Service
- cANIMIDA Data Management Platform (U.S.MMS)
- National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA):
- NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Barrow Alaska Observatory
- NOAA National Marine Mammal Laboratory, Cetacean Assessment & Ecology Program
- Empirical Weathering Properties of Oil in Ice and Snow (2008) US MMS
Working Organizing Committee
Mike Amman, Chevron mammann@chevron.com
Mary Baker, NOAA, mary.baker@noaa.gov
Catherine Berg, US FWS, catherine_berg@fws.gov
Nancy Bird, OSRI nbird@pwssc.org
Dale Gardner, Alaska DEC dale.gardner@alaska.gov
Nancy Kinner, CRRC nancy.kinner@unh.edu
Ken Lee, Bedford Institute of Oceanography leek@mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca
Amy Merten, NOAA amy.merten@noaa.gov
Jacqui Michel, RPI jmichel@researchplanning.com
W. Scott Pegau, OSRI wspegau@pwssc.org
Jeep Rice, NOAA jeep.rice@noaa.gov
Gordon Robilliard, ENTRIX grobilliard@entrix.com
Cheryl Rosa, North Slope/USARC cheryl.rosa@north-slope.org
Jennifer Schorr, Alaska Attorney General Ofc jennifer.schorr@alaska.gov
Mead Treadwell, USARC meadwell@alaska.net
Location
Millennium Alaskan Hotel (Redington Room)
4800 Spenard Rd
Anchorage, AK 99517
(907) 243-2300
Lodging
Millennium Alaskan Hotel - ($99 government ID/ $119 others)
4800 Spenard Rd
Anchorage, AK 99517
(907) 243-2300
Use Group Code: 1004UNHNRD
When booking your hotel room, also reserve free airport shuttle if needed.
Directions
Questions? Please contact kathy.mandsager@unh.edu (603)862-1545
