Tuesday, June 28, 2022
A Virtual Event
12:30 - 5:00 pm PT
This virtual event, hosted by NOAA’s Office of Response and Restoration’s (OR&R) Assessment and Restoration Division (ARD) and the University of New Hampshire’s Coastal Response Research Center will delve into these renewable fuels to improve understanding of transportation routes, fate, behavior, toxicity, and analytical methods. This workshop will assist NRDA practitioners in becoming better prepared to conduct injury assessments for spills of these types and spill responders are also encouraged to attend to learn more about these oils.
Objectives
- Educate responders and NRDA practitioners in the West Coast region about renewable fuels;
- Increase understanding of these renewable fuels and how they are transported; and
- Improve understanding of the fate & transport and potential damage/impact to the ecosystem.
Presentations
- Welcome and Logistics, Nancy Kinner, Facilitator - Coastal Response Research Center
- Background and Goals, Marla Steinhoff - NOAA OR&R ARD
- Define Renewable Fuels, Dalina Thrift-Viveros - NOAA OR&R ERD
- Overview of Commodity Flow/Production and Transportation, LT Aidan Leddy-Phillips, U.S. Coast Guard, Pacific Strike Team
- State of Washington, Brian Kirk - Washington Department of Ecology
- State of California, Gordon Schremp - California Energy Commission
- State of Oregon, Don Pettit - Oregon Dept of Environmental Quality
Fate, Behavior and Response:
- Mark Howard, U.S. EPA, OEM/RID Oil Program
- Greg McGowan, California, Office of Spill Prevention and Response (OSPR)
- Toxicity and Analysis, Martice Vaquez - California, Office of Spill Prevention and Response (OSPR)
Case Studies:
- Vegetable Oil Fish Kill (WA), Geoff Baran, WA Dept of Ecology
- 2007 Biodiesel Spill, Dave Byers, WA Dept of Ecology
- San Francisco East Bay Myster Spill, Laurie Sullivan - NOAA ORR ARD
Other Resources
- NEIC - San Francisco Bay Bird Kill (2015)
- Pacific States/British Columbia Oil Spill Task Force ????2020 Annual Report
- U.S. Energy Information Administration, weekly petroleum status report
Steering Committee
- Nancy Kinner, co-director Coastal Response Research Center, UNH
- Marla Steinhoff, NOAA OR&R Assessment and Restoration Division
- Geoff Baran, Washington Dept of Ecology
- Laurie Sullivan, NOAA OR&R Assessment and Restoration Division
- Jordan Stout, NOAA OR&R ERD
- Dalina Thrift-Viveros, NOAA OR&R ARD
For more information, please contact Kathy Mandsager
