Oil Spill Response 25 Years After the Exxon Valdez
and in the Wake of the Deepwater Horizon:
What Have We Learned and What Are We Missing?
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Setting the Stage
2002: Oil spill response focus in U.S. was moribund
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Exxon Valdez 13 years earlier
Little R&D funding
Double hull tankers
Lulled into complacency
Oil spill community knew it could happen again
NOAA decision to fund center to focus on oil spill
response and restoration issues and needed R&D to
“revive” focus
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Setting the Stage
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Setting the Stage
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Center Focus Before Deepwater Horizon:
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5 Year Oil Spill Response R&D Plans
Dispersants and Dispersed Oil
Human Dimensions
Submerged Oil
Environmental Response Management
Oil Spill Toxicity
Spill Modeling
Arctic Spill Response
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Center Focus Since Deepwater Horizon:
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R&D Planning including Interagency Coordinating Committee
on Oil Pollution Research (ICCOPR) Federal R&D Plan
Dispersants and Dispersed Oil
Human Dimensions
Submerged Oil
Environmental Disaster Data Management
Spill Response for Oil Sands Products
Arctic Natural Resource Damage Assessment
Use of Dispersants During Arctic Spill Response
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Genesis of Today’s Forum
• Historic Milestones: 25 Year Exxon Valdez
and 5 Year Deepwater Horizon
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What can we learn from these spills?
• What issues that were paramount during
these spills and still remain?
• University of New Hampshire is the
institution to do this!
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Focus of Forum
• What have we learned from the Exxon
Valdez and Deepwater Horizon spills?
• How can they inform future spill
response?
• What should we do differently to
address the spills of the future?
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Focus of Forum
• Focus on spill response:
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Role of academic science in spill response
Communication via media
Human dimensions: social and public health
Policy and politics
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Focus of Forum
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Role of academic science in spill response
Communication via media
Human dimensions: social and public health
Policy and politics
• Solutions to issues:
• Not legislative
• Not regulatory
• Transform Recommendations into Practice
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Outcome of Forum
• Usual videotapes and report
• Cross-section of experts are gathered;
generate consensus recommendations
• Path forward to address the key issues
highlighted during this forum
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Types of Sessions
Examine Specific Spills
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Exxon Valdez
Deepwater Horizon
Future Spills:
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Arctic
Inland (Rail and Pipeline)
Two keynote speakers (Response and Science)
Discussion by key participants:
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Government
Industry
NGO
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Types of Sessions
• Panels:
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Role of academic science in spill response
Communication via media
Human dimensions: social and public health
Policy and politics
• Panelists represent key participants and
perspectives
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Agenda
• Tuesday
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Overview of Oil Spills in the U.S.
Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Response
Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Response
Panel 1: Role of Science in Spill Response
Networking
Panel II: Role of Media in Spill Response
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Agenda
• Wednesday
• Future Spill Scenarios
• Panel III: Human Dimensions, Social
and Public Health
• Panel IV: Policy and Politics
• Panel V: Path Forward
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Questions
• Audience questions encouraged!
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Click on submit a question
• Written on cards available from forum
staff
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Agenda
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Tuesday
• Overview of Oil Spills in U.S.
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Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Response
Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Response
Panel 1: Role of Science in Spill Response
Networking
Panel II: Role of Media in Spill Response
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