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SCAA Update. March 2014 Dave Westerholm. SCAA Relevant Focus Areas. Response Tools Training Keeping up with science. SCAA Relevant Focus Areas. Response 14 SSCs Averaging over 10 incidents a month since October 2013 (plus DWH) New challenges and opportunities.
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SCAA Update March 2014 Dave Westerholm
SCAA Relevant Focus Areas . . . . . • Response • Tools • Training • Keeping up with science
SCAA Relevant Focus Areas . . . . . • Response • 14 SSCs • Averaging over 10 incidents a month since October 2013 (plus DWH) • New challenges and opportunities
SCAA Relevant Focus Areas . . . . . • Preparedness • Tools • Training and Exercises • Keeping up with science
SCAA Relevant Focus Areas . . . . . • Tools • Supplemental funding (3D modeling, dispersant decision making, oil weathering, ESIs for Sandy Impact Areas, Marine Debris mapping and removal) • ERMA Implementations and Development (Arctic, Great Lakes, spill and drill use) • ESIs (LA and Texas – done!, Delaware, WA/OR, Georgia, South Carolina, Maine, Long Island Sound) • Tools (CAFÉ/DTox, CRW, CameoChemicals, RDM, GNOME, GOODS, ADIOS3)
SCAA Relevant Focus Areas . . . . . • Preparedness • Tools • Training and Exercises • Keeping up with science
SCAA Relevant Focus Areas . . . . . • Keeping up with science • Industry, Academia, Government • New Challenges • Incorporating new Technology
Some of the groups currently doing oil spill research NWFW Gulf Environmental Benefit Fund