Training Workshops

Salvage and Marine Firefighting:  The Latest Initiatives
Monday • May 17 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Registration Fee: $300 for Industry Attendee; $250 for Federal, State and/or Local
Government Attendee; Free for Municipal Firefighters (Limit 2 per department. Additional department attendees $50)

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The American Salvage Association is pleased to present a workshop on salvage and marine firefighting-now recognized as principal tools in marine pollution prevention and mitigation. The first session will address the “Wreck Oil Removal Program,” presented by a panel of experts from NOAA, Coast Guard, industry and environmental groups. This panel will focus on the threat by coastal shipwrecks, with an emphasis on the Atlantic Coast, and the benefits of a systematic and proactive approach. Additionally, industry experts will present on salvage diving and oil removal from sunken vessels, and salvage and the environment. Coast Guard officials will review the salvage regulations and latest policy. Finally, experts from industry, the public fire service, and Coast Guard will discuss the many challenges of the salvage regulations and of marine firefighting, including the important role of the public fire service. Commercial vessel operators, government officials, firefighters, and others with an interest in marine environmental protection please plan to attend to gain a full appreciation of these issues and their impact.

Chair:
James Calhoun, Manager, Regulatory Affairs, T&T Bisso, LLC

Wreck Oil Removal Program
Dagmar Schmidt Etkin, PhD, President, Environmental Research Consulting
Robert Urban, President, PCCI, Inc., Marine & Environmental Engineering
Deborah French McCay, PhD, Director of Impact Assessment Services, Principal, Applied Science Associates, Inc.
David Westerholm, Director, Office of Response and Restoration, NOAA
Carleen Lyden-Kluss, Co-Founder and Executive Director, North American Marine Environmental Protection Assocation
U.S. Coast Guard Representative

Diving Operations and Wreck Oil Removal

David DeVilbiss, Director, Vessel Casualty Response, Global Diving and Salvage

Coast Guard Update on the Salvage and Firefighting Regulations
LCDR Ryan Allain, Vessel Response Plan Program Manager, U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters

Patricia Adams, Policy & Industry Outreach, Vessel Response Plan Program, U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters

Salvage and the Environment
Bob Umbdenstock, Director, Planning & Corporate Relations, Resolve Marine Group

Salvage Panel

CDR Jim Elliott, Commanding Officer, USCG Marine Safety Unit Galveston

LCDR Ryan Allain, Vessel Response Plan Program Manager, U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters

Bob Umbdenstock, Director, Planning & Corporate Relations, Resolve Marine Group

David DeVilbiss, Director, Vessel Casualty Response, Global Diving and Salvage

F. William Neubrand, Insurance Manager, The Vane Brothers Company

John Salvesen, QI & Regulation Compliance Coordinator, Odfjell USA Inc.

Marine Firefighting Panel

CDR Jim Elliott, Commanding Officer, USCG Marine Safety Unit Galveston
LCDR Ryan Allain, Vessel Response Plan Program Manager, U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters
Captain Jeffrey Johnson, Vancouver Fire Department and Maritime Fire and Safety Association

Douglas Dillon, Executive Director, Tri-state Maritime Safety Assn.

John Salvesen, QI & Regulation Compliance Coordinator, Odfjell USA Inc.
F. William Neubrand, Insurance Manager, The Vane Brothers Company
Bob Umbdenstock, Director, Planning & Corporate Relations, Resolve Marine Group

 

Oil Spill Risk Assessment

Monday • May 17 1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Registration Fee: No Charge, Sponsored by Applied Science Associates and Environmental Research Consulting

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Applied Science Associates, Inc. (ASA), assisted by Environmental Research Consulting (ERC), is pleased to present a workshop on oil spill risk assessment. A full assessment of oil spill risk considers 1) the likelihood of spills from various sources and causes, 2) the expected frequency distribution of spill sizes if a spill occurs, and 3) the potential consequences of the spilled oil to ecological and socioeconomic resources. The increasing availability of spill incident and environmental data, advancements in spill modeling capabilities, and modern high-speed computing tools allow sophisticated and reliable oil spill risk assessments to be efficiently performed that go well-beyond the traditional worst-case scenario analysis on a handful of hypothetical incidents. ASA and ERC have teamed on numerous oil spill risk studies, developing such quantitative approaches to address questions and issues arising during contingency planning, spill response, regulation development, and planning for natural resource damage assessment. Dr. Deborah French-McCay of ASA will provide an overview of the problem and approach; Dr. Dagmar Schmidt Etkin of ERC will describe techniques and data available to estimate likelihood of spills and expected frequency distribution of spill sizes, as well as modeling techniques to estimate response costs and socioeconomic impacts; and ASA will summarize modeling approaches and results for evaluations of spill consequences for applications ranging from cost-benefit analyses of spill prevention measures and prioritization of risks for policy development, to quantification of environmental salvage rewards. Finally, ASA will describe development of and demonstrate a new freely-available tool sponsored by Coastal Response Research Center (CRRC) of UNH that provides guidance for oil spill response tradeoff decisions involving dispersant usage by estimating expected level of ecological impact of floating oil and water column contamination.

Instructors:

Deborah French McCay, PhD, Director of Impact Assessment Services, Principal, Applied Science Associates, Inc.

Eileen Graham, Biologist, Applied Science Associates, Inc.

Dagmar Schmidt Etkin, PhD, President, Environmental Research Consulting

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