Goals & Objectives The objective of this project is to identify programs and research and development projects that improve the ability of responders to deal with accidental oil spills in fresh or salt-water marine environments where there is ice. This includes spills that occur on top of or underneath solid, stable ice extending out from shore (land-fast), into an area of drifting ice floes (pack ice), or onto an ice-covered shoreline. Oil spills in ice are a subject of great concern to corporations, local residents, and government agencies participating in oil exploration, production, and transportation. Currently, areas that are of special concern are Cook Inlet, the Beaufort Sea (including the North Slope of Alaska), Sakhalin Island offshore, and the Norwegian Barents, Baltic, and Caspian seas. As reserves are depleted in more accessible areas, cold frontier regions will increasingly receive attention in the areas of exploration and production. In most areas of the world, the greatest need is to develop a credible and effective response to oil that has been spilled in moving, broken pack ice in the ocean, lakes or rivers. Practical response strategies are, in most cases, already available to deal with spills in a stable, fast-ice environment. A notable exception involves the lack of operational tools to detect or map oil in any ice type.

Executive Summary This report provides a comprehensive summary of activities and accomplishments of the Minerals Management Service (MMS) Arctic Oil Spill Response Research (OSRR) program. The program directly supports MMS missions of ensuring safe and sound operations in the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) through leadership in research and standards development for Arctic operations and in facilitating the use of science in making policy and leasing decisions. From 1997 through 2008 the MMS has successfully developed and conducted thirty-one projects directly related to improving equipment and processes for the prompt identification and removal of oil from harsh Arctic environments. Rather than working independently, the OSRR program has reached out and partnered with state and federal government agencies, academia, private industry, and other countries who share similar interests in Arctic oil spill response research. As a product of these partnerships, over 40 percent of these projects were jointly funded. The OSRR projects highlighted in this document are examples of how the MMS has and continues to address the ongoing operational and environmental concerns associated with energy exploration and exploitation in the Arctic. Research projects, many of which were conducted at Ohmsett - The National Oil Spill Response Test Facility ranging from mechanical containment and recovery in ice conditions, to dispersant use in cold water, reflect an expanding body of work that has advanced knowledge of oil spill response capabilities in cold water environments. Quoted liberally in scientific literature, OSRR projects are helping drive cold water research both nationally and internationally. The MMS as well as U.S. and foreign government agencies and organizations world wide utilize the results from the OSRR program and Ohmsett in making planning, regulatory, and emergency response decisions. The MMS has been the principal U.S. federal agency funding oil spill response research for the past 25 years and is now the leader in Arctic response research. The successes of the OSRR program are a result of appropriated funding from the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund and continued support by MMS Management. Maintaining this momentum is critical to ensuring that the best available technologies for response are ready to support future oil exploration and exploitation in the Arctic.

Emergency Response Boundaries have been extracted from the WA (Enhanced) E911 system. They represent the response boundaries of emergency service providers across Washington State. Includes individual layers for Emergency Medical Services (EMS), Fire Services (Fire), and Law Enforcement Services (Law).

Emergency Response Boundaries have been extracted from the WA (Enhanced) E911 system. They represent the response boundaries of emergency service providers across Washington State. Includes individual layers for Emergency Medical Services (EMS), Fire Services (Fire), and Law Enforcement Services (Law).

Emergency Response Boundaries have been extracted from the WA (Enhanced) E911 system. They represent the response boundaries of emergency service providers across Washington State. Includes individual layers for Emergency Medical Services (EMS), Fire Services (Fire), and Law Enforcement Services (Law).

This layer depicts hurricane evacuation routes and risk areas as designated by the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA).Hurricane evacuation zones categorized for zip codes coded for four separate zones: A, B, C, & Coastal.

Emergency Response Boundaries have been extracted from the WA (Enhanced) E911 system. They represent the response boundaries of emergency service providers across Washington State. Includes individual layers for Emergency Medical Services (EMS), Fire Services (Fire), and Law Enforcement Services (Law).

Input data and heave results (unsteady RANS-VOF overset simulations performed in Star-CCM+) for a float with an ellipsoid geometry. Five extreme sea states were considered, as detailed in the conference paper "Application of the Most Likely Extreme Response Method for Wave Energy Converters" by Quon et al. (see resource below). These sea states were extrapolated from conditions near Humboldt Bay, California. Focused waves were generated using the MLER module of the Wave Design Response Toolbox (WDRT) and specified at the inlet boundary conditions. The device was constrained to heave only and a PTO was not modeled.

The Oil Pollution Act authorizes certain federal agencies, states, and Indian tribes —collectively known as natural resource trustees— to evaluate the impacts of the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill on natural resources. These trustees are responsible for studying the effects of the spill through a process known as Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA). As part of this process, scientists work together to identify potential injuries to natural resources and lost human uses resulting from the spill. This website is the public NOAA repository for data related to the DWH Trustees' NRDA efforts. To provide additional context to the NRDA data, the site also includes historical (pre-2010) contaminant chemistry data for the onshore area of the Gulf of Mexico, as well as contaminant chemistry data collected during the Response efforts and by BP. These data are available to the general public and are accessed through a query and mapping interface called DIVER (Data Integration Visualization Exploration and Reporting) Explorer. Trustee NRDA data currently available include photographs, telemetry, field observations, instrument data, and results of laboratory analysis on tissue, sediment, oil, and water samples. Data can be viewed onscreen or downloaded in a variety of formats.

This collection includes 4 data files (one each for water, sediment, tissue, and tar/oil analyses) containing data from the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) Oil Spill Event Response Phase. These data are the work of Federal agencies, state environmental management agencies and BP and its contractors. This dataset represents the culmination of a quality-control process overseen by NOAA and involving each individual data provider. These data were originally uploaded by the data providers into the EPA Scribe data management system (see Scribe Database Collection, this page), and later transferred to NOAA’s Query Manager system for final evaluation by NOAA. The files in this collection are extractions from Query Manager. This dataset is considered to supersede the Scribe Database Collection.

The Scribe Database Collection includes 14 databases containing data from the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) Oil Spill Event Response Phase. These databases are the work of Federal agencies, state environmental management agencies and BP and its contractors. The types of information include locations, descriptions, and analysis of water, sediment, oil, tar, dispersant, air and other environmental samples. Note: the water and sediment chemistry data from these databases has been extracted by cruise and archived separately in association with the other cruise-related data accessions. See the DWH Ocean In Situ Data page for access to those accessions.

The Division of Spill Prevention and Response (SPAR) prevents spills of oil and hazardous substances, prepares for when a spill occurs and responds rapidly to protect human health and the environment.

focused on developing new approaches to spill response and restoration in marine and estuarine environments through research and synthesis of information