Final program: 45th AMOP Technical Seminar on Environmental Contamination and Response

Tuesday, June 6 – Room 1

Oil Spill Modelling

Session Chair: Chris Barker/Hossein Babaei

Speaker’s Corner

09:00

Assessing the Validity of Physical Scale Models for the Testing of Oil Boom Systems

Gregory Johnson, Michele Fitzpatrick, Brent Paul, Daniel Granda, Gino Ferraj, Teresa Mendez, and Ken Dykstra
Serco, Inc., New London, Connecticut, USA

Kristi McKinney
Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, Sterling, Virginia, USA

09:30

Forecasting Tracker Buoy Trajectories in Frobisher Bay, Canada: Comparisons with Observations and Influence of Model Inputs and Parameters

Hossein Babaei
Environment and Climate Change Canada, Emergencies Science and Technology Section, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Amina El Kasmi
Environment and Climate Change Canada, Canadian Meteorological Centre, Dorval, Québec, Canada

10:00

Refreshment Break, Poster Presentations and Exhibits – Promenade

10:30

Validation of Oil Boom CFD Models Relative to Real-World Performance

Gregory Johnson, Brent Paul, and Michele Fitzpatrick
Serco, Inc., New London, Connecticut, USA

Kristi McKinney
Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, Sterling, Virginia, USA

11:00

Overland Oil Spill Modelling Considering Heat Transfer for High Pour Point Oils

Reinaldo Garcia, Nick Calero, Jose Rafael Cordova, and Jacinto Artigas
Hydronia LLC, Pembroke Pines, Florida, USA

Reinaldo Garcia, Isabel Echeverribar, Javier Fernandez-Pato, and Nick Calero
Hydronia Europe SL, Madrid, Spain

Isabel Echeverribar, Sergio Martinez-Aranda, Javier Fernandez-Pato, and Pilar Garcia-Navarro
LIFTEC(CSIC), University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain

Hazardous and Noxious Substances (HNS)

Session Chair: Hossein Babaei

11:30

Scientific Support to HNS Response: A Forward-Looking Retrospective

Mike Goldthorp, Patrick Lambert, Natalie Jones, and Vanessa Beaulac
Emergencies Science and Technology Section, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

12:00

Attendees’ Lunch

13:30

Non-Target Screening Analysis of Hazardous Noxious Substances Using Gas Chromatography-Quadrupole Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry

Chun Yang, Keval Shah, Madison Lee, Samuel Woldegebreal, Zeyu Yang, Bruce Hollebone, Patrick Lambert, and Vanessa Beaulac
Environment and Climate Change Canada, Emergencies Science and Technology Section, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Speaker’s Corner

14:00

S-COSRVA (Shoreline-Circumpolar Oil Spill Response Viability Analysis): A New Web-Based GIS Decision Support Tool

Edward H. Owens and Tristan Owens
Owens Coastal Consultants (OCC) Ltd., Bainbridge Island, Washington, USA

Odd Wily Brude and Hans Petter Dahlslett
DNV, Ski and Høvik, Norway

Vince Palace
IISD-Experimental Lakes Area (IISD-ELA)/University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Kenneth Lee
Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Ecosystem Sciences, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Speaker’s Corner

14:30

Shoreline-Circumpolar Oil Spill Response Viability Analysis (S-COSRVA) - The Svalbard Pilot Study

Odd Wily Brude, Hans Petter Dahlslett, N. Winter-Hjelm, A. Rudberg, G. Gravir, and S. Lunde,
DNV, Ski and Høvik, Norway

Ed Owens and Tristan Owens
Owens Coastal Consultants (OCC) Ltd., Bainbridge Island, Washington, USA

15:00

Refreshment Break, Poster Presentations and Exhibits – Promenade

15:30

Types of Shoreline Contamination Observed during the North Saskatchewan River Spill 2016-2019

Sonia Laforest, Patrick Lambert, Michael Goldthorp, and Zeyu Yang
Environment and Climate Change Canada, Emergencies, Sciences and Technology Section Montréal, Québec, Canada

Dale Kristoff
Saskatchewan Ministry of Environment, Impacted Sites and Environmental Emergencies, Prince Alberts, Saskatchewan, Canada

Marie-Pierre Raymond and Kimberley Cameron
Environment and Climate Change Canada, National Environmental Emergency Center, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Speaker’s Corner

16:00

A Shoreline Data Model to Support Environmental Emergencies across Canada

Pascal Hébert, Mélanie Erazola, Merlo Gauvreau, and Anne-Marie-Demers
Environment and Climate Change Canada, National Environmental Emergencies Center, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Sonia Laforest
Environment and Climate Change Canada, Emergencies Sciences and Technology Section, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Speaker’s Corner

16:30

A Green Initiative for Oiled Shoreline Cleanup Using Magnetic Washing Fluid

Rengyu Yue and Chunjiang An
Concordia University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Department of Building, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Zhibin Ye
Concordia University, Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Xiujuan Chen
Memorial University of Newfoundland Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada

Kenneth Lee
Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Ecosystem Science, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

17:00

End of Day

Tuesday, June 6 – Room 2

Activity Updates

Session Chair: Vanessa Beaulac

Speaker’s Corner

08:30

Opening Remarks from the Science Advisor for Environment and Climate Change Canada

Shawn Marshall
Environment and Climate Change Canada, Gatineau, Québec, Canada

09:00

Management of Test Oil: Recapture and Reuse

Philip Sontag, Joanne Letson, Tom Coolbaugh, and Grant Coolbaugh
Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA) | Ohmsett, Leonardo, New Jersey, USA

Oil Spill Contingency Planning, Preparation, and Prevention

Session Chair: Dagmar Schmidt Etkin/Elise DeCola

09:30

Assessing the Probabilities of Oil Pipeline Spills

Dagmar Schmidt Etkin
Environmental Research Consulting (ERC), Cortlandt Manor, New York, USA

10:00

Refreshment Break, Poster Presentations and Exhibits – Promenade

10:30

Exploring the Intersection between Oil Spill Risks, Preparedness, and Climate Change: Preliminary Report from Massachusetts Climate Ready Oil Spill Foresight Workshops

Elise DeCola
Nuka Research & Planning Group, LLC, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA

11:00

The National Environmental Emergencies Centre as Environmental Unit Leader for Marine Oil Spills in British Columbia: Successes and Challenges

Adam LaRusic
Environment andClimate Change Canada, National Environmental Emergencies Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

11:30

Drifter Buoys in the Bay of Iqaluit: Collaborative Field Work to Enhance Oil Spill Preparedness in the Arctic

Simon Despatie and Frédéric Chantal-Fortin
Environment and Climate Change Canada, National Environmental Emergencies Centre, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Sean Hurd
Canadian Coast Guard, Environmental Response - Arctic Region, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Hossein Babaei, Michael Goldthorp, Patrick Lambert, and Yuan Yao
Environment and Climate Change Canada, Emergencies Science and Technology Section, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Marie-Hélène Gadbois-Del Carpio
Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada

Speaker’s Corner

12:00

Maintaining Readiness in a Diminishing Risk Setting

Stuart Field
Australian Marine Oil Spill Centre, Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia

12:15

Attendees’ Lunch

13:30

Vessels of Concern: Risk Assessment Methodology

Ewan Browell
ABL Group Ltd., London, United Kingdom

David Creber
Dillon Consulting Ltd., Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada

Lynn Gagnon
Dillon Consulting Ltd., Calgary Alberta, Canada

Speaker’s Corner

14:00

Update on NOAA Emergency Response Division's Recent Work to Improve the Availability of Oil Property Information and Oil Spill Responder Preparedness

Dalina L. Thrift-Viveros, Christopher Barker, Robert Jones, and Doug Helton
National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Emergency Response Division, Seattle, Washington, USA

Nancy Kinner
Coastal Response Research Center, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire, USA

Laura Basirico
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA

Leo Geng and Rintaro Moriyasu
Genwest Systems, Inc., Edmonds, Washington, USA

Special Session – Low Sulphur Fuels

Session Chair: Chun Yang

14:30

Very Low and Ultra-Low Sulfur Fuel Oils: Characterization and Fact Sheets for Emergency Responders

Dalina Thrift-Viveros
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Office of Response and Restoration, Emergency Response Division, Seattle, Washington, USA

Jacqueline Michel
Research Planning, Inc., Columbia, South Carolina, USA

Laura M. Basirico
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA

15:00

Refreshment Break, Poster Presentations and Exhibits – Promenade

15:30

A Fate and Behaviour Evaluation of Emerging Very Low Sulphur Fuels Against a Traditional Heavy Fuel Oil

Robert Faragher, Pervez Azmi, Katherine Shepherd, Ben Fieldhouse, and Vanessa Beaulac
Emergencies Science and Technology Section, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Speaker’s Corner

16:00

Photomodification Of Low-sulfur-fuel-oils: Investigations of Toxic Effects (POLITE)

Danielle Philibert and Benjamin de Jourdan
Huntsman Marine Science Centre, St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada

Christoph Aeppli
Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, Maine, USA

16:30

End of Day

Tuesday, June 6 – Room 3

Impacts on Oiled Wildlife and Response

Session Chair: Patrick O’Hara/Sherri Cox

Speaker’s Corner

09:00

A Strategy for Minimizing Impacts to Alcids and Grebes during Oil Spill Events

Jose Rios
Focus Wildlife, LLC, North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Speaker’s Corner

09:30

Approaches and Lessons Learned from Wildlife Response during Recent Oil Spills in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

Robert A. Ronconi
Environment and Climate Change Canada, Canadian Wildlife Service, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada

10:00

Refreshment Break, Poster Presentations and Exhibits – Promenade

Remediation, Restoration, and Rehabilitation of Oil Spills

Session Chair: Patrick O’Hara/Sherri Cox

Speaker’s Corner

10:30

Field-based Oil Depletion Processes in Temperate and Arctic Waters

Hendrik Langeloh
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Faculty of Natural Sciences, Trondheim, Norway

Fate and Effects of Oil

Session Chair: Thomas L. King

11:00

Using an Oil Droplet Generator to Study Contribution of Crude Oil Micro-Droplets to Dispersion Toxicity in Cold-Water Pelagic Marine Organisms

Bjørn Henrik Hansen and Trond Nordtug
SINTEF Ocean, Climate and Environment, Trondheim, Norway

Elin Sørhus
Institute of Marine Research, Bergen, Norway

11:30

Oil Spill Effects Assessments for Aquatic Biota Should Consider the Highly Variable Exposure Concentrations and Compositions that Occur

Deborah P. French-McCay, Hilary J. Robinson, and Matthew A. Frediani
RPS Ocean Science, South Kingstown, Rhode Island, USA

12:00

Attendees’ Lunch

Speaker’s Corner

13:30

Evaluating the Rate of Weathering of Cold Lake Diluted Bitumen in Cold Seawater with Varying Slick Thickness and other Influencing Factors

Thomas L. King, Brian Robinson, Jennifer Mason, and Kenneth Lee
Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada

Michel Boufadel
New Jersey Institute of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Center for Natural Resources Development and Protection, Newark, New Jersey, USA

Speaker’s Corner

14:00

Advances to the CROSERF Protocol to Improve Oil Spill Response Decision Making

Benjamin de Jourdan and Jennifer Loughery
Huntsman Marine Science Centre, St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada

Kenneth Lee
Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Ecosystem Science, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Gina Coelho
Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, Department of Interior, Sterling ,Virginia, USA

Speaker’s Corner

14:30

The Effects of Sediment Composition on Hydrocarbons Movements through an Artificial Beach Experiment

Ho Yin (Stanley) Poon, Gary Wohlgeschaffen, Jennifer Mason, Brian Robinson, Thomas L. King and Alice C. Ortmann
Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada

15:00

Refreshment Break, Poster Presentations and Exhibits – Promenade

Speaker’s Corner

15:30

Enhancing Spill Response Planning on Trans Mountain Pipeline with Fate and Behavior Modelling of Conventional and Unconventional Crudes

Joanna Gurnham and Jamie Kereliuk
Trans Mountain Pipeline, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Speaker’s Corner

16:00

Review of the Current State of Research on the Fate of Oil in the Canadian Arctic Marine Environment

Christine Ridenour, Nicole E. Heshka, Nayereh Saborimanesh, Qin Xin, and Hena Farooqi
Natural Resources Canada, Devon, Alberta, Canada

16:30

End of Day

Wednesday, June 7 – Room 1

Physical and Chemical Properties and Behaviour of Oil Spills

Session Chair: Merv F. Fingas

08:30

Characterization of Renewable Diesel, Petroleum Diesel, and Renewable Diesel/Biodiesel/Petroleum Diesel Mixtures

Zeyu Yang, Keval Shah, Charlotte Pilon-McCullough, Robert Faragher, Pervez Azmi, Bruce Hollebone, Ben Fieldhouse, Chun Yang, Diane Dey, and Vanessa Beaulac
Emergencies Science and Technology Section, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

09:00

An Inter-Laboratory Comparison of Protocols for Evaluating Oil Emulsification: Recommendations for Reporting Water-in-Oil Emulsion Formation and Properties to Inform Oil Spill Model Development

Melissa Gloekler and Deborah P. French-McCay
RPS Ocean Science, South Kingstown, Rhode Island, USA

Roger C. Prince
Stonybrook Apiary, Pittstown, New Jersey, USA

Lin Zhao and Tim Nedwed
ExxonMobil, Silver Spring, Texas, USA

Robert Faragher, Bruce Hollebone, Benjamin Fieldhouse, Zeyu Yang, and Chun Yang
Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), Emergencies Science and Technology Section (ESTS), Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Qin Xin
Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), Devon, Alberta, Canada

David Cooper and James McCourt
SL Ross Environmental Research, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Diego F. Muriel, Carlos Fuentes-Cabrejo, and Nicolas Escobar-Castaneda
Johns Hopkins University (JHU), Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Karen Stone
US Department of the Interior, Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE), Sterling, Virginia, USA

Alan Guarino and Joanne Letson
Ohmsett-Applied Research Associates, Leonardo, New Jersey, USA

Chris Barker
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Office of Response & Restoration (OR&R), Emergency Response Division (ERD), Seattle, Washington, USA

Liv-Guri Faksness and Per Daling
SINTEF Ocean AS, Trondheim, Norway

Christoph Aeppli
Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, Maine, USA

Wen Ji and Michel C. Boufadel
New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey, USA

09:30

Studying Oil Emulsification Processes Using Mesoscale Tank Tests

Qin Xin, Christine Ridenour, Hena Farooqi, and Felix Park
Natural Resources Canada, CanmetENERGY, Devon, Alberta, Canada

10:00

Refreshment Break, Poster Presentations and Exhibits – Promenade

10:30

Water-in-Oil Emulsions: Composition and the Yen-Mullins Model of Asphaltenes

Merv Fingas
Spill Science, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

11:00

Particle Size of Dispersed Oil and its Residual Concentration in the Water Phase Separated from the Mixtures Simulated the Liquid Recovered during Oil Spill Response Operations

Vladimir Blinov, Benjamin Fieldhouse, Chun Yang, Patrick Lambert, and Vanessa Beaulac
Environment and Climate Change Canada, Emergencies Science and Technology Section, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Speaker’s Corner

11:30

The Development and Execution of a Modular Wind Tunnel and its Experimental Design for Simulating Evaporation Conditions in Petroleum Products

Keval Shah, Bruce Hollebone, Vanessa Beaulac, Zeyu Yang, and Charlotte Pilon-McCullough
Environment and Climate Change Canada, Emergencies Science and Technology Section, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Jeff Short
Oceana, Juneau, Alaska, USA

Heather Dettman and James Brydie
Natural Resources Canada, Devon, Alberta, Canada

Kenneth Lee
Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada

12:00

Attendees’ Lunch

Speaker’s Corner

13:30

The Unresolved Complex Mixture: Dissolved Hydrocarbon Oxidation Products are the Final Frontier in Understanding Transport, Fate, and Ecological Impacts of High Latitude Oil Spills

David C. Podgorski
Pontchartrain Institute for Environmental Sciences, Chemical Analysis & Mass Spectrometry Facility

David C. Podgorski, Maxwell L. Harsha, and Patrick L. Tomco
Department of Chemistry, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Danielle Verna
Prince William Sound Regional Citizens' Advisory Council, Valdez, Alaska, USA

David C. Podgorski, Zachary C. Redman, Angelique Fouche, Josh Wesolowski, and Patrick L. Tomco
Department of Chemistry, University of Alaska Anchorage, Anchorage, Alaska, USA

Speaker’s Corner

14:00

Scaling Trends of Viscosity Based on the Droplet Microstructure of Seawater in Crude Oil Emulsions

Diego F. Muriel and Joseph Katz
Johns Hopkins University, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Laboratory for Experimental Fluid Dynamics, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Speaker’s Corner

14:30

The Influence of Crude Oil Properties, Photo-Oxidation and Wave Energy on the Microstructure and Viscosity of Water-In-Oil Emulsions

Diego F. Muriel, Carlos Fuentes-Cabrejo, Nicolas Escobar-Castaneda, and Joseph Katz
Johns Hopkins University, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Laboratory for Experimental Fluid Dynamics, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

15:00

Refreshment Break, Poster Presentations and Exhibits – Promenade

15:30

End of Day

Wednesday, June 7 – Room 2

Detection, Tracking, and Remote Sensing

Session Chair: Patrick G. Lambert

08:30

Review of Oil Spill Remote Sensing

Merv Fingas
Spill Science, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Carl E. Brown (retired)
Environment and Climate Change Canada, Emergencies Science and Technology Section, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

09:00

In-situ Identification of Spilled Oils Using Mass Spectrometry

J. Brian A. Mitchell
MERL Consulting SAS, Rennes, France

Jean-Luc Le Garrec
Ecole des Applications Militaires de l’Energie Atomique, Cherbourg, France

N. Le Bris
Plateforme EcoChimie, UMR CNRS 6553n ECOBIO/UMS CNRS 3343, OSUR, Université de Rennes, Rennes, France

Pierre Briallart
Expert Pollution, St. Brevin-les-Pins, France

Fraser Reich
Kore Technologies, Ltd., Ely, UK

Stéphane Le Floch and Ronan Jézéquel
CEDRE, Brest, France

09:30

Specific Oil Detection by Oil Detection Canines

Paul Bunker
Chiron K9, San Antonio, Texas, USA

Ed Owens
Owens Coastal Consultants, Bainbridge Island, Washington, USA

10:00

Refreshment Break, Poster Presentations and Exhibits – Promenade

10:30

Development of an Oil Spill Monitoring and Sampling Program – A Literature Search

Patrick Lambert, Michael Goldthorp, Natalie Jones, Diane Dey, and Zeyu Yang
Environment and Climate Change Canada, Emergencies Science and Technology Section, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Jean-Francois Aublet, Philippe Ouimet-Rathe, Alexandre Lamarre, and Kristine Brossard
Environment and Climate Change Canada, Environmental Emergencies Program, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Lee Britton
Environmental Emergencies Program, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Leanne Zrum
Triox Environmental Emergencies, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Monique Punt
MPunt Environmental, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Speaker’s Corner

11:00

A Framework for Automated Oil Spil Modelling and slick Monitoring

Jeremy Fontenault

RPS Ocean Science, South Kingstown, Rhode Island, USA

11:30

Aerial Quantification of Oil – Oil Categories versus BAOAC Comparison from NASP Data

Kim Pearce

Transport Canada National Aerial Surveillance Program (NASP), Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

12:00

Mesoscale Evaluation of Submerged Oil Detection Technologies

Corey Drake and Ethan Frigon
C-FER Technologies, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Marzie Derakhshesh
Enbridge Inc., Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Kelly Malinoski
TransMountain Pipeline, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

12:15

Attendees’ Lunch – Déjeuner des participants

Special Session - Experimental Lakes Area (ELA)

Session Chair: Vince Palace/Edward H. Owens

Speaker’s Corner

13:30

Oil Spill Response Options in Freshwater Shorelines

Edward H. Owens
Owens Coastal Consultants (OCC) Ltd., Bainbridge Island, Washington, USA

Speaker’s Corner

14:00

Guidance for the Use of Minimally Invasive Remediation Techniques in Freshwater Environments Impacted by Crude Oil Spills

Vince Palace
IISD Experimental Lakes Area (IISD-ELA), Kenora, Ontario, Canada

Tanya Shanoff
Stantec Consulting Inc.

Edward H. Owens
Owens Coastal Consultants (OCC) Ltd., Bainbridge Island, Washington, USA

Speaker’s Corner

14:30

Does Enhanced Monitored Natural Recovery Reduce Aqueous PACs after Primary Oil Spill Cleanup: Results from the Freshwater Oil Spill Remediation Study (FOReSt) at the IISD-Experimental Lakes Area

Lisa Peters, Lauren Timlick, Jose Luis Rodríguez-Gil, and Vince Palace
IISD Experimental Lakes Area (IISD-ELA), Kenora, Ontario, Canada

Jose Luis Rodríguez-Gil, Madeline Stanley, Gregg Tomy, and Vince Palace
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

15:00

Refreshment Break, Poster Presentations and Exhibits – Promenade

Speaker’s Corner

15:30

Impacts of Oil Exposure on Fish in Oil-Impacted Freshwater Environments Treated with eMNR

Lauren Timlick, Jose Luis Rodríguez-Gil, and Vince Palace
IISD Experimental Lakes Area (IISD-ELA), Kenora, Ontario, Canada

Sonya Michaleski, Patrique Bulloch, Jamie Dearnley, Lisa Peters, Jose Luis Rodríguez-Gil, Madeline Stanley, Gregg Tomy, and Vince Palace
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Juan Manuel Gutierrez-Villagomez and Valerie S. Langlois
Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS), Quebec City, Quebec, Canada

Speaker’s Corner

16:00

Impacts of oil exposure on invertebrate communities in oil-impacted freshwater environments treated with eMNR

Lauren Timlick, Krista Robertson, Jose Luis Rodríguez-Gil, Scott Higgins, and Vince Palace
IISD Experimental Lakes Area (IISD-ELA), Kenora, Ontario, Canada

Tyler Black
University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Phillip Ankley
University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

Holly Kajpust
TC Energy, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Mckenzie Perry, Lisa Peters, Jose Luis Rodríguez-Gil, Madeline Stanley, Scott Higgins, Mark Hanson, Gregg Tomy, and Vince Palace
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Madeline Stanley
International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Speaker’s Corner

16:30

Engineered Floating Wetlands as a Secondary Remediation Strategy for Treating Residual Oil in Freshwater Lake Environments

Madeline Stanley, Aidan Guttormson, Lisa Peters, Jose-Luis Rodríguez-Gil, Richard Grosshans, Gregg Tomy, David B. Levin, and Vince Palace
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Lisa Peters, Lauren Timlick, Jose-Luis Rodríguez-Gil, and Vince Palace
International Institute for Sustainable Development Experimental Lakes Area, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Charles W. Greer
National Research Council Canada, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Richard Grosshans
International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

17:00

End of day

Thursday, June 8 – Room 1

Special Session – Indigenous Engagement

Session Chair: Elise DeCola

Speaker’s Corner

08:30

Transboundary Indigenous Oil Spill Risks and Eco-cultural Resources Workshop: Methods and Outcomes of a Virtual Gathering

Natalie Lowell
Makah Office of Marine Affairs, Neah Bay, Washington, USA

G. Chad Bowechop
Makah Tribal Council, Neah Bay, Washington, USA

Carol Reamer and Haley Kennard
Makah Tribe, Neah Bay, Washington, USA

Elise DeCola
Nuka Research, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA

09:00

On the Development of a Bayesian Network-based Technology for Oil Spill Impact Assessment in the Arctic

Syed Nasir Danial and Gary Stern
University of Manitoba, Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources, The Centre for Earth Observation Science (CEOS), Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Mawuli Afenyo
Texas A&M University, Galveston, Texas, United States

Adolf K.Y. Ng
Universite de Laval, Quebec, Quebec, Canada

Speaker’s Corner

09:30

Integrating Technological Solutions to Enhance Hazardous Materials Spill Notifications: British Columbia Pilot Project for Indigenous Community Notifications

Kelli Kryzanowski
BC Ministry of Environment, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Christina Sinnemann
BC Ministry of Environment, Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada

Steve Diggon and Iwan Ball
Coastal First Nations-Great Bear Initiative, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

10:00

Refreshment Break, Poster Presentations and Exhibits – Promenade

Speaker’s Corner

10:30

First Nations Capacity-Building in the Northern Shelf Bioregion: Five-Year Reflection on Advancing Collaboration across Marine Incident Preparedness, Response, and Recovery

Steve Diggon and Iwan Ball
Coastal First Nations-Great Bear Initiative, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Case Histories and Recent Oil Spill Experiences

Session Chair: Laura Maclean/Vanessa Beaulac

11:00

A Case Study of the MV Schiedyk with Oil Characterization for Fate and Behaviour Guidance

Robert J. Faragher, Keval Shah, Zeyu Yang, Bruce Hollebone, Ben Fieldhouse, Ali Khelifa, and Vanessa Beaulac
Environment and Climate Change Canada, Emergencies Science and Technology Section, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Speaker’s Corner

11:30

A Recent Spill of Industrial Morgoil in the St. Mary’s River

Lisa Tulen and Alexandre Lamarre
Environment and Climate Change Canada, National Environmental Emergencies Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

12:00

Attendees’ Lunch

Speaker’s Corner

13:30

Complementary Analytical Approaches for Improved Forensics of Recent and Historic Oil Spills

Jagos R. Radovic
University of Calgary, Department of Geoscience, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

R.K. Nelson and C.M. Reddy
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA

Speaker’s Corner

14:00

Recent Oil Spill Experiences

To Be Determined
International Tankers Owners Pollution Federation (ITOPF) Ltd., London, England

14:30

End of Technical Seminar

Thursday, June 8 – Room 2

Response Technologies and Countermeasures for Oil Spills

Session Chair: Benjamin Fieldhouse

08:30

Update on Dispersant Effectiveness Testing: Variation with Flask Geometry and Dosing

Benjamin Fieldhouse, Robert Faragher, Chelsey Aulenback, and Katherine Shepherd
Environment and Climate Change Canada, Emergencies Science and Technology Section, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Speaker’s Corner

09:00

A Review on the Use of Bioremediation Agents for Oiled Shoreline Treatment

Greg Challenger and Andy Graham
Polaris Applied Sciences, Kirkland, Washington, USA

Elliott Taylor
Polaris Applied Sciences, Bainbridge Island, Washington, USA

Edward Owens
Owens Coastal Consultants, Bainbridge Island, Washington, USA

09:30

Literature Search for the Development of the Manual on In-situ Burning for Oil Spill Response

Monique Punt
MPunt Environmental, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Leanne Zrum
Triox Environmental Emergencies, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Yuan Yao, Robert Faragher, and Patrick Lambert
Environment and Climate Change Canada, Emergencies Science and Technology Section, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Merlo Gauvreau, Philippe Ouimet-Rathe, Alexandre Lamarre, and Kristine Brossard
Environment and Climate Change Canada, Environmental Emergencies Program, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

10:00

Refreshment Break, Poster Presentations and Exhibits – Promenade

10:30

Optimization of Microbubble and Nanobubble Gas Flotation for Oil Separation from Oily Wastewater Using Response Surface Methodology

Jianliang Mao, Wanhua Shen, and Jianbing Li
University of Northern British Columbia, Environmental Engineering Program, Prince George, British Columbia, Canada

Guangji Hu
University of British Columbia - Okanagan Campus, School of Engineering, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada

Min Zhao
Wenzhou University (WZU), School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, China

11:00

Persulfate-based AOP for decanting water treatment during oil spill response

Bing Chen, Guihua Dong, and Baiyu Zhang
Memorial University of Newfoundland, Northern Region Persistent Pollution Control (NRPOP) Laboratory, St. John’s, Newfoundland

Stanislav Stoyanov
Natural Resources Canada, CanmetENERGY Devon, Devon, Alberta, Canada

Benjamin de Jourdan
Huntsman Marine Science Centre, St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada

Kenneth Lee
Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

11:30

A Multi-Criteria Marine Oil Spill Response Decision Support Approach by Machine Learning and Causal Inference

Bing Chen, Xudong Ye, Qiao Kang, and Baiyu Zhang
Memorial University of Newfoundland, Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, Northern Region Persistent Organic Pollution Control (NRPOP) Laboratory, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada

Kenneth Lee
Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Environment and Biodiversity Science Branch, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Xudong Ye and Rune Storesund
University of California, Center for Catastrophic Risk Management (CCRM), Berkeley, California, USA

12:00

Attendees’ Lunch

12:30

End of Day

Posters

Experimental Studies and Modelling of Oil Blowout from Subsea at Various Depths

Qin Xin, Wayne Mah, and Felix Park
Natural Resources Canada, CanmetENERGY, Devon, Alberta, Canada

Zhaoyang Yang and Zhi Chen
University of Concordia, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Environment and Climate Change Canada Spill Research: An Update on a Project to Digitize and Make Available Decades of Publications

Patrick Lambert and Natalie Jones
Environment and Climate Change Canada, Emergencies Science and Technology Section, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Carl E. Brown, Graham Thomas, and Roger Percy (retired)
Environment and Climate Change Canada

Merv Fingas
Spill Science, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Gary Sergy
S3 Environmental, Inc. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

* with paper

North Adriatic Maritime Incident Response System – NAMIRS Project

Marko Perkovic, Urban Pegan, Jure Demšar, Danijela Tuljak-Suban, Blaž Luin, and Valter Suban
University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Maritime Technology and Transport, Portoroz, Slovenia

Vinko Bandelj
National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics, Trieste, Italy

* with paper

Myco-Green-Technologies for the Restoration of Marine Port Environments in Italy

Marco Capello and Laura Cutroneo
University of Genoa, Department of Environment, Earth and Life Sciences, Laboratory of Physical Oceanography, Genoa, Italy

Grazia Cecchi, Simone Di Piazza, and Mirca Zotti
University of Genoa, Department of Environment, Earth and Life Sciences, Laboratory of Mycology, Genoa, Italy

Analysis of Geothermal Heating Effects on Biodegradation of BTEX Using Novel Bacterial Strains Isolated From Borehole Soil

Gurpreet Kaur, Magdalena Krol, and Satinder Kaur Brar
York University, Lassonde School of Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, North York, Ontario, Canada

Field-based Oil Depletion Processes in Temperate and Arctic Waters

Hendrik Langeloh and Ingrid Bakke
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Biotechnology and Food Science, Trondheim, Norway

Inger K. Almås, Marianne Aas, Sigrid Hakvåg, Arnstein Johannesen, Frode Leirvik, Marianne U. Rønsberg, Lisbet I.R. Støen, Lisbet Sørensen, Ida B. Øverjordet, and Odd G. Brakstad
SINTEF Ocean, Department Climate and Environment, Trondheim, Norway

Effect of Freeze-Thaw Cycle on the Microbial Response of North Saskatchewan River Water to Diluted Bitumen and Conventional Crude Spills

Nayereh Saborimanesh, Qin Xin, Christine Ridenour, and Hena Farooqi
Natural Resources Canada, CanmetENERGY, Devon, Alberta, Canada

Oil Spill Tracking Buoys: A Review of Recent Research and Developments

Yuan Yao, Michael Goldthorp, and Patrick Lambert
Environment and Climate Change Canada, Emergencies Science and Technology Section, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Simon Despatie and Frédéric Chantal-Fortin
Environment and Climate Change Canada, National Environmental Emergencies Centre, Montréal, Québec, Canada

* with paper

Development of a New Machine Learning System to Identify Oil Spills in Satellite Images

Shahid Khurshid, Benjamin Deschamps, and Dean Flett
Environment and Climate Change Canada, Meteorological Service of Canada, Atlantic and Ice Division, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

First Nations Capacity-Building through Geographic Response Strategy Development: Empowering First Nations through Work Flow Transfer

Olivia Norton and Elise DeCola
Nuka Research and Planning Group, LLC, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA

Herder Effectiveness Testing: Identifying Test Metrics and Assessing the Suitability of Two Herder Products for In Situ Burning

Benjamin Fieldhouse
Environment and Climate Change Canada, Emergencies Science and Technology Section, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

David Cooper
SL Ross Ltd., Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Monique Punt
MPunt Environmental Consulting, Calabogie, Ontario, Canada

* with paper

Biodegradability of an Isoleucine-Based Solidifier Applied to Diluted Bitumen Spilled into Seawater

Lindsay J. Hounjet, Jong Jin Lee, Nayereh Saborimanesh, and Stanislav R. Stoyanov
Natural Resources Canada, CanmetENERGY, Devon, Alberta, Canada

Jong Jin Lee and Uta Passow
Memorial University of Newfoundland, Department of Ocean Sciences, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada

Ocean Protection Plan 2.0 Initiatives

Sarah Sine
Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Ecosystems Science, Kingston, Ontario, Canada