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Project Number 555
Date of Summary February 15, 2006
Subject Partnering in a Workshop to Determine the Scope of an Experimental Oil Spill in Pack Ice in Canada
Performing Activity S.L. Ross Environmental Research Ltd. and DF Dickins and Associates Ltd.
Principal Investigator Mr. Steve Potter and Mr. David Dickins
Contracting Agency Minerals Management Service
Estimated Completion Completed
Description The purpose of this proposal is to conduct a planning workshop for an experimental oil spill in pack ice offshore Canada.  Specifically this work will:
  1. Prepare a background information document for the proposed workshop;
     
  2. Plan the workshop;
     
  3. Facilitate the workshop; and,
     
  4. Write a report on the results of the workshop.
Progress The workshop was successfully conducted November 1-2, 2005 at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Halifax, Nova Scotia. 30 scientists from nine countries participated in the workshop. A Steering Committee has been formed to proceed with planning of the experimental oil spill. MMS and the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Canada are work to conduct this research project under the auspices of the International Polar Year.

Planning is continuing to plan an experimental spill offshore Eastern Canada or the Canadian Beaufort Sea in 2007 or 2008.  This project is complete.
Progress
AA (42 pages) File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF). Summary Report:  Workshop to Determine the Scope of an Experimental Oil Spill in Pack Ice”, S.L. Ross Environmental Research Ltd. and DF Dickins and Associates Ltd., November 11, 2005
 

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