Providing companies worldwide with scientific support to spill response, natural resource damage assessment (NRDA) and resource reinstatement, environmental restoration services, and spill planning and training.

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The 3-day course will be presented by Dr. Ed Owens of Polaris Applied Sciences, Inc. Dr. Owens has been involved with shoreline response operations and shoreline surveys world wide for 40 years. He is an internationally recognized expert on oil spills on shorelines and was the architect of the original SCAT program on the "Exxon Valdez" response in 1989. Most recently he was the SCAT manager on both the M/V Cosco Busan (2007-2008) response in San Francisco Bay and the M/V Selendang Ayu (2004-2006) in Unalaska, AK. Dr. Owens has presented more than 70 shoreline response and SCAT training courses in Alaska, British Columbia, California, Washington and worldwide.

COURSE DESCRIPTION

The primary goals of the course are to provide an understanding of the SCAT process so that field data can be used by the Planning Section as input to the ICS 204’s for shoreline treatment strategies and tactics and to show how to create consensus treatment endpoints that enable shoreline cleanup to be completed on a segment by segment basis.

Polaris Applied Sciences, Inc. has designed this classroom and field course to provide a basic grounding on coastal processes, shoreline character, the fate and behavior of spilled and stranded oil, shore zone oiling surveys (SCAT) and shoreline cleanup issues as they relate to the coastal environments of the West Coast.

Information gathered by shoreline assessment surveys (SCAT) is a critical element of the response decision process and the development of practical operational plans and strategies. SCAT involves a standardized methodology for the documentation and description of oiled shorelines. This data is used by strategists and planners within the ICS decision process to develop a shoreline cleanup plan. SCAT teams are involved throughout the response operation from the initial field surveys to inspection and the sign off process.

Classroom material will be supplemented by field trips to nearby sites to provide practical experience on how to describe and document different shore types.

The course is designed specifically to provide an understanding of:

• the character of the West Coast shore types and the processes that act on those shorelines;
  how to evaluate the fate and behavior of stranded oil;
• how to document and describe oiled shorelines;
• what factors are important to define response priorities and objectives and how to develop consensus treatment endpoints;
• which response techniques are practical and effective for the different shoreline types and coastal environments;
• how SCAT teams are involved in the decision process, inspection surveys and the cleanup signoff process:
• how to generate a Shoreline Treatment Plan: and
• how to generate information for input to the ICS 204 forms during Tactic Meetings.

COURSE OUTLINE

1. Physical Processes and Coastal Character of the West Coast
   
2. Behavior of Spilled Oil in the Coastal Zone
   - oil movement on water
   - weathering and fate of spilled oil
   
3. Spill Management - Response Decision Process
   - management by objectives
   - Minimum Regret strategy
   - environmental sensitivity, response priorities, and Net Environmental Benefit
   - shoreline treatment end points
   
4. Shoreline Cleanup Assessment Technique (SCAT)
   - objectives
   - SCAT forms and terminology
   - SCAT team roles and responsibilities, team composition and agency participation
   - field survey design and remote area surveys
   - data management
   - shoreline treatment recommendation forms and SCAT interface with the ICS process
   - cleanup inspection surveys, the sign off process and sign off forms
   - how to create Shoreline Treatment and SCAT Plans
   
5. Resource and Shore Protection
   - on-water containment and recovery
   - protection priorities
   - submerged and sunken oil
   
6. Shoreline Treatment Techniques
   - treatment objectives and strategies
   - decision process - management issues
   - treatment techniques
   - remote area response operations
   
7. Response Operations
   - waste minimization and waste management
   - field operations