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Kirkland Office:
12525 - 131st Court NE
Kirkland, WA 98034
tel (425) 823-4841
fax (425) 823-3805

E-mail: Teresa Allard

Teresa L. Allard
Spill Response Specialist

Ms. Allard has over 12 years of work experience within the emergency response community as a Spill Response Specialist providing scientific and technical support during on-site emergency response for the Environmental Unit within the Incident Command Center. Ms. Allard participates in Spill Drills, Shoreline Cleanup Assessment Techniques (SCAT), maintains the SCAT database; tracking all Shoreline Oiling Summary (SOS) forms, GPS coordinates, track lines, waypoints, photographs, inspection reports, and treatment recommendations. She assists in preparing situation/status maps, segment oiling conditions and treatment tracking, and final segment signoff status. She also provides remote project research and data development in support of responding senior scientist.

Ms. Allard holds a Biological Science Degree from the University of California Santa Barbara, as well as a Business Management Degree. She has over 27 years of experience as a Data Manager, Procurement Officer and Office Administrator.

From 1982 until 1990 she worked as Lead Production Specialist in the Documentation and Quality Control department at COMARCO, Inc. in Camarillo, California supporting specific Government DoD contracts with the Naval Surface Warfare Center and the Naval Construction Battalion Center, Port Hueneme Naval Station and the Point Mugu Naval Air Station.

From 1991 to 1994 Ms. Allard worked as a consultant specializing in Office Efficiency Evaluations, Software and Computer Training, and the re-structuring of Production Departments to enable maximum efficiency.

From 1994 to 1996 Ms. Allard was hired by the City of Oxnard Modernization Program as their Contracts/Procurement Officer overseeing several multi-million dollar projects. At that time the modernization program had ground to a halt and the current staff dismissed. She revitilized and restructured the program while establishing a momentum to quickly get the projects back on track and completed by the summer of 1996. The program was a complete success and all goals were reached on schedule.

In 1996 Ms. Allard accepted a position within the Marine Division of Beak Consultants in Kirkland, Washington in direct support to Principal staff members who provided emergency response to Oil Spills and Coral Groundings, Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Scientific Support for Restoration projects.

In 1998, Ms. Allard left Beak Consultants to help form Polaris Applied Sciences, Inc. Responsibilities include: provide support to the Principal staff members, on-scene emergency response, spill drills, SCAT surveys; maintain SCAT database; specific spill and research data; sample collection (oil, water, sediment and tissue); project documentation tracking and file maintenance, including charts and image files, database management, document production, spreadsheet creation and manipulations; legal/trustee correspondence; transcription and documentation; website maintenance; brochure and presentation materials; and scheduling.

• Owens, E.H., Parker-Hall, H.A., Mauseth, G.S., Graham, A., Allard, T., Reimer, P.D., Engles, J.W., Lehmann, S., Whitney, J., Penland, S., Williams, C. and Wooley C., 2005. Shoreline and Surveillance Surveys on the M/V Selendang Ayu Spill Response, Unalaska Island, Alaska. Proc. 28th Arctic Marine Oilspill Programme (AMOP) Technical Seminar, Environment Canada, Ottawa ON, 509-525.