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.



For immediate spill support (GMT - 8 hours) contact:
  • Gary Mauseth
       
office phone 425-823-4841, or cell phone 206-954-9648
  • Elliott Taylor
       
office phone 206-780-0860, or cell phone 206-660-5753
  • Greg Challenger
       
office phone 425-823-4841, or cell phone 206-369-5686
  
   •
en español: llame a Elliott Taylor
       
directemente a 206-780-0860 o celular 206-660-5753



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


Bainbridge
Island Office:
755 Winslow Way E,
Suite #302
Bainbridge Isl, WA
98110
tel
(206) 842-5667
fax (206) 842-2861


E-mail: 
Information

As innovators in oil and hazardous materials response, Polaris Applied Sciences, Inc. personnel have devised many of the methodologies that are now standard industry practice when dealing with spills of oil and hazardous materials. Polaris offers expertise and technical advice in all aspects of spill response and planning for marine and land spills.

  • Oil Spill Response Technology   (en français : en español)
      • Emergency technical support for oil and chemical spills
      • Spill prevention and contingency planning
      • Oil spill technical training courses
      • Oil spill research and development
      • Shoreline Cleanup Assessment Techniques (SCAT) Forms

  • Plan Development and Implementation Training
      
Spill response exercises and training
      
Site hazards, environmental assessments, and audits
      
Incident Command System (ICS) training
        (materials available in Spanish; en español)
      • Interactive Oil Spill Training Center, Inc.

  • Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA)
      • Scientific support for damage claims
      • Restorative and compensation programs

  • Aerial Video Tape Surveys and Mapping
      
Shoreline sensitivity mapping
       Coastal inventories
      
Oil spill countermeasure planning

  • Marine Habitat Assessment Studies
      
Biological and Environmental Assessments
       Baseline and Mitigation Studies
      
Project Impact Studies
      
Research and Other Projects


The following items are available from POLARIS.

    •  Shorelines and Oil Spill Response Course Notes

  •  SCAT Forms
The following Shoreline Cleanup Assessment Technique (SCAT) forms are the Environment Canada versions that are current through March 2004 (click here to visit their website). Copies of the Environment Canada SCAT and Arctic SCAT field guides can also be obtained from this website.

The 2000 revised NOAA SCAT forms in .pdf format can be downloaded from the NOAA website (click here to visit their website).
  
All of the Environment Canada SCAT forms can be viewed below:    To view the .pdf files left click on the file below;
   To download the .pdf file right click on the file below;
      
     - Shoreline
Oiling Summary (SOS) Form
                                 En Français                   En Español
      
     - Lake Shore
Form (i.e., Great Lakes)
     - River Bank
Form
     - Stream Bank Form 
     - Tar Ball
Form           -       En Español
     
  •  COLD CLIMATE or ARCTIC Forms

     - Arctic Shoreline Oiling Summary Form
     - Winter Lake Shore Form
     - Winter River Bank Oiling Summary Form
     - Winter Stream Bank Form
     - Winter Tar Ball Form
     

 


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