Events & Conferences
Where: London, England
Where: Redlands, California
Eoin Howlett participated in the Space-Time Modeling and Analysis Workshop at Redlands GIS Week 2010, 22-23 February in Redlands, California. Eoin co-authored a presentation Tools to integrate time-varying data in ArcGIS with Roy Mendelssohn and Cara Wilson from NOAA, and Robert Netsch from the United States Coast Guard.
Where: Melbourne, Australia
SPILLCON 2010, hosted by the Australian Maritime Safety Authority and the Australian Institute of Petroleum, was held in Melbourne, Australia from 12-16 April. Asia-Pacific ASA (APASA) staff was at the conference and Dr. Brian King presented the paper Trajectory Modelling which featured the recent modeling undertaken for the Montara Well Head Blowout in the Timor Sea.
ESRI Federal Users Conference 2010
When: 17-19 February 2010Where: Washington D.C.
Eoin Howlett, Matt Ward, and Kelly Knee attended the ESRI Federal User Conference held at the Walter E. Washington Conference Center in Washington D.C. The FedUC is the largest geospatial conference for federal agencies. ASA had an exhibition booth for demonstrations on environmental data connection tools, marine spatial planning methodologies, and marine response and crisis management applications.
ECM11: Eleventh International Conference of Estuarine and Coastal Modeling
When: 4-6 November 2009Where: Seattle, Washington
Deborah French-McCay chaired the session on "Modeling of Lagrangian Transport", and presented a paper "Modeling Analysis of Physical Transport and Swimming Behaviors Determining Plankton Distributions" and CJ Beegle-Krause chaired the session on "Model Visualization, Web Services and Decision Support", and presented a paper "Pelagic Habitat Visualization: The Need for a Third (and Fourth) Dimension." The focus of the conference was on the application of models to solve engineering and environmental assessment problems. For more info: www.oce.uri.edu/ecm11
Where: New Orleans, Louisiana
ASA will be hosting and Dr. CJ Beegle-Krause, Dr. Deborah French McCay, and Chris Galagan will be instructing a free pre-conference workshop on "Environmental Information and Trajectory Prediction in Oil Spill Response" to be held at Clean Gulf Conference 2009.
Dr. CJ Beegle-Krause, Dr. Deborah French McCay, and Chris Galagan will instruct a pre-conference workshop that will provide an overview of a variety of spill case histories with discussion of the science that governs how spills behave. Observations discussed include overflight maps, beach surveys and simple oceanographic sampling. Different types of trajectory modeling will be demonstrated, including working with multiple (stochastic) trajectory simulations. Students will learn the basics of how to put together a spill timeline from the past to the present and into the future using field information and predictions, and how to integrate results with GIS applications such as ArcView® and Google Earth. For more info or to register: http://www.cleangulf.org.
Where: New Orleans, Louisiana
Dr. Deborah French McCay, will be presenting two posters "Trophic Transfer-Based Compensatory Restoration Model" and "Evaluating Chemical Spill Risks to Aquatic Biota Using Modeling" at SETAC North America 30th Annual Meeting.
Deb French McCay will be at the conference themed, "Human-Environment Interactions: Understanding Change in Dynamic Systems." For more info or to attend: http://neworleans.setac.org/.
Where: Portland, Oregon
Dr. CJ Beegle-Krause and Mark West instructed a pre-conference workshop that provided an overview of a variety of spill case histories with discussion of the science that governs how spills behave to a group of over 60 attendees. Observations discussed included overflight maps, beach surveys and simple oceanographic sampling. Different types of trajectory modeling was be demonstrated, including working with multiple (stochastic) trajectory simulations. Attendees learned the basics of how to put together a spill timeline from the past to the present and into the future using field information and predictions, and how to integrate results with GIS applications such as ArcView® and Google Earth.
Where: Marseille, France
Eric Comerma, Rich Sweetman, and Deborah French McCay attended Interspill 2009 held at PARC Chanot, Marseille, France on 12-14 May.
EMSA was demoing ASA's new dispersant guidance model tool (similar to SIMAP with updated oil database and guidance on dispersant use). Deborah French McCay and Rich Sweetman were in the EMSA booth demonstrating the new tool.
Where: New Orleans, Lousiana
Jennifer Cragan and Matt Ward attended the Chemical and Biological Defense Physical Science and Technology Conference (CBD-PST) in New Orleans, Louisiana. Jennifer presented a poster on SHARC (System for Hazard Assessment of Released Chemicals) for bulk shipped chemicals. Matt presented a paper on the chemistry of SHARC.
Where: Tampa, Florida
Deb French McCay attended the 29th Annual Meeting of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC), 16-20 November, in Tampa, Florida. She presented the paper “Use of Population Modeling for Quantifying Injuries and Compensatory Restoration for Fish Kills – Example Application for Freshwater Species Present in Missouri”. The paper describes a model, developed by ASA and Industrial Economics for the Missouri Department of Conservation, which estimates injuries and damages associated with small-scale fish kill events.
Where: Dubrovnik, Croatia
Craig Swanson participated in the International Conference on Marine Waste Water Discharge (MWWD 2008) held near Dubrovnik, Croatia, on the Adriatic Sea from 27-31 October. His paper entitled “Use of a Lagrangian Particle Model to Simulate the Far Field Transport and Fate of Effluent Discharge from the Proposed LACSD Outfall”, was presented as part of a series of papers at a special session of the conference focused on a large new outfall proposed for Los Angeles, California.
Where: San Antonio, Texas
Deb French McCay gave two talks based on part of a CCRC workshop on dispersant use in oil spills. Also attending the conference from ASA was Eric Commerma, CJ Beegle-Krause, and Eoin Howlett.
ASA had a booth at the exhibition, providing demonstrations of the latest ASA software enhancements.
Where:Block Island, Rhode Island
Kelly Knee attended the New England Estuarine Society’s (NEERS) fall meeting held on Block Island, Rhode Island, focusing on global climate change in estuaries and coasts. She presented the paper “Visualizing Sea Level Rise along Estuarine Shorelines”.
Where: Dalian, China
Xiongping Zhang attended the 5th China International Rescue and Salvage Conference in Dalian, China, from 16-18 September. He presented a paper entitled “A New Search and Rescue Supporting System (EDS) for U.S. Coast Guard's Operational Search and Rescue”. Dr. Zhang’s presentation received an outstanding paper award by the conference committee.
Where: San Diego, California
Where: Arlington, Virginia
The workshop goal was to "Foster broad-based, partnership-community input to the planning of the Modeling and Analysis Subsystem for IOOS." The workshop featured representatives from the IOOS Regional Associations, academia, industry. The meeting involved working groups on Atlantic and Pacific issues, as well as specific workgroup in inundation issues. Additionally, MAST provides the U.S. contribution to the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) and to the oceans-and-coasts component of the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS). CJ Beegle-Krause is Vice-Chair of the NOAA's Ocean.us Modeling and Analysis Steering Team (MAST).
Where: Newport, Rhode Island
Where: Duxbury, Massachusetts
Where: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Where: Savannah, Georgia
Deborah French-McCay presented two papers at the conference: “Dispersed Oil Transport Modeling Calibrated by Field-Collected Data Measuring Fluorescein Dye Dispersion”, and “Modeling as a Scientific Tool in NRDA for Oil and Chemical Spills”. › Dr. Deborah French McCay Bio and Selected Publications
Where: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Paul Anid was at the HydroqualASA booth at the Waterfront 2008 conference. He also presened a paper on oil spill modeling on February 28 at the conference.
Where: Newport, RI
Where: Singapore
Where: Beijing, China
Where: Houston, TX
Where: The Oyster Point Hotel | Red Bank, NJ 07701
The Coastal Response Research Center (CRRC) and the Dispersants Working Group (DWG) hosted a Dispersed Oil Research Forum on February 1 and 2, 2007 in Red Bank, NJ. The Forum consisted of half hour presentations on dispersants research that has been conducted since the May 2005 release of the NRC's Report entitled, Oil Spill Dispersants: Efficacy and Effects.
› Dr. Deborah French McCay Bio and Selected Publications
Where: West Greenwich, RI
