Both offices support the blue economy with services for the maritime community relating to the prevention of and response to the consequences of incidents. The Ocean Prediction Center’s role is the prevention of loss of life and property at sea through provision of timely and accurate marine weather warnings and forecasts. OR&R is involved in certain maritime incidents as we protect and restore ocean and coastal resources from the impacts of oil, chemicals, marine debris, and other hazards.

The briefing was arranged subsequent to connections following an incident involving a particularly large loss of containers from a container ship on a trans-Pacific crossing, and allowed discussion of connections between the offices, the scope and drivers of OR&R involvement in Emergency Response and Marine Debris incidents, as well as recent work involving oil and ice modeling communities under the Arctic Marine Spill Modeling project. 

For further information, contact Scott.Lundgren@noaa.gov.

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