The Association serves as the voice of the spill response community, representing spill response contractors, manufacturers, distributors, consultants, instructors, training institutions, and corporations working in this industry. OR&R participated in two panels to update the organization’s membership on advances NOAA has made in the products and services related to the spill response and restoration part of OR&R’s mission, and to hear about the work of this industry sector and other panelists. 

Scott spoke on a Government Panel and provided a refresher on the office mission, accomplishments, and staff changes. He spoke to recent incident metrics and used OR&R’s support services provided to spills in California and support to Peru to highlight advances and applications of NOAA’s tools and services, including:

• Environmental Response Management Application and application of a dashboard to track shoreline oiling assessments and status through to cleanup completion
• Job Aid for Uncrewed Aircraft Systems in spill response
• Application of NOAA Satellite remote sensing used for oil detection
• Direct initialization of the WebGNOME spill model from remotely sensed data

Lisa presented on a Technology Advancement Panel on a range of research and methods development, with a focus on comparing advances in estimating and measuring oil slick thickness, and related work in ice environments. 

For questions, please contact Alexis.Cunningham@noaa.gov.