In Episode 12, we go on a virtual tour of the Environmental Unit with Dr. Elliott Taylor from Polaris Applied Sciences. Elliott and I talk about EU staffing, net environmental benefit, alternative response strategies, trajectory forecasting, and much more. A must-hear episode of The Tactics Meeting!

How does trajectory modeling work? For 45 years, Dr. Jerry Galt has worked on the problem of forecasting how spilled oil will travel in the ocean.  Starting with a PDP8 computer and then an Apple II, Dr. Galt developed focusing models that eventually became GNOME. 

In This episode of The Tactics meeting, Al Allen explains how he went from a physics career to oil spill response to in-situ burning during Exxon Valdez and Deepwater Horizon. Al is the author of Clues Can Light The Way.

Genwest's John Murphy, Brianna Yearwood, Al Hielscher, and Lexter Tapawan introduce online resource tracking with WRRLTracWeb.

In This episode of The Tactics meeting Scott Knutson (USCG Ret) and Sonja Larson (Washington Department of Ecology) to tell the story of the birth of the Western Response Resource List. The story takes us from the Nestucca oil spill, Exxon Valdez, OPA-90, Deepwater Horizon, and finally to the International Maritime Organization and International Offers of Assistance.

Tony Parkin joins Island Oil Spill Association as Executive Director, steering rebirth of 30-year-old volunteer organization.

Western Canada Marine Response Corporation (WCMRC) is the certified Marine Spill Response Organization in British Columbia, Canada.

In this episode of The Tactics Meeting, Michael Lowry and I discuss WCMRC's equipment expansion, Incident Management Team responsibilities, responder immunity, coastal mapping, and

Send a clear message to your community during a response with guest Suzanne Lagoni.

Loss of power, dwindling supplies, and lack of staff, Guest Liesl Peterson shares her experience as a hospital emergency manager.