 Every month, NOAA’s Office of Response and Restoration’s (OR&R) Emergency Response Division provides scientific expertise and services in support of spills and other coastal and ocean emergencies. Our support ranges from producing oil spill trajectories that estimate where a spill may spread; to identifying possible effects on wildlife and fisheries; to estimating how long oil may stay in the environment. This support is to the U.S. Coast Guard as the federal lead for coastal zone spills, and also assists other Unified Command members including state and industry leads for response operations. We also receive requests to track and model other floating objects, such as log booms or shipping containers that have broken free, whale carcasses, fish die-offs, and algal blooms.
OR&R supported a variety of incidents during June, including the intentional grounding of a fishing vessel in Alaska that was leaning heavily after its fish hold shifted during high winds; a fire and sinking of a sailboat off Cape Canaveral, Florida; a tanker truck carrying asphalt that rolled from a collapsed bridge into the Little Spokane River of Washington state; the crash of a private plane off Point Loma, California; and a train derailment and diesel spill in Alaska. [...] Continue Reading
The Office of Response and Restoration (OR&R) serves coastal communities, their economies, and the environment by helping to ensure they are clean and healthy to the impacts of hazards like oil, chemicals, and marine debris.
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