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OSICA Consortium

(Oil Spills in Ice-Covered Arctic Waters) 

OSICA Inaugural Workshop

March 13–14, 2017

Klaus Hochheim Theatre, CEOS, University of Manitoba

125 Dysart Road, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

Organizers:

     Dr. Fei Wang, University of Manitoba

     Dr. Carl Brown, Environment and Climate Change Canada

March 13, 2017: OSICA Consortium

09:00 – 09:10     Welcome and greetings (VP Research Digvir Jayas & Dean Norman Halden)

09:10 – 09:30     Introduction and purpose of the workshop (Fei Wang & Bruce Hollebone)

09:30 – 10:00     Churchill Marine Observatory (CMO) (David Barber)

10:00 – 10:15     Scaling from CMO to Arctic-wide (David Barber)

10:15 – 10:30      Break

10:30 – 10:50     Perspectives from the RSC Expert Panel Report on Oil Spills (Ken Lee)

10:50 – 11:05     Perspectives from DFO (Michelle Wheatley)

11:05 – 11:20     Perspectives from Environment and Climate Change Canada (Bruce Hollebone)

11:20 – 11:35     Perspectives from Transport Canada (Desmond Raymond)

11:35 – 12:00     Perspectives from the Arctic (Panel Discussion)

12:00 – 13:30     Lunch (108 St. John’s College)

13:30 – 13:50     EU Horizon-2020 GRACE Consortium (Kirsten Jorgensen)

13:50 – 15:00     OSICA Consortium (I)

                           -        Group presentations (~3 min each group)

                                                                         Bing Chen        Jean-Eric Tremblay

                           -        Mandate

                           -        Participants

15:00 – 15:15           Coffee break

15:15 – 16:00     OSICA Consortium (II)

                           -        Organizational structure

                           -        Collaboration with other consortia

                           -        Funding opportunities

16:00 – 17:00     Tour of CEOS and SERF

17:30 – 20:00     Dinner (108 St. John’s College)

March 14, 2017: Funding Opportunities for OSICA

09:00 – 09:15     NSERC program info (Frank Nolan)

09:15 – 09:35     Trends in marine shipping and the Arctic Corridors Initiative (Jackie Dawson)

09:35 – 09:55     Detection of oil spill in ice (Jeremy Wilkinson)

09:55 – 10:15     Svalbard field study on oil in ice (Lionel Camus)

10:15 – 10:30     Coffee Break

10:30 – 10:50     Project GENICE (Casey Hubert / Gary Stern)

10:50 – 12:00     NSERC SPG-N pre-application (Fei Wang)

12:00 – 13:00     Lunch (108 St. John’s College)

13:30 – 15:00     NSERC SPG-N theme discussion (1)

                           -        Fate

                           -        Detection

                           -        Effects

                           -        Modeling

15:00 – 15:15          Coffee Break

15:15 – 16:00     NSERC SPG-N theme discussion (2)

                           -        Mitigation

                           -        Risk Assessment and Policy

                           -        Community engagement

16:00 – 16:30     Summary and next steps (Fei Wang)

16:30                  Workshop ends