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Innovative Oil Spill Research

Oil in and around ice herding.

Dual barrel drum skimmers.

Oil detection using radar.

Oil in slush ice.

Oil shown in ice cores.

Oil shown in ice cores.

Oil shown in ice cores.

Engineers with the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center's (ERDC) Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) are collaborating with test partners, to include private companies, government agencies, and educational institutions, to better understand how oil can be detected, mitigated to create effective spill response techniques for ice environments.

Defining the Problem: How Much and Where?

Detection of Oil Under Ice

Ice-Surface Radar
Airborne Radar
Submersible Sensors—Detection Under Ice

Mitigation of Oil Spills

Chemical Treatments (Herding and Spreading)
Mechanical Oil Skimmers

Growing Ice for Offsite Testing

Training: Advanced Oil Spill Response

Training the Oil Spill Responder

CRREL Research Facilities

Ice Engineering Facility

Ice Engineering Research Area (Fact Sheet)

Ice Engineering (Technical Note #34, 8/2002)

Geophysical Research Facility (Fact Sheet)

Materiel Evaluation Facility

Research Partners

Boise State University

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement

D.F. Dickins and Associates

Ohmsett—The National Oil Spill Response and Renewable Energy Test Facility

SL Ross Environmental Research Ltd.

University of California Santa Barbara

Training Partners

Alaska Clean Seas

Related Publications

U.S. Arctic Research Commission (2012) "Oils Spills in Arctic Waters: An Introduction and Inventory of Research Activities and USARC Recommendations"

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