Please offer comments on this study of Cold Water Oil Spill Response

Request for Public Comment by 10-17-03

From: ArcticInfo [mailto:arcticInfo@mail.arcus.org]
Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 5:00 PM
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Subject: OSRI Invites Public Comment on Draft Report

The Oil Spill Recovery Institute invites public comment:
"Draft Agenda to Improve Oil Spill Response in Ice-covered Waters."

For more information contact:
Nancy Bird, OSRI Director (bird@pwssc.gen.ak.us)

Deadline for comments: 17 October 2003

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The Oil Spill Recovery Institute invites public comment on a report titled "Draft Agenda to Improve Oil Spill Response in Ice-covered Waters."

This document - posted at http://www.pws-osri.org/whatsnew/Oil_IceRD.pdf
- summarizes research ideas offering the highest potential to improve response capabilities. The public is encouraged to review and comment on the list of ideas included in this report. Their comments will be submitted to a small workshop group meeting in early November and a final document will be published in collaboration with the Arctic Research Commission early in 2004.

Please address public comments by no later than October 17, 2003 to: Nancy Bird, OSRI Director (bird@pwssc.gen.ak.us)
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Pull up Comment - 10-17-03 *

Observed a public interchange recently: "I find it interesting that there seems to be SO MUCH information available on the overall impact of the oil spill on the environment and wildlife, but so little on the effects of the PEOPLE who were involved in cleanup!" - Public 10-03

This was on a discussion board where the topic of the Exxon Valdez oil spill cleanup was brought up.

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Rosa Margesin, Silvia Gander, Gabriele Zacke, Anne Monique Gounot, and Franz Schinner of Institute of Microbiology, University of Innsbruck, Technikerstrasse 25, 6020, Innsbruck, Austria.
Hydrocarbon degradation and enzyme activities of cold-adapted bacteria and yeasts. - an Abstract
Extremophiles, August 26, 2003

"Only four yeast strains but none of the bacterial strains could grow with all hydrocarbons tested." at 10 degrees C

(source) "HighWire Press, Internet Imprint of the Stanford University Libraries"

October 15, 2003