Table of Contents

Arctic Research Issues.- Oil Spill Response and the Challenges of Arctic Marine Shipping: An Assessment by the Arctic Council.- Oil Spills in the Arctic: A Review of Three Decades of Research at Environment Canada.- Oil Under Ice Detection: What is the State-of-the-Art?.- Practical and Effective Technologies for Oil Spill Recovery Operations in Arctic Conditions.- In-Situ Burning for Oil Spills in Arctic Waters: State-of-the-Art and Future Research Needs.- Recent Mid-Scale Research on Using Oil Herding Surfactants to Thicken Oil Slicks in Pack Ice for In-Situ Burning.- Weathering of Oil Spills Under Arctic Conditions: Field Experiments with Different Ice Conditions Followed by In-Situ Burning.- Dispersant Effectiveness Experiments Conducted on Alaskan Crude Oils in Very Cold Water at the Ohmsett Facility.- Enhanced Chemical Dispersion Using the Propeller Wash from Response Vessels.- Evaluation of Arctic In-Situ Oil Spill Response Countermeasures.- Oma Formation in Ice-Covered Brackish Waters: Large-Scale Experiments.- Joint Industry Program on Oil Spill in Arctic and Ice Infested Waters: An Overview.- Countermeasures for the Beaufort Transition Season.- Oil Spill Countermeasures.- New Oil Containment Technology: For Fast and Narrow Waters.- Viscous Oil Pumping Technology and Annular Water Lubrication Techniques.- Development of a Strategy for Offshore Use of Dispersants in Norwegian Waters.- French Sea Trials on Chemical Dispersion: DEPOL 04 & 05.- Dispersant Research in a Specialized Wave Tank: Mimicking the Mixing Energy of Natural Sea States.- Wave Tank Studies on Chemical Dispersant Effectiveness: Dispersed Oil Droplet Size Distribution.- Wave Tank Studies on Formation and Transport of OMA from the Chemically Dispersed Oil.- Biological Effects and Monitoring HabitatRecovery.- Optimal Nutrient Application Strategies for the Bioremediation of Tidally-Influenced Beaches.- Benthos Community Monitoring of A Dumping Area During Liquid Natural Gas Plant Construction.- Oil Fingerprinting and Spill Source Identification.- What Compounds in Crude Oil Cause Chronic Toxicity to Larval Fish?.- Potential Impacts of an Orimulsion Spill on Marine (Atlantic Herring; Clupea harengus) and Estuarine (Mummichog; Fundulus heteroclitus) Fish Species in Atlantic Canada.- Effectiveness of Dispersants for Coastal Habitat Protection as a Function of Types of Oil and Dispersant.- How Clean is Clean?: Development of Monitoring Methods to Determine Environmental and Socially Acceptable End-Points of Clean-Up.- Modelling, Fate and Transport.- Microbial and Abiotic Removal of Ydrocarbon Components in Oil Tanker Ballast Water Processed by the Alyeska Ballast Water Treatment Facility in Port Valdez, Alaska.- Oil Spill Drift and Fate Model.- Modelling of Oil Droplet Kinetics Under Breaking Waves.- The Necessity of Applying Sar Imagery to Oil Spill Modeling in Cases of Data Obfuscation.- Risk Assessment/Contingency Planning/Operational Response/Policy.- Prevention of Oil Spills Caused by Premeditated Negative Influence.- Spillview: A Support to Decision-Making Software in Emergency Response to Marine Oil Spill.- Accidental Marine Pollution in Belgium: The Emergence of Response Strategies.- Dimensioning of Norwegian Oil Spill Preparedness: Focusing on the Arctic North Norway and the Barents Sea.- Regional Citizens’ Advisory Councils: Ensuring Safe Transport of Crude Oil in Alaska.- The Role of the Regional Environmental Emergencies Team (REET) in Emergency Response in the Atlantic Region of Canada.- Minimizing Environmental Impact of Oil Spills: Statoil’S R&DPosition and Priorities.- Modeling Impacts and Tradeoffs of Dispersant Use on Oil Spills.- Development of Operational Ocean Forecasting Systems and Impact on Oil Plume Drift Calculations.- Emergency Prevention, Preparedness and Response Working Group of the Arctic Council: Recent Marine Environmental Initiatives in the Arctic Council.- The Eastern Mediterranean-Black Sea System with High Oil Spill Risk.- UK: Recent Counter Pollution R&D Activities.- Ice Overview for the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the St. Lawrence River.