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Upcoming Meeting Schedule:  2013

 

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The Advisory Panel will next convene via webinar to discuss the priority risk reduction options selected at the February 22nd meeting in Anchorage.

 

PAST MEETINGS : 2012

 

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FRIDAY, February 22, 2013 – CIRA Advisory Panel Meeting: Risk Reduction Option Review

• Time - 8:30am to 4:30pm
• Pre-Meeting Registration (Required by Wednesday February 20th) -
  • click here for form or contact Amy Gilson
• Location
  • USFWS/USGS Building
  • Gordon Watson Conference Room
  • 1011 E. Tudor Road, #200
  • Anchorage Alaska
  • (907) 786-3309
  • google map link: http://goo.gl/maps/av6rz
• Agenda
• Pre-Reading Meeting Materials - to come
• Meeting Materials/Handouts
  • 130222 CIRA Meeting Presentation Handout (4MB PDF)
  • 130215 DRAFT list of Risk Reduction Options
  • CIRA - Risk Interventions & Accident Chain - J. Harrald
  • 130222 E Page Presentation to CIRA AP (22.9MB PDF)

• Materials Provided by the Public (posting of materials does not constitute an endorsement of a product or concept by the CIRA Management Team or Advisory Panel)
  • Presentation on Ice Radar , provided by Owen Boyle (3.9MB PDF)
  • Oil Spill Eater II Intro Letter, provided by Steven Pedigo  
  • Presentation on Tug Concept, provided by Tom Lakosh
    • Voith - Aleutian Rescue Tender
    • Barge Isometri2
    • Fasflo - Ocean Oil Spill Response Barge (FO OSRB)
    • Lightering & Heavy-lift Salvage OSRV w/DP
      
• Meeting Summary

TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY - October 30-31, 2012 – CIRA Consequence Analysis Workshop

• Time - 9:00am to 4:30pm Tuesday & Wednesday  
• Meeting Registration - contact Amy Gilson
• Location
  • University of Alaska, Anchorage
  • Edward Lee Gorsuch Commons - Room 106
  • Sharon Gagnon Lane
  • Anchorage, Alaska
  • Map - Willow Parking Lot (A) to UAA Commons (B):

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(Free Parking Located South of Commons Building in Willow Lot)

• Agenda
  • Day ONE - Agenda for Tuesday, October 30, 2012
  • Day TWO - Agenda for Wednesday, October 31, 2012
• Pre-Reading Meeting Materials
  • Files from the Final Spill Baseline & Causality Study Report
    • Appendix E - Cook Inlet Incident Database 1995-2010
    • Appendix 1 - Spill Scenarios & Impacts, Environmental Research Consulting
• Meeting Materials/Handouts
  • CIRA PPT Presentation - Project Overview & Status (15.7MB) (17.7MB)
  • CIRA Scenario Charts
  • CIRA Scenario Parameters
  • Marine Ice Atlas for Cook Inlet, Alaska (26.7MB)
  • Excerpt from Special Report 293, Risk of Vessel Accidents and Spills in the Aleutian Islands
  • Point Scale Used to Assign Impacts
  • Cook Inlet Winds
  • CISPRI Technical Manual -Appendix B: RMROL (2.6MB)
  • Cook Inlet Ecological Risk Evaluation (4.0MB)
  • Cook Inlet Ice - Convergence Zones
  • Predicting Oil Spill Trajectories

MONDAY, April 23, 2012 – CIRA Advisory Panel Meeting – ANCHORAGE

• Time - 1:00pm to 5:00pm Alaska Time 
• Location
  • Dimond Center Hotel
  • 700 East Dimond Blvd
  • Conference Room
  • Anchorage, Alaska
• Teleconference -
  • Click here to navigate to the meeting from WebEx
    • Meeting Number: 806 720 188
    • Password: cira
• WebEx Instructions
• Agenda
• Meeting Materials
  • DRAFT Spill Baseline & Causality Study Report (3.4MB PDF file)
  • Comment Form (Deadline for Comments is April 27th)
• Meeting Summary

 

THURSDAY, October 20, 2011 – CIRA Advisory Panel Meeting – ANCHORAGE

• Time - 1:30pm to 5:00pm
• Location
  • University of Alaska, Anchorage
  • Edward Lee Gorsuch Commons - Room 106
  • Sharon Gagnon Lane
  • Anchorage, Alaska
  • Map - Willow Parking Lot (A) to UAA Commons (B):
    • 
      View Larger Map
      (Free Parking Located South of Commons Building in Willow Lot)
• WebEx - click here to register in order to join the meeting via computer.
• Purpose – to introduce the members, orient them to the project work plan, and provide an overview of the Draft Vessel Traffic Study.
• Agenda
• Meeting Materials
  • CIRA Work Plan
  • CIRA PowerPoint Presentation to Advisory Panel (16.6MB PDF)
  • Vessel Traffic Study Overview PowerPoint Slideshow (11.3MB PDF)
  • Cook Inlet 2011 Vessel Traffic Transit Patterns PowerPoint Slideshow (6.5MB PDF)
• Meeting Summary
• Slideshow of October CIRA Advisory Panel Meeting (click to go to page)

 

FRIDAY, March 25, 2011 – Project Briefing to CIRCAC Board of Directors

• Meeting Materials
  •  Cook Inlet Risk Assessment PowerPoint Presentation (483 KB PDF file)