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Response and Operations System for Spill Response in Ports John R. Harper Coastal & Ocean Resources John Silva, Brian House, Bret Magdasy, Moran Environmental Recovery Jason Scherr Prince Rupert Port Authority

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Response and Operations System for Spill Response in Ports

John R. Harper Coastal & Ocean Resources

John Silva, Brian House, Bret Magdasy, Moran Environmental Recovery

Jason Scherr Prince Rupert Port Authority

Jacksonville, Florida – Pilot Project • 400 km of shoreline with a wide variety of industrial and natural shorelines • Multi-use port with refineries, tank farms, container ports, car ports, navl base, ship

yards • 3.5 hr of HD, low-tide video and .5,000 high-resolution photos collected.

Extenisive marshes

ShoreZone is a coastal habitat mapping system that has been widely applied in the Pacific Northwest (>100,000 km of coastline). It includes both imagery (>4 million images posted online) and mapping data. The ShoreZone Response Tool is a subset of that dataset, designed to support tactical spill response.

The ShoreZone Response Tool (SRT) was developed as tactical response tool to assist with port operations and tactical spill response. The SRT is built around a high-resolution shoreline imagery dataset that is simple to use and web accessible. Initial implementation in Jacksonville, Florida (2013), Charleston, SC (2014). Prince Rupert, BC (mid-June 2014 !) Port of Jacksonville

Jacksonville, Florida – Pilot Project • 400 km of shoreline with a wide variety of industrial and natural shorelines • Multi-use port with refineries, tank farms, container ports, car ports, naval base, ship

yards, recreational beaches, wildlife refuges. • 4 hr of HD, low-tide videography and >5,000 high-resolution photos collected.

Jacksonville, Florida – Pilot Project • 400 km of shoreline with a wide variety of industrial and natural shorelines • Multi-use port with refineries, tank farms, container ports, car ports, naval base, ship

yards, recreational beaches, wildlife refuges. • 4 hr of HD, low-tide video and >5,000 high-resolution photos collected.

Salt marshes

Imagery Collection • lowest tides of the year, at low tide so entire intertidal zone is exposed • use helicopter to ensure flightline flexibility • very careful about position (survey-quality GPS) • narrations recorded on video audio tracks

Port of Jacksonville

Example of Flight Track, Jacksonville • each point is a one-second fix from GPS • red points indicate photo locations

Example of Flight Track, Jacksonville • points indicate one-second fixes from GPS • red points indicate photo locations

Click on a point to view photo from point

Example of Flight Track, Jacksonville • points indicate one-second fixes from GPS • red points indicate photo locations

Click on a point to view photo from point

Imagery is a Consensus-building Tool ! • Two people looking at the same image will almost always agree on what they see • And, they will usually agree on what the most appropriate response tactic

Port of Jacksonville

Other Data Layers • shoreline classification data (ESI shore types shown) • land use or ownership data • tidal currents (from real-time sensors) • winds (from real time sensors)

Geographic Response Strategies • protection strategies for sensitive resource areas • allow testing prior to actual events • equipment can be specified for each protection point

Click on a strategy to view plan

Geographic Response Strategies • protection strategies for sensitive resource areas • allow testing prior to actual events • Equipment can be specified for each protection point

Click on a strategy to view plan

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Port of Prince Rupert Survey (mid June) • 6-day survey, ~ 2,000 km of coastline • approaches, anchorages & port shoreline • four native villages included

ShoreZone Response Tool • A tactical response tool especially designed

for ports, where spill risk may be high and shorelines highly complex.

• The SRT is built around imagery - a consensus-building tool for spill events.

• Information is transparent and easily accessible on line.

• The SRT is flexible and can be adapted to meet specific requirements of a port or specific facilities with a port.

Port of Jacksonville

Acknowledgements • Prince Rupert Port Authority • Moran Environmental Recovery • Pacific Northwest LNG • Aurora LNG

Port of Jacksonville