Oil-SPIRES

 The workshop is application-focused with its major product being the development of oil spill response remote sensing playbooks for different spill scenarios. Scenarios touch on spills in accessible and inaccessible coastal areas, and the Arctic. For example, specific scenarios can include an Arctic heavy crude spill, a light crude mid-latitude (Seattle) spill, and a refined-oil product tropical (Florida) spill. These playbooks will be developed in a series of parallel breakout sessions. Although the breakout session plans will be developed for immediate application, they are initial plans to disseminate to the community for feedback through publication in the peer reviewed literature.
 For effective breakout sessions all participants need to be on the same level and have a basic literacy in the language of the different communities (academia, providers, responders) participating. This will be facilitated by a briefing paper distributed electronically to all participants before the workshop. Key concepts will be presented in posters at the ice-breaker and poster session the evening prior, which will also include provider posters/tables.
  Key to the workshop are the playbooks that will be developed. The coordinating committee will produce a playbook that will be included in the briefing package and will be presented on the first morning of the workshop. The first morning, we also introduce the entire disaster cycle (w.r.t. oil spills), and the needs of during each of the phases. Also highly novel is presentations by community stakeholders – fishermen, health workers, fish and game wardens, who will communicate their frustrations, concerns, and needs. Also addressed on the first day are issues of data archiving and distribution to be considered in the working groups.
 The Oil-SPIRES workshop seeks most strongly to make a lasting impact on spill response by engendering buy-in by relevant agencies and stakeholders to facilitate incorporation of parts or all of the playbooks into oil spill response plans at state and national levels (and internationally for overseas participants.