2013 Yearbook - Alaska Clean Seas
2013 Yearbook - Alaska Clean Seas
2013 Yearbook - Alaska Clean Seas
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GLOBAL RESPONSE NETWORK<br />
The Global Response Network is a collaboration of seven major oil industry funded<br />
spill response organizations whose mission is to harness cooperation and maximize<br />
the effectiveness of oil spill response services world wide. <strong>Alaska</strong> <strong>Clean</strong> <strong>Seas</strong> (ACS),<br />
Australian Marine Oil Spill Centre (AMOSC), <strong>Clean</strong> Caribbean & Americas (CCA), ECRC,<br />
Marine Spill Response Corporation (MSRC), Oil Spill Response, and Western Canada<br />
Marine Response Corporation (WCMRC) are all members of this network. The GRN<br />
www.globalresponsenetwork.org<br />
recently formed operational teams with the purpose of providing a coordination mechanism<br />
for consultative services from the teams, conducting on-going inventories of the latest worldwide major resources,<br />
sharing best practices and promoting to improve industry standards, along with monitoring efforts striving for technical<br />
advancements in each operational team’s areas of emphasis. The operational teams with assigned <strong>Alaska</strong> <strong>Clean</strong> <strong>Seas</strong><br />
employees are: Response Management with Ken Linderman as a team member; Dispersants, In-situ Burning with Lee<br />
Majors as the team lead and John Parson as a team member; Off-shore Response with Brian Green as a team member;<br />
Near-shore Response with Walt Henry as a team member and Remote Sensing Technology with Chris Hall as a team<br />
member. Employees from the various GRN members provide the team leadership and team members.<br />
APICOM<br />
In 2012, <strong>Alaska</strong> <strong>Clean</strong> <strong>Seas</strong> continued its long standing membership and participation with<br />
the Association of Petroleum Industry Cooperative Managers (APICOM). Founded in 1972,<br />
APICOM exists for the purpose of exchanging information related to the management of oil<br />
spill response co-ops. It also serves as a forum for the exchange of ideas related to oil spill<br />
response technologies, operations, regulations, and other issues of common interest to its<br />
nineteen members. ACS, as a world class oil spill response organization, co-hosted the Fall<br />
2012 meeting in Anchorage. Besides cooperatives focused on the United States, APICOM<br />
members hail from Canada and Guam and cover Central and South America. Through our<br />
participation, ACS maintains strong partnerships in the oil spill response industry and remains<br />
always ready, with cost-effective, proven technologies to support our member companies.<br />
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