Webinar: Spilling Oil into a Boreal Lake - Lessons Learned

2024 Hazardous Material Transport Outreach Network (HazMaTON) Summer Webinar Series

MNSG, on behalf of the Hazardous Material Transport Outreach Network (HazMaTON), would like to invite you to the July installment of the 2024 Hazardous Material Transport Outreach Network Summer Webinar Series. These webinars are meant for non-experts with a vested interest in oil spill science in the Laurentian Great Lakes region.

The July webinar will feature Jose Luis Rodriguez Gil, Research Scientist at the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) Experimental Lakes Area (ELA). The IISD-ELA is a unique natural laboratory comprising 58 small lakes in Kenora District, Ontario, Canada that have been set aside for scientific research to advance the understanding of what human activity does to fresh water.

This webinar is free and open to the public, but advance registration is required.

Presentation Title
Spilling Oil into a Boreal Lake: Lessons Learned from Whole Ecosystem Studies on the Fate and Effects of Oil Spills and Non-Invasive Clean-Up Approaches in Canadian Freshwater Systems

Abstract
Since 2017, the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) – Experimental Lakes Area (ELA) has been home to an active research program aimed at understanding the fate and effects of oil spills in freshwater systems. This program has been the combination of a number of complementary research projects where national and international experts aimed to answer questions ranging from the basic science of oil fate and behavior and its effects in the organisms inhabiting spill-impacted fresh waters, to more applied challenges, such as which remediation techniques are the most effective for these systems, and which ones can provide effective remediation while minimizing additional impacts to the system.

In this talk, Dr. Rodriguez Gil will summarize the different studies and their findings, focusing on some of the more field-applicable pieces in hopes of providing practitioners with helpful information for decision making in future fresh-water spills.

When
Wednesday, July 17, 2024
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. CDT

Registration
Registration is required for this free virtual event.

Presenters

Jose Luis Rodriguez Gil, Research Scientist at the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) Experimental Lakes Area (ELA)

Collaborators

MNSG, on behalf of Hazardous Material Transport Outreach Network (HazMaTON), is leading these webinars as part of the 2024 Hazardous Material Transport Outreach Network (HazMaTON) Summer Webinar Series.

Contact
Kelsey Prihoda, Minnesota Sea Grant Great Lakes Transportation Extension Educator

Image: Freighter Edgar B. Speer silhouetted against morning sunlight and steam rising from the lake. Image credit: MNSG