Experience

SEA Consulting

• Business Consulting and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• President

  • 1983 - Present

  In addition to technical project work, as the owner of the firm I am accountable for other aspects of the company - human resources, compliance, finance, and adminstration. I established and continue to operate a satellite office in Puerto Rico. For the first 7 years, SEA specialized in technical support to NOAA, US Coast Guard and EPA for oil and hazmat spill preparedness and response, including the development of seasonal senstivity maps for the Chesapeake Bay, environmental support for Superfund sites, training and plans for the Navy in various locations worldwide. Since 1990, SEA has diversified to support the private sector in addition to government. SEA is a subcontractor to several international prime contractors on federal contract for DHS, US Coast Guard, and US EPA. Recent scopes of work have provided SEA the opportunity to update our credentials facilitating federal, state, local level, NGO and industry workshops and meetings to share knowledge and develop technical consensus on sensitive coastal issues. Achieving credible solutions is a continuing high priority. Show less

• Principal Investigator

  • Jan 2013 - Mar 2014

  Project funded by UNH Coastal Response Research Center "Response Risk Communication Tools for Dispersants and Oil Spills". Co-Principle Investigator with Dr. Ann Bostrom, Weyerhaeuser Endowed Professor in Environmental Policy, Evans School of Public Affairs, University of Washington. Additional investigators from the University of Washington: Thomas M. Leschine, Rabinowitz Professor of Human Dimensions of the Environment, and Robert Pavia, Affiliate Associate Professor, School of Marine and Environmental Affairs, and Kate Starbird, Assistant Professor, Department of Human Centered Design and Engineering. Show less



API and the Marine Spill Response Corporation R&D Program

• Safety, security and oil spill consultant

  • 1993 - 2013

  PI for technical support to the Spills Advisory Group. Projects included: Coordinate and develop technical consensus publication (over 50 agency and industry spill response practioners/experts) : "Environmental Considerations for Marine Oil Spill Response" (also known as The Marine Manual). Other project reports include Effects of Oil and Chemically Dispersed Oil in the Environment; A Decision-maker’s Guide to Dispersants: A Review of the Theory and Operational Requirements; Fate of Spilled Oil in Marine Waters: Where Does It Go, What Does It Do, and How Do Dispersants Affect It?; Dispersant Use: Considerations of Biological Concerns in the Upper 10 Meters of Marine Waters and in Shallow Coastal Waters; Dispersant Use: Real-time Operational Monitoring and Long-term Data Gathering; Oil and Natural Gas and Chemical Sectors Emergency Management Workgroup Support for Law Enforcement Guidelines and Outreach Workshops; Analysis of U.S. Oil Spillage - Initial Data Summary for 2008 – 2010 and 2 reports on risk communications for in-situ burning. Show less



Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

• Louisiana

• Technical Specialist, Environmental Unit, SCAT

  • May 2010 - Feb 2011

  Under subcontract, provided scientific coordination, risk communication and stakeholder engagment support for aerial dispersants and SCAT (shoreline cleanup assessment technique) coordination in Houma and New Orleans incident command posts. Under subcontract, provided scientific coordination, risk communication and stakeholder engagment support for aerial dispersants and SCAT (shoreline cleanup assessment technique) coordination in Houma and New Orleans incident command posts.



LNG proposed terminal and emergency response

• WSA Steering Committee representative

  • 2003 - 2008

  To advise the USCG Captain of the Port, coordinated over 80 federal, state, local, and industry representives in 3 states and 2 federal regions on 4 workgroups (navigation safety, security, interoperability, and emergency response) to assess the suitability of adding LNG vessel transits into port activities of the Delaware Bay and River. Activities included providing education on LNG, risk assessment and vulnerabilities, risk mitigation measures. Also assisted with external communications. To advise the USCG Captain of the Port, coordinated over 80 federal, state, local, and industry representives in 3 states and 2 federal regions on 4 workgroups (navigation safety, security, interoperability, and emergency response) to assess the suitability of adding LNG vessel transits into port activities of the Delaware Bay and River. Activities included providing education on LNG, risk assessment and vulnerabilities, risk mitigation measures. Also assisted with external communications.



US Coast Guard

• Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Chemical Transportation Advisory Committee (CTAC)

  • Mar 1998 - Jul 2007

  The USCG nominated me as an environmental representative to CTAC, based on my prior experience with hazardous chemical shipping incidents and work training aboard a parcel tanker. The USCG nominated me as an environmental representative to CTAC, based on my prior experience with hazardous chemical shipping incidents and work training aboard a parcel tanker.



U.S. Coast Guard

• NOAA Scientific Support Coordinator

  • 1980 - 1990

  Responded to approximately 250 oil and hazmat incidents for USCG FOSCs in MD, VA, and NC as well as on-scene support as member of NOAA ERD team to spills in other areas, e.g., CT, WA, and AK for the Exxon Valdez oil spills. Developed regional scientific directory of academics and agency representatives; conducted dispersant seminars for the region; PI for ESI maps in VA, MD, and NC; developed estuary-wide prototype map for priority resources at risk by season; responded to mutiny incidents, chemical incidents on lash barge vessel, stranded and sunken barges, and salvage planning and response for sunken barges; month-long industry assignment on Stolt-Neilsen parcel tanker; provided first NOAA response to EPA removal at California, MD which led to SEA developing the protoype position for nationwide Coastal Resource Coordinators to support EPA Superfund program; coordinated NOAA subsistence fishery program on the Exxon Valdez in 1989 including managing the interagency/academic expert review panel; initiated workgroups in the Region 3 Regional Response Team and headed the Communications Workgroup until 1990.; developed training program for NOAA SSCs in the 1980s. Show less



Virginia Institute of Marine Science, School of Marine Science, College of William and Mary

• Gloucester Point, VA

• Marine Scientist

  • 1977 - 1983

  Building upon coastal zone management and Sea Grant experience at the University of Hawaii, VIMS hired Ann Hayward to work on Special Programs: technical specialist Virginia Coastal Zone Management Program; principal investigator Offshore Pipelines, Corridors and Landfalls in Coastal Virginia - Accessible at www.vims.edu/GreyLit/VIMS/sramsoe190vol1.pdf and www.vims.edu/GreyLit/VIMS/sramsoe190vol2.pdf ; principal investigator Virginia, North Carolina, Maryland ESI Maps; principal investigator Chesapeake Bay Estuary Seasonal Sensitive Areas Map; editor Ethical Aspects of Chesapeake Bay Use; served as NOAA Scientific Support Coordinator as a state employee. As researcher on the faculty of the School of Marine Science sat on the Curriculum Committee and was Instructor for directed studies for graduate students. Show less