The 2015 Interspill conference in Amsterdam provided Sea Alarm with the opportunity to present an analysis of the European Union’s Offshore Safety Directive’s oiled wildlife requirements to members of the oil and gas industry and spill response agencies.
Sea Alarm will be at the Interspill Conference (Amsterdam 24-26 March 2015) presenting a paper that explores the wildlife response planning implications of the new EU Directive on Offshore Safety. This Directive was adopted in 2014 and includes some explicit references to oiled wildlife response preparedness which call to have “arrangements” in place in the so called “external response plans”.
Canmore, Alberta was the site of the first ever, full day wildlife session to be held as part of the Arctic Marine Oilspill Program (AMOP) Technical Seminar. Co-chaired by Dr. Sherri Cox of the University of Guelph and Patrick O’Hara of the Canadian Wildlife Service, this 2014 session featured speakers from the Europe, Australia, the US and Canada.
Sea Alarm will give a presentation on quality oiled wildlife planning and preparedness at the 2014 Arctic and Marine Oilspill Program (AMOP) seminar, held 3-5 June in Canmore, Alberta.
In May, Sea Alarm staff will travel to Savannah, USA for the International Oil Spill Conference (IOSC).
The week before the first POSOW ‘Train the trainer’ session (see related article), Claude Velter gave an invited presentation on the work of Sea Alarm at AdriaSpillcon in Opatija, Croatia. He also spoke about the POSOW training programme.
Saskia Sessions and Paul Kelway represented Sea Alarm at SpillCon 
2013 in Australia. Mr. Kelway and Ms Sessions were able to network with industry and wildlife groups interested in oiled wildlife response both at the conference and during visits around the conference.
Saskia Sessions and Paul Kelway will be representing Sea Alarm at the 2013 SPILLCON in Cairns, Australia in April. They will share exhibition space with Oil Spill Response Ltd. (OSRL), showcasing Sea Alarm’s role in oiled wildlife response and explaining the services it can provide to the oil industry and authorities in Australia and Southeast Asia.
In 2012 Sea Alarm attended conferences in various countries, presenting on the organisation’s activities and learning about advances in oiled wildlife response around the world.
The 11th Effects of Oil on Wildlife Conference will take place from 24-28 January 2012 in New Orleans, Louisiana. EOW is the premier international conference for oiled wildlife preparedness response and provides an important forum for wildlife response NGOs around the world to meet and exchange information on latest developments, knowledge and experience gained in dealing with oiled wildlife.
Oiled wildlife response had a high profile at the 2011 International Oil Spill Conference (IOSC) in Portland, as for the first time in the event’s history it had a dedicated wildlife session, chaired by Hugo Nijkamp. Sea Alarm also exhibited at the event.
Sea Alarm has made important steps in 2011 towards developing better preparedness for Arctic oiled wildlife incidents. Saskia Sessions was invited to make a presentation at the October meeting of the Arctic Council’s Emergency Prevention, Preparedness and Response Working Group (EPPR).