Sea Alarm at the 2024 IOSC
The ladies of the Sea Alarm team had a successful week at the 2024 International Oil Spill Conference (IOSC) in May in New Orleans. We had the opportunity to present a range of topics, including the use of serious games…
WildX tabletop package gets first run with industry
Last week, the Sea Alarm team ran its first WildX tabletop and serious game training session with members of an oil company emergency response team. The WildX package allowed the participants to explore various realistic response challenges and discuss operational…
Sea Alarm presents at the first Effects of Oil on Wildlife Conference in four years
The Effects of Oil on Wildlife (EOW) conference is the biggest event of the international oiled wildlife response community and is the only global meeting focusing on the planning, response, rehabilitation and research aspects of oil spills and their impacts…
Experts who stop learning, stop being experts
It is 20 years ago today that the Prestige incident (Galicia, Spain) took over the headlines in Europe and the rest of the world. Articles like this one will be published in the days and weeks to come. Incredible advances…
A new Integrated Wildlife Response Plan for Montenegro
Sea Alarm successfully completed its project with the Montenegrin authorities to develop a national oiled wildlife response plan. Over the last year and a half, Sea Alarm has been working hard alongside the Montenegrin authorities to prepare a new Integrated…
EUROWA-2 project news
The EUROWA-2 project is in full swing, with a number of important technical developments and activities taking place, or progressing in the last few months. Sea Alarm has been coordinator and secretariat of the EUROWA network since its creation in…
Montenegro Wildlife Planning: stakeholder workshop and fact-finding mission
Montenegro is in the process of redrafting its National Contingency Plan (NCP). As part of this process, Sea Alarm has been invited to assist with the development of a National Oiled Wildlife Response Plan for the country and to provide…
Two EU projects focusing on holistic and integrated management
Sea Alarm is involved in two EU projects that focus on integrated management of marine incidents, the IRA-MAR project and the MODEX-DBX project. As part of the 'Improving the Integrated Response to Pollution Incidents at Sea and Chemical Risks in…
Sea Alarm contributes to the POPCORN Project
Sea Alarm is an Associated partner in the Preventing Oil and Plastics Contamination of Ocean Regions of the North (POPCORN) Project. This clustering project of the Northern Periphery and Arctic (NPA) programme brings together either ongoing or already completed NPA…
Sea Alarm’s Country Wildlife Response Profiles: Updates and a new look
Sea Alarm are pleased to announce that our Country Wildlife Response Profiles (CWRPs) went through a format revamp last year and the 16 CWRPs updated in 2021 integrate these improvements. The new format is more user-friendly and includes new sections…
Oiled wildlife response remains on the agenda at HELCOM Response
Baltic countries are continuing their efforts to look at oiled wildlife issues in the framework of regional cooperation and capacity building. Sea Alarm, who hold observer status at HELCOM, took part in the online HELCOM Response meeting on 29 September…
Beachhead Collection Point concept tested in Netherlands exercise
Search and collection is the first important stage of an operation to actively mitigate the effects of oil on marine wildlife. Rehabilitation takes place in specially designed facilities – but what needs to happen before that to collect and take…