ACT/MERC Workshop: Ballast Water Compliance Monitoring Using Fluorometry
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Thursday, 14 June 2012
SESYNC Center, Annapolis MD
Agenda
8:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.
Coffee and continental breakfast
Part 1: Overview and background
8:30 a.m. – 8:45 a.m.
Welcome, Workshop Outline and Objectives, Participant
Introductions (Tamburri ACT/MERC)
8:45 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.
Introduction to ACT (Johengen ACT)
9:00 a.m. – 9:15 a.m.
Introduction to MERC (Tamburri MERC)
9:15 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.
Review of the USCG ballast water discharge regulations (Everett
USCG)
9:30 a.m. – 9:45 a.m.
Review of EPA General Vessel Permit in relation to ballast water
discharge (Albert EPA)
9:45 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.
Case studies – USCG compliance and enforcement of oily water
separators and marine sanitation devices (Fluke USCG)
10:15 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Break
10:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.
A proposed compliance monitoring framework (Tamburri
ACT/MERC)
10:45 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
Variable Fluorescence and its Relation to Photosynthesis and
Ballast Water Discharge Regulations (Welschmeyer MLML)
11:15 am. – 12:00 p.m.
Vendor instrument briefs (one slide each)
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Lunch
Part 2: Charge Question A - What are the strengths and limitations of various fluorometric approaches
for use in this application?
1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Considerations when converting various fluorescent signals to
estimates of live organisms’ abundances (group discussions -
Johengen ACT)
3:00 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.
Break
Part 3: Charge Question B - Can thresholds of “unambiguous exceedance” be established for various
fluorometric approaches?
3:15 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.
Factoring in organisms less than 10 μm and those greater than 50
μm in size, non-photosynthetic organisms, various fluorescent
interferences, etc., when can we be “certain” a discharge has
exceeded the discharge regulations? (group discussions - Smith
ACT)
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