Contacts:

Katherine Bunting-Howarth, New York Sea Grant, Associate Director, E: kathybh@cornell.edu, P: 607-255-2832

Kara Lynn Dunn, NYSG Great Lakes Publicist, E: karalynn@gisco.net, P: 315-465-7578

Ithaca, NY, September 29, 2017 - How does crude oil move through the Great Lakes Basin? New York Sea Grant was among the nearly 130 federal, state and provincial governments; industry; NGOs; and academic entities participating in the 2017 Crude Move Symposium addressing the economics, risks and hazards of crude oil transport through such important waters as the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River system and the Gulf of Mexico. The 39-page proceedings and video recordings of the symposium are now available online at www.glc.org/work/oil-transportation/publications.

The symposium was sponsored by a partnership of the Great Lakes Commission, the Great Lakes Sea Grant Network, the Gulf of Mexico Sea Grant Oil Spill Science Outreach Program, the International Joint Commission, the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative, and the Joyce Foundation.

For more information about the Great Lakes Sea Grant Network’s work on oil transportation, contact New York Sea Grant Associate Director Katherine Bunting-Howarth at kathybh@cornell.edu.

For more information about the symposium and GLC’s work on oil transportation in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River region, contact Michele Leduc-Lapierre at michelel@glc.org.

More information is also available at www.glslcrudeoiltransport.org.


On YouTube: Video Playlist from June 2017's Crude Move Symposium


Above is the first of a 24 part video series from the symposium. To select videos from the full playlist, click here.

More Info: Great Lakes Commission

The Great Lakes Commission, led by Chair John Linc Stine, commissioner of the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, is an interstate compact agency established under state and U.S. federal law and dedicated to promoting a strong economy, healthy environment and high quality of life for the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence region and its residents. The Commission consists of governors’ appointees, state legislators, and agency officials from its eight member states. Associate membership for Ontario and Québec was established through the signing of a “Declaration of Partnership.” The Commission maintains a formal Observer program involving U.S. and Canadian federal agencies, tribal authorities, binational agencies and other regional interests. The Commission offices are located in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Learn more at www.glc.org.

More Info: Great Lakes Sea Grant Network

The Great Lakes Sea Grant Network is comprised of Sea Grant programs from Illinois-Indiana, Lake Champlain, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Each program represents a unique partnerships between state universities and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Through its network of extension educators and its use of engaging communication and education techniques, the Great Lakes Sea Grant Network plays a central role in supplying the region and the nation with usable solutions to pressing problems and providing the basic information needed to better manage Great Lakes resources for present and future generations of Americans. Find out more at: greatlakesseagrant.com.

More Info: New York Sea Grant

New York Sea Grant (NYSG), a cooperative program of Cornell University and the State University of New York, is one of 33 university-based programs under the National Sea Grant College Program (NSGCP) of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The NSGCP engages this network of the nation’s top universities in conducting scientific research, education, training and extension projects designed to foster science-based decisions about the use and conservation of our aquatic resources. Through its statewide network of integrated services, NYSG has been promoting coastal vitality, environmental sustainability, and citizen awareness about the State’s marine and Great Lakes resources since 1971.

New York Sea Grant maintains Great Lakes offices at SUNY Buffalo, the Wayne County Cooperative Extension office in Newark and at SUNY Oswego. In the State's marine waters, NYSG has offices at Stony Brook University and Stony Brook Manhattan, in the Hudson Valley through Cooperative Extension in Kingston and at Brooklyn College. 

For updates on Sea Grant activities: www.nyseagrant.org has RSS, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube links. NYSG produces a monthly e-newsletter, "NOAA Sea Grant's Social Media Review," via its blog, www.nyseagrant.org/blog. Our program also offers a free e-list sign up via www.nyseagrant.org/coastlines for its flagship publication, NY Coastlines/Currents, which is published 1-2 times a year.