actual oil spills to theoretical problems in the environmental assess- 

 ment of Alaska. These interests, and the unique situation created by 

 the Tsesis incident, formed the basis for international cooperation 

 between Sweden and the United States. As a matter of routine, the 

 Tsesis incident was evaluated by the SOR Team for research potential. 

 It was concluded that enough oil would remain in the enclosed area for 

 chemical studies of the water column, and that the proximity and par- 

 ticipation of the Swedish institutions mentioned would afford an excel- 

 lent opportunity to investigate the feasibility of various biological 

 studies as part of a coordinated program. Discussions, via conference 

 phone and in meetings, ensued to refine the experiment design. These 

 discussions included Dr. Wilmot Hess (Director of the Environmental 

 Research Laboratories of NOAA) , Dr. Rudy Engelmann (Director of OCSEAP) , 

 Dr. Douglas Wolfe (Deputy Director of OCSEAP), David Kennedy, Elaine 

 Chan, Dr. Jerry Gait, Dr. James Mattson, Dr. Peter Grose, and Lt . John 

 Kineman from the U.S. and Dr. Bengt-Owe Jansson in Sweden. On the day 

 following the spill, the Asko Laboratory (Dr. Jansson) received a request 

 from the OCSEA Program, through the U.S. State Department, for permission 

 to send a team of oil spill scientists to study the spill. The Asko 

 Laboratory welcomed this offer, and the response coordinator, Lt. John 

 Kineman, with two chemists, Dr. James Mattson and Robert C. Clark Jr. 

 (MS), participated in the short-term phase of the spill study. David 

 Kennedy coordinated the direction, communication and logistics for the 

 NOAA team from the project office in Boulder, Colorado. Lt . Kineman, as 

 biological coordinator for the OCSEAP SOR program and later as acting 

 project manager, coordinated the U.S. part of the Tsesis long-term study 

 and participated in evaluation meetings in Sweden and the U.S. The 

 major element of this coordination was the funding of hydrocarbon analyses 

 performed under contract to OCSEAP by Dr. Paul Boehm (principal inves- 

 tigator) of Energy Resources Company Inc. (ERCO) . Because of the par- 

 ticipation of NOAA, the Tsesis study included advanced hydrocarbon 

 analyses of biota and sediments. Without these analyses the ecological 

 investigations made by the Swedes would have lost much of their value 

 and in some cases would even have been impossible to interpret correctly. 



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