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Deborah French-McCay

Director, Research and Model Development
RPS
Participates in 4 items

Deborah French-McCay, PhD, is the Director of Research and Model Development for RPS Ocean Science. She received her PhD in Oceanography from the University of Rhode Island in 1984. Dr French-McCay is an internationally recognized expert in oil spill fate and effects modeling for response planning, risk assessments and impact evaluations. She leads development of RPS’s oil and chemical spill models (SIMAP and CHEMMAP), which are applied world-wide. In support of the US government’s natural resource damage assessment for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill of April-July 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico, Dr. French McCay modeled oil transport, fate, exposure, toxic effects, and production foregone to evaluate injuries for water column organisms. She has been principal investigator and primary author of more than one hundred technical reports and papers evaluating oil trajectory and fate, exposure, effects, and ecological risks.

Sessions in which Deborah French-McCay participates

Tuesday 4 October, 2022

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
9:50 AM
9:50 AM EDT - 11:05 AM EDT | 1 hour 15 minutes
Presentation

10 : 50 — 11 : 15Enhanced Boom Design, Dispersant StudiesMichel Boufadel, NJIT 11 : 15 — 11 : 40Subsea Dispersant Injection (SSDI), Responder Health & SafetyVictoria Broje, Shell 11 : 40 — 12 : 05DWH Counter-Historical, Significance for ResponseDeborah French-McCay, RPS Ocean ScienceRecording:

Wednesday 5 October, 2022

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
8:15 AM
8:15 AM EDT - 9:30 AM EDT | 1 hour 15 minutes
Presentation

09 : 15 — 09 : 40133- Potential Field Exposures and Aquatic Toxicity to Inform Improvement of Laboratory ProtocolsDeborah French-McCay, RPS Ocean Science 09 : 40 — 10 : 05184- Dose and Duration Make the Poison: Assessing the Latent Effects of Brief Exposures to Single Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds with American Lobster (Homarus Americanus) LarvaeBenjamin de Jourdan, Huntsman Marine Science Centre 

12:15 PM
12:15 PM EDT - 2:20 PM EDT | 2 hours 5 minutes
Presentation

13 : 15 — 13 : 40166- Determining Cultural, Operational and Environmental Windows of Opportunity for Recovering Oil from the Sunken MV Schiedyk in British Columbia, CanadaLee Britton, Environment and Climate Change Canada -NEEC 13 : 40 — 14 : 05680- How Clean Is Clean? - A Case Study of the Deep River Derelict Barge Sunken Oil Spill in Washington StateAlison Meyers, Washington State Department of Ecology

Thursday 6 October, 2022

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
2:40 PM
2:40 PM EDT - 5:10 PM EDT | 2 hours 30 minutes
Presentation

15 : 40 — 16 : 05189- Bridging the Lab to Field Divide: Advancing Oil Spill Biological Effects Models Requires Revisiting Aquatic Toxicity TestingDeborah French-McCay, RPS Ocean Science 16 : 05 — 16 : 30727- CROSERF Revisited: What Have We Learned About Oil Testing?William Stubblefield, Oregon State University 16 : 30 — 16 : 55316- Recommendations for Improving Testing Protocols of St...

Sessions in which Deborah French-McCay attends

Thursday 13 October, 2022

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
10:20 AM
10:20 AM EDT - 12:30 PM EDT | 2 hours 10 minutes
Presentation

10 : 20 — 10 : 30Introduction 10 : 30 — 10 : 50619- Study on the Oil Dewetting Self-Cleaning Performance of Different Structure Surfaces for Crude Oil Pollution Treatment and Crude Oil/Water SeparationTongchang Wang, Zhejiang Ocean University 10 : 50 — 11 : 10177- Natural-Based Sorbent- and Gelator-Type Solidifiers for Oil Spill TreatmentStanislav Stoyanov, Natural Resources Canada

10:20 AM EDT - 12:30 PM EDT | 2 hours 10 minutes
Presentation

10 : 20 — 10 : 30Introduction 10 : 30 — 10 : 50584- A Cut-Cells Approach for Relocatable Downscaling Flows in Coastal Near-ShoreAmina El Kasmi, Environment and Climate, Change Canada 10 : 50 — 11 : 10156- Pore-Scale Simulation of Spontaneous Imbibition in Porous Media with a Bifurcated FractureZhennan He, China University of Petroleum, (East China) 11 : 10 — 11 : 30...

1:00 PM
1:00 PM EDT - 4:10 PM EDT | 3 hours 10 minutes
Presentation

13 : 00 — 13 : 10Introduction 13 : 10 — 13 : 30298- Simultaneous Desorption of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons and Heavy Metal from Contaminated Soils by Rhamnolipid BiosurfactantsLiang Wu, China Offshore Environmental Service Ltd, CNOOC 13 : 30 — 13 : 50340- Numerical Simulation of Benzene Transport in Shoreline Groundwater Affected by Tides under Different ConditionsMahsa Kheirandish

1:00 PM EDT - 4:10 PM EDT | 3 hours 10 minutes
Presentation

13 : 00 — 13 : 10Introduction 13 : 10 — 13 : 30862- Use OF Passive Samplers as a Response Tool to Improve Assessments of Water Quality and Risk to Aquatic Species During the Recent Bligh Island Oil Spill in Nootka Sound, B.C., Canada.Cory Dubetz, Fisheries and Oceans Canada 13 : 30 — 13 : 50669- The P00547 Pipeline Oil Spill Response: Case Study and Lessons Learned/Best Practices for the Future

Friday 14 October, 2022

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
1:10 PM
1:10 PM EDT - 3:00 PM EDT | 1 hour 50 minutes
Presentation

13 : 10 — 13 : 20Introduction 13 : 20 — 13 : 40466- Adsorption Behavior of Oil Droplets Interacting with Suspended Particulate Materials in Marine EnvironmentsZhaowei Wang, Dalian Maritime University 13 : 40 — 14 : 00579-Numerical Simulation of Multiphase Oil Behaviors in Ice-Covered Nearshore WaterMohammadmehdi Raznahan,Concordia University 14 : 00 — 14 : 20...