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.
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Sessions in which Deborah French-McCay participates
- ITAC Session The Westin Nova Scotian - Commonwealth
- 9:50 AM EDT - 11:05 AM EDT | 1 hour 15 minutes
- 10 : 50 — 11 : 15Enhanced Boom Design, Dispersant StudiesMichel Boufadel, NJIT 11 : 15 — 11 : ...
- Toxicology The Westin Nova Scotian - Elements
- 8:15 AM EDT - 9:30 AM EDT | 1 hour 15 minutes
- 09 : 15 — 09 : 40133- Potential Field Exposures and Aquatic Toxicity to Inform Improvement of Laboratory ProtocolsDeborah ...
- Case Studies 1 The Westin Nova Scotian - Commonwealth
- 12:15 PM EDT - 2:20 PM EDT | 2 hours 5 minutes
- 13 : 15 — 13 : 40166- Determining Cultural, Operational and Environmental Windows of Opportunity for Recovering Oil from the Sunken MV Sc...
- CROSERF The Westin Nova Scotian - Elements
- 2:40 PM EDT - 5:10 PM EDT | 2 hours 30 minutes
- 15 : 40 — 16 : 05189- Bridging the Lab to Field Divide: Advancing Oil Spill Biological Effects Models Requires Revisiting Aquatic Toxicit...
Sessions in which Deborah French-McCay attends
- Response Technologies and Countermeasures 1
- 10:20 AM EDT - 12:30 PM EDT | 2 hours 10 minutes
- 10 : 20 — 10 : 30Introduction 10 : 30 — 10 : 50619- Study on the Oil Dewetting Self-Cleaning Performance of Dif...
- Modeling
- 10:20 AM EDT - 12:30 PM EDT | 2 hours 10 minutes
- 10 : 20 — 10 : 30Introduction 10 : 30 — 10 : 50584- A Cut-Cells Approach for Relocatable Downscaling Flows in C...
- Coastal, Inland and Freshwater
- 1:00 PM EDT - 4:10 PM EDT | 3 hours 10 minutes
- 13 : 00 — 13 : 10Introduction 13 : 10 — 13 : 30298- Simultaneous Desorption of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons...
- Case Studies
- 1:00 PM EDT - 4:10 PM EDT | 3 hours 10 minutes
- 13 : 00 — 13 : 10Introduction 13 : 10 — 13 : 30862- Use OF Passive Samplers as a Response Tool to Improve Asses...
- Breakdown and Transport of Hydrocarbons
- 1:10 PM EDT - 3:00 PM EDT | 1 hour 50 minutes
- 13 : 10 — 13 : 20Introduction 13 : 20 — 13 : 40466- Adsorption Behavior of Oil Droplets Interacting with Suspen...