ARA Taps Coolbaugh as Ohmsett Facility Manager
Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA) announced Dr. Tom Coolbaugh has joined the team as the Program/Facility Manager for Ohmsett – The National Oil Spill Response Research & Renewable Energy Test Facility. He will have oversight of the day-to-day operations, maintenance and testing at the facility, while ensuring facility users’ needs are met.Dr. Coolbaugh recently retired after 32 years with ExxonMobil Corporation, most recently as the Technology and Advocacy Advisor in the Emergency Preparedness and Response organization. His focus areas have included oil spill response tools such
Efficient Wave-Generated Power … Really!
;s workbench to utility level performance is neither straight, short or cheap. The SurfWEC platform has already been under development for a dozen years, and Raftery reckons it will be another four to five years to bring it through sea trials.“The next step is to get a scale model tested at the Ohmsett facility in Leonardo, New Jersey, at approximately 15:1 scale,” said Raftery. “We’ll take those performance numbers, then we’ll build a skid platform for the power take-off system, and we will bench test. After that we’ll make adjustments to the designs based on those two
Oil Spill Response Preparedness and Proficiency Comes with Practice
, Ohmsett has offered a hands-on oil spill response curriculum designed to provide response personnel the skills necessary to make quick and informed decisions during an oil spill incident. The next Oil Spill Response Strategies and Tactics Training session will take place May 22-25, 2017 at the Ohmsett facility in Leonardo, N.J. “For the oil spill response technician, this is an important part of their spill response training program and a stepping stone for their career,” stated John Delia, program manager at Ohmsett. “Not only do students receive classroom theory, they
MTR 100: Ohmsett
. It is the largest outdoor saltwater wave/tow tank facility in North America and the only facility where full-scale oil spill response equipment testing, research, and training can be conducted in a marine environment with oil under controlled environmental conditions (waves and types of oil). The Ohmsett facility consists of an above-ground concrete test tank measuring 667 feet long by 65 feet wide by 8 feet deep filled with 2.6 million gallons of crystal clear salt water, conference rooms, maintenance/machine shop, oil/water chemistry laboratory, and offices. The U.S Department of Interior’s
BSEE's Ohmsett Facility Receives US$4-Million Grant
The funds allocated to BSEE will provide for infrastructure resiliency improvements at the bureau's national oil spill response research and renewable energy test facility, Ohmsett, located at Naval Weapons Station Earl in Leonardo, N.J. The Ohmsett facility includes the nation’s largest saltwater tank used for testing oil removal technologies, providing unique research and applied training capabilities. After Hurricane Sandy, BSEE quickly worked to complete a thorough damage assessment of the facility and complete necessary repairs in order to return it to operational status. This project
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