October 23-24, 2024 | Bakersfield, CA
Welcome to Oilapalooza, the Oiled Wildlife Care Network's Biennial Spill Response Conference! We look forward to two excellent days of networking, learning, and collaboration.
This year’s programming is designed to provide attendees with opportunities to meet and share experiences with other Network Members, learn about new technologies, enhance individual wildlife response skillsets, and apply those skills during the Full Deployment Drill on Day 2.
Agenda
- 8:00 Registration
- at the Bakersfield Marriott
- 9:00 OWCN Updates
- ❯ Michael Ziccardi, DVM, MPVM, PhD (UC Davis)
- 9:10 OSPR Updates
- ❯ Julie Yamamoto (CDFW-OSPR)
❯ Heather Geldart (CDFW-OSPR) - 9:20 New Member Organization Intro
- ❯ Jenna Stallard (San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance)
- 9:30 KEYNOTE: One Pebble at a Time - Thriving in Crisis Response
- ❯ Tiffany Wentz-Root (Resilient Roots)
- 10:30 BREAK
- 20 minutes
- 10:50 What is the Blob?!? Oiled Wildlife Processgin & the Challenges of Inland Species Identification
- ❯ Moe Flannery (California Academy of Sciences)
❯ Meredith Elliott (Point Blue Conservation Science) - 11:05 Testing the Motus Wildlife Tracking System & a New eBand for Monitoring Post-Spill Survival & Movements of Brown Pelicans
- ❯ Deborah Jaques (Pacific Eco Logic)
- 11:20 Petroleum Fingerprinting: Forensic Chemistry for Oil Spill Investigations
- ❯ Martice Vasquez (CDFW-OSPR)
- 11:35 PANEL DISCUSSION: Look Who's Turning the Big 3-0: Perspectives from OWCN's Past, Present, & Future
- ❯ Danene Birtell (OWCN)
❯ Dave Jessup (UC Davis affiliate)
❯ Julie Yamamoto (CDFW-OSPR)
❯ Michael Ziccardi (UC Davis)
❯ Moderator: Curt Clumpner (UC Davis affiliate) - 12:05 LUNCH
- includes yoga session led by Doris Duncan
- 1:00 Setting Up a Response in Remote Regions
- ❯ Jenny Schlieps (Focus Wildlife)
- 1:15 The Tulare Lake Response: Botulism in Aquatic Birds
- ❯ Lorraine Barbosa (OWCN)
- 1:30 PANEL DISCUSSION: HPAI from Panic to Protocol
- ❯ Jamie Sherman (OWCN)
❯ Becky Duerr (International Bird Rescue)
❯ Victoria Hall (OWCN)
❯ Moderator: Samantha Christie (OWCN) - 2:00 OWRMD 3.0: What is New?
- ❯ Devin Dombrowski (Wild Neighbors Database Project)
- 2:15 BREAK
- 15 minutes
- 2:30 PANEL DISCUSSION: The Art of Thinking Independently Together - A DEIA Panel
- ❯ Kiana Tsao (The Marine Mammal Center)
❯ Brett Long (Aquarium of the Pacific)
❯ Jenn Martines (International Bird Rescue)
❯ Francesca Batac (CDFW-OSPR)
❯ Moderator: Liz Montenegro (International Bird Rescue) - 3:00 Presentation of Certificates
- 15 minutes
- 3:15 Concluding Remarks & Drill Briefing
- ❯ Michael Ziccardi (UC Davis)
- 6:00 RECEPTION + RAFFLE
- at the California Living Museum