It's Oilapalooza Time!

The OWCN is excited to announce Oilapalooza 2024, which will be held in sunny Bakersfield, CA!

This year we will be making the structure of the conference even more interactive and exciting. Day One will be similar to our previous Oilapalooza events, consisting of lectures and other interactive activities. So, what’s different about this year? We will be running a Full-Deployment Drill (FDD) at the OWCN’s newest inland response facility at the California Living Museum (CALM).  

Also, did you know that the OWCN is 30 years old this year? In honor of this milestone, we will be celebrating throughout the event in many different ways, and we can’t wait to observe this with our amazing Network at our evening networking event, which will take place at the Willows at CALM.

Registration information will be available through your Member Organization this summer. We will allocating a certain number of in-person attendance spots to each Member Organization (which will be chosen by the Member Organization contacts). Once those in-person spots are filled, we will offer any additional in-person spaces to individual responders (on a first come, first served basis). More info on this will be shared later this month. Don’t forget, the OWCN Core Webinar Series is a firm prerequisite to attend Oilapalooza. If you have any questions about the event or the Core Webinar prerequisite, please email us at owcn@ucdavis.edu.

What is Oilapalooza? For any of you that have not heard of or attended an Oilapalooza before, this is the OWCN's biennial conference, which is usually held in rotating locations around the state of CA.

*Not an OWCN responder but interested in becoming one? To join the OWCN, you must be at least 18 years of age, and an active staff member or volunteer with one of our 46 Member Organizations.  Click here to view all our Member Orgs!

Thank you all for your continued commitment to the OWCN! We look forward to seeing some of you in October!

Danene