Dr. Gerald Graham is the President of Worldocean Consulting Ltd, a Canadian company specialising in marine oil spill prevention and response planning. Currently Gerald and his firm are providing advice to an ENGO and a consortium of First Nations bands on the environmental assessment of Enbridge's Northern Gateway project by the NEB. We are tasked with reviewing the marine oil spill prevention and response aspects of the application for our clients.
Here is a link to a video clip of a TV interview Gerald did April 30, 2010 on the Discovery Channel's Daily Planet show, on the subject of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico: http://watch.discoverychannel.ca/daily-planet/april-2010/daily-planet---april-30-2010/#clip297051. Here's a link to a radio interview I did May 3, 2010 with WBT Charlotte, NC on the same topic: http://www.wbt.com/goodmorning/archive/detail.aspx?BlogEntryID=10111162. Here's another link, this one to an interview I did on CBC Radio's BC Almanac program, on the Gulf spill from a BC perspective: http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/bcalmanac_20100503_31739.mp3. Gerald has a long history of involvement in the marine environmental field, and has traveled extensively on BC's North Coast ( including a week spent on Gil Island ), Haida Gwaii and elsewhere. His work has taken him all over Canada, including the Arctic. He has also worked extensively in Europe ( where he lived for more than six years and where he was a Visiting Scholar at Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge University ), in Africa ( where he has made seven trips to a total of eleven coastal countries ), and in Latin America. He has taught at Canadian and American universities, and published widely. In terms of his technical accreditations, Gerald is a Canadian Coast Guard-trained On Scene Commander for oil spill response, which means that he is trained to direct the response to a major marine oil or gas incident, such as a tanker casualty or offshore blowout. As examples of his professional experience, Gerald was Principal Consultant on a program review of the entire federal EARP process, served as a Technical Expert to a public review panel, has been commissioned to write submissions to various other panels , including the SETAC panel which reviewed the issue of Victoria sewage. His SETAC report, entitled "Is Victoria Sewage Contaminating Southern Resident Killer Whales?" can be downloaded from the folllowing link: http://www.racerocks.com/racerock/marmam/whale/L51orca/GG_SETAC_Submission_FINAL.pdf
He was also seconded as a full-time, in-house Consultant to the Public Review Panel on Tanker Safety and Marine Spills Response Capability, the so-called Brander-Smith panel. In addition, Gerald has worked for the House of Commons on marine, energy and environmental policy issues, for the Government of Canada on Arctic offshore oil and gas policy, and for the Royal Commission on the Sealing Industry. Both his Masters ( International Affairs, Carleton University ) and Ph. D. ( International Affairs, Graduate Institute, Geneva ) theses are on the marine environment. His client list includes DFO, EC, EA and CIDA in Canada, and The World Bank, FAO, OECD, EU , IOC and GTZ abroad.
Gerald delivered a public lecture on the threat of marine oil spills in the Queen Charlotte Basin at Vancouver Island University in Nanaimo, B. C. on January 27, 2010. Cleick here for details: http://web.viu.ca/simmsw/Lecture2010/3.%20Graham/3.Graham.pdf. For a radio interview he did in preparation for his talk, click on the "CHLY 101.7 FM Interview" sidebar in the upper left hand portion of this page. Arrange to meet us at our booth at the International Oil Spill Conference ( http://iosc.org/) in Portland, Oregon, USA, May 23-26, 2011.
See his professional profile on Ocean Expert: http://www.oceanexpert.net/viewMemberRecord.php?&memberID=18129
as well as Zoominfo: http://www.zoominfo.com/MyAccount/ProfessionalSummary.aspx. We are also registered with www.linkedin.com
. For information regarding our services, contact us at our worldoceanconsulting@live.com. Follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/GeraldFGraham. Check out our Marine Oil Spills blog at http://marineoilspill.blogspot.com/; like our Twitter site, it contains up to date information and analysis of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Give us a call on Skype: http://www.skype.com/. Our Skype Name is geraldgraham. Read from ann extensive selection of Gerald's publications on Scribd at www.scribd.com/WorldoceanConsulting.
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