Dr. Ed Owens has over 50 years of experience in marine and inland oil spill response and training worldwide, and was the Technical Advisor to Exxon USA for the Shoreline Response to the T/V Exxon Valdez, during which he developed the Shoreline Cleanup Assessment Technique (SCAT) concept, and for BP’s shoreline response to the Deepwater Horizon incident. Ed has worked on spill-related inland, river and coastal projects throughout the world and has conducted oil spill related missions for the UN, the IMO, GI-WACAF, the World Bank, EBRD, and was a member of the U.S. National Academy of Science Oil Spill R&D Committee. He has provided oil spill planning and preparedness training worldwide and has authored more than 300 publications on oil spill related topics.