TRB’s Marine Board is seeking nominations for new members to be appointed to three-year terms that would commence on November 1, 2013.  The  Marine Board serves the nation and its sponsoring federal agencies by initiating, and responding to requests for, evaluations and advice concerning the nation's capability to accomplish its marine and maritime objectives.  Members serve with...

Effective November 1, 2012, Elmer (Bud) Danenberger, the retired chief for Offshore Regulatory Programs at the former Minerals Management Service, U.S. Department of the Interior; Jeanne M. Grasso, Esq., Partner, Blank Rome, Washington, D.C.; and Dr. Karlene H. Roberts, Professor Emeritus, Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, were appointed to 3-year terms on T...

TRB’s Marine Board will hold its 2011 fall meeting on September 7-9, 2011, in Anchorage, Alaska. The meeting theme is "Maritime Commerce in a Changing Arctic." Open sessions on September 7-8 will address international initiatives in the Arctic and the U.S. role; offshore oil and gas development in the U.S. Arctic; commercial shipping and tourism in the Arctic; and initiatives relating to A...

Presentations from the Joint Harbor Safety Committee (HSC) and Area Maritime Security Committees Conference (AMSCs), held on June 7-9, 2011, in Houston, Texas, are now available online. The combined event provided an opportunity for the committees to engage in information exchange on current challenges, best practices, case studies, and lessons learned. The conference offered the...

TRB is sponsored the Transportation Hazards and Security Summit and Workshop 2010: Focus on Implementation on August 23-26, 2010, in Irvine, California. The summit provided an opportunity for individuals to provide input on a three-year security and emergency management research implementation plan produced as part of a National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) project. The plan is ...

TRB is cosponsoring the Joint Harbor Safety Committee (HSC) and Area Maritime Security Committees Conference (AMSCs) on June 7-9, 2011, in Houston, Texas. The combined event provides an opportunity for the committees to engage in information exchange on current challenges, best practices, case studies, and lessons learned. The conference offers the opportunity for the committees to engage ...

TRB's 2010 Joint Summer Meeting included a two-day Multimodal Freight Corridor and Waterways track that focused on integration of water transportation into the national transportation system and integrative multimodal freight corridor planning at the state and regional level. Presentations from the track are available online .

TRB cosponsored the conference on Transforming the Marine Transportation System: A Vision for Research and Development on June 29 - July 1, 2010, in Irvine, California. The conference explored progress in scientific and technical solutions to challenges in the areas of marine transportation and waterway management; examined potential research and technology needs in the MTS; and helped fos...

TRB cosponsored the first joint conference of the nation’s Harbor Safety Committees (HSCs) and Area Maritime Security Committees (AMSCs) on June 8-10, 2010, in Jersey City, New Jersey. The combined what has previously been two separate events that provided an opportunity for the committees to engage in information exchange on current challenges, best practices, case studies, and lessons learned...

The Marine Board held its 2010 Spring Meeting May 17-18, 2010, in Norfolk, VA at the Virginia Port Authority. The meeting was hosted by Jerry Bridges, Executive Director of the Virginia Port Authority. Issues covered at the meeting included: offshore platform safety and the current situation in the Gulf; a vision & strategy for the Arctic; port security; ship design innovations; offshore wi...

TRB sponsored the Offshore Wind Energy Workshop  from a March 25-26, 2010, in Washington, D.C. The workshop focused on hazards associated with offshore wind facilities, and on design and operational options for turbines, blades, towers, sub-structures, foundations, and electrical connections to the grid. The workshop highlighted processes and procedures that can be used within th...

The Marine Board held its 2009 Fall Meeting on November 16-17, 2009, in Washington, DC. Issues covered at the meeting included expanded commercial shipping activity in the Arctic, port resiliency, offshore energy installations, the economic significance of navigation, ship propulsion loss, hazardous cargoes on water, maritime incident reporting systems, the role of visual aids to navigation in ...

TRB is cosponsoring a symposium on Climate Change and Ships: Increased Energy Efficiency on February 16-17, 2010, in Linthicum Heights, Maryland. The symposium is designed to explore greenhouse gases and the energy efficiency design index, technical and operations measures to increase energy efficiency, and maritime economics and market-based mechanisms.

September 2008: Marine Board Appoints Seven New Members Effective November 1, 2008, seven (7) new members will join the Marine Board, filling slots vacated by members who have served two 3-year terms. At the same time, RADM Malcolm MacKinnon III (USN Ret.) and NAE member will begin a 2-year term as Marine Board Chair and Dr. Michael S. Bruno , Dean of the Charles V. Schaefer, Jr. School of Eng...

September 2008: Maritime Disaster Workshop: Response to and Recovery from Channel Closures at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach On September 4-5, 2008, the Marine Board hosted a Maritime Disaster Workshop: Response to and Recovery from Channel Closures at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach at the Beckman Center in Irvine, CA. At this workshop, a scenario focused on the shutdown of t...

September 2008: Harbor Safety Committee (HSC) Conference Updates The summary proceedings from the 2008 Harbor Safety Committee Conference held in Seattle, Washington in May 2008 is now available. Planning is underway for the 2009 HSC Conference , scheduled to be held in Tampa, FL on May 27-29, 2009.

August 2008: Maritime Disaster Workshop The Marine Board, at the request of the Supervisor of Salvage and Diving of the Naval Sea Systems Command, is hosting a workshop relating to the nation's marine salvage assets and response capabilities, with a specific focus on a scenario involving an incident that shuts down the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. It is a follow-on to an earlier worksh...

July 2008 Great Lakes Shipping, Trade, and Aquatic Invasive Species The pre-publication version of TRB Special Report 291: Great Lakes Shipping, Trade, and Aquatic Invasive Species has been released. The report reviews existing research and efforts to date to reduce aquatic invasive species introductions into the Great Lakes and identifies ways that these efforts could be strengthened toward a...

July 2008: Risk of Vessel Accidents and Spills in the Aleutian Islands: Designing a Comprehensive Risk Assessment The prepublication version of  TRB Special Report 293, Risk of Vessel Accidents and Spills in the Aleutian Islands: Designing a Comprehensive Risk Assessment has been released. The report provides guidance for a comprehensive risk assessment of vessel accidents and spills in t...

June 2008: TRB Summer Conference The 33rd Annual TRB Summer Ports, Waterways, Freight & International Trade Conference was held in Baltimore, Maryland on June 18-20. The overall theme of the conference, held in conjunction with TRB’s Joint Summer Meeting, was the Impact of Globalization on Transportation. Selected presentations from the conference are now posted to the TRB calendar website.

June 2008: Marine Board Fall Meeting The Marine Board’s 2008 Fall Meeting will be held at the National Academies Keck Center in Washington, D.C. on November 19-21, 2008. At this meeting, the Board will welcome new members and offer appreciation to outgoing members. The Board had a record number of nominations for its 2008 membership rotations. Final selections will be announced in July.

June 2008: Former Marine Board Chair Honored by TRB Dr. Geraldine Knatz, Executive Director of the Port of Los Angeles and past Chair of the Marine Board has been honored by the Transportation Research Board as the Deen Distinguished Lecturer for 2009. Dr. Knatz will deliver her lecture on Tuesday, January 13, 2009 during TRB’s 88th Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. Dr. Knatz was also promine...

May 2008: Marine Board Spring Meeting The Marine Board held its Spring Meeting at the Tulsa Port of Catoosa, where Board member Bob Portiss, Executive Director of the Port, planned an informative and most enjoyable program that included a focus session on the importance of the McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River navigation system to the nation. The session featured presentations from ports, carriers...

May 2008: 9th Annual Harbor Safety Committee Conference The Marine Board and TRB again co-sponsored the Annual HSC Conference, held in Seattle, Washington on May 12-14, 2008. The conference theme of “Plan – Prevent – Protect – Recover” included a full schedule of sessions on current challenges, best practices, case, studies, and lessons learned and included a Keynote Address from former Marine...

April 2008: New Marine Board Committee The Committee for U.S. Marine Salvage Assets and Capabilities: A Workshop was appointed in April to plan and conduct a public workshop that will examine the legal, regulatory, economic, transportation, and political issues likely to pose hurdles to an effective and timely marine salvage response to a major marine disaster affecting the Ports of Los Angele...

January 2008: Call for Nominations The Marine Board is seeking nominations for new members to be appointed to 3-year terms that would commence on 1 November 2008. There will be up to six (6) vacancies on the Board in 2008 and there is particular interest in candidates with expertise in the following areas: Human Factors and Marine Safety, Inland Waterways, Marine Environment and Policy, Mariti...

TRB’s Marine Board held its 2007 Fall Meeting in Washington, D.C., on November 7-9, 2007.  Issues explored during the meeting included the Aleutian Islands Risk Assessment study, the U.S. Coast Guard’s safety and environmental mission, renewable ocean energy, and more.  Links to select presentations made during the meeting are available online.

November 2007: New Members Appointed to Marine Board On November 1, 2007, two new members joined the Marine Board for a 3-year term: Michael S. Bruno is Dean of the Charles V. Schaefer, Jr. School of Engineering and Director of the Center for Maritime Systems and the Davidson Laboratory at the Stevens Institute of Technology. He currently teaches courses in coastal engineering, design of coast...

November 2007: Marine Board Fall Meeting The Marine Board held its 2007 Fall Meeting in Washington, D.C. on November 7-9, 2007. Members and guests discussed a number of projects underway or in development, including the Aleutian Islands RIsk Assessment study being carried out by a committee that held its initial meeting in Anchorage and Dutch Harbor, Alaska in late October. There were presenta...

July 2007: The US Coast Guard released the summer 2007 edition of the Proceedings of the Marine Safety & Security Council . The focus of this edition is waterways management and it includes an article on the Marine Board, found on pp. 23-26.

June 2007: Marine Board 2007 Spring Meeting The Marine Board held its 2007 Spring Meeting in Portland, Maine on May 30 - June 1. Topics covered in the business meeting included risk assessment, national maritime salvage policy, marine resources in response recovery, short sea shipping, aids to navigation, safety management in offshore operations, and alternative energy. The Board identified 16...

March 2007: 9th Annual Harbor Safety Committee Conference The Marine Board and the Marine Group committees of TRB are co-sponsors of the 9th Annual Harbor Safety Committee Conference to be held in Chicago, IL on May 9-11, 2007. Marine Board member Bob North is among the scheduled speakers at this event.

March 2007: Polar Icebreaker Study Available The final report Polar Icebreakers in a Changing World: An Assessment of U.S. Needs, a USCG-funded study prepared by a committee of the Polar Research Board and the Marine Board, is now available from National Academies Press. Marine Board members Ron Kiss, Bob North and past member Steve Scalzo, all served on the study committee.

February 2007 Former Marine Board Member Honored Billy L. Edge, former Marine Board member and head of the Coastal and Ocean Division in the Zachry Department of Civil Engineering at Texas A&M University, received the Outstanding Civilian Service Medal for his work on ASCE's External Review Panel. The ERP peer-reviewed the work of the Interagency Performance Evaluation Task Force, which as...

November 2006: Marine Board 2006 Fall Meeting The Marine Board held its 2006 Fall Meeting in Washington, D.C. on November 29-30 at the National Academy of Sciences of Building. Links to presentations by Board members and invited guests are now available. For additional information, please contact Brie Schwartz .

October 2006: Four New Members Appointed to Marine Board On November 1, 2006, four new members will join the Marine Board: John Headland is a Senior Vice President responsible for Moffatt & Nichol (M&N) Engineers’ northeastern operations. For over 26 years, he has specialized in the planning/design of port and waterfront infrastructure projects. William E. (Will) Jenkins is a senior ex...

September 2006: Marine Board members organized a session for the California & The World Ocean '06 Conference held in Long Beach, CA in mid-September. The title of the session was "The Nation’s Maritime Industries: A Glorious Past, An Uncertain Future" and was moderated by Board member Jerry Schubel . There were presentations by current Marine Board chair Geraldine Knatz , past Marine Board...

September 2006: Polar Icebreakers in a Changing World: An Assessment of U.S. Needs The Polar Research Board, part of the National Academies’ Division on Earth and Life Studies (DELS), and the Marine Board, part of the Academies’ Transportation Research Board, have released a report that explores the current and future needs for icebreaking ship capabilities of the United States. The Committee ...

July 2006: Marine Board 2005 Report The Marine Board's 2005 Annual Report describes the organization, membership, and program scope of TRB’s Marine Board, which provides a forum for the exchange of information relating to maritime transportation and related economic, environmental, and technology issues in a broader context. The report also highlights recent activities and publications of the ...

June 2006: Conference Proceedings The Eighth Annual Harbor Safety Committee Conference Proceedings are now online.