e-Response Scenario

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e-Response Scenario

• http//i-rescue.org/e-response

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Scenario

• A tanker en route to Fawley oil refinery near
  Southampton has run aground its hull has been
  holed and oil has begun leaking into The Solent.
• This threatens the Fawley salt marshes (a Site of
  Special Scientific Interest that is home to 22
  species of birds), the fragile ecology of the
  Isle of Wight and the freshwater inlets of
  Southampton Water.

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e-Response

• To respond to this emergency, the three members
  of the e-Response executive team meet.
• Together the members of this team possess a good
  general scientific background, and have
  specialist contacts in a number of fields of
  expertise.
• Their initial task (in Meeting 1) is to construct
  a response team of relevant scientific experts,
  and with their help generate some initial
  response options.
• Each expert will then be actioned to analyse
  these options according to their own specialism
  and report back at Meeting 2 (to take place the
  following day), during which a concrete response
  plan will be formulated.

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e-ResponseMeeting 1 Executive Meeting

• The team sets about constructing an emergency
  response scientific advisory group (ER-SAG) that
  will formulate an appropriate response by using
• Conventional videoconferencing tools (the audio
  and video of meeting is being recorded for later
  playback.)
• I-X (with an appropriate set of SOPs downloaded
  from the e-Response web-site) to provide a plan
  for the initial communications set-up a plan for
  the team-building activity itself and to
  record action items.
• Compendium to record the argumentation primarily
  this concerns identifying the (possibly) relevant
  areas of expertise and nominating experts in
  these fields, and then exploring the initial
  response options.
• BuddySpace is used to contact the on-line
  nominated experts and they are patched into the
  meeting however, one expert, a specialist in the
  ecology of Southampton Water, is currently
  unavailable (he will be given access to the
  records of this meeting and invited to the next
  one).
• (A call to the 3Store is able to furnish some
  likely additional experts in fields where the
  team members have no contacts.)

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e-ResponseMeeting 2 Expert Meeting

• The nominated experts (in several different
  locations) meet to formulate a response
• Using I-X and meeting SOPs the experts begin to
  formulate a response to the emergency the
  arguments are captured by Compendium one member
  of the executive is now at Fawley and uses
  BuddySpace to provide information about the
  current state of the spill and weather
  conditions, etc. and, again, the meeting is
  being recorded.
• The expert Ecologist (who has used Compendium and
  Replay to review the relevant sections of meeting
  1) questions the assumptions underlying one of
  the original options, and proposes an
  alternative.
• A decision is made and a plan of action is
  formulated this is transferred to the I-X panels
  of the executive, who then begin to implement it.