Arctic Research Issues -- Oil Spill Response and the Challenges of Arctic Marine Shipping: An Assessment by the Arctic Council -- Oil Spills in the Arctic: A Review of Three Decades of Research at Environment Canada -- Oil Under Ice Detection: What is the State-of-the-Art? -- Practical and Effective Technologies for Oil Spill Recovery Operations in Arctic Conditions -- In-Situ Burning for Oil Spills in Arctic Waters: State-of-the-Art and Future Research Needs -- Recent Mid-Scale Research on Using Oil Herding Surfactants to Thicken Oil Slicks in Pack Ice for In-Situ Burning -- Weathering of Oil Spills Under Arctic Conditions: Field Experiments with Different Ice Conditions Followed by In-Situ Burning -- Dispersant Effectiveness Experiments Conducted on Alaskan Crude Oils in Very Cold Water at the Ohmsett Facility -- Enhanced Chemical Dispersion Using the Propeller Wash from Response Vessels -- Evaluation of Arctic In-Situ Oil Spill Response Countermeasures -- Oma Formation in Ice-Covered Brackish Waters: Large-Scale Experiments -- Joint Industry Program on Oil Spill in Arctic and Ice Infested Waters: An Overview -- Countermeasures for the Beaufort Transition Season -- Oil Spill Countermeasures -- New Oil Containment Technology: For Fast and Narrow Waters -- Viscous Oil Pumping Technology and Annular Water Lubrication Techniques -- Development of a Strategy for Offshore Use of Dispersants in Norwegian Waters -- French Sea Trials on Chemical Dispersion: DEPOL 04 & 05 -- Dispersant Research in a Specialized Wave Tank: Mimicking the Mixing Energy of Natural Sea States -- Wave Tank Studies on Chemical Dispersant Effectiveness: Dispersed Oil Droplet Size Distribution -- Wave Tank Studies on Formation and Transport of OMA from the Chemically Dispersed Oil -- Biological Effects and Monitoring Habitat Recovery -- Optimal Nutrient Application Strategies for the Bioremediation of Tidally-Influenced Beaches -- Benthos Community Monitoring of A Dumping Area During Liquid Natural Gas Plant Construction -- Oil Fingerprinting and Spill Source Identification -- What Compounds in Crude Oil Cause Chronic Toxicity to Larval Fish? -- Potential Impacts of an Orimulsion Spill on Marine (Atlantic Herring; Clupea harengus) and Estuarine (Mummichog; Fundulus heteroclitus) Fish Species in Atlantic Canada -- Effectiveness of Dispersants for Coastal Habitat Protection as a Function of Types of Oil and Dispersant -- How Clean is Clean?: Development of Monitoring Methods to Determine Environmental and Socially Acceptable End-Points of Clean-Up -- Modelling, Fate and Transport -- Microbial and Abiotic Removal of Ydrocarbon Components in Oil Tanker Ballast Water Processed by the Alyeska Ballast Water Treatment Facility in Port Valdez, Alaska -- Oil Spill Drift and Fate Model -- Modelling of Oil Droplet Kinetics Under Breaking Waves -- The Necessity of Applying Sar Imagery to Oil Spill Modeling in Cases of Data Obfuscation -- Risk Assessment/Contingency Planning/Operational Response/Policy -- Prevention of Oil Spills Caused by Premeditated Negative Influence -- Spillview: A Support to Decision-Making Software in Emergency Response to Marine Oil Spill -- Accidental Marine Pollution in Belgium: The Emergence of Response Strategies -- Dimensioning of Norwegian Oil Spill Preparedness: Focusing on the Arctic North Norway and the Barents Sea -- Regional Citizens' Advisory Councils: Ensuring Safe Transport of Crude Oil in Alaska -- The Role of the Regional Environmental Emergencies Team (REET) in Emergency Response in the Atlantic Region of Canada -- Minimizing Environmental Impact of Oil Spills: Statoil'S R&D Position and Priorities -- Modeling Impacts and Tradeoffs of Dispersant Use on Oil Spills -- Development of Operational Ocean Forecasting Systems and Impact on Oil Plume Drift Calculations -- Emergency Prevention, Preparedness and Response Working Group of the Arctic Council: Recent Marine Environmental Initiatives in the Arctic Council -- The Eastern Mediterranean-Black Sea System with High Oil Spill Risk -- UK: Recent Counter Pollution R&D Activities -- Ice Overview for the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the St. Lawrence River.