Additional VFOB Trainings Scheduled

Published on June 28, 2010

Thank you for your continued interest in volunteering with the Deepwater Horizon Oil Response. Although volunteers will not be deployed to conduct clean-up activities on oil-impacted shorelines or with oil-impacted wildlife, citizens do have a critical role to play in the response effort.  

Alabama Coastal Foundation and Mobile Baykeeper, in conjunction with the Coalition of Active Stakeholders Team (COAST), have developed a Volunteer Field Observer Program to assess Alabama’s shoreline for pre and post impact observations. Trained volunteers will help identify protective measures and areas needing clean-up to provide valuable information to responders who may not be able to fully collect data across a wide geographic area. The information you will provide as a Volunteer Field Observer (VFOB) is not only valuable to the Deepwater Horizon spill response but to people in other regions who, when faced with a similar event, can learn from our successes and failures here on the Gulf Coast.

We have now trained close to 200 volunteer field observers to monitor Alabama’s shoreline.  We know you join the COAST team in thanking these volunteers who are giving their time and energy to protecting our shoreline.  Additional Volunteer Field Observer Trainings will take place on Thursday, June 24th from 9:00 - 10:30 am; Tuesday, June 29th from 3:00 - 4:30 pm; and Thursday, July 1 from 6:00 - 7:30 pm.  All trainings will take place at 5 N Jackson street in Downtown Mobile.  Please register by emailing saveourgulf@mobilebaykeeper.org to reserve a space.

Additional volunteer opportunity:

We are in still in need of volunteers to staff the COAST office (5 North Jackson St. in downtown Mobile, AL) each weekday to help collect field observer data and check out equipment. We anticipate needing at least 2 volunteers Monday through Friday during the following times: 9am-11am and 4pm-7pm. If you can volunteer to take a shift (or two!), please contact Katherine Barnes at kbarnes@joinacf.org to schedule your shift.

Thanks again for your willingness to assist in the response effort.  We will keep you posted with more information as it becomes available.  

Alabama Coastal Foundation

Mobile Baykeeper

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