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have oered to assist in this project as authors or reviewers. A strict peer review process is being followed in developing the guides. Phase II?guide development still has roles available and is seeking contributors. This project was recently awarded $43,000 from SNAME to augment the hun- dreds of man-hours anticipated. EC-11: Green House Gases In February 2010, SNAME and the Marine Board of the National Academies Transportation Research Board convened a symposium entitled Climate Change and Ships: Increasing Energy Eciency.? A major recommendation of the sympo- sium was to conduct an analysis of the marginal abatement costs for vessel own- ers and operators to employ technologies or operational measures to increase a ves- sels energy eciency and reduce its CO2 emissions.? A T&R ad hoc panel was estab- lished to conduct a study and report on its ndings to the IMO, and this was done in the report Marginal Abatement Costs and Cost-Eectiveness of Energy-Eciency Measures (versions of which were delivered to IMOs Marine Environmental Protection Committee MEPC 62 INF.7. Another recom- mendation of the symposium and ad hoc panel was to study IMOs then-proposed Energy Eciency Design Index (EEDI) and report its ndings to IMO. All of these papers were well received at IMO. In particular, the chair of IMOs MEPC 62, Andreas Chrysostomou of Cyprus, spe- cically mentioned the marginal abatement cost-eective papers in plenary session of the Marine Environmental Protection Committee in London in July 2011, and cited them as excellent guidance on regu- lating and reducing marine greenhouse gas emissions. In addition, David St. Amand presented the ndings at MEPC 62 in a well- attended technical session. e ad hoc panels were dissolved and merged into one standing environmen- tal engineering committee panel, EC-11. e mission and work plan of the panel is evolving, and will build and expand on earlier work. In particular, the panel will update the technology and opera- tional measures assessment of energy eciency measures by evaluating/veri- fying where possible the manufacturers representations of both costs and expected energy-efficiency improvements and in turn, evaluating corresponding barriers to implementation of measures. e panel also plans to examine black carbon, a short-term forcer? of climate change that is estimated to constitute from 5 to 15% of shipping particulate emissions. e panel is seeking funding for this work. e panel chair is Dave St. Amand of Navigistics. EC-12: Ocean Renewable Energy The mission of the Ocean Renewable Energy (ORE) panel is to support the ORE industries in regards to SNAMEs expertise in ocean engineering tech- nology and to ensure that SNAMEs technical resources are made avail- able to this industry. Activities include: organizing ORE technical symposia; encouraging development of technical bulletins and especially compilations of SNAME papers; reaching out to the pub- lic, press, NGOs, and policy makers to provide accurate technical information; and participating on applicable stan- dards making committees and similar organizations. e panel chair is Chris Barry. MTBruce A. Russell is director of JS&A Environmental Ser- vices, Inc., and chair of SNAMEs T&R Environmental Engineering Committee. October 2011 www.sname.org/sname/mt For the OPAS to function properly, a sound and responsive shipboard and company management structure must be in place as well.