EOS tool for environmental assessments to support oil spill response planning
The EOS tool can support decisions of inclusion of mechanical recovery, in situ burning and chemical dispersants in national oil spill contingency plans. In addition, the results obtained through the EOS tool can be used for establishment of cross-border and trans-boundary co-operation and agreements on oil spill response.
The EOS tool is based on an Excel spreadsheet, with references to explanatory boxes provided in the EOS Handbook.
This EOS tool was developed in Work package 5 of the GRACE project: Strategic Net Environmental Benefit Analysis. During the planning and development phase the tool was known as the sNEBA tool, but the name was changed to EOS tool during the working process.
EOS tool and handbook was published on 1st September 2020 (Aarhus university). The tool has been developed under the EU H2020 GRACE grant no. 679266
The EOS analysis goes through 5 steps for each of the oil spill response methods and for each season
- Gathering basic environmental data and information for the assessment area
- Assessments of basic data and oil spill modelling results
- Scores and indices calculations
- Decision trees for each oil spill response technology
- Interpretation and dissemination of EOS results.
For further information and support refer to:
EOS tool's home page EOS - Environment & Oil Spill Response (Aarhus university) (ecos.au.dk)