Captain Trey Wirth (he/him/his) currently oversees the Office of Marine Environmental Response Policy at Coast Guard Headquarters in Washington, DC. He leads a team that administers, develops, and maintains the Coast Guard's marine environmental response program and provides guidance to operational field units. He also serves as the Vice Chair for the National Response Team and Chairs the Interagency Coordinating Committee on Oil Pollution Research.

Previously, he was the Deputy Sector Commander at Sector North Carolina, where he served as the Alternate Captain of the Port, Officer-in-Charge Marine Inspection, Federal Maritime Security Coordinator, and Federal On-Scene Coordinator for the state of North Carolina.

Prior to this, Captain Wirth served as the Sector North Carolina Response Department Head, where he was responsible for command and control activities associated with Search and Rescue (SAR), Ports, Waterways, and Coastal Security, Marine Environmental Protection, Incident Management, and Law Enforcement in the navigable waters of the State of North Carolina. H served at the Operations Section Chief for both hurricanes FLORENCE and DORIAN, where he oversaw the pre-staging of response assets, directed rescue resources, and facilitated the restoration of the Sector's field units to normal operations following the catastrophic storms.

Captain Wirth has served in the U.S. Coast Guard for over 22 years, spending the majority of his career in high optempo All-Hazard incident management and crisis management roles. He is a NIMS ICS Type 1 Operations Section Chief, Type 2 Planning Section Chief, and Type 3 Incident Commander. His other major operational responses include: September 11, 2001 attack on the Pentagon, Baltimore Tunnel Fire of 2001, Hurricane Isabel in 2003, BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, Super Storm SANDY, Paulsboro, NJ Train Derailment, two DoD helicopter crashes in Honolulu, HI, and Hurricane MARIA as the Deputy Planning Section Chief at the Area Command level.

Captain Wirth is a native of Schnecksville, Pennsylvania and has three children, Austie, Colbie, and Crosby.

Personal Biography - Bob Dundas
A.S. Geology - Casper College
B.S. Geology - Utah State University
Registered Professional Geologist - State of Wyoming
Bob has over 35 years of diverse experience working in the oil and gas, regulatory and environmental fields. For the past 23 years he has worked for the True companies a family owned group of businesses serving the oil and gas, pipeline, trucking and agriculture sectors. As Environmental Coordinator he has responsibility for all environmental related matters including air permitting, spill reporting and response, planning and preparedness, regulatory interpretation and compliance, remediation, stormwater construction, SPCC and preparation of miscellaneous environmental related permits. Bob serves as the environmental regulatory liaison with multiple local state and federal agencies. He has also served as the Environmental Unit Leader on two major oil spills.

TJ Engstrom presently works as Director of Emergency Services for SET Environmental.  TJ has held a multitude of roles supporting domestic and international corporate preparedness and response, compliance, and business development.  Currently TJ is responsible for SET's Preparedness Programs, which includes emergency event management, OSRO compliance and strategic response partnerships.  TJ has a B.S. from Montana State University-Department of Engineering, and 19 years of professional experience in Emergency Response Management within the Public and Private Sector.

I born and raised in Anaconda, MT and grew up fly fishing the states blue ribbon trout streams. I graduated from Montana Tech in Butte with bachelor degree in Environmental Engineering. I have over 17 years of experience in environmental consulting, compliance, and emergency response. I live in Helena, MT with my wife and two kids and we enjoy fishing, hunting and spending time outdoors.

Oil Team Leader and On-Scene Coordinator, U.S. EPA Region 6, Superfund Dvision

Chris Ruhl began his career at EPA as a compliance inspector in Region 6. He has conducted and overseen hundreds of compliance inspections throughout the years. He now oversees the cleanup of oil spills and implements the region's oil spill prevention program within the Emergency Response group.

Aaryn Jones serves as the Emerging Contaminants Coordinator for EPA Region 4 in Atlanta, GA. In this capacity, she advises senior leadership and leads stakeholder engagement on emerging contaminant issues. She is the regional point of contact for multimedia PFAS issues and leads a Regional PFAS workgroup.

Aaryn has been with EPA Region 4 for 15 years and most recently served as the Special Assistant to the Regional Administrator. Prior to that, she served as a physical scientist and enforcement officer in Region 4, working directly with states, tribes, local governments, nonprofit organizations, and regulated entities on Underground Storage Tank enforcement and corrective action, Brownfields project management, and RCRA hazardous waste enforcement and corrective action.

Prior to coming to EPA, she obtained her BS in Chemistry and MS in Analytical Chemistry from East Carolina University, and an MS in Environmental Chemistry from the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University. Her educational and research background has included novel green chemistry analytical method development, studying environmental fate, transport, and treatment of persistent halogenated contaminants in soil and groundwater, and fluoropolymer chemistry.

AnnieLu DeWitt is the National Product Line Director for the Emerging Contaminant and Water Treatment Program for the Clean Harbors Environmental Services group. AnnieLu brings her 25 years of experience in the environmental laboratory and remediation fields to Clean Harbors to assist clients in interpreting their analytical results to evaluate their options for treatment utilizing varied medias and pre-treatment equipment to achieve project objectives. Having worked as a GC/MS and also most recently as a LC-MS/MS chemist for PFAS compounds she believes in the importance of evaluating the project as a whole, from suggesting the most valuable testing methods at the beginning of the project that help determine the best treatment trains and medias for complex waste streams to informing clients on their options for final deposition of their spent media and solids. AnnieLu DeWitt holds a BS in Chemistry-Geology from Bridgewater State University.

Mr. Joel Block has worked for over 10 years in the oil and gas industry in Canada. He has held a variety of Emergency Management and Environmental positions with oil and gas companies and private consulting firms. He has worked extensively in all areas of spill response management and planning.

Mr. Stageberg has a B.S. Degree in Meteorology from St. Cloud State University with a focus on Meteorological modeling and Synoptic forecasting. Mr. Stageberg also has a M.S. in Geography from Michigan State University specializing in Wildland Fire Meteorology. He is also one of the lead contacts for Business Intelligence and Data Management at Antea Group.

Mr. Merritt has served as a Federal On-Scene Coordinator in the Emergency Response Unit for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 8 in Denver, CO for the past 7 years. During this time he has managed numerous oil spill removal actions and directed several responses to hazardous materials incidents using the authority of the National Oil and Hazardous Substances Contingency Plan. Mr. Merritt actively contributes to the work of the EPA Region 8 Oil Team, conducting unannounced oil spill response exercises and inspecting dozens of bulk petroleum storage facilities subject to the Facility Response Plan Rule . He was also the EPA incident commander during both the Red Butte Creek Oil Spill in Salt Lake City, UT and the Silvertip Pipeline Oil Spill in Billings, MT. Since these incidents and in response to the explosive growth of oil and gas exploration and production within the Bakken and Niobrara formations, he has worked extensively with first responders and industry partners to develop geographic oil spill contingency plans and conduct oil spill response training exercises to enhance preparedness for future oil spills in the region.

Prior to joining EPA, Mr. Merritt worked with Ecology and Environment, Inc. for 4 years as an emergency response technical adviser to EPA Region 10 in Seattle, Washington. His career began in the U.S. Army, where he trained and equipped units to counter the threats posed by chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) weapons as a CBRN Staff Officer, Platoon Leader, and Company Commander in South Korea, Washington, and Iraq. His educational background includes a Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Chemistry from the Colorado School of Mines and a Master of Health Physics degree in Radiation Health Physics from Oregon State University. He recently became a Certified Industrial Hygienist and is currently pursuing a commission as an Environmental Health Officer in the U.S. Public Health Service. He is a Colorado native and a resident of Colorado Springs, where he lives with his wife, Shannon, and three children.

Brian Meier is a Senior Exercise and Response Advisor for The Response Group (TRG). Based in the Greater Seattle Area, he has been representing TRG and its clients in the Pacific Northwest since 2019. During the pandemic, he responded to six actual incidents, and facilitated or participated in twenty-four exercises. Brian served 27 years in the US Coast Guard, where his career areas of emphasis included pollution response, law enforcement, search and rescue, crisis management, and human performance technology. He is a Qualified Type I Incident Commander and is currently a Master Exercise Practitioner Candidate. He has earned a MS in Environmental Health from the University of Cincinnati and a BS in Marine & Environmental Science from the US Coast Guard Academy.

I oversee the safe development and operation of pipeline related activities on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, which lies in the heart of the Bakken oil field. By developing our own standards we have significantly reduced pipeline release volumes and established one, if not the best, pipeline programs in the Nation.

My background includes over 35 years of Operational and Emergency Response experience. Both as a Hazardous Materials Instructor and as an Operations Technician, my views are that of prepare for the unexpected and being proactive.

Bradley is an experienced program director with a demonstrated history of working in the environmental engineering industry. With strong program and project management professional with a Bachelor focused in Water Resources Engineering from University of Guelph, Bradley is the leader of the USA GHD FIRST Emergency Spill Response Team which provides emergency response and preparedness services throughout North America for insurance clients, trucking clients, and class I railroad clients, among others. Bradley focus is on developing key client relationships and delivering exceptional service and leads multiple multidisciplinary team of professionals with extensive spill response and preparedness experience. Bradley has significant experience managing environmental due diligence projects, site remediation, risk assessment and toxicology, industrial hygiene and air monitoring, storm water and wastewater, wildlife management, site restoration, and environmental litigation support projects.