one step fwd and two steps back. trying to make those fwd steps at least twice as big as the backwards ones I am a dynamic figure, often seen scaling walls and crushing ice. I have been known to remodel train stations on my lunch breaks, making them more efficient in the area of heat retention. I write award-winning operas, I manage time efficiently. Occasionally, I tread water for three days in a row. I woo women with my sensuous and godlike trombone playing, I can pilot bicycles up severe inclines with unflagging speed, and I cook Thirty-Minute Brownies in twenty minutes. I am an expert in stucco, a veteran in love, and an outlaw in Peru. Using only a hoe and a large glass of water, I once single-handedly defended a small village in the Amazon Basin from a horde of ferocious army ants. I play bluegrass cello, I was scouted by the Mets, I am the subject of numerous documentaries. When Im bored, I build large suspension bridges in my yard. I enjoy urban hang gliding. On Wednesdays, after school, I repair electrical appliances free of charge. I am an abstract artist, a concrete analyst, and a ruthless bookie. Critics worldwide swoon over my original line of corduroy evening wear. I dont perspire. I am a private citizen, yet I receive fan mail. I have been caller number nine and have won the weekend passes. Last summer I toured New Jersey with a traveling centrifugal-force demonstration. I bat 400. My deft floral arrangements have earned me fame in international botany circles. I can hurl tennis rackets at small moving objects with deadly accuracy. I once read Paradise Lost, Moby Dick, and David Copperfield in one day and still had time to refurbish an entire dining room that evening. I know the exact location of every food item in the supermarket. I have performed several covert operations with the CIA. I sleep once a week; when I do sleep, I sleep in a chair. While on vacation in Canada, I successfully negotiated with a group of terrorists who had seized a small bakery. The laws of physics do not apply to me. I balance, I weave, I dodge, I frolic, and my bills are all paid. On weekends, to let off steam, I participate in full-contact origami. Years ago I discovered the meaning of life but forgot to write it down. I have made extraordinary four course meals using only a mouli and a toaster oven. I breed prize-winning clams. I have won bullfights in San Juan, cliff-diving competitions in Sri Lanka, and spelling bees at the Kremlin. I have played Hamlet, I have performed open-heart surgery, and I have spoken with Elvis. ----------------------------------------------------- Bradford Benggio NOAA SPILL TEAM: Scientific Support Coordinator (FLSSC - USCGD7) 909 SE 1st Avenue, Rm 714 Miami, FL 33131 Tel: (305) 530-7925 Cell: (954) 684-8486 Fax: (305) 530-7932 E-mail: [email protected] Role on Spill Team: Mr. Benggio is a staff advisor to the Federal On-Scene Coordinator (FOSC). He coordinates scientific and technical support during spill response. This is accomplished with the assistance of a Scientific Support Team (SST) which may consist of members from NOAAs Office of Response & Restoration with expertise in oceanography, modeling and simulation studies, meteorology, biology, health & safety, oil and hazardous materials chemical assessment, information management, natural resources specialties, shoreline surveys and assessment, and resources at risk. The SST also often includes contracted environmental consultant support from Research Planning Inc. (RPI), chemistry support from Louisiana States Institute for Environmental Studies, and information management and data processing support from GENWEST Inc. Information Management specialist. Additional in house or contracted support may be added to the team as the situation dictates along with expertise from States, academia, industry, and other federal agencies. During spill response the SSC will manage the SSC team as established by authority from the FOSC. The SSC and the SSC team will work with local and federal trustees and other members of the scientific community to develop the best environmental response solutions. Mr. Benggio actively participates in the Region 4 and Caribbean Regional Response Teams (RRT) where he serves on several committees, including the Response and Technology committee. He also is involved in eight area committee planning groups (ACP) within USCG district seven and numerous work groups and subcommittees that address contingency planning concerns. Mr. Benggio has been the Florida SSC, serving USCG district seven since July of 1993. He has provided support for several hundred emergency responses since this time. Some of his major response experience includes the Neches River Unocal spill (1993), the Tampa Bay spill (1993), the Morris J. Berman spill (1994), the Powell Duffryn chemical fire and release (1995), the M/V Firat response (1995), the M/T Igloo Moon response (1996), the M/V Fortuna Reefer response (1997), the Sergo Zakariadze response (1999), the Prestige response in Spain (2002), Hurricane Katrina (2005),the Guanica Mystery Spill, Puerto Rico (2007), Hurricane Ike (2008), the Deepwater Horizon Gulf of Mexico Spill (2010) and the M/V Jireh Response (2012). Mr Benggio received the Department of Commerce Bronze Medal in 2013 for contingency planning work related to offshore drilling and oil production efforts by Cuba and the Bahamas. Mr Benggio was a key contributor to the establishment of NOAA’s Disaster Response Center in Mobile, Alabama and helped develop the initial marine debris program for the Gulf of Mexico following Hurricane Katrina. He also helped write and develop proposals for marine debris efforts for Puerto Rico. Since coming to NOAAs Office of Response & Restoration, Mr. Benggio has published or co-authored several papers for response conferences including the International Oil Spill Conferences related to response and response management. He has led response training and planning workshops throughout the United States, Central America, the Caribbean, Gaza, and Vietnam. Other Experience: Mr. Benggio has been with NOAA since 1980. His assignments have included serving aboard one of NOAAs class I research vessels where his duties included service as deck officer, dive officer, meteorological officer, gravity officer, and security officer as well as other administrative duties. He supported research cruises throughout the Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf of Mexico for a variety of scientific missions. Following sea duty, Mr. Benggio worked in NOAAs Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) as a research assistant in the Marine Chemistry/Geology division. Here, he built on his college experience as a laboratory technician at University of South Carolinas geochemistry laboratory. He published scientific papers and engineered, designed and built special moorings for current meters and sediment trap arrays which would be deployed on unconsolidated bottoms in the Gulf of Mexico. He also designed special devices used for subsampling, xradiography, and storage of box sediment cores. Areas of research included the Seaflume project in the New York Bight area where the goal was to define current velocities required to erode sand caps that were used to cover dump sites, and research related to pollution in the Mississippi delta region for the Particulate Pollutants Residing in the Marine Environment (P-PRIME) study. In 1984, Mr. Benggio entered flight training for NOAA and subsequently spent the following nine years flying a variety of fixed wing aircraft including the Cessna Citation jet and the AC690 Turbo Commander. He served as mission and aircraft commander for NOAAs Aeronautical Charting Divisions Flight Edit Program, the National Weather Services Airborne Snow Survey Program and the Nautical Charting Divisions Photogrammetry Branch. These flight missions were supported by on-board photographic mapping cameras with GPS interface or other highly sophisticated remote sensing systems. Normally these missions required that the mission commander manage and coordinate with up to 20 aircrew and field party personnel. Academic Background: Marine Science, University of South Carolina Coastal Zone Management, NOVA University.
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