Photo Release: U.S., Canadian Coast Guard, stakeholders hold North Slope Awareness Seminar in Anchorage

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Capt. Carl Uchytil, the Seventeenth Coast Guard District chief of planning and force readiness discuss the Canada U.S. North pollution response exercise at the Capt. Cook Hotel in Anchorage with media from KTUU Channel 2 News, March 16, 2010.

The two-day exercise is an opportunity for North America's Arctic region responders and stakeholders to meet and discuss plans, tactics and issues related to response in the Beaufort Sea and Arctic Ocean.

U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Sara Francis.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Joanne Munroe, planning officer with the Environmental Response Branch of the Canadian Coast Guard, and her counterpart, Cmdr. Rick Rodriguez, the Seventeenth Coast Guard District chief of contingency plan, policy and exercises, discuss annex four of the joint contingency plan with participants to the Canada U.S. North pollution response exercise at the Capt. Cook Hotel in Anchorage, March 16, 2010.

The two-day exercise is an opportunity for North America's Arctic region responders and stakeholders to meet and discuss plans, tactics and issues related to response in the Beaufort Sea and Arctic Ocean.

U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Sara Francis.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Larry Trigatti, superintendent of Environmental Response for the Canadian Coast Guard in Central and Arctic Region, welcomes participants to the Canada U.S. North pollution response exercise at the Capt. Cook Hotel in Anchorage, March 16, 2010.

The two-day exercise is an opportunity for North America's Arctic region responders and stakeholders to meet and discuss plans, tactics and issues related to response in the Beaufort Sea and Arctic Ocean.

U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Sara Francis.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Participants of the Canada U.S. North pollution response exercise begin the North Slope Awareness Seminar at the Capt. Cook Hotel in Anchorage, March 16, 2010.

The two-day exercise is an opportunity for North America's Arctic region responders and stakeholders to meet and discuss plans, tactics and issues related to response in the Beaufort Sea and Arctic Ocean.

U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Sara Francis.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Cmdr. Rick Rodriguez, the Seventeenth Coast Guard District chief of contingency plan, policy and exercises, and his Canadian counterpart, Joanne Munroe, discuss annex four of the joint contingency plan with participants to the Canada U.S. North pollution response exercise at the Capt. Cook Hotel in Anchorage, March 16, 2010.

The two-day exercise is an opportunity for North America's Arctic region responders and stakeholders to meet and discuss plans, tactics and issues related to response in the Beaufort Sea and Arctic Ocean.

U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Sara Francis.