Mission Statement

The Louisiana Applied and Educational Oil Spill Research and Development Program (OSRADP) is a part of the Louisiana Oil Spill Coordinator’s Office, Office of the Governor. The OSRADP’s mission is to provide the Oil Spill Coordinator with peer-reviewed, scientifically valid tools in the following four categories:

• spill-of-opportunity;
• education, training and public awareness;
• remote sensing and mapping; and
• spill response, cleanup and harmful ecological consequences.