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Superfund and Technology Liaison Program Workshops
National Forum on Vapor Intrusion
January 12-13, 2009
Philadelphia, PA
Thanks to all who attended our successful conference! We met our goal of about 350 people from across the United States, including Federal agencies, state and local governments, community activists and other impacted residents, property developers and property reuse personnel, private consultants and vendors, and responsible parties undertaking response. This Forum was structured on dual tracks with common sessions. We had technical presentations on sampling, assessment, risk, and engineering. There were also case studies illustrating a cross section of vapor intrusion issues from the perspective of community stakeholders, Brownfields, EPA, and states. We had two breakout sessions: one on community issues and one on government programs. The Community Stakeholder Breakout presented areas and issues of interest for community groups, residents, developers, and possibly local government. The Government Stakeholder Breakout pertained to internal issues of program implementation, policy and guidance. We also had close to 30 poster presentations.
Thank you to all who supported our conference, including ORD's Office of Science Policy, OSWER's Office of Superfund Remediation and Technology Innovation, and ORD's National Exposure Research Laboratory and Land Research Program. Thanks also go out to the "champions" of the Monday evening poster session, including HydroGeoLogic, Inc., CH2MHill, Sullivan International, and Pontarolo Engineering.
If you were an attendee, please fill out our evaluation form available via the link below. You may also request a Certificate of Participation by emailing register@consolidatedsafety.com. We hope to have Proceedings completed and posted here by early March 2009.
If you have any further questions about this workshop, please feel free to contact Bill Hagel (hagel.bill@epa.gov) or Mike Gill (gill.michael@epa.gov).
International Environmental Nanotechnology Conference: Applications and Implications
October 7-9, 2008
Chicago, IL
Nanomaterials present:
- new opportunities to improve our ability to detect, monitor, control, and clean up environmental pollutants and contaminants
- potential new risks to human health and the environment
This conference follows two previous successful EPA environmental nanotechnology conferences, the first held in Washington, DC (October 2005) (PDF, 46pp., 341KB, about PDF) and the second in Chicago, IL (September 2006) (PDF, 51pp., 813KB, about PDF). The scope of this conference has been expanded to take on an international perspective; however, all submitted text is to be written in English and all platform presentations are to be spoken in English. Plenary sessions will include keynote addresses presented by international experts. The keynotes will introduce each of the subtopics that will be highlighted during subsequent concurrent sessions. The following nanotechnology or nanomaterial subtopics will be addressed:
- Water Remediation - applications of nanotechnology to decontaminate surface water or groundwater.
- Soil and Sediment Remediation - applications of nanotechnology to decontaminate soil or sediments.
- Water Pollution Control - applications of nanotechnology to treat water prior to release to the environment or release into drinking water distribution systems.
- Air Pollution Control - applications of nanotechnology to treat emissions prior to release to the environment or to purify indoor air.
- Nano-enabled Sensing - nanotechnology applications to improve environmental contaminant or pollutant detection.
- Environmental Fate & Transport - migration, transformations (biotic and abiotic), and sinks of nanomaterials in the physical environment from the point of environmental release to the point of biological exposure or long-term stable abiotic residence.
- Biological Exposure - nanomaterial bioavailability, biological uptake (& barrier) mechanisms, biotic migration (organismal, cellular & subcellular), internal biological transformations, bioaccumulation, and food chain transfer.
- Toxicity - biological effects of nanomaterials including mechanisms of toxicity, modes of action, biotic sensitivities and vulnerabilities (ecosystem through molecular), and dose-response relationships.
For additional information regarding the conference program, registration,
hotel, and abstract submission, please go to the following webpage:
http://emsus.com/nanotechconf/index.htm
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Desert Remedial Action Technologies (D-RAT) Workshop
The first Desert Remedial Action Technologies Workshop was held in Phoenix, AZ on October 2-4, 2007. The workshop was sponsored and organized by the United States Environmental Protection Agency, Arizona Department of Environmental Quality, and CH2M Hill.
An optional field trip was offered on October 4, 2007. This was the first workshop to focus on innovative, emerging, and proven remedial technologies being successfully applied in desert environments. The program emphasized field applications and case studies for technologies being applied to dissolved phase volatile organic compounds (VOCs), (specifically tricholoroethene [TCE]), perchlorate, and chromium. The focus was on in-situ technologies.
The workshop consisted of presentations and posters to present innovative technologies. Posters were not limited to successfully applied technologies, but also presented emerging technologies with desert applications.