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STL Workshops
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) and the second in Chicago, IL (September 2006). 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.
Desert Remedial Action Technologies (D-RAT) Workshop
The first Desert Remedial Action Technologies Workshop was held in Phoenix, Arizona 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.