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2021 Decon Conference Poster Sessions and Tech Cafe

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The EPA International Decontamination Research and Development Conference was held virtually November 1-5, 2021. For more information on the conference, or to register, view the conference website. 

Below is the schedule of posters and technology cafe sessions. All times are Eastern Time Zone. 

Jump to the Technology Cafe sessions.

View the full agenda of sessions.

Monday, November 1 (Day 1)

Poster Session

2:15-3:30 PM          Posters and lightning talks from poster presenters.

Poster Number Poster Title & Presenter
1 A Film-forming, Biocidal Strippable Coating for Subway Car Biocontaminant Mitigation
Kevin Beltis | TIAX LLC
2 Withdrawn
3 Development of a Chemical Wide Area Decontaminant
Neil Hawbaker | Combat Capabilities Development Command, Chemical Biological Center
4 Mitigating Cytotoxicity for Anti-Viral Disinfection Studies
Sarah Nelson | Battelle Memorial Institute
5 Evaluation of Street Sweeper Spray Systems for Effective Decontamination of Fixed and Loose Radioactive Contaminations
Michael Kaminski | Argonne National Laboratory.
6 The WASP 2.0: A Water Assessment and Sustainability Purification and Decontamination System Designed for the Temperate and Sub-Arctic Environments
Clint Smith | U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center
7 Monitoring Storm Water Flow via VIPER
Joshua Steenbock | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
8
(Student)
The Influence of Exposure Duration and Dwell Time on the Skin Decontamination Effectiveness of Particulate Zirconium Hydroxide
Nevine Amer | Toxicology Research Group, University of Hertfordshire
9 Development of Methods and Comparative Analysis of NGA compound by GCMS-TOF and UPLCMSMS
Tom Fowler | CSS/U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
10
(Student)
Safety Profiling of a Candidate Decontamination Product: Assessing the Dermal Absorption of Particulate Zirconium Hydroxide through Dry and Sweat-Covered Skin
Andreia Pinhal | Toxicology Research Group, University of Hertfordshire
11 Evaluation of Temporary Coatings to Alter Agent Resistivity of Polyurethane Coated Materials
Janlyn Eikenberg | Combat Capabilities Development Command, Chemical Biological Center
12
(Student)
Improved Assessment of Skin Decontaminants: Development and Validation of a Robotic System for the Accurate and Reproducible Dermal Application of Candidate Products
Devanya Mahalingam | Toxicology Research Group, University of Hertfordshire
13 The Decontamination of Chemical Warfare Agents from Canine Test Substrates
Stefanie Smallwood | Combat Capabilities Development Command, Chemical Biological Center
14 Scenario Based Opioid Detection Selection
Evan Durnal | MRIGlobal
15 Analysis of EA 6162 in Drinking Water
Thomas Malloy | Battelle Memorial Institute
16 Evaluation of Electrostatic Sprayers and Foggers for the Application of Disinfectants in the Era of SARS-CoV-2
Joseph Wood | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
17 Efficacy of Residual Antimicrobial Products Against SARS-CoV-2
Rachael Hardison | Battelle Memorial Institute
18 Evaluating Efficacy of UVC Light for Inactivation of SARS-CoV-2, MS2, and Phi6 on Surfaces
Lukas Oudejans | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
19 Heat Inactivation of SARS-CoV-2 to Streamline RT-qPCR for SARS-CoV-2
Jacob Beaver | Battelle Memorial Institute
20
(Student)
Factors Affecting UV Decontamination of FFRs
Castine Bernardy | University of New Hampshire
21 Cleaning and Disinfecting of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for Effective Reuse
John Archer | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
22
(Student)
Open-Air Hazardous Waste Incineration in Colfax, LA
Chloe Tucker | Tulane University
23 Addressing Socio-Environmental Injustice, and Flood Risk with a Design-based Approach
Eliza Breder | University of Florida, Florida Institute for Built Environment Resilience
24 Use of Service Vehicles to Sample and Determine Extent of Contamination During a Response to Biological Incidents
Kent Hofacre | Battelle Memorial Institute
25
(Student)
Dirty Drinking Water: Ethnography/Science of Contamination from Arsenic and Iron in Groundwater
Luisa Cortesi | Erasmus University, Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies, Cornell University
26 Real-time, Low-Cost, High Efficiency In-Situ Radiological Threat Agents Spectrometric Sensing Using Tensioned Metastable Fluid Detectors
Nathan Boyle | Purdue University
27 Awareness and Operations Level Trained Responders - Under Equipped and Under Utilized
John Zour | In Our Gear

Wednesday, November 3 (Day 3)

Technology Cafe: Session A

2:00-2:30 PM          Demonstrations of technologies associated with waste management, decontamination, sampling, community resilience, and more.

Session Number Technology Title & Presenter
1 Water Contaminant Information Tool (WCIT): A Tool for Water Contamination Incident Preparedness and Response
Veronica Aponte-Morales | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
2 Stochastic Infrastructure Remediation Model
Tanvi Joshi | Battelle Memorial Institute
3 U.S. EPA’s Waste Estimation Support Tool (WEST)
Paul Lemieux | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
4 U.S. EPA's Disaster Debris Recovery Tool
Lucy Stanfield | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
5 The EPA Flooded Homes Website
Keely Maxwell | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Technology Cafe: Session B

2:30-3:00 PM          Demonstrations of technologies associated with waste management, decontamination, sampling, community resilience, and more.

Session Number Technology Title & Presenter
6 Electrons Dispersion Filtration
Michael Omary | APD Clean Water Technologies Group
7 Immersive Modular Preparedness Intelligent Tutor (IMPRINT)
Austin Crumpton | Charles River Analytics
8 U.S. EPA’s Incident Waste Decision Support Tool (I-WASTE)
Paul Lemieux | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
9 U.S. EPA's Waste Staging and Logistics Tool
Tim Boe | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
10 The Feedback Loop in Decon - The Missing/Broken Link
John Zour | In Our Gear

Technology Cafe: Session C

3:00-3:30 PM          Demonstrations of technologies associated with waste management, decontamination, sampling, community resilience, and more.

Session Number Technology Title & Presenter
11 Radiological Decontamination of Electronic and Optoelectronic Equipment
Zakir Kazi | Defence Research & Development Canada (DRDC)
12 A Web-based GIS Application for Creating, Evaluating and Operationalizing Sampling Designs
Molly Rodgers | Eastern Research Group
13 U.S. EPA’s All Hazards Waste Management Planning Tool
Anna Tschursin | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
14 The Environmental Resilience Tools Wizard
Keely Maxwell | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

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