[CPEO-MEF] R&D Symposium in December

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

SERDP AND ESTCP TO HOST ANNUAL TECHNICAL SYMPOSIUM & WORKSHOP

The Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) and
the Environmental Security Technology Certification Program (ESTCP) will
hold the Partners in Environmental Technology Technical Symposium &
Workshop, "Meeting DoD's Environmental Challenges," December 3-5, 2002,
at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, D.C.

The two and one-half day event will feature comprehensive technical
sessions that will illustrate how SERDP and ESTCP research and
development and demonstration and validation efforts are assisting the
Department of Defense to address increasingly complex environmental
challenges.  The preliminary list of technical sessions includes the following:

* Treatment of Range Contaminants
* Military Operations and Marine Mammals
* Greening the Industrial Complex
* Sustainable Ranges:  Characterization, Fate & Transport, and Effects
* Sustainable Ranges:  Air Quality & Noise Issues
* Greening the Force:  Weapons Platforms
* Greening the Force:  Weapons
* Reducing the Cost of Long-Term Remedial Actions
* UXO:  Technologies & Data Processing
* UXO:  Demonstration/Deployment
* Perchlorate Treatment and Toxicity
* Ecosystem Management for Threatened and Endangered Species

Other highlights include more than 200 posters supporting this year's
technical program theme, more than 20 booths offering information about
funding opportunities in related research programs, a special session
providing a summary of SERDP and ESTCP program development and
opportunities to conduct research and demonstrations, and networking
with more than 650 expected environmental professionals.

For additional information, visit
http://www.serdp.org/symposiums/symposiums.html or call (703) 736-4548.

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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