[CPEO-MEF] ISIS-NTEN Listserve

[isis@hampshire.edu]

- Are you a user of technical information?

- Have you become a self-taught expert? Have you *had* to learn -- or to 
teach yourself -- about cleanup science and technology to keep up with 
environmental restoration of the military installation in your 
community?

- Do you generate or review reports and documents prepared for military 
nuclear and/or toxic waste cleanup?                                    
- Are you a citizen-expert, an "informal historian" or context expert -- 
someone who knows about the neighborhood, environment and surrounding 
area of your local base, installation or federal facility?               
                                                       
- Are you a citizen-scientist who serves the community as an independent 
source of advice and expertise?

- Are you a professional expert who works in the arena of military 
cleanup and restoration?

- Do you need to ask questions from time to time, about some technical 
or scientific detail (or "big picture" issue) of such cleanup?
                                
- Are you a college, community college or university teacher who works 
with students on projects and research topics that deal with such 
cleanup sites and issues?

IF SO, you should take a look at our new listserve, and *join* with all 
the others in our network, as described below. We believe the NTEN 
network can be a significant help for the people and communities, indeed 
for all the stakeholders, involved with nuclear and toxic waste cleanup. 

                                
We at ISIS believe that people in ALL these categories of experts (and 
probably some others we haven't thought of as well) are important to 
achieving effective, efficient, democratic cleanup. So we have recently 
invited all these kinds of experts to join our National Technical 
Experts Network, NTEN! The rest of this posting describes how the 
electronic "listserve" component of that NTEN will work.   

 
WHO SHOULD SIGN UP FOR THIS LISTSERVE?
The ISIS-NTEN listserve is ideal for you if you have technical 
information questions, utilize technical reports, are a citizen 
scientist or citizen expert, generate technical information or have made 
yourself a technical expert in your community.  
 

DESCRIPTION OF TOPICS TO BE DISCUSSED ON THIS LISTSERVE 
The listserve will include information about lessons learned in the area 
of military environmental cleanup, tools and information resources, 
citizen expert and citizen scientist support (with respect to technical 
issues) and discussion on new science needed to respond to various 
cleanup issues and concerns.  It is a forum for sharing case stories, 
asking for help from other experts and answering the technical questions 
of others.  

The listserve will also function as an electronic bulletin board to 
communicate announcements about relevant conferences, workshops and 
citizen forums.  
 
  
HOW IS THIS LISTSERVE DIFFERENT FROM OTHERS IN THE ARENA OF MILITARY 
ENVIRONMENTAL CLEANUP?         
This listserve is NOT intended to duplicate any other newsgroups 
currently used in the arena of military environmental cleanup.  The 
ISIS-NTEN listserve provides the cleanup community with a unique 
opportunity to network and communicate with other individuals about 
technical cleanup topics.  


GUIDELINES 
This is a moderated listserve.  Please limit your postings to technical 
topics, according to the aforementioned listserve description; 
unfortunately, we will not be able to post messages dealing with other 
cleanup issues. 
 
 
THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS ARE INTENDED TO GENERATE DISCUSSION ON THE 
ISIS-NTEN LISTSERVE:
1.  What are the most pressing technical questions facing cleanup in 
your community today?

2.  What are your issues surrounding accessibility to technical 
information: within your community; at your Restoration Advisory Board, 
Community Advisory Board or Site-Specific Advisory Board meetings; in 
communicating with personnel at your local federal facility; or 
involving any unique situations you have encountered?
  
3.  Who are you and where are you?  We want to hear your story about how 
you obtain your technical information, how you found your technical 
advisor and/or how you became a citizen-expert.    


WHAT TO DO NOW:
- If you have technical information questions, utilize technical 
reports, are a citizen scientist or citizen expert, generate technical 
information or have made yourself a technical expert in your community, 
the NTEN is for you. 

- To join this forum dedicated to technical topics, sign up for the 
ISIS-NTEN using one of the following two methods: 

- Sign up online at http://isis.hampshire.edu/mil/application.html
	  
OR

- Send an email to isis@hamphire.edu. 


ISIS looks forward to facilitating technical information sharing, 
interaction and networking among individuals involved in DoD and DOE 
facilities cleanup.  We also look forward to YOUR participation in this 
important technical forum.  Please contact staff at the ISIS office if 
you have any questions.   


Best Regards, 

Jeanne Stevens
Coordinator, Military Waste Cleanup Project
Institute for Science and Interdisciplinary Studies (ISIS)
Prescott D-1, 893 West Street
Amherst, MA 01002
Phone (413) 559-5582
Fax (413) 559-5611
isis@hampshire.edu
 

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