This class serves as an introduction to the fundamentals of functional design and provides the means to rapidly assess the distribution of hydrology on your site and create useable hydrographs for presentation of your wetland design.
This one-day course focuses on practical aspects of groundwater in the fractured sedimentary bedrock of the Newark Group (Brunswick Aquifer), where thousands of sites have been impacted by industrial contaminants. Remedial activities at such sites are usually impaired by oversimplified notions regarding groundwater flow and contaminant migration, as well as by the use of inadequate hydrogeologic characterization methods.
NEHA Region IV Conference Registration Now Open
Visit www.nebraskaneha.com to find registration and conference information. Free Healthy Home and Inspection Basics of Body Art Establishments Workshops on Thursday afternoon.
CEHA ANNUAL EDUCATION CONFERENCE
Keystone Lodge & Spa, Keystone, Colorado
Each day, you will spend equal time moving between lectures in the classroom to soil pits in the field, evaluating soils using your eyes, hands, and nose. You will observe, record and evaluate the site-specific soil characteristics required to write and support a complete soil log, as well as evaluate the soil and landscape data to determine design input. Most importantly, you will develop the necessary tools to determine whether a site is right – legally and practically – for a septic system or stormwater runoff Best Management Practices (BMPs) facility.
This course is designed for ecologists, engineers, planners, and landscape architects involved in the recovery of impacted river, lake, riparian, wetland, and coastal environments. Drawing heavily upon real-world examples of Restoration Ecology in practice, this class will focus on the multi-disciplined recovery of degraded, damaged, or impaired ecosystems.
This informative program will familiarize you with the theory and practice of hydrogeology, including guiding principles, basic mathematical relationships of groundwater flow, the mechanisms of groundwater contaminant fate and transport, the range of effective soil and groundwater remedial strategies, the groundwater regulatory regime in New Jersey, and the application of a range of groundwater models. The presenters are on the cutting edge of recent developments, including emerging contaminants and regulatory changes.
May 22, 2019
3:00 to 4:00 PM ET
73rd Annual I.E.H.S.
When: July 24th – 26th, 2019
Where: Rowlett Building, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, Kentucky
Cost: Professionals – $100.00; Students – $25.00; Speakers – $10.00; Exhibitors – $250.00
Payment Methods: (Checks) Make checks payable to EKU EHS Club –or- (Venmo) Send Venmo payments to @EKUEHS.
Registration: www.ehsky.org
The National Environmental Health Association (NEHA), in partnership with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), has awarded two demonstration grants for climate and health projects. Clackamas County, Oregon and the Minnesota Department of Health have been funded to develop tools and increase capacity to increase health considerations in climate change adaptation.
Climate change is already affecting health, from the air we breathe to the water we drink. Solutions to a variety of challenges can be addressed at the local level. Both the Minnesota and Oregon teams will develop tools and strategies for analyzing and communicating the effects of a changing climate on residents’ health. “The health of our families are effectively promoted and protected by investments, policies and decisions made at the local level” said NEHA Executive Director Dr. David Dyjack. “We are pleased to collaborate with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to provide local environmental health practitioners tools and resources aimed at reducing the health risks associated with climate change, in the spirit of ensuring every community member reaches their full human potential.”
The Oregon project team, which includes members from each local public health authority in the Portland metropolitan region including Clackamas, Washington, and Multnomah counties, have a standing collaboration to address climate and health issues. They will enhance their existing partnership by completing a regional climate and health impact assessment report, which focuses on observed health outcomes related to climate change, and develop an accompanying data visualization tool. The key aims of the project are to educate residents and other stakeholders about climate-related morbidity and mortality and highlight how social determinants are the primary drivers of climate vulnerability. The project will improve regional processes related to cross-jurisdictional sharing, mass communication, planning, and assessment. NEHA’s technical assistance can include guidance for the health impact assessment report and identification of materials for the visualization tool.
The Minnesota team, consisting of the Minnesota Department of Health and U-Spatial at the University of Minnesota, are developing a user-friendly, open-access online geographic information system (GIS) tool that maps exposures and sensitivities to climate change, called the Minnesota Climate & Health Vulnerability Assessment Tool. U-Spatial will enhance the tool by adding additional data, such as, exposure and sensitivity layers, to develop an extreme heat vulnerability index. MDH will work with one community to develop and share a model report for heat vulnerability using the tool’s enhancements. NEHA’s technical assistance could include helping to define layers for the Tool and ways of presenting the vulnerability information for adaptation planning.
Both projects are set to be completed by the end of July, 2019. By measuring correlation between a changing climate and health effects, NEHA, Clackamas County, and the Minnesota Department of Health can begin addressing the locality of these issues, and their impacts on their communities.
