Pollution Prevention

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Pollution Prevention Remediation

• Trish Holden, Professor

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Pollution a thing of the past, and present
THEN, here
NOW, here, and there
NOW, here, and there
THEN, here
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Some Current Challenges in PPR

• Emerging contaminants
• New products / pollutants (e.g. engineered
  nanoparticles, GMOs)
• New hazards from existing products (e.g. PBDEs)
• Nonpoint source pollution
• Low quantities, but still detrimental
• Sources diffuse
• Monitoring presence and progress
• New technologies in biotech and biomarkers
• Analysis of large temporal and spatial datasets
• Remediation
• Developing and taking advantage of new
  technologies
• Improving models for better predicting rates and
  endpoints
• Prevention
• Working within corporations (overlap with CEM /
  Industrial Ecology)
• Approaching in new ways that co-address resource
  conservation, energy management and waste
  reduction.

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PPR Philosophy

• Knowledge and skills in key areas
• Pollution science (recognizing pollutants)
• Pollutant transport (processes, modeling)
• Distribution of pollutants (monitoring, modeling)
• Consequences (ecotoxicology, risk
  characterization)
• Remediation (technologies, performance)
• Prevention (minimization, life-cycle analysis,
  industrial ecology)
• Economics and policy (selecting and implementing
  alternatives)
• Flexible, individual program
• Recognizing skill set coming in
• Listening to, and helping to focus, your career
  objectives
• Open to blending with WRM, CEM, etc. to fit
  your needs

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POS Review
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Group Projects

• Example projects past
• Review of Safety Practices in Nanotechnology
  Industries
• Worldwide survey, extramurally-funded
• Collaborating Advisors in PPR, CEM and Sociology
• Student-initiated with faculty support in
  proposal development/ submission
• Evaluation of Bacteriological Water Quality in
  Las Palmas Creek
• DNA-based water quality analysis using innovative
  approaches
• Extramural support from community members
• Public utility strategies for CO2 sequestration
• Analysis of food scrap recycling in SB
• Wetlands mitigation at the Casmalia waste site
• Goleta Slough breaching
• Urban stormwater infiltration
• Ecological risk of MTBE plume
• Goleta Oldtown brownfields redevelopment
• Bioswale for runoff contamination management
• Students are encouraged to work with faculty to
  nominate and develop projects

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Jobs!

• Examples
• Industrial Ecologist, Site Manager, Water Quality
  Specialist, Environmental Planner, Environmental
  Scientists.etc.
• Employers
• Consulting firms (e.g. SAIC, Haley Aldrich,
  Arcadis, CH2M Hill, ENVIRON Intl.)
• Non profits (e.g. Heal the Bay, Pesticide
  Action Network.)
• Government (e.g. State of Washington, San Diego
  County, City of Denver, U.S. EPA.)
• Industry (e.g. DOW Chemical, Amgen, Vulcan)
• Salary Range
• Dave Parker is the source for this!!!!
• Bottom line PPR students find the jobs they
  want and tend to move up in organizations
  (consulting firms, government)lots of
  opportunity.

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Some related professional organizations

• Association of Environmental Health Sciences
  http//www.aehs.com/about.htm
• International Water Association
  http//www.iwahq.org.uk/template.cfm?namehome
• Water Environment Federation http//www.wef.org/
• Society for Environmental Toxicology Chemistry
  http//www.setac.org/
• National Association of Environmental
  Professionals http//www.naep.org/
• International Society for Industrial Ecology
  http//www.is4ie.org/
• various engineering (e.g. ASCE) and scientific
  (e.g. ACS, ASM, SSSA) organizations

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Additional Websites

• ORNL Earth and Microbial Sciences Section
  http//www.esd.ornl.gov/programs/EAMS/
• NOAA Office of Response and Restoration
  http//response.restoration.noaa.gov/index.html
• US EPA Bioremediation Documents
  http//www.epa.gov/ORD/WebPubs/biorem/
• US EPA REACH IT website for remediation
  technologies http//www.epareachit.org/index.html
  
• US EPA Remediation Resources http//www.clu-in.or
  g/remed1.cfm
• USGS Bioremediation website http//water.usgs.gov
  /wid/html/bioremed.html
• Bioremediation Discussion Group
  http//www.bioremediationgroup.org/
• DOE Natural and Accelerated Bioremediation
  Program http//www.lbl.gov/NABIR/
• CA State Water Resources Control Board Water
  Quality http//www.swrcb.ca.gov/quality.html
• Battelle In Situ and On Site Bioremediation
  http//www.battelle.org/environment/er/conferences
  /biosymp/default.stm
• Battelle Remediation of Chlorinated and
  Recalcitrant Compounds http//www.battelle.org/env
  ironment/er/conferences/chlorcon/sponsors.stm