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August Mack Environmental Announces New Hires and Promotions
INDIANAPOLIS – August Mack Environmental, Inc., a full-service environmental, health, and safety consulting firm, is pleased to announce the hiring of Michelle Baker, Britt Booram and Eric Hunter in the Indianapolis office, the promotion of Nicole Collett in the Livonia office, and the promotions of Matt Bollinger and Matt Kaufman in the Lancaster office.Michelle Baker joined August Mack as a ...
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WESTON EXPERTS TO PROVIDE SOLUTIONS AT ORLANDO STORMWATER CONFERENCE
WEST CHESTER, Pa. – June 27, 2005 –Weston Solutions, Inc. (WESTON ® ) announced today that five experts from its Carlsbad , CA office will present solutions at StormCon TM , The North American Surface Water Quality Conference and Exposition to be held July 18-21, 2005, at the JW Marriott Grande Lakes convention hotel in Orlando, FL. StormCon, the nation's largest stormwater ...
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AET Group wins sustainable award
AET Group Inc. is proud to announce that they have recently been awarded with a Gold Sustainable Service Award.On Thursday, 22nd of October, 2009, AET Group Inc.’s President and CEO, Scott Freiburger and Chief Operating Officer, Larry Freiburger were honoured to accept the Gold Sustainable Service award on behalf of the company’s achievements and dedication to environmental sustainability in ...
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Earthworms for heavy metal
Earthworms could be used to extract toxic heavy metals, including cadmium and lead, from solid waste from domestic refuse collection and waste from vegetable and flower markets, according to researchers writing in the International Journal of Environment and Waste Management. Swati Pattnaik and M. Vikram Reddy of the Department of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, at Pondicherry University, in ...
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Ecological risk assessment has evolving role in environmental decisions
As concerns about the environment and a push for “green living” continue to grow, the scientific community is taking a broad look at the use of ecological risk assessment, also known as ERA. ERA is the topic of four articles in the July 2008 issue of Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management, published by the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. ERA is a combination of ...
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Quebec Moves Forward to Protect Boreal Region as Large as France
Mathew Jacobson, manager of the Pew Environment Group's International Boreal Conservation Campaign in Quebec, issued the following statement today in reaction to the Quebec government's introduction of legislation to protect half of northern Quebec – nearly 600,000 square kilometers, an area about the size of France – from all industrial activity. The legislation is a part of ...
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EPA Exhibit Pays Tribute to Women Pioneers in Science and Engineering
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s mid-Atlantic Regional Office unveiled at its center city office today a new exhibit honoring the contributions of women scientists and engineers. Located in EPA’s Public Information Center at 1650 Arch Street, the exhibit features a photo gallery and biographies of famous women pioneers in science and engineering, along with Victorian dresses ...
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Picarro Wins Red Herring Top 100 North America Award
Picarro, Inc., the world’s leading manufacturer of instruments for carbon and water cycle measurements, announced today its selection to the 2011 Red Herring Top 100 list of leading private companies for North America. The prestigious award, which recognizes Picarro’s technological innovation and business leadership, cited the company’s unique ...
By Picarro, Inc
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Tenure-Track faculty position in Marine Science and Conservation
The Division of Marine Science and Conservation, part of the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University, invites applications for a full time tenure track faculty position, based at the Duke Marine Laboratory on the North Carolina coast. We seek to recruit and retain a diverse workforce to maintain the excellence of the University, and offer students varied perspectives, ways of ...
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GEI Hires Eight Senior Professionals
GEI Consultants, Inc., one of the nation's leading geotechnical, environmental, water resources, and ecological science and engineering firms, announced today that it has hired eight senior professionals in several of its offices throughout the country. Joining the firm are Christopher Bradley, P.E.; Mike Carosotto, P.E., PMP, CFM; Ying-Kit Choi, Ph.D., P.E.; Scott Keating; Doug Laiho, P.E.; ...
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EPA awards University of Nevada, Reno nearly $500,000 for sustainable drinking water treatment methods
Today the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a $499,743 grant to the University of Nevada, Reno, part of almost $1.5 million in funding to three universities nationwide to develop sustainable drinking water treatment methods. The research grants are funded through EPA’s Science to Achieve Results (STAR) program. These grants, which supplement last year’s grants to ...
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EPA Awards $1.5 Million to Universities for Sustainable Drinking Water Treatment Methods; University of Gainesville Among Recipients
Today the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced almost $1.5 million in funding to three universities to develop sustainable drinking water treatment methods. The research grants are funded through EPA’s Science to Achieve Results (STAR) program. These grants, which supplement last year’s grants to eight other universities, are intended to provide innovative treatment ...
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Assistant Professor - Freshwater Ecology and Conservation - Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management
The successful recruit is expected to develop an internationally recognized research program on the ecology and conservation of freshwaters. Possible areas of emphasis for this position would include: freshwater population, community, or ecosystem ecology conservation of freshwater species and populations bio-indicators for freshwater ecosystem health and restoration population dynamics of ...
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EPA awards $1.5 million to universities for sustainable drinking water treatment methods
Today the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced almost $1.5 million in funding to three universities to develop sustainable drinking water treatment methods. The research grants are funded through EPA’s Science to Achieve Results (STAR) program. These grants, which supplement last year’s grants to eight other universities, are intended to provide innovative treatment ...
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EPA awards $7 million to study effects of pollution exposures and social stressors on communities
Research grants aim to gather comprehensive community wide data on human health impacts. As part of the Science to Achieve Results (STAR) research grants program, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded $7 million to fund cumulative human health risk assessment research. Scientists around the country will study a combination of harmful factors affecting human health, including ...
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Georgia Tech, Mississippi State and the University of South Florida Among Recipients of $9 Million to Examine Extreme Weather
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it is providing a total of $2,238,053 to three universities across the Southeast for four research projects examining the impacts of extreme weather on air and water quality. The recipients include the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), Mississippi State University and the University of South Florida. The grants are part ...
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Satellites help map soil carbon flux
Changes in soil carbon occur with changes in land management. Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee investigated quantifying soil carbon changes over large regions. They integrated remote sensing products with a national carbon accounting framework in a project funded by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Office of Earth Science. Results ...
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Research and Markets: Structured Decision Making: A Practical Guide to Environmental Management Choices
Dublin - Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/zwfcwl/structured_decisio) has announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons Ltd's new book "Structured Decision Making: A Practical Guide to Environmental Management Choices" to their offering. This book is about the creative and messy process of making environmental management decisions. The approach we describe is ...
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The Real Urban Jungle
How well do you understand life in your own backyard? Cities and suburbs form their own unique ecosystems and ecology, where humans aren’t visitors; they are an integral component, like trees in a forest or coral in a reef. If more than half of the Earth’s people live in cities and the amount of paved surfaces in the United States is equivalent to the area of Ohio, shouldn’t our ...
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Species affected by climate change: to shift or not to shift?
Relocating species threatened by climate change is a radical and hotly debated strategy for maintaining biodiversity. In a paper published today in the journal Nature Climate Change, researchers from CSIRO, University of Queensland and United States Geological Survey present a pragmatic decision framework for determining when, if ever, to move species in the face of climate change. "As our ...
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