The Northwest Regional Air Quality Workshop for Communities is planned for April 27 at EPA region 10 offices in Seattle with video links to Portland, Oregon and Boise, Idaho. The workshop is targeted toward individuals and organizations that are currently, or about to be, working on local air quality issues in their communities.
Center Updates
In June of this year, Dr. Paul Johnson from the University of Arizona shared his research on temporal changes in vapor intrusion (VI) behavior and the implications this has for conventional pathway assessment paradigms.
Understanding how the environment can impact regional salmon survival is central to Dr. Evan Gallagher's research. One goal of his Superfund Research Program - Biotransformation Gene-environment Interactions in Salmon Neurotoxicity - is to understand how Superfund-identified chemicals interfere with the olfactory behavior of Coho salmon, an ecologically important species in the Pacific Northwest.
The Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition/Technical Advisory Group (DRCC/TAG) is a non-profit organization in the city of Seattle formed in response to the listing of the Lower Duwamish Waterway as a federal Superfund site. The coalition is EPA's official Community Advisory Group (CAG) and receives EPA funding to contract with independent technical advisors to review all cleanup-related studies and plans. DRCC/TAG is involved in all aspects of the proposed cleanup and is working to ensure that the cleanup meets community standards.
In May of this year the University of Washington Superfund Program (UW-SRP) hosted a regional meeting with the Northwest Toxic Communities Coalition (NWTCC) and EPA Region 10 Administrator (RA), Dennis McLerran and his staff. The UW-SRP Research Translation Core's director and staff have been a part of a series of regular discussions between the coalition and EPA staff on targeted topics that began in fall of 2010.