Thanks to our sponsors, speakers, exhibitors and all participants (representing 32 states and 9 countries) at the EPA/TEI Sustainable Remediation Conference 2011 here at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, June 1-3, 2011. We thank our keynote speakers Curt Spalding, Regional Administrator EPA Region 1, John Warner, Director Warner Babcock Green Chemistry Institute, and Chris Portier, Director NCEH and ATSDR for their keynote addresses which set the stage for the technical sessions that followed.

Presentations are posted on the Program page if authorization was given by their author.

Visit the conference photo gallery!

Congratulations to the winners of the student poster competition (listed below) and thanks to our poster judges: Heather Henry of NIEHS, Deborah Burgin and Ryan Costello of ATSDR, Denise Andler, Cathy Chamberlain, Huy Liang, and Tom Potter of MassDEP, Cécile Bulle, of Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal, and David Sanscartier of University of Toronto.

Poster Competition Winners

From Left to Right:

- Paul Kostecki, Conference Co-Director, SPHHS, UMass Amherst
- Gregory Gervais, USEPA OSWER / OSTRI
- First Prize Winner
Juan Manuel Paz-Garcia, University of Denmark (currently at Northeastern University), Mathematical Modeling of the Role of Chemical Speciation on Electrokinetic Transport of Chemicals in Soil
- Second Prize Winner
Priyanka Bhattacharya, Clemson University, A Dendritic Nanotechnology for Efficient and Biocompatible Water Purification
- Honorable Mention
Nicole Starman, Suffolk University, and Marina Goreau, Brandeis University, Transitioning School to Safe, Green and Sustainable Science
- John Quander, USEPA OSWER / OSTRI
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Conference Co-Directors

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US EPA Office of Superfund Remediation and Technology Innovation

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The Environmental Institute

Co-Sponsors:

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EPA New England
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 SPHHS

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National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

 ATSDR