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The Seventh International Conference on Remediation of Contaminated Sediments will be held February 4-7, 2013, in Dallas, Texas. This conference series focuses on the global challenges of contaminants in the sediments of streams, rivers, lakes, bays, harbors, and oceans, where they present a potential risk to human and ecological health, impair economic development, and impede revitalization efforts. To maintain the economic and ecological viability of these environments, it is necessary to manage complex series of actions that affect a wide range of environmental, economic, political, and social issues. Each conference in this series addresses the challenges of combining basic and applied research and new characterization and assessment methodologies with innovative approaches to engineering/controls, monitoring, and sustainable management, providing environmental solutions for a large and diverse group of stakeholders.
The Sixth Sediments Conference, held in New Orleans in February 2011, was attended by 1,100 scientists, engineers, regulators, remediation site owners, and other environmental professionals, representing universities, government agencies, consultants, and R&D and service firms from around the world. The 2011 Final Program encompassed 430 platform and poster presentations.
In 2013, short courses will be offered on Monday, February 4. Exhibits will open late Monday afternoon, and a welcome reception will be served; the Plenary Session will convene on Monday evening. The Technical Program will be conducted Tuesday through Thursday, with platform talks and panel discussions during the day and poster receptions Tuesday and Wednesday evenings. A Student Paper Competition will be conducted, the first for the Sediments Conference. See the Call for Abstracts for more information on these events and to review the scope of the technical program and information on submitting abstracts. To be considered for placement in the program, abstracts should be submitted by June 30.
As the program develops, information will be added to this site. The Preliminary Program brochure will be available in October and will provide details on the session schedule, a list of the platform and poster presentations in each session, and short course descriptions. The Conference is organized and presented by Battelle; sponsors are public- and private-sector organizations active in environmental assessment, remediation, and management.
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Conference Chairs
Andrew K. Bullard (Battelle)
Eric A. Stern (Battelle)
Technical Steering Committee
Eric Blischke (CDM Smith)
Deirdre T. Dahlen (Battelle)—TSC Coordinator
Espen Eek (Norwegian Geotechnical Institute)
Kevin H. Gardner (University of New Hampshire)
Marc S. Greenberg (U.S. EPA)
Cmdr. Eric King (U.S. Coast Guard)
Victoria J. Kirtay (U.S. Navy)
Igor Linkov (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers)
John Morris (Honeywell)
Steven C. Nadeau (Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP)—Coordinating Director, Sediment Management Work Group
Gregory W. Peterson (LimnoTech)
For information about opportunities to become a Conference or student paper sponsor or exhibitor or for general information on the Conference, please contact The Conference Group, Inc., 1580 Fishinger Road, Columbus, OH 43221; e-mail: info@confgroupinc.com; phone: 800-783-6338 (U.S. and Canada) or 614-488-2030; fax: 614-488-5747.