e.e.r.c: Highlights and Initiatives: June 1996

	Energy, Environment and Resources Center The University of Tennessee Highlights and Initiatives
June 1996 Highlights and Initiatives Projects. Researchers from the Pellissippi Research Institute (PRI), a joint e.e.r.c./Transportation Center unit, have teamed with Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to establish a computer system that will help the Atlanta Police Department manage crowds and traffic and respond to emergencies during the Summer Olympic Games. In July, PRI staffers Don Hanlon, Gary Boruff, Steve Stamm, and Dean Miller and ORNL task leader Bob Hunter will begin a six-week stint in Atlanta to test and operate the Police Command and Control System. The system, which is designed for metro-area police departments, can be used during Super Bowls and other major spectator events as well as in response to natural disasters. Research. In February, Gary Davis, director of e.e.r.c.'s Center for Clean Products and Clean Technologies (CCPCT), and CCPCT researcher Dean Menke traveled to the Netherlands, Germany, and France to gather data on cleaner production processes, cleaner technologies, waste minimization, and pollution prevention. In particular, Davis and Menke drew on European expertise in building data bases and promoting information sharing in the areas of cleaner technologies and pollution prevention. CCPCT researchers hope to bolster the information- sharing resources of the Waste Reduction Resource Center in Raleigh, North Carolina. The trip is part of a joint Tennessee Valley Authority/UT project funded through the Environmental Technology Initiative of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Presentations/Publications. Mary Swanson's article "A Screening Method for Ranking and Scoring Chemicals by Potential Human Health and Environmental Impacts" will be published in an upcoming issue of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. The article, co- authored with Gary Davis and Lori Kincaid of the CCPCT and other researchers from UT and the EPA, is based on development of a streamlined method for identifying chemicals that pose the greatest hazards to humans and the environment if released. In Indiana, the ranking-and- scoring method has been written into proposed legislation that would establish a system of pollution-prevention tax credits. The system would reward industries for reducing their use of toxic chemicals. In April, Richard Daniels presented "A Physical and Socioeconomic Index of Coastal Vulnerability" at The Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting in Charlotte, North Carolina. In addition, Daniels co-authored "An Innovative Method of Model Integration to Forecast Spatial Patterns of Shoreline Change: A Case Study at Nags Head, North Carolina," which appeared in volume 48 of The Professional Geographer. He also co-edited Rattlesnake Mountain Observatory Multispectral Optical Depth Measurements: 1979-1994 and Continental Scale Estimates of the Biotic Carbon Flux from Land Cover Change: 1850-1980. The latter two reports were prepared for ORNL's Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center. David Feldman and Catherine Wilt published "Evaluating the Implementation of State-Level Global Climate Change Programs" in the March issue of Journal of Environment and Development. The article explores criteria that might be used to evaluate state efforts to address the causes and consequences of global climate change.

Energy, Environment and Resources Center

The University of Tennessee

Highlights and Initiatives

June 1996

Highlights and Initiatives

Projects. Researchers from the Pellissippi Research Institute (PRI), a joint e.e.r.c./Transportation Center unit, have teamed with Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to establish a computer system that will help the Atlanta Police Department manage crowds and traffic and respond to emergencies during the Summer Olympic Games. In July, PRI staffers Don Hanlon, Gary Boruff, Steve Stamm, and Dean Miller and ORNL task leader Bob Hunter will begin a six-week stint in Atlanta to test and operate the Police Command and Control System. The system, which is designed for metro-area police departments, can be used during Super Bowls and other major spectator events as well as in response to natural disasters.

Research. In February, Gary Davis, director of e.e.r.c.'s Center for Clean Products and Clean Technologies (CCPCT), and CCPCT researcher Dean Menke traveled to the Netherlands, Germany, and France to gather data on cleaner production processes, cleaner technologies, waste minimization, and pollution prevention. In particular, Davis and Menke drew on European expertise in building data bases and promoting information sharing in the areas of cleaner technologies and pollution prevention. CCPCT researchers hope to bolster the information- sharing resources of the Waste Reduction Resource Center in Raleigh, North Carolina. The trip is part of a joint Tennessee Valley Authority/UT project funded through the Environmental Technology Initiative of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

Presentations/Publications. Mary Swanson's article "A Screening Method for Ranking and Scoring Chemicals by Potential Human Health and Environmental Impacts" will be published in an upcoming issue of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. The article, co- authored with Gary Davis and Lori Kincaid of the CCPCT and other researchers from UT and the EPA, is based on development of a streamlined method for identifying chemicals that pose the greatest hazards to humans and the environment if released. In Indiana, the ranking-and- scoring method has been written into proposed legislation that would establish a system of pollution-prevention tax credits. The system would reward industries for reducing their use of toxic chemicals.

In April, Richard Daniels presented "A Physical and Socioeconomic Index of Coastal Vulnerability" at The Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting in Charlotte, North Carolina. In addition, Daniels co-authored "An Innovative Method of Model Integration to Forecast Spatial Patterns of Shoreline Change: A Case Study at Nags Head, North Carolina," which appeared in volume 48 of The Professional Geographer. He also co-edited Rattlesnake Mountain Observatory Multispectral Optical Depth Measurements: 1979-1994 and Continental Scale Estimates of the Biotic Carbon Flux from Land Cover Change: 1850-1980. The latter two reports were prepared for ORNL's Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center.

David Feldman and Catherine Wilt published "Evaluating the Implementation of State-Level Global Climate Change Programs" in the March issue of Journal of Environment and Development. The article explores criteria that might be used to evaluate state efforts to address the causes and consequences of global climate change.

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