e.e.r.c: Highlights and Initiatives: March, 1997

	Energy, Environment and Resources Center The University of Tennessee Highlights and Initiatives
March, 1997 Energy, Environment and Resources Center Jack Barkenbus, Executive Director Center For Clean Products and Clean Technologies Gary A. Davis, Director Pro-Dialogue Mary R. English and David L. Feldman, Directors Center for Geography and Environmental Education Rosalyn McKeown-Ice, Director Pellissippi Research Institute Donald Alvic, Director Oak Ridge Technology Research and Development Program Sheila Webster, Director Water Resources Research Center Tim Gangaware, Associate Director Office of Communications and Publications David Brill, Director For more information call Gail Farris at 865-974-4251 or write to EERC, 311 Conference Center Building, Knoxville, TN 37996-4134. Visit our Web site at: http://eerc.ra.utk.edu/* .*	Projects. The EERC's Water Resources Research Center (WRRC), under the direction of Tim Gangaware, has launched a three-year initiative to develop workshops and prepare a how-to manual to guide Tennessee communities in assessing and restoring damaged waterways. The Urban Watershed Restoration Project, which received $200,000 in funding from the Tennessee Department of Agriculture's Non-Point Source Program, evolved in response to the Clean Water Act of 1990. The act requires states to address problems related to non-point source pollution. WRRC is also collaborating with the state's Non-Point Source Program in developing a curriculum for Water Education for Teachers in Tennessee (WETT). The three-year program will help teachers devise educational activities linked to local and state water-quality issues. Part of the project involves collaboration with the UT Art Department and the Innovative Technologies Center in developing a CD-ROM-based program that will allow students to create virtual-reality watersheds reflecting the characteristics and challenges specific to their communities. Awards. Forum for Applied Research and Public Policy, a quarterly journal published by UT, won an award for editorial excellence from the International Association of the Communications Arts and Sciences, headquartered in New York City. The publication also won the "Best-of-Show" award from the East Tennessee Chapter of the Society for Technical Communication for its editorial work and art. Forum recently negotiated an agreement with Kinko's national chain of copy centers, whereby Kinko's will print the journal and make article reprints available on demand to researchers and students across the country. Forum welcomes TVA Rural Studies, an organization based at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, and the Rural Policy Research Institute as new sponsors. Performance. The EERC has served as UT's representative on the Jacobs Engineering-Environmental Management Team since its formation in 1994. In that capacity, EERC has provided professional environmental services in Oak Ridge to the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge Operation (ORO). The EERC currently has 10 employees assigned to the team under the leadership of Sheila Webster, director of EERC's Technology Research and Development Program. The team was recently praised for its achievement, receiving a 4-plus Contract Performance Rating from ORO. Plus ratings are awarded only if contractor performance exceeds an excellent rating. In a recent ceremony, the team was presented with the Jacobs President's Excellence Award by top Jacobs Engineering officials. Publications. EERC Senior Fellow William Park published "Regional Cooperation for Municipal Solid Waste Management in Rural Areas" in the February 1997 edition of Waste Age. Senior Research Associate Kim Davis published "Current Use of Bioremediation for Trichloroethylene Cleanup: Results of a Survey" in the autumn 1996 issue of Remediation. Senior Research Scientist Dave Feldman and Graduate Research Assistant Ruth Anne Hanahan's article "Public Perceptions of a Radioactively Contaminated Site: Concerns, Remediation Preferences, and Desired Involvement" appeared in the December issue of Environmental Health Perspectives: Journal of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.

Energy, Environment and Resources Center

The University of Tennessee

Highlights and Initiatives

March, 1997

Energy, Environment and Resources Center

Jack Barkenbus, Executive Director

Center For Clean Products and Clean Technologies

Gary A. Davis, Director

Pro-Dialogue

Mary R. English and David L. Feldman, Directors

Center for Geography and Environmental Education

Rosalyn McKeown-Ice, Director

Pellissippi Research Institute

Donald Alvic, Director

Oak Ridge Technology Research and Development Program

Sheila Webster, Director

Water Resources Research Center

Tim Gangaware, Associate Director

Office of Communications and Publications

David Brill, Director

For more information call Gail Farris at 865-974-4251 or write to EERC, 311 Conference Center Building, Knoxville, TN 37996-4134.

Visit our Web site at: http://eerc.ra.utk.edu/ .

Projects. The EERC's Water Resources Research Center (WRRC), under the direction of Tim Gangaware, has launched a three-year initiative to develop workshops and prepare a how-to manual to guide Tennessee communities in assessing and restoring damaged waterways. The Urban Watershed Restoration Project, which received $200,000 in funding from the Tennessee Department of Agriculture's Non-Point Source Program, evolved in response to the Clean Water Act of 1990. The act requires states to address problems related to non-point source pollution. WRRC is also collaborating with the state's Non-Point Source Program in developing a curriculum for Water Education for Teachers in Tennessee (WETT). The three-year program will help teachers devise educational activities linked to local and state water-quality issues. Part of the project involves collaboration with the UT Art Department and the Innovative Technologies Center in developing a CD-ROM-based program that will allow students to create virtual-reality watersheds reflecting the characteristics and challenges specific to their communities.

Awards. Forum for Applied Research and Public Policy, a quarterly journal published by UT, won an award for editorial excellence from the International Association of the Communications Arts and Sciences, headquartered in New York City. The publication also won the "Best-of-Show" award from the East Tennessee Chapter of the Society for Technical Communication for its editorial work and art. Forum recently negotiated an agreement with Kinko's national chain of copy centers, whereby Kinko's will print the journal and make article reprints available on demand to researchers and students across the country. Forum welcomes TVA Rural Studies, an organization based at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, and the Rural Policy Research Institute as new sponsors.

Performance. The EERC has served as UT's representative on the Jacobs Engineering-Environmental Management Team since its formation in 1994. In that capacity, EERC has provided professional environmental services in Oak Ridge to the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge Operation (ORO). The EERC currently has 10 employees assigned to the team under the leadership of Sheila Webster, director of EERC's Technology Research and Development Program. The team was recently praised for its achievement, receiving a 4-plus Contract Performance Rating from ORO. Plus ratings are awarded only if contractor performance exceeds an excellent rating. In a recent ceremony, the team was presented with the Jacobs President's Excellence Award by top Jacobs Engineering officials.

Publications. EERC Senior Fellow William Park published "Regional Cooperation for Municipal Solid Waste Management in Rural Areas" in the February 1997 edition of Waste Age. Senior Research Associate Kim Davis published "Current Use of Bioremediation for Trichloroethylene Cleanup: Results of a Survey" in the autumn 1996 issue of Remediation. Senior Research Scientist Dave Feldman and Graduate Research Assistant Ruth Anne Hanahan's article "Public Perceptions of a Radioactively Contaminated Site: Concerns, Remediation Preferences, and Desired Involvement" appeared in the December issue of Environmental Health Perspectives: Journal of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.

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