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

	Energy, Environment and Resources Center The University of Tennessee Highlights and Initiatives
July, 1997 Energy, Environment and Resources Center Jack Barkenbus, Executive Director Center For Clean Products and Clean Technologies Gary A. Davis, Director Office of Communications David Brill, Director Center for Geography and Environmental Education Rosalyn McKeown-Ice, Director Oak Ridge Technology Research and Development Program Sheila Webster, Director Pellissippi Research Institute Donald Alvic, Director Pro-Dialogue Mary R. English and David L. Feldman, Directors Water Resources Research Center Tim Gangaware, Associate Director For more information call Gail Farris at 865-974-4251 or write to UT, EERC, 311 Conference Center Building, Knoxville, TN 37996-4134. Visit our Web site at: http://eerc.ra.utk.edu/* .*	Research. The EERC's Center for Clean Products and Clean Technologies (CCPCT) recently released a report based on a two-year project that assessed seven alternative technologies for producing printed wiring boards. The project, under the direction of CCPCT Associate Director Lori Kincaid, involved the participation of CCPCT Research Scientist Mary Swanson; CCPCT Research Associate Jack Geibig; and Rupy Sawhney, Chris Cox, Bruce Robinson, and Nicholas Jackson from UT's College of Engineering. The EPA-funded project assessed how the alternative technologies compared with traditional plating techniques in terms of environmental impacts, costs, and performance. Presentations. In May, Assistant Research Professor Jonathan Rubin chaired a panel on "Needs for an Economic Assessment" as part of a national workshop funded by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The panel explored various methods for measuring the economic effects of ozone concentrations on ecological systems. The conference, held in Raleigh, North Carolina, was convened to advise the EPA on research needs with respect to setting a new secondary standard for ozone concentrations. This year, Rubin will be leading a study on episodic ozone control under the auspices of UT's Waste Management Research and Education Institute. Citations. Knoxville's Second Creek Task Force (SCTF), under the leadership of Tim Gangaware, associate director of the EERC's Water Resources Research Center, has been cited in a book titled Lessons Learned. The book was published by American Rivers, a conservation organization based in Washington, D.C. The task force, which received a 1996 Urban River Award from American Rivers, is cited for its efforts to assess pollution affecting Second Creek, devise a cleanup strategy, and implement stream-bank stabilization and habitat restoration. Publications/Papers. Lori Kincaid, CCPCT associate director, and Senior Research Associate Catherine Wilt published "There Auto be a Law" in the March 1997 edition of Resource Recycling. Kincaid and Wilt's article, based on a CCPCT study of vehicle recycling programs in 21 developing and industrialized countries, reports that many countries have proposed or implemented policies designed to support recycling of vehicles once the vehicles have reached the end of their useful lives. Senior Research Scientist David Feldman co-authored the paper "Reforestation: What Happens When the Joint Implementation Project Ends?" which was presented at the International Conference on Technologies for Activities Implemented Jointly. The conference was held in Vancouver, British Columbia, in May. Feldman wrote the paper with Gregg Marland, an ORNL researcher, and Bernhard Schlamadinger of Joanneum Research in Graz, Austria. The paper explores some of the issues inherent in various proposed forest-management projects aimed at reducing greenhouse gases. In January, Feldman and Graduate Research Assistant Ruth Anne Hanahan attended Environmental Management in the Nineties: Using the Right Tools, in San Antonio, Texas. At the conference, Feldman presented the findings of a report he prepared with Research Associate Ralph Perhac and Hanahan on comparative risk projects.

Energy, Environment and Resources Center

The University of Tennessee

Highlights and Initiatives

July, 1997

Energy, Environment and Resources Center

Jack Barkenbus, Executive Director

Center For Clean Products and Clean Technologies

Gary A. Davis, Director

Office of Communications

David Brill, Director

Center for Geography and Environmental Education

Rosalyn McKeown-Ice, Director

Oak Ridge Technology Research and Development Program

Sheila Webster, Director

Pellissippi Research Institute

Donald Alvic, Director

Pro-Dialogue

Mary R. English and David L. Feldman, Directors

Water Resources Research Center

Tim Gangaware, Associate Director

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

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

Research. The EERC's Center for Clean Products and Clean Technologies (CCPCT) recently released a report based on a two-year project that assessed seven alternative technologies for producing printed wiring boards. The project, under the direction of CCPCT Associate Director Lori Kincaid, involved the participation of CCPCT Research Scientist Mary Swanson; CCPCT Research Associate Jack Geibig; and Rupy Sawhney, Chris Cox, Bruce Robinson, and Nicholas Jackson from UT's College of Engineering. The EPA-funded project assessed how the alternative technologies compared with traditional plating techniques in terms of environmental impacts, costs, and performance.

Presentations. In May, Assistant Research Professor Jonathan Rubin chaired a panel on "Needs for an Economic Assessment" as part of a national workshop funded by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The panel explored various methods for measuring the economic effects of ozone concentrations on ecological systems. The conference, held in Raleigh, North Carolina, was convened to advise the EPA on research needs with respect to setting a new secondary standard for ozone concentrations. This year, Rubin will be leading a study on episodic ozone control under the auspices of UT's Waste Management Research and Education Institute.

Citations. Knoxville's Second Creek Task Force (SCTF), under the leadership of Tim Gangaware, associate director of the EERC's Water Resources Research Center, has been cited in a book titled Lessons Learned. The book was published by American Rivers, a conservation organization based in Washington, D.C. The task force, which received a 1996 Urban River Award from American Rivers, is cited for its efforts to assess pollution affecting Second Creek, devise a cleanup strategy, and implement stream-bank stabilization and habitat restoration.

Publications/Papers. Lori Kincaid, CCPCT associate director, and Senior Research Associate Catherine Wilt published "There Auto be a Law" in the March 1997 edition of Resource Recycling. Kincaid and Wilt's article, based on a CCPCT study of vehicle recycling programs in 21 developing and industrialized countries, reports that many countries have proposed or implemented policies designed to support recycling of vehicles once the vehicles have reached the end of their useful lives.

Senior Research Scientist David Feldman co-authored the paper "Reforestation: What Happens When the Joint Implementation Project Ends?" which was presented at the International Conference on Technologies for Activities Implemented Jointly. The conference was held in Vancouver, British Columbia, in May. Feldman wrote the paper with Gregg Marland, an ORNL researcher, and Bernhard Schlamadinger of Joanneum Research in Graz, Austria. The paper explores some of the issues inherent in various proposed forest-management projects aimed at reducing greenhouse gases. In January, Feldman and Graduate Research Assistant Ruth Anne Hanahan attended Environmental Management in the Nineties: Using the Right Tools, in San Antonio, Texas. At the conference, Feldman presented the findings of a report he prepared with Research Associate Ralph Perhac and Hanahan on comparative risk projects.

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