Date/Location

August 21 - 23, 2018 at the Denver Federal Center, Building 25 Lecture Hall
Denver, Colorado

Summary

EPAs Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance's National Enforcement Investigations Center (NEIC) is pleased to announce its Second Annual Technical Information Exchange.  NEIC is hosting theTechnical Information Exchange to facilitate cooperation, innovation, and further development in the field of environmental monitoring, analysis and hazard assessment.  Last year’s Technical Information Exchange was a great success and provided a solid foundation for the Exchange this year.  Download the Agenda.

Background/Mission

Based in Denver, Colorado, NEIC provides technical support to complex criminal and civil investigations for EPA enforcement programs across the country.  A central tenet of NEIC’s mission is to protect human health and the environment by serving as EPA’s fully ISO-accredited forensics laboratory and by providing multi-disciplinary expert teams to support criminal and civil enforcement partners by gathering and providing legally defensible data, performing engineering evaluations, and analyzing forensic evidence.

Meeting Details

The Technical Information Exchange will consider both fundamental advances in detection and quantification technology as well as improved and innovative uses of existing technology.  Additionally, the Technical Information Exchange will provide a forum for discussion and further collaboration on research and development (R&D) focused on all aspects of the applications of science in the detection and quantification of environmental hazards.  Leveraging advancements made in the state of the science can improve the effectiveness and decrease the cost of data gathering and analytics across agencies and organizations.

Focus

For 2018, the Technical Information Exchange plans to feature presentations from Federal, State, local, and private partners relating to the following topics:

• New chemical, biological, and radiological monitoring and detection methodologies regarding lab measurement or field sampling activities involved in the detection and identification of pollutants, including chemical, biological, and radiological hazards.

• Regional, State, and local initiatives highlighting local priorities, challenges, and science and technology developments related to characterizing the presence, fate, and transport of both widespread chemicals or site-specific environmental agents.

• Combining ambient and compliance monitoring information, including detection of releases from ambient data, receptor modeling approaches for characterizing sources of releases, and use of remote sensing approaches to detect and characterize releases.

• Application of technologies from emergency response and homeland security, including examples of work supporting large-scale natural disaster response efforts.

• Design and application of networks of environmental sensors, including applications for the detection and characterization of contaminants, data processing and statistical analysis of networked data, and network design to facilitate source characterization.

• Bench to field success stories, including examples of technologies that bridge the gap between exploratory R&D and lab or field applications pertaining to the identification or quantification of pollutants and environmental hazards.

Call for Presentation Proposals

Interested presenters are invited to submit abstracts of 250-400 words in length for consideration to Brad Venner of NEIC at Venner.Brad@epa.gov, no later than June 8, 2018.

Members of the organizing committee will review abstracts for originality, structure, and relevance to the intended technical focus of the conference. Abstract-submitting authors will be informed of the acceptance of their abstract as an oral presentation no later than June 29, 2018.

Please note that the abstracts and corresponding presentations will appear as part of the conference proceedings, which will become available to the general public; please do not include confidential business information or proprietary information in your abstract or presentation.

Registration Information

Attendance to this meeting will be in-person only, and is free and open to the public. Please complete one registration form per attendee, and submit completed forms to Venner.Brad@epa.gov no later than August 1, 2018. (Registration form link removed).

Location and Hotel Information

Location Information:  The Denver Federal Center is a secure facility. Photo ID is required to enter the gates to the center and to enter Building 25.  The lecture hall/auditorium entry is located on the East (rear) side of the building, within view of the entrance at Door E-14.
Go to GSA's Denver Federal Center Information and Map.

Hotel Information:  There are several hotels within 2 miles of the meeting location, and some of the closest include:

Sheraton Denver West Hotel
360 Union Blvd,
Lakewood, CO 80228, 
(303) 987-2000

Baymont by Wyndham Denver West/Federal Center
11909 6th Ave
Golden, CO 80401 
(303) 731-6335

Hampton Inn Denver West Federal Center
137 Union Blvd
Lakewood, CO 80228
(303) 969-9900

Quality Inn & Suites Golden - Denver West - Federal Center
11907 W 6th Ave
Golden, CO 80401
(303) 231-9939