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Rocky Mountain Regional Hazardous Substance Research Center Training and Technology Transfer Program
EPA Grant Number: R829515C005Subproject: this is subproject number 005 , established and managed by the Center Director under grant R829515
(EPA does not fund or establish subprojects; EPA awards and manages the overall grant for this center).
Center: HSRC - Rocky Mountain Regional Hazardous Substance Research Center for Remediation of Mine Waste Sites
Center Director: Shackelford, Charles D.
Title: Rocky Mountain Regional Hazardous Substance Research Center Training and Technology Transfer Program
Investigators: Woods, Sandra L.
Current Investigators: Wildeman, Thomas
Institution: Colorado State University
EPA Project Officer: Lasat, Mitch
Project Period: November 1, 2001 through October 31, 2003
Project Amount: Refer to main center abstract for funding details.
RFA: Hazardous Substance Research Centers - HSRC (2001)
Research Category: Hazardous Waste/Remediation
Description:
Objective:The primary goal of the Rocky Mountain Regional HSRC Training and Technology Transfer Program is to provide effective training and technology transfer resulting in the progression of ideas from the laboratory to application. Cooperation between Centers is critical to creating efficiencies that will allow the highest quality outreach programs. We will establish partnerships with other Centers to leverage their programs - providing service to Region 8. Similarly, we will seek to establish ties with the Training and Technology Transfer Programs of existing centers to meet needs in other regions pertaining to mining wastes, metals contamination, and acid mine drainage.
The purpose of the Training and Technology Transfer Program is to support the mission of the Center by: (1) promoting organizational linkages, (2) ensuring outreach to industry, communities, and states, (3) facilitating the use of innovative means of information transfer, (4) supporting investigations at the interface of disciplines, (5) exploiting opportunities in science, engineering, and technology where the complexity of the research needs requires the advantages of scope, scale, duration, equipment, and facilities, and (6) capitalizing on diversity through involvement of under-represented groups.
Approach:The Center will facilitate the progression of laboratory research to field applications by supporting activities that result in idea generation, information transfer, laboratory and pilot-scale testing, field demonstrations and applications. Training and technology transfer activities will be developed based on the needs of the stakeholders and will incorporate face-to-face interaction and technologies, as appropriate. Expected Results:
The Rocky Mountain Regional HSRC meets each of the project objectives through the use of multi-disciplinary teams spanning multiple institutions, through linkages to existing HSRC's, and through the use of a wide variety of information transfer media. The project will result in several activities that generate new ideas (i.e. annual Center meetings, joint research projects, seminars, etc.), that transfer information (i.e. conference presentations, expansion of the Tailings and Mine Waste Conference, publications, Web sites, electronic and print-based newsletters), as well as activities that support and transfer information concerning laboratory-, pilot-scale, and field applications. Supplemental Keywords:
acid mine drainage, remediation, mine waste, risk assessment, technology transfer, training, outreach. , Industry Sectors, Water, Scientific Discipline, Waste, RFA, Remediation, Geology, Ecological Risk Assessment, Hazardous Waste, Environmental Engineering, Contaminated Sediments, Hazardous, Mining - NAIC 21, Ecology and Ecosystems, arsenic, heavy metals, risk assessment, runoff, treatment, mining impacted watershed, redox, contaminated waste sites, mining, mining wastes, stream ecosystems, acid mine runoff, suspended sediment, acid mine drainage, groundwater, technical outreach, remediation technologies, contaminant transport, natural organic matter, metal contamination, aquatic ecosystems, sediment transport, field monitoring, contaminated marine sediment, training and outreach, technology transfer
Progress and Final Reports:
2002 Progress Report
2003 Progress Report
2004 Progress Report
2005 Progress Report
Main Center Abstract and Reports:
R829515 HSRC - Rocky Mountain Regional Hazardous Substance Research Center for Remediation of Mine Waste Sites