News: Workshop Announcement! Altavista’s 6-acre Petri Dish. June 17-18, 2015

Altavista’s 6-acre Petri Dish: Testing Sustainable Solutions for PCB Contaminated Sediments

This workshop will highlight lab and field work as well as research resulting from 3 years of in-situ PCB degradation and containment in the Town of Altavista, Virginia’s 6 acre waste water overflow pond.

June 17, 9:30 - 4:30 for technical presentations

June 18, 9:30 - 12:00 for touring the pond

at the Institute for Advanced Learning and Research; 150 Slayton Ave, Danville, VA 24540

Speakers include: 

Jerry Schnoor, PhD, University of Iowa

Kevin Sowers, PhD, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Jason White, PhD, Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station

Lou Licht, PhD, Ecolotree, Inc

Sponsored by US EPA

Click here to register online:  http://tinyurl.com/IALR-PCB-Workshop