Past Forums

 
Date Topic Speakers

6/19/2008 Environmental Risks of Modern Chemistry: Pharmaceuticals, Flame Retardants, and Emerging Contaminants in the Lower Columbia River Basin

Elena Nilsen, Research Chemist, U.S. Geological Survey
Jennifer Morace, Hydrologist, U.S. Geological Survey


4/17/2008 Pinnipeds, Fishes, and Humans - Can't We All Just Get Along?

Garth Griffin, Supervisory Fishery Biologist, National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS)


2/20/2008 Agricultural Groundwater Contamination Issues in Oregon

Stuart Childs, Kennedy/Jenks


12/13/2007

Terroir of the Northern Willamette Valley, Oregon

Annual Holiday Party

 

Scott Burns, Professor, Department of Geology, PSU


9/20/2007 Global Peak Oil and the Pacific Northwest 

Jim Jackson, Associate Professor, Department of Geology, PSU


8/16/2007 6th Annual Summer Social 

None


6/21/2007 Sustainability at PDC and Green Affordable Housing

Cindy Bethell, Sustainability Manager, PDC

Michael Prothe, Senior Construction Coordinator, PDC


4/19/2007 Columbia Slough: Partnering for an Effective Cleanup

Bruce Gilles, DEQ Northwest Region Cleanup Program Manager


2/22/2007 Nanotechnology and the Environment: Solution or Problem?

Dr. Paul Tratnyek, Professor in the Department of Environmental and
Biomolecular Systems at OHSU's OGI School of Science & Engineering


12/14/2006 Portland Harbor: Progress Update and the What the Future Holds

Jim Anderson, DEQ Technical Project Coordinator for Portland Harbor


(Absent - Presentation given by Jim Anderson) Jim McKenna, Port of Portland Superfund Program Manager and Co-Chair of the Lower Willamette Group.


10/19/2006 US Army Corps Wetland Jurisdiction & Oregon's Programmatic Permitting Jim Goudzwaard, USACE, Portland District

Kevin Moynahan, Oregon State Department of State Lands

Kevin Herkamp, Oregon Department of State Lands

9/21/2006 OTIA III State Bridge Delivery Program Brian Bauman, Environmental Design-Build Manager with OBDP

8/03/2006 5th Annual Summer Social  None

6/08/2006

VOCs in the Nation's Drinking-Water Supply Wells - What Findings Mean to Human Health

Dr. Patty Toccalino, U.S. Geological Survey


4/20/2006

Water Quality Standards: Compliance and Public Health Perspectives

Martin (Marty) Fitzpatrick, Oregon Department of Environmental Quality
Dave Stone, Oregon State Public Health


3/20/2006

Environmental Forensics: Use of Geochemical Markers
to Assess Organic Contaminants in Groundwater

Dr. René Schwarzenbach/Professor of Environmental Chemistry, Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ) in Zurich, Switzerland


12/15/2005

Tsunami Hazard on Oregon/Washington Coast

Annual Holiday Party

Curt Peterson/Portland State University


10/20/2005 Towards Sustainability - Local and National Perspectives

Larry Chalfan/ZWA
Wayne Rifer/Rifer Environmental


9/15/2005 DEQ's Vision, Priorities, & Organization

Stephanie Hallock/Oregon DEQ Director


8/18/2005 4th Annual Summer Social 

None


6/16/2005 Willamette River Basin Mgmt  

Matt Rea /USACE Portland District
Jolyne Lea/Forecast Hydrologist


4/21/2005 Portland Air Toxics Assessment  

Cory-Ann Wind/NWR Air Quality Technical Assistance, Oregon Department of Environmental Quality
Phil Allen/Air Quality Senior Modeler, Oregon Department of Environmental Quality
Bill Stein/Senior Transportation Planner for Metro


2/17/2005 RSET Project: Technical and Regulatory Challenges for Establishing a Consistent Sediment Evaluation Framework for the Pacific Northwest

Taku Fuji, Kennedy/Jenks Consultants
Jim Reese, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers


12/09/2004

Cascade Range Volcanoes: Updates on Mt. St. Helens, Mt. Hood, and South Sister

Annual Holiday Party

Thomas Pierson, U.S.G.S. Volcano Hazards Program

10/14/2004 Perspectives on the Northwest Forest Plan Mike Haske/Bureau of Land Management, Oregon State Office
Susan Jane Brown/
Pacific Environmental Advocacy Center (PEAC) as Lewis and Clark Law School

9/9/2004 Multi-Species Candidate Conservation Agreement Landmark ESA Agreement for Threemile Canyon Farms Jennifer Miller/Ecologist
Kemper McMaster/State Supervisor, Oregon Fish and Wildlife Office, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Portland, Oregon
Tom Lindley/Perkins Coie LLP

8/19/2004 Annual Social Gathering at McCall's Waterfront Cafe None

06/10/04 The Columbia River Channel Improvement Project Dave Hunt/Executive Director of the Columbia River Channel Coalition, Laura Hicks/Army Corps of Engineers, Portland District. and Steve Courtney/Vice President, Sustainable Ecosystems Institute, Portland, Oregon

04/20/04 "Toxic" Mold Inside Commercial Buildings—Emerging Indoor Air Quality Problem, Status of the Law, and Environmental Due Diligence Greg Baker/AMEC Earth & Environmental, Inc.
David Bledsoe/Perkins Coie LLP

02/12/04 Aquifer Storage and Recovery: An Innovative Water Management Tool Larry Eaton/Groundwater Solutions Inc. and  David Winship/City of Beaverton

12/11/03 Portland Harbor: Current Status of the RI/FS and Progress Made to Date Bob Wyatt/Northwest Natural and Jim Anderson/Oregon DEQ

10/09/2003

Natural Resources Damage Assessment (NRDA) in Oregon and Washington: An NRDA Primer and a Comparison of Each State's Approaches to NRDA

Dick Logan/Washington State Department of Ecology and
Kammy Kern-Korot/Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife

09/11/2003

City of Portland—Update on Stormwater Management Strategies and Priorities

Mary Wahl/City of Portland BES
Kevin Masterson/Oregon DEQ

08/14/2003

Networking/Social Gathering at Paddy's Bar and Grill

None

06/12/2003

Hydrological and Legal Aspects of Water Management in the Klamath Basin

Marshall Gannett/USGS, Douglas Macdougal/Schwabe, Williamson, and Wyatt, and Steve Bruce/GeoEngineers

04/10/2003

Management of Emergency Response and Disaster Recovery in Oregon

Ken Murphy/Deputy Director of Oregon Emergency Management,
Chuck Donaldson/Manager for Emergency Response and Site Assessment for the Oregon DEQ, and Paul Slyman/Deputy Director of Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ)

02/20/2003

Superfund Liability Update:
How New Legislation and Administrative Rules Impact Hazardous Waste Cleanup Liability

Jeff Detlefsen/Detlefsen Law Office PC and John Fahsbender, Perkins Coie LLP

12/12/2002 Proposed Revisions to
Portland Well-Field Wellhead Protection Program
Jeff Dresser/Bridgewater and Jeff Leighton/City of Portland

10/10/2002 Greenway Review and Implications for Willamette River Source Control Tim Carter/City of Portland Bureau of Planning and Eric Blischke/Oregon DEQ

 9/12/2002 Abandoned Mine Issues—Hazards, Regulatory Priorities, and Cleanup Ben Mundi/Department of Geology and Mineral Industries, Jeff Christensen/Oregon DEQ, and Herb Clough/Hart Crowser

8/8/2002 Networking/Social Gathering at the Veritable Quandary None

6/13/2002 Environmental Regulation at the State, Federal, and Local Levels Fred Hansen/Tri-Met

4/11/2002 New Arsenic Standard for Drinking Water Tom Charbonneau/Oregon Health Division, Randy Rohman/City of Woodburn, Travis Tormanen/Kennedy/Jenks Consultants

2/20/2002 Update on Cultural Resource Issues David Ellis/Consulting Archaeologist, Kathleen Feehan/Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, Kim Cox/DEQ

12/13/2001 Changes in Water Resource Policy Development, The Effect of Politics and Multiple Interest Groups Colonel Eric T. (Rick) Mogren/Kleinfelder (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-Retired)

10/10/2001 City of Portland Combined Sewer Overflow Project Gary Irwin/City of Portland and Aaron Leritz/CH2M HILL

9/13/2001 DEQ/Ecology Regulatory Update Stephanie Hallock/Oregon DEQ and Sue Mauermann/Washington Ecology

6/14/2001 Energy and the Environment Kurt Humphrey/Cogentrix Energy, Tom Wood/Stoel Rives, and Mark Bricker/CH2M HILL

5/17/2001 The Environment and State Legislature Jim Witty/Lobbyist and Representative Mary Nolan

4/12/2001 The Yards at Union Station—The Successful Conversion of a Brownfields Rail Yard to Multiple-Use Development Leonard Farr/AMEC Earth and Environmental

2/8/2001 City of Portland Brownfield Showcase Program Domonic Boswell/City of Portland and Pamela Hertzberg/City of Portland

12/14/2000 Environmental Assessments—Geophysical Investigations and River Sediment Sampling Ralph Soule/Geopotential and Steve Cappellino/Anchor Environmental

10/19/2000 Sustainable Development and The Natural Step, Applications for the City of Portland and Private Industry City of Portland Commissioner Dan Saltzman and Dan Cutugno/ESCO Corp.

 

 
 

 
 
 
 
 
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