The Collaborative on Health and the Environment – Northwest

at the Portland State Office Building, 800 NE Oregon Street, Room 1C

Sponsor: Oregon Department of Human Services, Public Health Division

Research has been emerging in the last decade that shows whether we drive, bike, walk or take the bus can have impacts on our health through the amount of physical activity we get or the quality of air we breathe. For example, studies show that using public transportation for commuting can help people meet recommended daily levels of physical activity. In this presentation, you will learn about the science connecting transportation and health and the results of a recent local health impact assessment that examined policies to reduce the amount of miles that people travel in cars. You will also have the opportunity to learn about ways public health and transportation professionals can start working together on these issues. Presenters will be Leslie Perdue, research associate in Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Oregon Health and Sciences University, and John MacArthur, Sustainable Transportation Program manager at Oregon Transportation Research and Education Consortium (OTREC).

Price: free

Contact: Nancy Goff, nancy.m.goff@state.or.us

at the Corinthian Yacht Club of Seattle, 7755 Seaview Ave NW

Sponsor: EOS Alliance

This sampling course is designed for anyone collecting ambient water samples for low-level total and dissolved trace metals. This one-day course will include a half day in the classroom with lectures covering the circumstances in which low-level detection limits would be desired or required, potential routes of metals contamination, necessary sampling supplies, various sampling techniques, proper handling and preservation of samples, and field quality assurance sample collection requirements. The second half of the day, students will engage in hands-on field exercises in which they will be given the opportunity to practice several surface water sampling protocols using various sample collection methods and following the "Clean Hands/Dirty Hands" sampling techniques.

Price: $295, or $250 for Native American tribes; government employees; nonprofits; students; and NAEP, NEBC, NWAEP members

Website: http://nwetc.org/chem-305_07-09_seattle.htm

Contact: Northwest Environmental Training Center, 206-762-1976

Sponsor: Fertility/Reproductive Health Working Group of the Collaborative on Health and the Environment

This call will discuss the basics of environmental reproductive health science. This call is intended to help refresh continuing participants as well as inform those who are new to the information. On this call, presenters will discuss what we know about 1) how rates of infertility and other reproductive-health problems have changed as industrial chemical production has proliferated over the last 70 years; 2) what sound scientific evidence is increasingly revealing about links between environmental contaminants and these health problems; 3) where the limitations are in our health tracking and exposure data; 4) how policies can change to reflect what we know, even in the face of inevitable scientific uncertainty; and 5) what professionals and health-affected leaders can do. Featured presenters will be Ted Schettler, MD, MPH; Tracey Woodruff, PhD, MPH; Philip R. Lee; and Rivka Gordon, PA-C, MHS.

Price: free

Website: http://healthandenvironment.org:80/articles/doc/6166

Sponsor: American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Jordi Sunyer, MD, of the Center for Research in Environmental Epidemiology in Barcelona, Spain will speak.

Price: free

Website: http://www.aaidd.org/ehi/content_332.cfm?navID=111

Contact: 800-424-3688

Sponsor: US Environmental Protection Agency National Center For Environmental Research

Two webinars are presented as a progress review for the grantees from the RFA "Early Indicators of Environmentally Induced Disease." Three grantees present on the first day and two on the second. Presentations: 1) Integrating Innovative Biomarkers of Environmentally Induced Disease for Children in Agricultural Communities by Elaine Faustman; 2) PON1 as a Predictor of Differential Susceptibility of Children to Organophosphate Pesticides by Brenda Eskenazi; 3) Biomarkers Of Health Risks Associated With Environmental Exposure To Arsenic by Miroslav Stýblo; 4) Assessment of Perinatal PBDE Exposure and Related Child Behavioral and Cognitive Effects by Julie Daniels; and 5) Development of Molecular Biomarkers to Measure Environmentally Induced Immune Responses by Lisa Miller.

Price: free

Website: http://epa.gov/ncer/events/#july1409

Contact: see the contact page

at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center

Sponsor: Law Seminars International

The Washington State Department of Ecology is beginning a major rewrite of the Model Toxics Control Act regulations. This seminar will explore these potentially controversial changes, which range from revised vapor intrusion standards to new sediment cleanup rules. This seminar will also address long-standing issues such as Ecology's implementation of the cleanup program, the evolution of the Voluntary Cleanup Program, and the cleanup of sites along Puget Sound. Lawyers, consultants, environmental groups, and parties involved with cleanups will want to hear the latest developments concerning issues they may have when conducting cleanup of contaminated property.

Price: $695, government employees $495, students $347.50; home study is also available

Website: http://www.lawseminars.com/detail.php?SeminarCode=09MTCAWA

at the Northwest Environmental Training Center Headquarters, 650 S. Orcas Street, Suite 220

Sponsor: Northwest Environmental Training Center

After completing this course participants will be able to provide clarity and structure for understanding the overlapping web of climate and energy policies that have arisen quickly at the state, regional and municipal levels.

Price: $250, or $195 for individuals from Native American tribes, government employees or nonprofits, $125 for students

Website: http://nwetc.org/sust-406_07-09_seattle.htm

Contact: 206-762-1976

at the University of Washington

Sponsor: University of Washington

Participants in this course of study gain an overview of the broad and complex field of environmental regulation, as well as familiarity with key laws that have the greatest influence on the management of natural resources. They also improve their understanding of agencies and organizations that create, enforce, interpret, and work with environmental regulations. The program covers federal, state and local law, with emphasis on the overriding federal and state statutes. This meeting will address questions from potential students.

Price: unknown

Website: http://www.extension.washington.edu/ext/certificates/env/env_gen.asp

Contact: 206-685-8936 or use the online email form

at the William H. Gates Hall on the University of Washington Campus

Sponsor: Northwest Center for Public Health Practice

Classes cover what's current in public health practice including emergency preparedness, leadership, management and new ways to integrate skills that are practical and provide dual use that address both emergent and everyday issues. You'll hear from leading experts in the field on cross-cutting issues and receive practical, case-based training from nationally renowned faculty. Network with colleagues from across the nation and learn what others are doing to impact public health in their communities. All courses address both the practical application of the subject matter and how to integrate these needed skills in emergency preparedness for planning and response.

Price: $1200 until June 13th or $1500 after

Website: http://www.nwcphp.org/training/summer-institute

Contact: Trudy San Jose White, 206-685-2931 sanjose@u.washington.edu

Sponsor: Great Lakes Green Chemistry Network

The Investor Environmental Health Network is a collaborative partnership of investment managers, advised by nongovernmental organizations, concerned about the financial and public-health risks associated with corporate toxic-chemicals policies. IEHN, through dialogue and shareholder resolutions, encourages companies to adopt policies to continually and systematically reduce and eliminate the toxic chemicals in their products. As of early 2008, IEHN members managed more than $41 billion in assets.

Price: free

Contact: Lin Kaatz Chary, 219-938-0209

Sponsor: US Environmental Protection Agency

This eleventh training conference brings together more than 450 people from EPA and its federal, state, tribal and local partners who plan and implement environmental community involvement, partnership, stewardship, outreach and education programs. The theme for the 2009 conference is "Reaching across Boundaries: Sharing Challenges and Opportunities." The theme acknowledges that boundaries exist all around us and can pose challenges to effectively solving environmental problems. However, if stakeholders can move across boundaries, they can identify mutual challenges and opportunities that can lead to sustainable environmental benefits. During the conference we will explore communication skills and processes, organizational/institutional issues and behavioral shifts as ways to reach across boundaries to achieve these environmental benefits.

Price: see the registration page

Website: http://www.epa.gov/ciconference/index.htm

Contact: Community Involvement Conference Coordinator, ciconference@emsus.com

Sponsor: American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Michael Weitzman, MD, professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry, New York University School of Medicine, will speak.

Price: free

Website: http://www.aaidd.org/ehi/content_332.cfm?navID=111

Contact: 800-424-3688

at NWETC Headquarters, 650 South Orcas Street, Suite 220

Sponsor: EOS Alliance

Many ecologists and managers often use statistical models that may not be appropriate or that violate basic model assumptions (i.e. independence), which can lead to erroneous conclusions. We will begin with an introduction to ecological statistics and then explore and discuss several methods: Non Metric Multidimensional Scaling, Classification and Regression Trees, and Non Parametric Multiplicative Regression.

Price: $495, $395 for Native American tribes; government employees; nonprofits; students; and NAEP, NEBC, NWAEP members

Website: http://nwetc.org/stat-404_09-09_seattle.htm

Contact: Northwest Environmental Training Center, 206-762-1976

at the Portland Convention Center

Sponsor: Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation, Resource Agency California Department of Fish and Game, Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, Hawaii State Department of Health, Washington State Department of Ecology, US Coast Guard

Companies from throughout the oil- and chemical-spill, maritime-security industry and the marine salvage industry will be in attendance. Key professionals from regulatory agencies, the federal and state/provincial government and private industry will address the real issues of cooperation, regulation, preparedness, prevention and response. rom planning through final response, the conference remains focused on the real challenges, trends and solutions that affect the energy industry, regulatory community and responders, including open discussion from both a regulator and industry perspective.

Price: see the registration form

Website: http://www.cleanpacific.org/

Contact: see the contact page

at the Tukwila Community Center

Sponsor: Local Hazardous Waste Management Program in King County, Public Health – Seattle & King County, Washington State Department of Ecology's Hazardous Substance Information and Education Office, the United States Environmental Protection Agency – Region 10, and the North American Hazardous Materials Management Association

Through policy-making, research and individual action, governments, nonprofit organizations, private business, educational institutions and individuals can work together to protect our children and our future. To highlight the importance of children's environmental health and to foster such new partnerships and initiatives, the Washington chapter of the Collaborative on Health and the Environment (CHE-WA) is planning a two-day Children's Environmental Health Forum. Thursday will primarily focus on science, and Friday will feature policy and practice.

Price: unknown

Website: http://www.chenw.org/CEHforum.html

Contact: Julia Berg, Julia.Berg@kingcounty.gov

at Northwest Environmental Training Center, 650 South Orcas Street, Suite 220

Sponsor: Northwest Environmental Training Center

This course provides participants with an overview of key chemistry concepts associated with environmental contamination and provides a foundation for understanding contaminant transport and fate. This material is intended for environmental professionals who are not chemists, but who require a fundamental understanding of chemistry principles for their work. This course is recommended for all environmental professionals working with contaminated soil and water with minimal formal training in the subject. It is also recommended for project managers seeking a review of the subject. This course is part of a series and is immediately followed by the Contaminant Chemistry and Transport in Soil and Groundwater Workshop and then the Monitored Natural Attenuation course. Attendees may register for courses individually.

Price: $250, or $195 reduced tuition available for Native American tribes; government employees; nonprofits; students; and NAEP, NEBC, NWAEP members

Website: http://nwetc.org/chem-403a_10-09_seattle.htm

Contact: Northwest Environmental Training Center, 206-762-1979 or info@nwetc.org

Sponsor: International Federation of Environmental Health

The theme "Global Health Protection From Sea to Sky" provides a broad platform from which we will explore universal challenges to environmental health in an era of increasing globalization.

Price: unknown

Website: http://www.ifeh2010.org/