Upcoming Meetings

Upcoming CREEC Events:

September 9, 2010:  Host:  Alan Vadja. TBA.

Workshop at the Golden Community Center led by the Institute for Environmental Solutions:  Clean Up Your Beauty Routine.  Tuesday, July 13, 6:00 p.m. – 7:15 p.m.  Course number 27040 session 2.  Make and take home two of your own natural beauty products in this hands-on workshop and learn why making and buying natural products benefit your health and the environment. Many personal care products contain chemicals that aren’t removed in the traditional water treatment process, so they end up back in water and in the environment.  
Age:  13 and older.  $10 Material Fee payable directly to instructor.  Register online at https://rec.cityofgolden.net or call the Golden Community Center at (303) 384-8100

Other Upcoming Meetings

 Guide to Chemical Contaminant-Free Grocery Shopping, Tuesday, May 18, 6:00 – 7:15 p.m.  Come to this workshop and take steps to protect your health, drinking water and the environment from contaminants of emerging concern.  Learn which chemical contaminants may be in the foods you buy and smarter ways to shop while making the most of your money and time.  13 years and older. $10 Material Fee payable directly to instructor.  Workshop will be held in the Beaver Brook Room at the Golden Community Center Advance registration required at www.goldenrec.com/golden/ then it is listed under course number 27025

TransCon2010, an international conference on the topic of  "Environmental transformation of organic compounds: Towards a joint perspective on the importance of transformation products as environmental contaminants", to be held September 12-17, 2010, at Monte Verità, Ascona, Switzerland. Abstract deadline is April 16, 2010

14th International Conference, IWA Diffuse Pollution Specialist Group: Diffuse Pollution and Eutrophication. The conference (DIPCON 2010)aims to build a cooperation bridge to share and transfer the knowledge and technology among established and young specialists from developed and developing countries interested in diffuse pollution. The variety and complexity of processes generating and delivering diffuse pollution concern scientists, economists, policy specialists and stakeholders working together to identify new approaches and solutions to protect water, air and soil resources. Contaminants from diffuse sources include sediment, nutrients, metals, trace elements, pesticides, pathogens, pharmaceuticals and other anthropogenic chemicals. To be held near Quebec City, Canada, September 12-17, 2010

Past CREEC Events

February 11, 2010 CREEC meeting was sponsored Thomas Borch at Colorado State University (did a great job at making this work).  Theo Colborn, author of Our Stolen Future, spoke via phone from her home in Southwest Colorado on health effects, recent research, and the politics of the Kerry/Moran Bill.  Mike Focazio (USGS Office of Water Quality and Toxics Substances Hydrology Program) was snowed in on the East Coast, but convinced Ed Furlong (USGS Denver) to do his presentation about recent studies of contaminants of emerging concern by the USGS.  Copy of intro slides.

2007 American Water Resources Association Summer Specialty Conference - Emerging Contaminants of Concern in the Environment: Issues, Investigations, and Solutions  http://www.awra.org/proceedings/cdrom.html#Vail_2007  

2007 Northeast Water Science Forum - Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products: State of the Science
 http://www.neiwpcc.org/ppcpconference/ 

2005 CREEC Conference as part of the South Platte Forum
 http://www.southplatteforum.org/2005_forum.htm 
Past Events related to Emerging Contaminants
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Workshop on Pharmaceuticals in the Environment, August 23-25, 2005
http://es.epa.gov/ncer/publications/workshop/drinking_aug23-25_03.html  

All SETAC meetings (links to PDF document of meeting abstracts; not all EC focused) http://www.setac.org/htdocs/what_meet_setac.html  

Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin - Emerging Contaminants Workshop Presentations
http://www.potomacriver.org/water_quality/safewater/DWSP/ECs/ECWorkshop_2005.htm