Agenda - SURF 16

SURF 16 Agenda Outline

The program on February 3 will kick off at 8:30 am and will be devoted to educational and informative presentations and discussions.  The meeting will begin with a Keynote Address from Kalanithy Vairavamoorthy, the leader of USF's School of Global Sustainability. Additional presentations will follow.  We are also looking forward to having an invited panel of guests discuss past, present, and future responses to the Deepwater Horizon spill.  The day’s program will end at about 5:00 pm, and then we'll proceed to dinner.

The program on February 4 morning will start at 8:30 am and be devoted to SURF committee activity and SURF business matters.  The afternoon of February 4 will center on a presentation by Dave Dzombak from Carnegie Mellon University as part of the USF College of Engineering 2011 Eminent Scholars Lecture Series.  Dr. Dzombak is the 2010-2011 Distinguished Lecturer of the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP).  Professors and masters students from USF, UF, and UCF will be attending the lecture, which will be followed by a reception and poster session from 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm. We encourage all of our SURF community to participate in this academic outreach opportunity.

Meeting registration is now closed.  Logistical information is available on the SURF meeting bulletin board.  Click here for a PDF version of the agenda.

The detailed agenda follows:

Day 1 – February 3, 2011

Assemble in the Marshall Student Center (MSC) Room 2709

US Call-in number: 800-725-9697, code 9277564
UK Call-in number: 0808-234-2303, same code

7:45 am – 8:30 am	Registration Refreshments in the Food Court area
8:30 am – 9:15 am	Welcome Introductions David Ellis, DuPont, 2010 SURF President Thomas Snelling, Chief Green Officer, City of Tampa
9:15 am – 10:00 am	Keynote Address Kalanithy Vairavamoorthy, Director, School of Global Sustainability, University of South Florida
10:00 am – 10:20 am	Break
10:20 am – 11:00 am	Presentation: Remediation Research at the University of South Florida Sarina Ergas, Associate Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of South Florida Maya Trotz, Assistant Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of South Florida
11:00 am – 11:20 am	SURF Board of Trustees Election Results
11:20 am – 12:00 pm	Presentation: Florida Phosphate Mining Industry Michelle Sims, Environmental Administrator, Bureau of Mining and Minerals Regulation, Florida Department of Environmental Protection Brian K. Birky, Ph.D., Research Director, Public & Environmental Health, Florida Industrial and Phosphate Research Institute
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm	Lunch at Marshall Center
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm	Panel Discussion: Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Jack Kindinger, Director, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey Gil McRae, Director, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Fish and Wildlife Research Institute Capt. Gary Petrae, National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration William Hogarth, Ph.D., Director of the Florida Institute of Oceanography, College of Marine Science, University of South Florida R. Timothy Short, Manager, Chemical Sensors Group, SRI International
2:30 pm – 3:00 pm	Break
3:00 pm – 3:45 pm	Presentation: Sustainable Remediation at the Sanford Gasification Plant Superfund Site Mark Fleri, Senior Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer, WRScompass
3:45 pm – 4:30 pm	News and Updates Committee Reports
4:30 pm – 5:00 pm	Sustainable Remediation Considerations for the Aerospace Industry Ben Foster, PG, Vice President, ARCADIS
6:30 pm – 9:00 pm	Dinner Columbia Restaurant - Ybor City 2117 East 7th Avenue Tampa, Florida 33605 813-248-4961

 Day 2 – February 4, 2011

Assemble in the Marshall Student Center (MSC) Room 2708 (different room from Day 1)

US Call-in number: 800-725-9697, code 9277564
UK Call-in number: 0808-234-2303, same code

7:45 am – 8:30 am	Registration Refreshments in the Food Court area
8:30 am – 9:00 am	Welcome Overnight Reflections and Revelations News and Updates
9:00 am – 9:30 am	SURF 2011 Objectives
9:30 am – 10:00 am	Government Outreach Initiative
10:00 am – 10:20 am	Break
10:20 am – 11:15  am	Technical Initiatives Committee Gathering ideas for SURF’s next Technical Initiatives
11:15 am – 12:00 pm	Academic Outreach Initiative Gathering ideas for academic research to further SURF’s Mission
12:00 pm – 12:30 pm	Reflections and Path Forward
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm	Lunch
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm	Lecture:  Dr. Dave Dzombak (location TBA) Dr. Dave Dzombak, Carnegie Mellon University.  Dr. Dzombak is speaking as part of the USF College of Engineering 2011 Eminent Scholars Lecture Series, and is the 2010-2011 Distinguished Lecturer of the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP).
3:30 pm – 5:00 pm	Poster Session and Reception (location TBA) Professors and masters students from USF, UF, and UCF are participating in a poster session following Dr. Dzombak’s lecture.