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The NIEHS Superfund Research Program (SRP) is sponsoring a Progress in Research webinar series, hosted by CLU-IN, to showcase federally funded researchers developing curricula and educational programs focused on emergent technologies in the sphere of occupational health and safety.

The three-part series will highlight researchers' projects, accomplishments, and demonstrate research products — included in this group of researchers are SRP's seven R25 grant recipients as well as participation from the NIEHS Worker Training Program (WTP) and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health (NIOSH).

To learn about and register for the other sessions in this webinar series, please see the SRP website.

City University of New York (CUNY) | New York Training Center for Emerging Technologies in Industrial Hygiene:
Brian Pavilonis, Ph.D., and Homero Harari, Sc.D., will plan to discuss the work their grant has facilitated in support of training and research opportunities for industrial hygiene students in New York City. They will also showcase a sensor technology employed in nail salons to monitor indoor hazardous airborne contaminants and the risks posed to nail technicians.

University of California, Los Angeles | Occupational and Environmental Exposures and Work Practices for Nanomaterials and Electronic Products:
Candace Tsai, Ph.D., will discuss how her grant provides professional training through academic curricula, research experiences, and continuing education courses in industrial hygiene and environmental health sciences to graduate students and industrial hygienists in the Southern California region. This presentation will also include several research results accomplished by graduate student trainees in the topics of electronic waste recycling and assessment, 3D printing evaluation, virtual reality applications to firefighters' workplace and potential biological effects associated with green solvent use as emerging alternatives. Additionally, current progress of UCLA's training program and emerging technology course will be summarized.

Purdue University | Distance Education and Training on Emerging Contaminants and Technologies (DETECT):
Ellen Wells, Ph.D., will introduce and provide the current status of her NIH R25 Distance Education and Training on Emerging Contaminants and Technologies (DETECT) project, which is a collaboration between faculty at Purdue University, the University of Toledo, and the University of South Florida. Goals of the project are to provide educational resources in the areas of Emerging Contaminants, Emerging Technologies, and Safety Management Systems.

NIEHS Superfund Research Program:
Michelle Heacock, Ph.D., and Danielle Carlin, Ph.D., of the NIEHS Superfund Research Program, will provide an overview of the Occupational Health and Safety Training Education Programs on Emerging Technologies (R25) program. To view this archive online or download the slides associated with this seminar, please visit http://www.clu-in.org/conf/tio/SRPPIR23_042624/

The ITRC Environmental Data Management Best Practices Team (EDMBP Team) prepared a series of guidance documents and case studies on best practices for all phases of EDM to address the need for guidance on managing large stores of environmental data. Environmental data management (EDM) is a broad field that encompasses all aspects of environmental research and regulation, from habitat studies and wildlife management plans to health advisories and remediation of hazardous waste sites.

The EDMBP Team developed three Roundtable training sessions to support the Guidance Document and case studies. You are welcome to register for any of the three, but they do not build upon each other.Data Management: Real Life Application of Data Management Planning and Field Data Collection Best PracticesData Exchange: Best Practices for Exchanging Environmental DataData Quality: Best Practices for Achieving and Maintaining Quality within Environmental Data ManagementNow more than ever, there is a need to store, manage and interpret environmental data for effective decision making. Advances in technology have led to an expectation for near immediate results. Stakeholders want answers now to the pressing questions that well-managed data can help answer. The demand to be better, faster, and smarter will only continue to increase as expectations grow. However, many organizations find themselves struggling so much with basic data infrastructure that they have difficulty meeting basic reporting requirements. Even more concerning is how unprepared regulatory agencies can be when called upon to deal with data-intensive environmental incidents. Given all this, the importance of enacting best practices for environmental data management cannot be overstated.

In this training, trainers will discuss concepts from the ITRC Environmental Data Management Best Practices documents focused on data management planning and field data collection. This discussion is intended for people of all skill or experience levels within the environmental industry or regulatory community. To view this archive online or download the slides associated with this seminar, please visit http://www.clu-in.org/conf/itrc/EDM-1_042524/

This training class builds on the earlier information for introductory PFAS topics presented in the PFAS 101 CLU-IN training. It provides more in-depth information for human health effects, ecological toxicity and ecological risk assessment, PFAS regulations, and AFFF alternatives and replacement.

Resources and further details for the topics included in this training are in the published PFAS-1 guidance document in Sections 7, 8 and 17.2 along with referenced tables.

Learning Objectives:
Discuss new information on the health effects of categories of PFAS not previously addressed. We'll also talk about the recent use of data from epidemiology studies to develop toxicity factors and guidelines; describe how the U.S. EPA has recently used a mixtures approach to derive a proposed MCL for 4 PFAS. We'll discuss why certain agencies are regulating PFAS as a class, and give examples, and will also give brief updates on our understanding of the adverse effects of PFAS after inhalation or dermal exposure.Discuss PFAS exposure pathways relevant to ecological receptors; general toxicological information available for invertebrates, vertebrates, and plants; the data gaps and uncertainties associated with ecotoxicological studies; and current approaches in ecological risk assessment of PFAS.Discuss development and findings of some of the External Data Tables including the Water and Soil Values Table, the Air Criteria Table, and the Regulatory Programs Summary Table. Discuss the current status of some of the Federal Regulations including drinking water regulations and how this may impact some states. Discuss the current status of AFFF alternatives and replacement. To view this archive online or download the slides associated with this seminar, please visit http://www.clu-in.org/conf/itrc/PFAS-BTB-HH_042324/

This ITRC training course will build upon PFAS sampling and analysis information presented in the PFAS 101 CLU-IN training. The ITRC PFAS Beyond the Basics class provides in-depth information on preparing for and implementing sampling events. Some detailed information and case studies are presented for sampling surface water and PFAS-containing foam that can form and aggregate at the surface water-air interface. The training includes information about PFAS analysis and discusses alternative qualitative analytical techniques. The occurrence of PFAS in air information from the literature for outdoor air, indoor air, settled dust and precipitation is discussed.

Resources and further details for the topics included in this training are in the ITRC Guidance Document (PFAS-1) in Sections 6, 11, 15, 16 and 17.1 along with referenced tables.

Learning Objectives:Key elements that make sampling for PFAS different from other sampling events.Best practices for preparing and conducting a PFAS sampling event.Matrix-specific PFAS sampling guidance.Surface water/foam sampling challenges and case study.Options for compound-specific PFAS analysis and key differences of available methods.Understanding PFAS analytical challenges (suspended solids, branched/linear isomers, bile salt interference).Qualitative analytical techniques and when they can be useful.Occurrence of PFAS in air. To view this archive online or download the slides associated with this seminar, please visit http://www.clu-in.org/conf/itrc/PFAS-BTB-1_041824/

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Superfund program has developed regulations and guidance for remediating radioactively contaminated CERCLA sites. The focus of this presentation is an overview of EPA's recommended guidance documents on ARARs and risk assessment, models for conducting risk and dose assessments, and community involvement tools for engaging in meaningful involvement with the public that are intended to be used during the process to determine cleanup levels for radioactively contaminated Superfund sites. The presentation is intended to help the audience obtain knowledge of EPA's recommended guidance to facilitate cleanups that are consistent with how chemical contaminants are addressed, except where technical differences posed by radiation are addressed. The guidance and tools that are discussed in the presentation are freely available on the internet. This webinar provides an updated version of Module 3 that was presented in the ITRC webinar "Radiation Site Cleanup: CERCLA Requirements and Guidance" on June 5, 2007. To view this archive online or download the slides associated with this seminar, please visit http://www.clu-in.org/conf/tio/remedial-radscleanup_041724/

The ITRC Environmental Data Management Best Practices Team (EDMBP Team) prepared a series of guidance documents and case studies on best practices for all phases of EDM to address the need for guidance on managing large stores of environmental data. Environmental data management (EDM) is a broad field that encompasses all aspects of environmental research and regulation, from habitat studies and wildlife management plans to health advisories and remediation of hazardous waste sites.

The EDMBP Team developed three Roundtable training sessions to support the Guidance Document and case studies. You are welcome to register for any of the three, but they do not build upon each other.Data Management: Real Life Application of Data Management Planning and Field Data Collection Best PracticesData Exchange: Best Practices for Exchanging Environmental DataData Quality: Best Practices for Achieving and Maintaining Quality within Environmental Data ManagementWhat good are data if you can't access it? At its root, data exchange is about making data accessible. It is the process of sharing data between systems. When it's done best, it is efficient, repeatable, and maintains the integrity of the data. At its worst, data are omitted, are mismatched, or there is no documentation on its origin. We think of data exchange in terms of incoming data and outgoing data. With incoming data, best practices span from inventorying sources to loading the data into a system. With outgoing data, best practices focus on documentation and automating exports into known schemas.

During this Roundtable training, we will tackle some of the challenging issues in data exchange. If you're new to data exchange, it may open your eyes. If you've been exchanging data for years, we hope to provide some new tricks or considerations for you. Some of the topics we'll cover include:What's the best way to handle using several analytical laboratories, each with a different electronic data deliverable (EDD)? When systems use different valid values and schema, how can you design an efficient, repeatable exchange? How do we know that the costly effort to extract, transform, and load the data from old PDFs into our system will provide value? If someone asks for "all the data" but doesn't have a plan for import to an existing system, how do you provide it in an understandable way in a raw format?We want to answer your questions too. Are you wondering about how to handle analytes duplicated with multiple analytical methods? Or when you should automate or when to manually exchange? No question is too minor. To view this archive online or download the slides associated with this seminar, please visit http://www.clu-in.org/conf/itrc/EDM-2_041624/