NDCEE - “Hands-on” Training Using ARAMS

ARAMS Adaptive Risk Assessment modeling System - FRAMES Framework for Risk Analysis in Multimeedia Environment Systems

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AGENDA

Registration
(When attending the ARAMS "Hands On" Training participants are not obligated to register for the SRA annual meeting itself unless they would like to attend it as well.)

Questions, please contact:
Gina Hudak, Event Coordinator • Concurrent Technologies Corporation (CTC)
Phone: 814-269-2870 • E-mail: hudak@ctc.com

To register, please complete the registration form by November 3, 2006.
As the date approaches, additional details will be provided on the website.

Sponsored by SRA

Applying Publicly Available Environmental Models and Databases within a Single Human and Ecological Risk Assessment Tool: “Hands-on” Training Using ARAMS

Purpose/Goals
Introductory classroom training and “hands-on” tutorial using the shareware Adaptive Risk Assessment Modeling System (ARAMS). An open discussion will be accommodated at the end of the day to explore practical application of the risk sciences through ARAMS to select areas such as emerging contaminants and nanoparticles

Agenda

8:00 Welcome & Classroom Introductions

8:15 History and Current Applications Using ARAMS

9:00 ARAMS User Interface and Main Page Features

10:00 Coffee Break

10:30 Conceptual Site Model Development
Overview of FRAMES modular modeling

12:00 Lunch Break (Lunch not provided)

1:00 Example applications for human and ecological risk

3:00 Afternoon Break

3:15 Documenting results
Where to Get Help

3:30     Open Discussions/Breakout Sessions
Emerging Contaminants– Opportunities for Applying ARAMS
(Facilitators: Dr. Randall Cramer & Rich Mirsky)

Nanoparticles and Risk – Parameterization for ARAMS Application
(Facilitator: Dr. Shannon Lloyd)

4:30     Reconvene/Session Findings & Closing Remarks

5:00 Adjourn

Instructors:

Dr. Mark Dortch is Research Civil Engineer in the Environmental Laboratory of the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center with over 34 years of experience in mathematical modeling. His experience has included hydraulics, hydrology, water quality, environmental transport processes, and contaminant fate/transport modeling. From 1983 to 2002, he served as Chief, Water Quality and Contaminant Modeling Branch of the Environmental Laboratory. Dr. Dortch recently led the development of Army’s Adaptive Risk Assessment Modeling System (ARAMS) for evaluating human and ecological health impacts/risks associated with exposure to contaminants. He has over 130 technical publications, and he has been a recipient of the Army Research and Development Achievement Award. Dr. Dortch is a registered professional engineer in Mississippi.

Mr. Jeff Gerald is a Research Physical Scientist in the Environmental Laboratory of the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) in Vicksburg, MS. Since 1992, he has been involved in a wide array of projects including water quality and contaminant modeling of groundwater and surface water, computer programming of numerical and analytical models, evaluation of human health and ecological risk assessment software frameworks, development of a screening-level model for estimating pollutant removal by wetlands, development of a database for physicochemical and toxicological properties of military range compounds, development of a source characterization model for use in evaluating the fate and transport of munition residues on firing ranges, and development/deployment of the Army’s Adaptive Risk Assessment Modeling System (ARAMS) for evaluating human and ecological health impacts/risks associated with exposure to contaminants. He has authored/coauthored more than a dozen technical publications and has been a past recipient of the ERDC Research and Development Achievement Award. Mr. Gerald is a registered Engineer in Training (EIT) in the state of Louisiana.