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Phytoremediation

Superfund Basic Research Program

This Risk-e-Learning seminar series focuses on Phytoremediation featuring SBRP researchers, EPA regulators, and NPL site engineers. This multi-part series explores phytoextraction, phytodegradation, phytostabilization.


These trees, planted in 2003 and photographed in 2007, are part of a groundwater phyto system designed to control the migration of a BTEX/TPH plume in Raleigh NC.
Photo courtesy of Ari Ferro, URS Corporation.
 These trees, planted in 2003 and photographed in 2007, are part of a groundwater phyto system designed to control the migration of a BTEX/TPH plume in Raleigh NC.  Photo courtesy of Ari Ferro, URS Corporation.

Phytoremediation: The Potential is Growing

Seminar web page (http://www.clu-in.org/conf/tio/phyto1/) Exit NIEHS Website, Archived recording (http://www.clu-in.org/live/archive.cfm#200810 14) Exit NIEHS Website
October 14, 2008; 2:00 - 4:00 pm EDT

  • Moderator: Kris Geller (http://www.itrcweb.org/teampublic_Phytotechno logies.asp) Exit NIEHS Website, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP)
  • Presenter: David Tsao, BP Corporation North America, Inc.
  • Presenter: Jerald Schnoor (http://www.engineering.uiowa.edu/faculty-staf f/profile-directory/cee/schnoor_j.php) Exit NIEHS Website, SBRP-University of Iowa

Phytoremediation of Organics

Seminar web page (http://www.clu-in.org/conf/tio/phyto2/) Exit NIEHS Website
November 12th, 2008; 2:00 - 4:00 pm EST

  • Moderator: Felicia Barnett, Office of Research and Development, Superfund and Technology Liaison, U.S. EPA, Region 4
  • Presenter: Ari Ferro, Principal Environmental Scientist, URS Corporation
  • Presenters: Stuart Strand (http://faculty.washington.edu/sstrand/) Exit NIEHS Website, SBRP-University of Washington

Phytoremediation of Metals

Seminar web page (http://www.clu-in.org/conf/tio/phyto3/) Exit NIEHS Website
November 25th, 2008; 2:00 - 4:00 pm EST

  • Moderator: Heather Henry, Superfund Basic Research Program
  • Presenter: Michael Blaylock (http://www.edenspace.com/team/index.html?expa ndable=2) Exit NIEHS Website, Vice President of Systems Development, Edenspace
  • Presenter: Raina Maier (http://ag.arizona.edu/SWES/people/cv/maier.ht m) Exit NIEHS Website, University of Arizona

Registration is free - but space is limited!

For more information, contact:

Heather Henry (919) 541-5330 (henryh@niehs.nih.gov) or
Justin Crane (919) 794-4702 (cranej2@niehs.nih.gov)
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Last Reviewed: July 23, 2008