Thank you for your interest in this year’s event. Partners in Environmental Technology has become the hallmark of the annual Technical Symposium & Workshop hosted by the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) and the Environmental Security Technology Certification Program (ESTCP). NEW this year!  The Symposium & Workshop has been expanded to a full three-day format that will offer a more comprehensive technical program featuring 13 technical sessions and several short courses.

Symposium Registration is now available! See the left column for details. Additionally, information about the technical sessions and short courses can be found under the "Agenda"  tab on this page.

This conference of approximately 1,000 attendees will assemble this nation’s best environmental researchers and technology developers with the defense user and regulatory communities to showcase cutting edge environmental technologies and ideas, as well as communicate the most difficult challenges of our defense establishment. Through this process, SERDP and ESTCP strive to provide a forum for users in the field to examine these technologies that may offer solutions to the most pressing problems.

PLENARY SESSION AND PROJECT-OF-THE-YEAR AWARDS

The opening Plenary Session program will feature Amory Lovins, a MacArthur Fellow and consultant experimental physicist educated at Harvard and Oxford who has advised the energy and other industries for more than three decades as well as the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). Other plenary speakers will include COL Cynthia A. Murphy, the Commander of the U.S. Army Garrison – Fort Lewis, Washington and Ms. Sheri Goodman, General Counsel at the CNA Corporation, a nonprofit organization that provides analysis and solutions for the DoD and other public sector leaders.  SERDP and ESTCP Principal Investigators who have helped DoD achieve its mission while improving its environmental performance also will be honored during the Plenary Session as the annual SERDP and ESTCP Project-of-the-Year Awards are announced. Additional information about the Plenary Session is available under the Agenda tab at the top of the page.

TECHNICAL SESSIONS AND SHORT COURSES

The Plenary Session will pave the way for the start of the comprehensive technical program. Technical sessions will highlight research and innovative technologies that are assisting DoD to address increasingly complex environmental challenges. Throughout the three days, short courses on select technologies in the environmental restoration and munitions management focus areas will offer unique training opportunities on recent advancements. Details about the technical sessions and short courses are available under the Agenda tab at the top of the page. Invited Speakers: Guidance for Speakers

FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

On Thursday during the Symposium, the Executive Director of SERDP and ESTCP will conduct a session providing a summary of SERDP and ESTCP program development and opportunities for interested researchers to conduct research and technology demonstrations. 

EXHIBIT HALL

This year’s Symposium & Workshop will feature the highly successful poster sessions and exhibit booths and showcase a number of technologies and scientific advancements from a variety of environmental research programs over two days (Tuesday and Wednesday). Attendees will have an opportunity to learn first-hand about ongoing and recently completed SERDP research projects and ESTCP technology demonstrations. Additional information about posters and exhibit booths is available under the Exhibit Hall tab at the top of the page. Note: The Call for Poster Abstracts has closed. The deadline for submitting abstracts for consideration was July 31, 2008.