Call for Papers
Conference Background: What does the ozone hole have to do with my CEO's bottom line? Why can't industrial manufacturers in the US and elsewhere grow and protect the environment at the same time? Company-wide reporting, such as the Global Reporting Initiative that are focused on tracking environmental performance as well as emissions and releases are becoming increasingly important. It is no secret that environment-friendly firms outperform on stock exchanges. Not coincidentally, the measurements used for environmental performance are directly related to studies showing the effect of emissions on the environment. Is the data collection timeframe meaningful? What do we need to know to effectively analyze this information on a global scale? If you are a business decision-maker or need to supply information to them, if you are a researcher or environmental statistician, or if you have a charge to develop and implement environmental policy, this conference is for you.
Moreover, both stack and ambient air quality measurements are being collected in ever-increasing numbers, and the data are more freely shared across the Internet than ever before. Hence, more environmental data sets are available for novel analyses, from source attribution to neural networks. This conference will bring together environmental data analysts to present their interpretations on trends, data mining techniques, statistical uncertainties, metric development processes, and other relevant topics. By sharing these techniques and the success stories, environmental data analysts will be better able to shape their future work in their specific geographic areas and with their particular data sets.
This conference is a must for all professionals involved with the theory and practice of environmental protection. Intuitively, you have ideas on what works, but does your data support it? In reality, measurements are complicated and confusing. Therefore, this conference will focus on understanding what high quality environmental data, data systems, and data analysis might be needed or desirable to support sound conclusions and management decision-making (whoever the decision-maker is, CEO, plant manager, federal/state/local official, international bodies, etc.).
This dynamic event will feature oral and poster presentations, as well as a student poster session.
Abstracts for oral and poster presentations are sought in the following areas:
1. Environmental Compliance Programs and Data Evaluation Techniques
- How policy makers use and communicate analyses
- Robust trends and time series analyses of ambient pollutant data for emission reduction strategies, measuring progress, and meeting national standards
- Techniques for developing effective metrics
2. Environmental Information Management Technologies and Environmental Management
- Air quality data management
- Analysis of large data sets
- Monitoring and understanding regional and global environmental data
- Examination of uncertainty and risk in environmental statistics
3. EH&S Performance Metrics for Managing Business Risk
- Sustainable development metrics
- Monitoring and understanding regional and global environmental data
- Information solutions requirements for material and waste management
4. Real-time Environmental Management Solutions/Analyses
5. Scientific Evaluation of Data for Environmental Consequences
- Data needs for computing risk and adverse environmental effects
- Health effects studies
- Air toxic risk assessment
- Scale of representativeness for a monitoring network
6. Application of Statistics to Environmental Data
- Application of data mining techniques
- Network comparisons and evaluations
- Time series and trend detection analysis
- Source Attribution Techniques
- GIS tools and applications -- contouring, gridding, etc.
- Case studies of analysis of geo-spatial trending and spatial-temporal analyses
7. Air Quality Data Management and Forecasting Systems
- Use of predictive modeling and estimations
- Predictions of effluent and emissions composition
8. New Developments in Environmental Data Analysis
- PM size distribution data
- Evaluating environmental justice concerns
- GHG emissions, trends and trading effectiveness
Platform/poster presentations are invited, with accepted papers to be included on CD Rom proceedings. All authors must submit a 200-400 word electronic abstract on the A&WMA online abstract management system. The system will open by November 30, 2004. If you would like to submit prior to that date, please contact Amy Klaus, Technical Programs Coordinator at aklaus@awma.org.
Abstracts are due by March 11, 2005. The preliminary program and notification of paper acceptance will be made by April 22, 2005. The manuscript or extended abstract (see below) will be due by August 26, 2005.
In recognition of the demands of preparing a full manuscript for the proceedings, two options for the proceedings will be available to authors: 1) a full manuscript or 2) an extended abstract.Call for Papers
Conference Background: What does the ozone hole have to do with my CEO's bottom line? Why can't industrial manufacturers in the US and elsewhere grow and protect the environment at the same time? Company-wide reporting, such as the Global Reporting Initiative that are focused on tracking environmental performance as well as emissions and releases are becoming increasingly important. It is no secret that environment-friendly firms outperform on stock exchanges. Not coincidentally, the measurements used for environmental performance are directly related to studies showing the effect of emissions on the environment. Is the data collection timeframe meaningful? What do we need to know to effectively analyze this information on a global scale? If you are a business decision-maker or need to supply information to them, if you are a researcher or environmental statistician, or if you have a charge to develop and implement environmental policy, this conference is for you.
Moreover, both stack and ambient air quality measurements are being collected in ever-increasing numbers, and the data are more freely shared across the Internet than ever before. Hence, more environmental data sets are available for novel analyses, from source attribution to neural networks. This conference will bring together environmental data analysts to present their interpretations on trends, data mining techniques, statistical uncertainties, metric development processes, and other relevant topics. By sharing these techniques and the success stories, environmental data analysts will be better able to shape their future work in their specific geographic areas and with their particular data sets.
This conference is a must for all professionals involved with the theory and practice of environmental protection. Intuitively, you have ideas on what works, but does your data support it? In reality, measurements are complicated and confusing. Therefore, this conference will focus on understanding what high quality environmental data, data systems, and data analysis might be needed or desirable to support sound conclusions and management decision-making (whoever the decision-maker is, CEO, plant manager, federal/state/local official, international bodies, etc.).
This dynamic event will feature oral and poster presentations, as well as a student poster session.
Abstracts for oral and poster presentations are sought in the following areas:
1. Environmental Compliance Programs and Data Evaluation Techniques
- How policy makers use and communicate analyses
- Robust trends and time series analyses of ambient pollutant data for emission reduction strategies, measuring progress, and meeting national standards
- Techniques for developing effective metrics
2. Environmental Information Management Technologies and Environmental Management
- Air quality data management
- Analysis of large data sets
- Monitoring and understanding regional and global environmental data
- Examination of uncertainty and risk in environmental statistics
3. EH&S Performance Metrics for Managing Business Risk
- Sustainable development metrics
- Monitoring and understanding regional and global environmental data
- Information solutions requirements for material and waste management
4. Real-time Environmental Management Solutions/Analyses
5. Scientific Evaluation of Data for Environmental Consequences
- Data needs for computing risk and adverse environmental effects
- Health effects studies
- Air toxic risk assessment
- Scale of representativeness for a monitoring network
6. Application of Statistics to Environmental Data
- Application of data mining techniques
- Network comparisons and evaluations
- Time series and trend detection analysis
- Source Attribution Techniques
- GIS tools and applications -- contouring, gridding, etc.
- Case studies of analysis of geo-spatial trending and spatial-temporal analyses
7. Air Quality Data Management and Forecasting Systems
- Use of predictive modeling and estimations
- Predictions of effluent and emissions composition
8. New Developments in Environmental Data Analysis
- PM size distribution data
- Evaluating environmental justice concerns
- GHG emissions, trends and trading effectiveness
Platform/poster presentations are invited, with accepted papers to be included on CD Rom proceedings. All authors must submit a 200-400 word electronic abstract on the A&WMA online abstract management system. The system will open by November 30, 2004. If you would like to submit prior to that date, please contact Amy Klaus, Technical Programs Coordinator at aklaus@awma.org.
Abstracts are due by March 11, 2005. The preliminary program and notification of paper acceptance will be made by April 22, 2005. The manuscript or extended abstract (see below) will be due by August 26, 2005.
In recognition of the demands of preparing a full manuscript for the proceedings, two options for the proceedings will be available to authors: 1) a full manuscript or 2) an extended abstract.
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