Professional Activities
“Biodiesel versus Diesel: A Pilot Study Comparing Exhaust Exposures for Employees at a Rural Municipal Facility” will be published in the September 2010 volume (Vol. 60) of the peer-reviewed Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association. This technical report is authored by four KSC researchers: Nora Traviss and Brett Thelen (Environmental Studies), Jaime Kathryn Ingalls (contract lecturer in Safety Studies), and Dean Melinda Treadwell. It features data collected in part by undergraduate student researchers in the Safety Studies department, and also represents a successful partnership between KSC and the City of Keene, as the field research was conducted on site at the Keene Recycling Center with the support and cooperation of City of Keene staff. It was supported through funding provided by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence grant P42 ES07373 and the EPA Science to Achieve Results fellowship grant FP916576.
Brian E. Green, Sociology/Anthropology, attended the International Sociological Association World Congress from July 13-17 in Gothenburg, Sweden. He presented two papers at the conference: “Social Implications of the Digital Divide” and “Global Governance for Resource Dispute Resolution: Connections between Energy Scarcity, Ecological Conflict, and the Future of International Regimes for Addressing Environmental Crises.” The first presentation discussed the evolving patterns of inequality in access to Information and Communication Technologies and the second presentation focused on conceptualizing models of global governance to help resolve environmental problems that have impacts internationally.
Al Rydant, Geography, received an Education Tourism Grant provided by PromPeru National Tourism Board, North American Association for Environmental Educators, National Association of Biology Teachers, and National Council for Geographic Education to join the Peruvian International Studies for Education, Development Delegation in Northern Peru, August 12-19, 2010. The delegation’s goal was to study development potential of pre-Inca archaeological sites, particularly the Moche and Chachapoya cultures.
