Adaptive Management and Approaches to Long-Term Success: Webinar

Iterative, real-time approaches tailored for the highly dynamic and complex nature of contaminated sediment sites.

We expend tremendous resources characterizing sites, evaluating risk, and designing and implementing a remedy—all in the face of immense natural variability and scientific uncertainties. Then, when we achieve unexpected monitoring results, there is confusion and uncertainty on how to move forward with the project.

As daunting as that prospect is, there are ways to minimize uncertainty and long-term costs while maximizing the success in reducing environmental risk. Implementing clear and early defined post-remediation monitoring requirements using an adaptive management plan can be the framework you need to reduce the uncertainty and risk throughout your projects.

Session Overview

In this hour-long discussion, EPA’s Doug Tomchuk and Integral Consulting’s Craig Jones and Marcia Greenblatt will share their expertise on remedy monitoring and adaptive management techniques and show how they can work in practice. They will explore these topics, followed by an open panel discussion:

An EPA Perspective on Adaptive Management — Doug Tomchuk

• Adaptive site management at a Superfund sediment site
• Refining your conceptual site model
• Moving to a final decision

Monitoring — Marcia Greenblatt, Ph.D., P.E.

• Baseline data for effective remedy effectiveness monitoring and AM
• Baseline and construction monitoring
• Post remedy monitoring

Adaptive Management — Craig Jones, Ph.D.

• What is it?
• Why is it important?
• Examples, proposed versus in practice
• Considerations