The Texas Association of Environmental Professionals is pleased to announce that
the Fifth Annual Environmental Challenges and Innovations Conference: Gulf Coast
2011 will take place on Thursday, February 10, 2011, at the beautiful Crowne Plaza Houston near the Reliant Park - Medical Center in Houston, Texas.
This one-day event will provide a local forum for environmental professionals in
industry, government agencies, and consulting/service companies, as well as university
students in the greater Houston area to share technical presentations with their
peers. After the success of the fourth annual event with more than 300 registered
attendees, we anticipate that this conference will again be well-attended by the
professional environmental community that it is designed to benefit.
Topics:
The event will again feature concurrent sessions with speakers organized
by subject matter such as:
- Soil
- Surface Water / Groundwater
- Air
- Sediments
- Environmental Risk Assessment
- Environmental Sustainability
- Remediation
- Wetlands
- Waste Handling
- Wastewater
- NEPA
- Environmental Innovations and Technology
- Environmental Management Systems Resources
- Process Safety Management / Risk Management Programs
- Environmental Auditing
- Site Investigation / Environmental Due Diligence
The Final Technical Session Schedule may be downloaded here.
First year to be posted prior to the conference!
Poster and Platform Presenation Abstracts are available here.
Special Sessions
Advances in Air Pollution Measurement Methods Workshop
Suresh Raja (Providence Engineering and Environmental Group)
Green Chemistry, European Union Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemical substances (REACH) Update, and proposed update to Toxic Substance Control Act (TSCA)...What does it mean to you?
Rebecca Luman and team!
Ethics Issues for Environmental Professionals
Austin Cooley, P.E., P.G. ( Brown and Caldwell)
For more details, click here!
Schedule of Events
The event will run all day beginning with registration at 7:30 a.m. and ending when
the entertainment is over at 8:00 p.m. In between, we'll have
morning and afternoon snack breaks, a lunchtime keynote presentation, and an evening
social.
A detailed Schedule of Events is available here.
Other Conference Highlights
• Luncheon Keynote Address by Laura Spanjian, Sustainability Director, City of Houston
Presentation of the Environmental Professional of the Year, Regulator of the Year,
and TAEP Member of the Year awards
• Up to eight (8) hours of Continuing Education credits for the P.E. and P.G. requirements
• Vendor exhibits
• Poster session
• Silent Auction
• Entertainment by Scott Sileo - Guitarboy during cash bar following the conference
Underwriter Opportunities
Planning and executing an event of this size requires diligence and hard work by
all of our volunteers as well as financial assistance from the environmental community.
The TAEP is therefore asking its industrial partners and service providers to help
underwrite this event.
Underwriter - Exhibitor Benefits Summary
Underwriters and Exhibitors Information
These organizations are supporting ECIC11 as Underwriters!
- RegScan, Inc. (Gold)
- USA Environment (Gold)
- EDGE Engineering and Science, LLC (Silver)
- Accutest Laboratories (Bronze)
- ALS Environmental (Bronze)
- Brown and Caldwell (Bronze)
- Caliche, Inc. (Bronze)
- CSS-Dynamac Corporation (Bronze)
Who is Coming?
TAEP will provide a conference program and attendee
list on the day of the conference.
The program will contain detailed information on participating underwriters, session
chairs, presenters, presentations, and exhibitors.
TAEP is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.