Advanced Monitoring, Remote Sensing, and Data Gathering, Analysis and Disclosure in Compliance and Enforcement (2015 J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Environmental Law Symposium)

When
March 26, 2015 12:27 pm — March 27, 2015 12:27 pm
Where
Washington, DC

Panels for this year's symposium included:

  • The State of the Art of Technology
  • Advanced Monitoring
  • Citizen Monitoring
  • Information Gathering, Analysis and Disclosure
  • State Perspectives
  • Policy Perspectives

 Video and presentation materials are available for download at the individual links below.


 

Agenda

Thursday, March 26

8:30-9 am: Registration

9 am-12:30 pm: Panel One | The State of the Art of Technology [view Video]

Moderator

Jay Benforado, Deputy Chief Innovation Office, U.S. EPA Office of Research and Development

Panelists

  • Jim Bonner, Clarkson University, Chief Research Officer, Beacon Institute for Rivers and Estuaries [PDF]
  • Tim Dye, Sonoma Technologies [PDF]
  • Steve Hamburg, Chief Scientist, EDF [PDF]
  • Peter Preuss, Chief Innovation Officer, EPA Office of Research and Development [PDF]
  • Beth Stauffer, University of Louisiana - Lafayette, former Fellow at EPA ORD) [PDF]
  • Mark Trekell, Director, IBM [PDF]
  • Sara Wylie, Northeastern University and Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science [PDF]

12:30-1:45 pm: Lunch with Speaker Gary Marchant, Regents Professor of Law, Arizona State Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law [PDF]

1:45-2 pm: Presentation of the Jamie Grodsky Prize for Environmental Scholarship

2-4 pm: Panel Two | Advanced Monitoring [view Video]

Moderator

David Hindin, Senior Policy Director for Innovation and Next Generation Compliance, U.S. EPA Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance [PDF]

Panelists

  • Lee Breckenridge, Northeastern University School of Law
  • Keith Cartnick, Director of Water Quality Compliance, United Water [PDF]
  • David Grinlinton, University of Auckland Faculty of Law [PDF]
  • Cameron Holley, University of NSW
  • Matthew Klein, Adjunct Professor, Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law
  • Darren Sinclair, The Australian National University [PDF]
  • Anastasia Telesetsky, University of Idaho College of Law [PDF]

4-4:15 pm: Break

4:15-5:30 pm: Panel Three | Citizen Monitoring [view Video]

Moderator

Lee Paddock, The George Washington University Law School

Panelists

  • Anne Havemann, Center for Progressive Reform [PDF]
  • Margaret Parish, Hogan & Lovells [PDF]
  • Irma Russell, University of Montana [PDF]

5:30 pm: Preview of RSM Erasmus University Program by Professor Martin de Bree [PDF]

 

Friday, March 27

8-8:30 am: Continental Breakfast

8:30-10:30 am: Panel Four | Information Gathering, Analysis, and Disclosure [view Video]

Moderator

Ken Markowitz, Managing Director, International Network of Environmental Compliance and Enforcement

Panelists

  • Julien Betaille, Toulouse 1 University Capitole [PDF]
  • Han de Haas, Policy Advisor on Enforcement, Province of Brabant
  • Cameron Holley, University of New South Wales Law School [PDF]
  • Ronan Kennedy, National University of Ireland, Galway [PDF]
  • Darren Sinclair, University of New South Wales Law School

10:30-10:45 am: Break

10:45 am-12:15 pm: Panel Five | State Perspectives [view Video]

Moderator

Thomas Burack, Commissioner, New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services [PDF]

Panelists

  • Katie Koelfgen, Manager, Land and Air Compliance, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency [PDF]
  • Mohsen Nazemi, Deputy Executive Office, Office of Engineering and Compliance, South Coast Air Quality Management District [PDF]
  • Victoria Phillips, Director, Enterprise Information Office, Mass DEP [PDF]

12:15-1:30 pm: Lunch with Speaker Cynthia Giles, Assistant Administrator, EPA Office of Enforcement and Compliance Monitoring [PDF]

1:30-3:30 pm: Panel Six | Policy Perspectives [view Video]

Moderator

Steve Hellem, Corporate Environmental Enforcement Council

Panelists

  • Steven Cook, LyondellBasell
  • John Dombrowski, Director, Enforcement Targeting and Data Division, EPA
  • Robert Glicksman, The George Washington University Law School [PDF]
  • Tracy Hester, University of Houston Law Center [PDF]
  • David Hindin, EPA [PDF]
  • David Markell, Florida State University College of Law
  • Glenn Sanford, Sam Houston State University
  • Jon Silberman, EPA