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| Alan Berger |
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| T. Allan Comp |
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| Belinda Arbogast |
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| Victor Ketellapper |
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| Frederick Turner |
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| PANEL DISCUSSION | Morning |
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| PANEL DISCUSSION | Afternoon |
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Projecting Reclamation in Design: Initiating Conversations Friday, December 3, 2004, 9:00AM-5:00PM LECTURE ABSTRACTS: Lecturer Name: George Antoniuk, OALA, ASLA, Manager - Management of Abandoned Aggregate Properties Program, Ontario, Canada Lecture Title: The MAAP Program - Small Scale Perspectives with Large Scale Implications Lecture Abstract: The rehabilitation of mined aggregate properties can largely be seen from two perspectives - the public perspective where individuals view the site intermittently and the personal perspective of the landowner who typically resides on or near the property and has intimate knowledge of the site. In the design and execution of rehabilitation work it is critical that the landowner appreciate the importance of time in allowing change to take place. Time is the most misunderstood factor in creating a new landscape. There are many design models which can be followed for rehabilitation work these include biodiversity, liability reduction and aesthetics. In the program we try to achieve a balance of the models. However, through a survey of participating landowners we discovered landowners were less satisfied with the visual quality of our work. The results of the survey will be presented and the implications discussed. Lecturer Name: T. Allan Comp, Ph.D. Lecturer Affiliation/Position: Interior: Office of Surface Mining: Watershed Assistance Team Lecture Title: Science and the Arts in Public Reclamation: Both Necessary, Neither Sufficient Lecture Abstract: In several projects, both East and West, the author is exploring the potential for a blend of good science with equally good design and good history, seeking to create the public advocacy for reclamation that science-only projects seldom generate. If public funds are to continue to support landscape reclamation, there must be larger roles for multiple public interests, particularly those found in the traditional academic Arts. It is these larger collaborative perspectives that can build useful new partnerships and bring needed sustainability to the quest for support for reclamation work. Lecturer Name: Belinda Arbogast Lecturer Affiliation/ Position: U.S. Geological Survey/Physical Scientist Lecture Title: Creating a landscape design agenda in a scientifically based mining world Lecture Abstract: Scientific research and technology influence the development of mines and their post-mining land use. Landscape design often plays an uncertain role. Based upon several interviews with earth scientists, there is a perception that landscape architects do not deal with facts and ignore the realities of the physical world. At the same time, scientists are facing increasing pressure to consider the social benefits, cultural history, and visual impact of their projects. These are issues that landscape architects deal with routinely. Research by a physical scientist/landscape architect with the U.S. Geological Survey provides a method for addressing future aggregate mining in urban areas. This research enables land planners, landscape architects, and industry to recognize that innovative reclamation designs based upon sound science better serve the public good. The ultimate result of this new science/design interface is objective, verifiable data in visual assessment practices that are consistent, explicit, and suitable within a physiographic region. Landscape architects must be comfortable with geographic information systems and expand their knowledge base in certain sciences (such as geomorphology and ecosystem management) in order to explore design alternatives in mining reclamation on an equal footing with other scientists. Lecturer Name: Caroline Digby Lecturer Affiliation/Position-Title: Development Director, Post-Mining Alliance Lecture Title: Post-Mining Alliance - Building Partnerships for Post-Mining Regeneration Lecture Abstract: The objective of the Post-Mining Alliance is to become an international leader in co-ordinating information exchange and facilitating the implementation of good practice to deal with the adverse social and environmental legacy of orphaned and abandoned mines and to plan for mine closure in an integrated way. It promotes multi-stakeholder approaches to these issues in which risks, responsibilities and opportunities are shared. It is building a network to transfer ideas, knowledge and technology globally and deliver action locally. The Post-Mining Alliance and its partners plan to carry out a range of project activities, which will centre on: * brokering multi-stakeholder solutions to priority cases of orphaned and abandoned mines and, from these, developing models of good practice; * promoting demonstration models of good practice in post-closure, using examples from mining regions worldwide. Lecturer Name: Victor Ketellapper Lecturer Affiliation/ Position: US Environmental Protection Agency, Region VIII, Superfund Program/ Project Manager Lecture Title: Landscape Reclamation Challenges at Superfund Sites: The Superfund Redevelopment Program Lecture Abstract: The Superfund Redevelopment Program is EPA's coordinated national effort to facilitate the return of the country's most hazardous waste sites to productive use by implementing cleanup remedies that are consistent with the anticipated future use of the sites. While EPA's primary mission is to protect human health and the environment, Superfund cleanups have also been instrumental in returning contaminated sites to protective use. These uses can be industrial or commercial, such as factories or retail; they can be used for housing, public works facilities, transportation, and other community infrastructure; they can be for recreational facilities, such as golf courses, parks, and ball fields; or for ecological resources, such as wildlife preserves and wetlands. Remedies at Superfund Sites often include the management of wastes on-site, such as contaminated soils, or long-term operations such as ground water collection and treatment. Thus, landscape reclamation and alternation will need to be coordinated with the remedy to assure long-term protection of human health and the environment. This presentation will provide and overview of the Superfund Redevelopment program and the unique challenges to redeveloping Superfund Sites. Lecturer Name: Billie Clark, Jr. Lecturer Affiliation/Position-Title: Manager, National Technical Innovation and Professional Services Program, Office of Surface Mining, Department of the Interior Lecture Title: Real-Time Coal Mining and Reclamation: OSM's Technical Innovation and Professional Services (TIPS) Program Lecture Abstract: The U.S. Office of Surface Mining's Technical Innovation and Professional Services (TIPS) is a national program and service developed by an innovative group of employees at the Office of Surface Mining, Department of the Interior. In cooperation with State and Tribal regulatory and reclamation agencies, as well as Office of Surface Mining offices nationwide, TIPS provides the latest off-the-shelf scientific and engineering software and hardware tools to Federal, State, and Tribal experts to do their job faster and more efficiently. Since its inception in 1988, it has expanded to serve 700 users in 96 offices nationwide. The tools provided consist of off-the-shelf software and technology used commonly for scientific and engineering applications for coal mining and reclamation. With the industry regulators at the State and Federal level using the very same tools, exchange of information is facilitated and the regulatory and reclamation processes are expedited. Through a system of license sharing, TIPS is able to provide 26 scientific software applications to 700 users nationwide with significant cost savings, procurement, and user support benefits. In addition, TIPS provides full, no-cost training to its customers at three training centers in Pittsburgh, PA; Alton, IL; and Denver, CO and at customers' on-site. This talk will focus on how TIPS users apply current technologies to assist them conducting in-field CAD design of abandoned mine projects and to help ensure that regulatory requirements are met and that environmental impacts of proposed coal mining and reclamation are revealed. Real-world examples from across the country will be provided that show emerging technology applications for GIS, CAD, remote sensing, GPS, mobile computing, and 3-D modeling. Lecturer Name: Peter Del Tredici Lecturer Affiliation/Position: Senior Research Scientist, Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University; Lecturer in Landscape Architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design Lecture Title: Rebuilding Ecological Networks in a Changing World Lecture Abstract: Like it or not, the world as we know it is rapidly changing as a result of the growth of the human population, the worldwide production of greenhouse gases, the ubiquitous spread of invasive species, and the massive habitat destruction as a result of natural resource harvesting and mega-construction projects. How can landscape professions prepare for a future which is dominated by such uncertainty? In this presentation, Dr. Del Tredici will examine the various available strategies, including sustainability, restoration, reclamation, and inhabited infrastructure. Lecturer Name: Dorion Sagan Lecturer Affiliation/Position: Sciencewriters, General Partner Lecture Title: What is Mine is Mine and What is Yours is Mine: Engineering in its Natural Context Lecture Abstract: I will explore the big picture of mining and the possibilities for reclamation by looking at engineering as a natural, human subsystem of complex growth processes in nature. Biomineralization, cyanobacterial declines in acidity to mines exposed to the proverbial disinfectant, sunlight, the evolutionary history of wastes from guano islands to ion stockpiling in shells and bones will be among the topics integrated. The thermodynamic basis for growth, biological and otherwise, will be examined. Gaia theory as an example of complex regulation without active intervention or even natural selection will be integrated into the discussion. Lecturer Name: Frederick Turner Lecturer Affiliation/Position: Founders Professor of Art and Humanities, University of Texas at Dallas Lecture Title: Valuing Alteration Lecture Abstract: This talk will attempt to go beyond factual questions such as: What is reclamation? How is it done? What are its constraints, legal, technological, geological, biological, etc? It will focus on value questions: What should reclamation be? Can reclamation go beyond remediation? What is good reclamation? What views of nature and of human beings will best serve good reclamation? How do we recognize and appreciate good reclamation? Can a better understanding of the nature of order, disorder, entropy, information, control, nonlinear dynamical processes, autonomy, and freedom help us develop a practical esthetics and ethics of reclamation? What can the history of landscape design, urban design, and the fine arts teach us here? |
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