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April 13, 2000

Brookhaven Lab Celebrates Earth Day With Week of Activities, April 15-22

EVENT: Week-long celebration leading up to Saturday, April 22, the 30th anniversary of Earth Day. Events on April 22 will include a four-mile race at 10:00 a.m., a "Fun Run" for children 12 and under and other activities for youngsters. Additional events will be held throughout the week (see below).

WHO: The public is invited to participate.

WHERE: Brookhaven National Laboratory

DETAILS: All week long, Brookhaven Lab will host a series of events to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Earth Day. All of the events listed below are open to the public, and the media are also invited to attend. Events include:

Saturday, April 15

• BIRDING FIELD TRIP 12:30 p.m., meet van at Berkner Hall
  Brookhaven and the Moriches Bay Audubon Society will be hosting an onsite birding field trip in the Pine Barrens. Teams of seven people will be led by an experienced birder. An application form is located at http://www.esh.bnl.gov/esd/docs/birding.pdf. Contact Tim Green at 631 344-3091 for more information.

Tuesday, April 18

• POLLUTION PREVENTION TOUR FOR INDUSTRY 9:15-11:30 a.m., meet bus at Berkner Hall at 9:15 a.m.
  A tour of pollution prevention technologies in use at Brookhaven Lab. Local industries have been invited to see digital photography, centralized degreasing, a printed circuit board lab and machine coolant recycling processes.
• SIMPLE GREEN DEMO 9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m., Berkner Hall parking lot
  Simple Green, a supplier of environmentally friendly part-washing products, will bring its "Mobile Environmental Education Center" to the Lab. The unit is a large trailer that is a rolling showroom of special cleaning equipment, literature, product samples and demonstrations.
• ENVIRONMENTAL AWARDS 11:30 a.m.­12:00 p.m., Berkner Hall
  Laboratory Director John Marburger will present an environmental award to the Suffolk County grade school student whose artwork was selected for the cover of Brookhaven's 1999 Site Environmental Report. Students whose artwork will be used in the body of the document will also receive awards. Three BNL employees will also be recognized for environmental excellence.
• POLLUTION PREVENTION SPEAKER 12:00­1:00 p.m., Berkner Hall
  Robert Pojasek from Pojasek and Associates will give a talk on "Zero Waste: Possible? Practical?"
• PINE BARRENS SPEAKER 7:30 p.m., Berkner Hall
  John Turner from the NY State Water Resources Commission will give an overview talk on the Long Island Pine Barrens.

Thursday, April 20

• SPEAKER ON SHARING ENVIRONMENTAL DATA WITH THE PUBLIC
  12:00-1:00 p.m, Berkner Hall
  Jill Engel-Cox will give a talk on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's "EMPACT" programs, which give the public access to environmental monitoring data in a real-time, user-friendly format.

Saturday, April 22 (Earth Day)

• FOUR MILE RACE pre-registration from 7:30-9:30 a.m., Berkner Hall; race begins at 10:00 a.m.
  Brookhaven Lab, FLIK, Ortho-Sport Physical Therapy, Running Ahead, Runner's Edge, Second Wind, Super Runners, Teachers Federal Credit Union and Vytra will co-sponsor a four-mile Earth Day race on trails in the Pine Barrens on Brookhaven Lab property. The race is open to all runners. Awards will be presented after the race at 12:00 p.m. in Berkner Hall. Pre-registration for the race is required. Entry forms are available at http://www.esh.bnl.gov/esd/earth_run.html. For more information, contact Peter Pohlot at 631 344-5660.
• - FUN RUN 11:00 a.m., Berkner Hall
  A 1/2 mile "Fun Run" for children 12 and under. All participants will be given a tree to plant.
• - ACTIVITIES FOR CHILDREN 9:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m., Berkner Hall
  Activities include face painting, a recycling race and pine cone bird feeder construction.
• - MOUNTAINEERING SLIDE SHOW 1:00 p.m., Berkner Hall
  The BERA Mountain and Canoe Club is sponsoring a slide show by Douglas Zimmerman on an alpine mountaineering trip in Peru.

Sponsors of Earth Week events include: Brookhaven Science Associates, Brookhaven Employees Recreation Association Mountain and Canoe Club, Brookhaven Multiplex Cinemas, FLIK, Nardy Honda, Moriches Bay Audubon Society, Ortho-Sport Physical Therapy, Running Ahead, Runner's Edge, Second Wind, Simple Green, Super Runners, Teachers Federal Credit Union, the Town of Brookhaven, Upton Industries, Vytra and Walmart.

Brookhaven Lab is located on William Floyd Parkway, one-and-a-half miles north of Exit 68 on the Long Island Expressway.

The U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory creates and operates major facilities available to university, industrial and government personnel for basic and applied research in the physical, biomedical and environmental sciences, and in selected energy technologies. The Laboratory is operated by Brookhaven Science Associates, a not-for -profit research management company, under contract with the U.S. Department of Energy.

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