by Bob Howe
Deputy Manager
Informing the public about Brookhaven National Laboratory's Superfund cleanup program is as important an aspect of our work in the Environmental Restoration Division as the actual cleanup itself.
We regularly attend an array of community, civic and governmental meetings to provide updates and information about cleanup efforts underway at the Lab. We also help students learn about environmental science, the Superfund process, and the cleanup at BNL by visiting schools and by opening our doors to instructors with curious pupils.
Environmental Restoration Division staffers have given presentations (followed by lively question-and-answer sessions) to undergraduate and graduate school classes that have visited BNL and toured environmental restoration projects on site. During the last several years, Columbia University, New York Institute of Technology, SUNY-Stony Brook, and Nassau County Community College students have experienced first-hand what they had only been able to read about in textbooks before.
We also work with local preschoolers a d elementary school students, and we're open to talking with your junior high and high school students, too.
If your school group (say, a science class or club, or perhaps an instructor/parent education organization) would like to learn more about Superfund or BNL's Environmental Restoration Division, give me, Bob Howe, a call at 344-5588 (howe@bnl.gov), or call our ERD community relations coordinators at 344-5195, -6336.