March 19th is the deadline to apply to be among a select number of exhibitors at the Technology Fair that will be taking place concurrent with the opening reception of the bi-annual USIECR conference: ECR 2010 in Tucson. Exhibitors will be chosen that demonstrate new and innovative technologies and how these enhance and support collaborative environmental processes.

Back in December Colin posted:

This is a great opportunity to get any cutting-edge ECR technologies in front of the movers and shakers in the field. The conference usually draws between 300-400 practitioners, agency staff, NGO's and others, so it’s a great opportunity to educate and reach out to folks.

The New York Times reports that the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, NY has been listed as a superfund site by the Environmental Protection Agency.

The agency, which proposed the Superfund designation last April at the urging of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, made its decision after a long public comment period that involved more than 50 meetings with city officials, developers, community groups and others. Nine other Superfund sites across the country were also designated on Tuesday.

The Environment and Public Policy Section of the Association for Conflict Resolution would like to announce the Rob Williams Award for Emerging Environment and Public Policy Leaders. This award was established in recognition of the late Rob Williams’ commitment and contributions to the field of environmental and public policy dispute resolution and the professional development of its practitioners. The award will be presented this year to an emerging practitioner who demonstrates the promise to exercise the leadership exemplified by Rob.

Please click here for a full description of the award and application materials. Completed application materials are due by 5:00pm Eastern on Friday, March 26, 2010.

The Smithsonian National Zoological Park In collaboration with George Mason University, is offering a short course this May on natural resource conflicts. The Conservation Conflict Resolution Course will takes place at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (formerly CRC) in Front Royal, Virginia, USA, about two hours from Washington, D.C., and adjacent to Shenandoah National Park on May 13-22, 2010.

You can download a PDF announcement for this course and learn about other training opportunities here.

TIME magazine reported this week that the White House convened an "Asian Carp Summit" on Monday, because;

Asian carp are particularly dangerous. Native to China and parts of Southeast Asia, the freshwater fish have been cultivated for aquaculture for more than 1,000 years, often raised in submerged rice paddies. Catfish farmers in the U.S. imported Asian carp decades ago to eat up the algae in their ponds; the fish slowly escaped into the wild and have been making their way up the Mississippi River. They are eating machines; bighead carp can grow incredibly quickly and reproduce rapidly as well. "They just eat so much," says David Ullrich, executive director of the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative. "They're like the locusts of the river."

Mark Pattison, Catholic News Service reports a recent forum, co-sponsored by Catholic Relief Services and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, highlighted a new CRS publication, "Water and Conflict: Incorporating Peacebuilding into Water Development." Read the PDF here.

Speaking with William Hall, an adjunct professor in the conflict resolution studies program at Georgetown University in Washington Pattison recounts,

Nominations are now being accepted for the first "Innovation in Technology and ECR" Award. The award will recognize new and innovative applications of technologies within collaborative environmental processes. The Award will be presented at the U.S. Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution’s ECR 2010 conference to be held in May 2010 in Tucson, Arizona. Nominated projects will also be featured in an "Innovations Gallery" during the event

To make nominations check out the full announcement. Note that the deadline is 1/22.

Craig Zelizer has posted a great guide on his blog to a variety of online resources that will likely be very helpful to the members of the EPP section.

From his description:

“As I am often working in different contexts (and countries) and across multiple computers, I wanted to share some of the free software/it services that I have found incredibly useful to help me stay connected, up-to-date and informed. This is not specifically an endorsement of any particular product/company (and I only want to list free services here) but other members might find some of these resources useful in your work and research.”

Check it out here.

The bi-annual USIECR conference, ECR 2010 is taking place in Tucson May 25-27, 2010. Part of the conference will be a Technology Fair concurrent with the opening reception on May 25th.

This is a great opportunity to get any cutting-edge ECR technologies in front of the movers and shakers in the field.  The conference usually draws between 300-400 practitioners, agency staff, NGO's and others, so it’s a great opportunity to educate and reach out to folks.

Suzanne Orenstein, a well known environmental conflict resolution practitioner and manager, has been named to head the Udall Foundation's new Washington, D.C., office beginning on January 4, 2010. Orenstein’s primary duties will relate to the work of the U.S. Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution, a major Udall Foundation program.