This Week in EPA Science

By Kacey Fitzpatrick

This week, in an historic (and very busy!) visit to Washington DC, Pope Francis met with President Obama, addressed Congress, and called for action on climate change. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy supported the Pope’s message in her blog The Pope’s Visit – Renewing the Call to Act on Climate.

Check out our Climate Change Research page to see how EPA science works behind the scenes to provide the knowledge people need to prepare for climate change and its impacts, so communities will have the best information possible to take action.

And here’s some more science we’re highlighting.

• EPA Helps Build Smarter Cities
  As part of the White House’s new “Smart Cities” initiative, EPA is announcing new steps to unlock Smart Cities approaches to environmental monitoring and analysis. These new steps, like EPA’s Village Green Project, are designed to help communities undertake innovative sensor-based approaches to improve data collection and analysis of environmental condition and risk.
  Read more about the initiative in this White House Fact Sheet.

• Bob is the Best!
  Find out why Paul Anastas, director of the Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering at Yale University, described EPA’s Bob Kavlock as “perhaps the best scientist in the federal government today” in the Washington Post’s article Robert Kavlock: Use of technology has revolutionized evaluation of chemicals.

• Water Environment Federation’s Annual Technical Exhibition and Conference
  Next week, over 20,000 people will arrive in Chicago to participate in at the Water Environment Federation’s Annual Technical Exhibition and Conference. Researchers from EPA’s Safe and Sustainable Water Resources program will be there to share their tools and research results about green infrastructure and other resources that are making a difference in local communities.
  Read more about the conference in the blog Where to Find EPA at WEFTEC 2015.

Photo of the Week

EPA researchers survey aquatic life in desert spring, Las Vegas, NV.

If you have any comments or questions about what I share or about the week’s events, please submit them below in the comments section!

About the Author: Kacey Fitzpatrick is a student contractor and writer working with the science communication team in EPA’s Office of Research and Development.

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By Kacey Fitzpatrick

This week, in an historic (and very busy!) visit to Washington DC, Pope Francis met with President Obama, addressed Congress, and called for action on climate change. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy supported the Pope’s message in her blog The Pope’s Visit – Renewing the Call to Act on Climate.

Check out our Climate Change Research page to see how EPA science works behind the scenes to provide the knowledge people need to prepare for climate change and its impacts, so communities will have the best information possible to take action.

And here’s some more science we’re highlighting.

• EPA Helps Build Smarter Cities
  As part of the White House’s new “Smart Cities” initiative, EPA is announcing new steps to unlock Smart Cities approaches to environmental monitoring and analysis. These new steps, like EPA’s Village Green Project, are designed to help communities undertake innovative sensor-based approaches to improve data collection and analysis of environmental condition and risk.
  Read more about the initiative in this White House Fact Sheet.

• Bob is the Best!
  Find out why Paul Anastas, director of the Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering at Yale University, described EPA’s Bob Kavlock as “perhaps the best scientist in the federal government today” in the Washington Post’s article Robert Kavlock: Use of technology has revolutionized evaluation of chemicals.

• Water Environment Federation’s Annual Technical Exhibition and Conference
  Next week, over 20,000 people will arrive in Chicago to participate in at the Water Environment Federation’s Annual Technical Exhibition and Conference. Researchers from EPA’s Safe and Sustainable Water Resources program will be there to share their tools and research results about green infrastructure and other resources that are making a difference in local communities.
  Read more about the conference in the blog Where to Find EPA at WEFTEC 2015.

Photo of the Week

EPA researchers survey aquatic life in desert spring, Las Vegas, NV.

If you have any comments or questions about what I share or about the week’s events, please submit them below in the comments section!

About the Author: Kacey Fitzpatrick is a student contractor and writer working with the science communication team in EPA’s Office of Research and Development.

from The EPA Blog http://ift.tt/1MuYWvG