[greenyes] AWMA June Meeting in New Orleans - Call for Abstracts -- Deadline extended to Oct 14

["Marjorie J. Clarke, Ph.D." <mclarke@no.address>]

Are you involved in conducting research into municipal or medical 
waste technologies, operations, prevention and management methods, 
legislation, programs, systems, or economics?  If so, or if you have 
colleagues who are, the AWMA provides a great opportunity for you to 
present your findings at an international conference attracting thousands.

Since the hurricanes, we could have a great opportunity to hear 
presentations about handling large volumes of solid waste, 
contaminated or otherwise.  The AWMA's waste management division is 
searching the landscape for quality abstracts for next June's 
conference, and as division chair, I encourage everyone involved with 
innovative research, lessons learned, success stories etc to submit 
an abstract.  This year, AWMA has allowed us to choose some topic 
areas under which we can categorize all the abstracts that come 
in.  The conference website, http://www.awma.org/, gives general 
information about the conference next June, and the list of 16 topic 
areas are given below.  Please feel encouraged to submit an abstract 
online; it couldn't be simpler.  Just go to: 
<http://www.awma.org/ACE2006>www.awma.org/ACE2006   We will have as 
many sessions in these topic areas as we can fill with quality 
abstracts.  And feel encouraged to send this message and Call for 
Abstracts out to your colleagues.

Abstracts are due on September 30.   The manuscripts are due in for 
peer review in January.   The proceedings are available on CD at the 
conference.  The conference is still scheduled to take place in New 
Orleans.  AWMA is keeping in touch with the city and so far, they are 
giving the green light for the conference to be held there next 
summer.  If not, AWMA will find another location.  In the meantime, 
if you have any questions at all, please let me know, and I'll do my 
best to answer.

Topic areas:
Integrated MSW Management Systems : Zero Waste Systems: Resource
Exchanges/Parks

MSW Recycling Technology, Economics, and Policy

MSW Prevention and Reuse; Waste Generation and Characterization;
Materials Reduction

E-Waste Reuse, Recycling, and Management

International Perspectives and Case Studies in Municipal Solid Waste
Management

Special Wastes Prevention, Reuse, and Management

Water/Wastewater Treatment Residuals, Management, and Processing

Landfilling and Composting Technologies, Policies, and Applications
Bioenergy and Alternative Fuels - Technologies, Policies, and Applications
Ash and Residuals Management and Beneficial Use - Technologies, Policies,
and Applications

Industrial Non-Hazardous Waste Management and Treatment

Thermal Treatment of Solid Wastes/ Residuals and  Waste-To-Energy Applications

Medical Waste Management and Policy
Medical Waste Prevention, Reuse, and Recycling
Medical Waste Treatment and Processing Technology
Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Management


Maggie Clarke, Ph.D.
Chair, AWMA WM Division
http://geography.hunter.cuny.edu/~mclarke/awma-wm.htm