The Association for Environmental Health and Sciences will be holding its West Coast Conference on Soils, Sediments, and Water, March 13-16 in San Diego, CA. On March 15 there will be a vapor intrusion session from 1:30-5:30 PM. On March 16 an all day workshop on Development, Review, and Use of EPA’s Updated J and E Model Spreadsheet presented by a panel of experts will be held. Information on this workshop is found at:

The program for the West Coast Conference on Soils, Sediments, and Water is found at:

RTM Communications, Inc. will be holding a Conference on Contaminated Property Transactions: Deal Making and Redevelopments, March 29-31, 2006 in Washington, DC. There are individual vapor intrusion presentations on both January 29 and 30. On March 31 there are four vapor intrusion sessions scheduled including one by David Folkes of EnviroGroup Limited on “Vapor Intrusion at Large Scale Sites – The Redfield Case History”. The program for this conference can be found at:

The Northeast Waste Management Officials' Association (NEWMOA) will be holding a one day vapor intrusion workshop on April 12 in Chelmsford, MA. David Folkes of EnviroGroup Limited will be speaking on Remediation Issues and Techniques. The website for this organization is located at:

On April 18 the Hudson-Mohawk Professional Geologist Association will be presenting a one day workshop titled “Soil Vapor Monitoring, Vapor Intrusion, and Indoor Air: A Workshop” in Albany, NY. Blayne Hartman of H & P Geochemistry will be the instructor. The agenda can be found at:

The Midwestern States Risk Assessment Symposium will be held August 21-24 in Indianapolis, IN. On August 22 there will be an all day workshop on soil gas sampling involving classroom presentations and field sampling. The workshop announcement can be found at:

The Interstate Technology and Regulatory Council has made available to the public the results of an on line survey conducted regarding regulatory agency approaches to vapor intrusion. The survey was conducted in the fall of 2004 and had 41 state agencies, one EPA Region, and one Canadian agency respond. By clicking on any individual question the distribution of responses to that question can be seen in bar chart format. The questions asked and summary results are available at:

The Air and Waste Management Association held a specialty conference, “Vapor Intrusion – The Next Great Challenge”, January 25-27 in Philadelphia, PA. The proceedings from that conference are available to the conference attendees at:

EnviroGroup Limited has senior positions open for environmental consultants on the east and west coasts. Check for career opportunities at: