Grantee Research Project Results
Final Report: UWMRC Community Outreach Multimedia Exhibit
EPA Grant Number: R825427C007Subproject: this is subproject number 007 , established and managed by the Center Director under grant R825427
(EPA does not fund or establish subprojects; EPA awards and manages the overall grant for this center).
Center: Urban Waste Management and Research Center (University New Orleans)
Center Director: McManis, Kenneth
Title: UWMRC Community Outreach Multimedia Exhibit
Investigators: Cothren, Gianna M.
Institution: University of New Orleans
EPA Project Officer: Aja, Hayley
Project Period: October 1, 1998 through June 30, 1999
RFA: Urban Waste Management & Research Center (1998) RFA Text | Recipients Lists
Research Category: Targeted Research
Objective:
One of the responsibilities of the Urban Waste Management and Research Center is to provoke community involvement in the Center's research activities in municipal solid waste management, water quality, and urban air quality projects. A modernized method of making the research activities available to a wide variety and greater number of participants is to provide visually enhanced, fully automated access to the material generated by the Center. This wealth of knowledge has been made accessible to all interested users via CD ROM or Web access.The use of electronic technology is a powerfully effective method of reaching the public with scientific information to promote community involvement and education of the Center's mission. The overall objective of this project is to produce a visually enhanced multimedia documentation of past research activities and current research initiatives undertaken by the UWMRC. This exhibit combines text, graphics, audio, and video into one informative, interactive review session of the Center's research efforts.
All existing documentation listed in the annual reports in the form of technical reports, publications in conference proceedings and scientific journals, slide presentations, and poster presentations were to be compiled in a searchable electronic bibliography that is linked to the actual report in cybernetic form. The exhibit is designed using hyper-text markup language (Html) and experienced best with a Web browser like Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Explorer. Users without a browser can open the file without with a word processing package; however, the html coding will appear. The exhibit can be accessed directly from the CD or from the UWMRC web address.
The three areas of research (i.e., municipal solid waste management, water quality, and urban air quality) provide a link to the appropriate material in the bibliography. The program is designed using HTML and popular desktop software and is published with an HTML index page on CD ROM and as a Web site on the internet.
The specific tasks involved in the development of this program are: (1) Compiling all previous reports and presentations in standard electronic format, (2) providing the bibliography in five formats, (3) automating hyper-linked slide presentations, (4) provide options for downloading the electronic bibliography or opening on screen to search with a simple to use search engine, (5) develop a multimedia tour of the center's mission, facilities, and current research initiatives as a hyper-link from the home page, (6) produce an instruction/distribution folder and 100 copies of the CD for distribution.
Summary/Accomplishments (Outputs/Outcomes):
This multimedia exhibit is a compilation of the Urban Waste Management and Research Center's recent and past technical reports and publications, presentations, and community outreach initiatives into one informative electronic bibliography and multimedia tour. It is an outreach opportunity that provides the public with a complete knowledge of the Center's mission and accomplishments. The electronic database is an excellent tool for researchers in the scientific community who are interested in municipal solid waste management, water quality, and urban air quality. These CD's will be distributed at conferences and public meetings for participants to take back to the office, access the information, and share it with other colleagues.The database engine was designed and created so that it is easy for the typical user to explore as well as quick and powerful for the database's administrator to maintain. Database documentation was compiled after the database engine was completed. Documents were solicited from the authors in electronic form or scanned, converted, and post processed from available hard-copy documents. The number of references included in the bibliography on or before 1998 total 428 of which 70 full or partial documents are hyper-linked within the CD. The accompanying Web site offers not only the download options but also the option of contacting the database Administrator, placing requests, contacting UWMRC staff, and making general comments. At this site, different versions of the database are offered for users that do not have access to the preferred application software.
A launching menu was designed for the multimedia CD. With this control, a series of options are offered on the user's screen automatically after the CD is inserted in the computer. This menu includes the UWMRC Multimedia Presentation, Quick Access to the Database, an introductory video from the Center's chairman, free utilities for non Microsoft Office users, a link to the Center's Web site (http://www.uwmrc.org Exit ) and quick access to the CD's contents.
All of the documents available in the storage facility for UWMRC publications were surveyed and many of the documents were scanned in. Only the abstract or executive summary of the larger documents were scanned. One major problem encountered during this project was that hard copies of only a few of the references from the annual reports were available in the Center's library. Only a few of the electronic copies of the UWMRC reports and papers were available. Therefore, all of the references in the database do not have a link to the complete document.
The final deliverable is in the form of a CD. The CD is included along with this report. Additionally, the database can be accessed on the website at http://www.uwmrc.org Exit .
Journal Articles:
No journal articles submitted with this report: View all 1 publications for this subprojectSupplemental Keywords:
electronic database, electronic bibliography, multimedia exhibit, Scientific Discipline, Geographic Area, Waste, Municipal, Environmental Chemistry, State, Ecological Risk Assessment, Ecology and Ecosystems, waste minimization, multimedia exhibit, urban runoff, municipal waste, groundwater quality, New Orleans (NO), waste management, outreach, technology transfer, urban wasteRelevant Websites:
http://www.deb.uminho.pt/fontes/enviroinfo/
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Main Center Abstract and Reports:
R825427 Urban Waste Management and Research Center (University New Orleans) Subprojects under this Center: (EPA does not fund or establish subprojects; EPA awards and manages the overall grant for this center).
R825427C001 Comprehensive Evaluation of The Dual Trickling Filter Solids Contact Process
R825427C002 Issues Involving the Vertical Expansion of Landfills
R825427C003 Deep Foundations on Brownfields Sites
R825427C004 Ambient Particulate Concentration Model for Traffic Intersections
R825427C005 Effectiveness of Rehabilitation Approaches for I/I Reduction
R825427C006 Urban Solid Waste Management Videos
R825427C007 UWMRC Community Outreach Multimedia Exhibit
R825427C008 Including New Technology into the Investigation of Inappropriate Pollutant Entries into Storm Drainage Systems - A User's Guide
R825427C009 Investigation of Hydraulic Characteristics and Alternative Model Development of Subsurface Flow Constructed Wetlands
R825427C010 Beneficial Use Of Urban Runoff For Wetland Enhancement
R825427C011 Urban Storm and Waste Water Outfall Modeling
R827933C001 Development of a Model Sediment Control Ordinance for Louisiana
R827933C002 Inappropriate Discharge to Stormwater Drainage (Demonstration Project)
R827933C003 Alternate Liner Evaluation Model
R827933C004 LA DNR - DEQ - Regional Waste Management
R827933C005 Landfill Design Specifications
R827933C006 Geosynthetic Clay Liners as Alternative Barrier Systems
R827933C007 Used Tire Monofill
R827933C008 A Comparison of Upflow Anaerobic Sludge Bed (USAB) and the Anaerobic Biofilm Fluidized Bed Reactor (ABFBR) for the Treatment of Municipal Wastewater
R827933C009 Integrated Environmental Management Plan for Shipbuilding Facilities
R827933C010 Nicaragua
R827933C011 Louisiana Environmental Education and Resource Program
R827933C012 Costa Rica - Costa Rican Initiative
R827933C013 Evaluation of Cr(VI) Exposure Assessment in the Shipbuilding Industry
R827933C014 LaTAP, Louisiana Technical Assistance Program: Pollution Prevention for Small Businesses
R827933C015 Louisiana Environmental Leadership Pollution Prevention Program
R827933C016 Inexpensive Non-Toxic Pigment Substitute for Chromium in Primer for Aluminum Sibstrate
R827933C017 China - Innovative Waste Composting Plan for the City of Benxi, People's Rupublic of China
R827933C018 Institutional Control in Brownfields Redevelopment: A Methodology for Community Participation and Sustainability
R827933C019 Physico-Chemical Assessment for Treatment of Storm Water From Impervious Urban Watersheds Typical of the Gulf Coast
R827933C020 Influence of Cyclic Interfacial Redox Conditions on the Structure and Integrity of Clay Liners for Landfills Subject to Variable High Groundwater Conditions in the Gulf Coast Region
R827933C021 Characterizing Moisture Content Within Landfills
R827933C022 Bioreactor Landfill Moisture Management
R827933C023 Urban Water Issues: A Video Series
R827933C024 Water Quality Modeling in Urban Storm Water Systems
R827933C025 The Development of a Web Based Instruction (WBI) Program for the UWMRC User's Guide (Investigation of Inappropriate Pollutant Entries Into Storm Drainage Systems)
R827933C027 Legal Issues of SSO's: Private Property Sources and Non-NPDES Entities
R827933C028 Brownfields Issues: A Video Series
R827933C029 Facultative Landfill Bioreactors (FLB): A Pilot-Scale Study of Waste Stabilization, Landfill Gas Emissions, Leachate Treatment, and Landfill Geotechnical Properties
R827933C030 Advances in Municipal Wastewater Treatment
R827933C031 Design Criteria for Sanitary Sewer System Rehabilitation
R827933C032 Deep Foundations in Brownfield Areas: Continuing Investigation
R827933C033 Gradation-Based Transport, Kinetics, Coagulation, and Flocculation of Urban Watershed Rainfall-Runoff Particulate Matter
R827933C034 Leaching and Stabilization of Solid-Phase Residuals Separated by Storm Water BMPs Capturing Urban Runoff Impacted by Transportation Activities and Infrastructure
R827933C035 Fate of Pathogens in Storm Water Runoff
R87933C020 Influence of Cyclic Interfacial Redox Conditions on the Structure and Integrity of Clay Liners for Landfills Subject to Variable High Groundwater Conditions in the Gulf Coast Region
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Project Research Results
Main Center: R825427
55 publications for this center
7 journal articles for this center