Dear Eco-loggers I thought you might be interested in this free workshop in Denver
Public Outreach Workshop: Noise in Communities & Natural Areas Tuesday, August 27, 10:00AM to 8:30PM Marriott Denver City Center Ballroom Denver CO USA Hosted by INCE-USA and its national conference, Noise-Con 2013 Overview: The Denver Public Outreach Workshop on Noise in Communities & Natural Areas is the fourth in an ongoing series of open, free, public outreach workshops held in U.S. cities during and hosted by professional conferences, including INCE-USA conferences. The Workshops are intended to inform and educate the public, media, regulatory officials and industry about noise control issues. This Workshop is being planned with technical contributions from the National Park Service. Background: Previous free Public Outreach Workshops on community and environmental noise management have been held in Baltimore (2010), Seattle (2011), and NYC (2012). Other meetings in this series have been held in Washington DC (federal agency briefing, 2011), London (ICBEN - 2011), Osaka and Tokyo Japan (2012 with I-INCE & ICBEN). These free Public Workshops and meetings partially fulfill the NAE "Technology for A Quieter America" report recommendation calling for organized public outreach to educate & inform Americans about exposure to noise, the effects of noise, noise policy, and noise control options. Rationale: The U.S. has not pursued a significant, national review of community and environmental noise policies for several decades. Nonetheless, noise is a meaningful social and public health problem in urban areas and an increasingly invasive issue for rural settings such as national parks and wilderness areas. Noise causes many problems for community residents: health effects like hypertension and increased risk of stroke and heart attack, sleep disturbance, speech interference, annoyance, compromised enjoyment of natural quiet, and a general decrease in the quality of life. Protected natural areas are also affected. The National Park Service* has documented the breadth of noise exposure in national parks and wilderness areas. Successful resolution of these problems requires informed public support for improved noise management policy at all levels of government. Opportunities abound for advances through noise effects research and development of effective and affordable noise control technologies. These Annual Public Outreach Workshops on Noise are intended to engage the public, state and federal agencies, industry, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Denver program overview (Tentative): 10:00 - 12 :30 PM Morning General Session Speakers (20-40 min. each) 10:00- 10:15 am - Keynote speaker introduction: L.S. Finegold 10:20-11:00 am - Keynote speaker: George Maling and Eric Wood - Summary of & Progress After Recent NAE Projects 11:05-11:25 am - L.S. Finegold (chair) - Managing Community Noise at the Local Level 11:30-11:50 am - D.M. Sykes (co-chair) -Re-kindling Noise Policy After a Thirty Year Lapse 11:55 am- 12:25 pm - Q & A for Morning Speaker Panel 12:30-1:30 PM Lunch 1:30 - 4:50 PM Afternoon Technical Session 1:30- 1:40 pm- Introduction: D.M. Sykes (co-chair) 1:40- 2:00 pm - Bennett Brooks - Summary of the Proposed ANSI Standard Providing Guidance for Development of State Noise Regulations and Local Noise Ordinances 2:05- 2:25 pm -Nicholas Miller, "Understanding and Preserving Quiet Areas" 2:30-2:50 pm - Jesse Barber PhD, Boise State University, "How Anthropogenic Changes to the Sensory Environment Alter Animal Behavior" 2:55-3:15 pm - Eddie Duncan, "Using Public Input to Develop Scientifically Sound Noise Pollution Policy for Vermont's Rural Land Uses and Communities" 3:20- 3:40 pm - Jan Jabben, National Institute for Public Health and Environment (NL), "An Indicator for Rating Environmental Quality of Urban Parks" 3:45 -4:15 pm - Les Blomberg, Noise Pollution Clearinghouse "Natural Quiet: Where to Find it. How to Increase it." 4:20-4:50 Q & A for Afternoon Speaker Panel Coffee Break 4:50-5:20 5:30 - 8:30 PM (approximate) Evening Session with Keynote Speakers: 5:30-5:40 pm- Introduction: L.S. Finegold (chair) - Keynote Speakers: 5:40-6:10 pm -Arline Bronzaft PhD, author, "Why Noise Matters" (2012, Earthscan) 6:15-6:45 pm - Kurt Fristrup (NPS, co-chair) - Chief Scientist, Natural Sounds and Night Skies, National Park Service, "Preserving Superlative Opportunities to Hear the Sounds of National Parks" 6:50-7:20 pm -Julie Zickefoose, author/illustrator, "Bluebird Effect: Uncommon Bonds with Common Birds" (2012, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) 7:25-7:55 pm -Erik Lindberg, X-Prize Trustee, Aviator, Grandson of Aviation Pioneer Charles Lindbergh: The New LEAP Prize for Environmentally-Friendly, Quiet, Electric Aircraft, "Journey to the future of flight. Simple, safe, cheap, Quiet..." 8:00 pm Until Closing - Speaker Roundtable with Audience Q & A Led by Co-chairs K. Fristrup, PhD and D. Sykes Organizers: General chair: L.S. Finegold - Member, National Academy of Engineering Einstein Society; Trustee, Michiko So Finegold Memorial Trust; President, Finegold & So, Consultants Managing co-chair (producer-director): D. M. Sykes - Exec. Chair, ARC; faculty, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Managing Partner, Remington Partners Sector co-chairs: K. Fristrup- US Department of Interior-National Park Service, Chief Scientist, Natural Sounds and Night Skies Program INCE liaison: Mandy Kachur PE - INCE-USA board of directors Director of communication: Darlene Kilpatrick For more information contact Darlene Kilpatrick at: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> TQA-II and its Public Outreach Workshops are funded in part by the Michiko So Finegold Memorial Trust and the Acoustics Research Council (ARC). The program and activities are endorsed by the National Research Council Transportation Research board/ADC40, The National Hearing Conservation Association, the Institute of Noise Control Engineering, ASHRAE TC2.6, and multiple ANSI S12 Working Groups. The chairs of TQA-II are L. S. Finegold and D. M. Sykes. *National Park Service (NPS) works with institutions such as the workshop producers to identify best practices to reduce the impacts of excessive noise on park resources and visitor experience. NPS does not endorse or promote any product, conference, foundation, or organization by their involvement in this Public Outreach Workshop. This electronic message contains information generated by the USDA solely for the intended recipients. Any unauthorized interception of this message or the use or disclosure of the information it contains may violate the law and subject the violator to civil or criminal penalties. 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