E&EM doctoral student Stephen T. Fields has begun coordinating a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency newsletter on energy conservation and sustainable facilities. The newsletter, which is distributed to all EPA employees, showcases the use of sustainable and innovative "green" practices that EPA is undertaking at its facilities. To see a pdf version of the March 2007 newsletter, click on this link: Energizing EPA, March 2007.
To see an hmtl version of the most recent issue of the newsletter, click on the following link: http://www.epa.gov/greeningepa/pubs/news.htm
Steve, who is an Industrial Engineer in the Architecture, Engineering, and Asset Management Branch at EPA, is nearing completion of his doctoral research on developing a model for EPA and others to use in optimizing cleanup of underground storage tanks across the country.