The Seventh Annual INRA Environmental and Subsurface Science Symposium, featuring Subsurface Bioremediation & Biotechnology, will be held at Eccles Conference Center, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, on July 25-27, 2007.

The symposium will include platform presentations by INRA researchers and invited speakers. The presentations will highlight contemporary research on topics relevant to the symposium theme including:

• Environmental Sensors
• Remediation of Toxic Metals
• Monitoring Techniques
• Bioinformatics
• Bio-Energy
• Subsurface Microbial Community

The featured speaker: Dr. William H. Schlesinger, Ph.D., is James B. Duke Professor of Biogeochemistry, and Dean of the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences at Duke University. Completing his A.B. at Dartmouth (1972), and Ph.D. at Cornell (1976), he joined the faculty at Duke in 1980. He is the author or coauthor of over 160 scientific papers and the widely-adopted textbook Biogeochemistry: An analysis of global change (Academic Press, 2nd ed. 1997). He was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1995 and The National Academy of Sciences in 2003. He was President of the Ecological Society of America for 2003-2004.

The keynote speakers: Dr. Robert Hinchee, Ph.D., P.E., is Principal Civil and Environmental Engineer at Integrated Science and Technology (IST), Inc. He is a key team member in IST’s Litigation Support Group. With extensive experience developing and applying technology to assess and remediate contaminated sites, Dr. Hinchee provides both IST and our clients with technical leadership in remediation, bioremediation and in situ remediation.

Dr. Kirby Donnelly, Ph.D., is currently a Professor and Head of the Environmental & Occupational Health Department at the Texas A&M University System Health Science Center School of Rural Public Health.  Dr. Donnelly is the Associate Director of the NIEHS Superfund Basic Research Program at Texas A&M. Research interests include complex mixture risk assessment and exposure assessment.