You have recently been hired to provide a local government with a Superfund Site Assessment and Remediation plan for an existing Superfund site in their jurisdiction.
They have asked you to summarize your findings and present it to them and the general public at an open town-hall meeting.
Your presentation should be approximately 20 minutes long, and you will have seven weeks to prepare for the meeting.
They want to know the following:
Brief history of the site
current status of the site at local, state, and federal levels
summary of the contaminants of concern
potential current and future impacts on human health, including synergistic effects if applicable.
Instructions
Instructions
Final Project Presentation
You have recently been hired to provide a local government with a Superfund Site Assessment and Remediation plan for an existing Superfund site in their jurisdiction.
They have asked you to summarize your findings and present it to them and the general public at an open town-hall meeting.
Your presentation should be approximately 20 minutes long, and you will have seven weeks to prepare for the meeting.
They want to know the following:
Brief history of the site
current status of the site at local, state, and federal levels
summary of the contaminants of concern
potential current and future impacts on human health, including synergistic effects if applicable.
Potential current and future impacts on the environment, including specific species of concern and any applicable synergistic effects.
recommendations for risk management, monitoring, and remediation
You will be building the foundation of your presentation throughout the course with the following activities:
Week 1 Discussion (site selection and brief description)
Week 2 Discussion (contaminant exploration)
Week 2 Assignment 1 (human health impact analysis)
Week 3 Discussion (ecosystem impacts description)
Week 3 Assignment 2 (ecosystem impact analysis)
Week 4 Discussion (technical report)
Week 5 Assignment 3 (annotated bibliography)
Week 7 Discussion (project status update)
Week 8 Assignment 4 (presentation)
The presentation should be developed in PowerPoint or a similar design program. You must narrate the presentation. There are numerous ways to do this; below are just a few examples:
You can narrate right inside PowerPoint.
You can use a screen capture app like screencast-o-matic and upload to YouTube.
You can use Kaltura here in the classroom.
You can record on your smartphone or with your video camera and upload it to YouTube.
You can record using presenter mode on Zoom and upload to YouTube.
Instructions
Submission Instructions:
Submit your PowerPoint file and the Link to your video.
Academic Integrity
Assignment Rubric
This assignment aligns with the following:
Course Objectives CO-1, CO-2, CO-3, CO-4, CO-5
Learning Objectives LO-1.1, LO-1.2, LO-2.1, LO-2.2, LO-3.1, LO-3.3, LO-4.1, LO-5.1, LO-5.2, LO-5.3.