A CASE-STUDY IN INNOVATIVE OUTREACH - COMBINING TRAINING, RESEARCH, AND TECHNOLOGY-TRANSFER TO ADDRESS REAL-WORLD PROBLEMS

Outreach, training, technology transfer, and research are often treate d as programmatically distinct activities. The interdisciplinary and a pplied aspects of the Superfund Basic Research Program offer an opport unity to explore different models. A case study is presented that desc ribes a collaborative outreach effort that combines all of the above. It involves the University of California's Davis and Berkeley program projects, the University of California Systemwide Toxic Substances Res earch and Teaching Program, the U.S. Navy's civilian workforce at the former Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California (MINSY), a Depa rtment of Defense (DoD) Environmental Education Demonstration Grant pr ogram, and the Private Industry Council of Napa and Sonoma counties in California. The effort applied a Superfund-developed technology to a combined waste, radium and polychlorinated biphenyl contamination, ste mming from a problematic removal action at an installation/restoration site at MINSY. The effort demonstrates that opportunities for similar collaborations are possible at DoD installations.