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SADA Training: Goteborg, Sweden

Environmental Assessment Methods Using SADA, September 12-15, 2005

The Swedish Geotechnical Institute (SGI) is hosting a 32 hour course on applying SADA to environmental assessment problems in Gteborg, Sweden. The course is taught by the developers of the software. Cost for the course is €1250, the software is free. Users are to bring a laptop with SADA installed on it.

• Information on Gteborg
  • Environmental Assessment Methods Using SADA
  • Fee: €1250
  • September 12-15 (Mon-Thu), 2005
  • To register or for more information contact Peter Starzec at peter.starzec@swedgeo.se

Spatial Analysis and Decision Assistance (SADA) is free software that incorporates tools from environmental assessment fields into an effective problem-solving environment. These tools include integrated modules for visualization, geospatial analysis, statistical analysis, human health risk assessment, ecological risk assessment, cost/benefit analysis, sampling design, and decision analysis. The capabilities of SADA can be used independently or collectively to address site specific concerns when characterizing a contaminated site, assessing risk, determining the location of future samples, and when designing remedial action. Students will be given a broad-based introduction to environmental assessment methods and SADA and will have ample understanding of how to use SADA as well as how to implement it for decision-making applications at environmental sites.

SADA Preliminary schedule

• Monday September 12th
  • 9:00-10:00 Introductions, SADA Overview
  • 10:00-10:30 Create SADA File
  • 10:30-10:45 Break
  • 10:45-11:30 Initial Sample Designs
  • 11:30-12:30 Lunch
  • 12:30-1:00 Practice Session 1
  • 1:00-1:30 Importing Data Into SADA
  • 1:30-2:30 Exploration Tools/Statistics
  • 2:30-2:45 Break
  • 2:45-3:30 Exploration Tools/Statistics (hypotheses test)
  • 3:30-4:30 Practice Session 2
• Tuesday September 13th
  • 9:00-10:00 Basic Spatial Analysis Tools
  • 10:00-10:30 Practice Session 3
  • 10:30-10:40 Break
  • 10:40-11:30 Advanced Spatial Analysis Tools
  • 11:30-12:30 Lunch
  • 12:30-2:00 Advanced Spatial Analysis Tools (cont.)
  • 2:00-2:15 Break
  • 2:15-3:15 Advanced Spatial Analysis Tools (cont.)
  • 3:15-4:30 Practice Session 4
• Wednesday September 14th
  • 9:00-10:15 3D Spatial Statistics
  • 10:15-10:30 Break
  • 10:30-11:30 Human Health Risk
  • 11:30-12:30 Lunch
  • 12:30-1:15 Custom Analysis
  • 1:15-2:15 Ecological Risk
  • 2:15-2:30 Break
  • 2:30-4:00 Decision Analysis
• Thursday September 15th
  • 9:00-9:15 Decision Analysis (cont.)
  • 9:15-10:00 Practice Session 6
  • 10:00-10:15 Break
  • 10:15-11:30 Secondary Sample Design
  • 11:30-12:30 Lunch
  • 12:30-1:45 Practice Session 7
  • 1:45-2:00 Break
  • 2:00-3:00 Geobayesian Approach
  • 3:00-3:30 Summary, Comments & Reflections
  • 3:30-4:30 Time for complementary issues (optional)

Practice sessions are used to supplement lecture materials. Instructors are Peter Starzec (peter.starzec@swedgeo.se) from the Swedish Geotechnical Institute and Tom Purucker and Robert Stewart from The Institute for Environmental Modeling in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Tennessee (sada@tiem.utk.edu).

Meals are not included, though refreshments are served twice a day. Participants will receive a complete training material.