Tour of Palmer Taylor's lab for community partners

Thursday, August 25, 2005
Dr. Palmer Taylor and Dr. Soran Radic gave a tour of Dr. Taylor's lab to community-based and tribal partners collaborating in our SBRP Research Translation Core, and Community Outreach Core. The participants are listed below:

Hiram Sarabia, Scientist for the Baykeeper
Dr. Richard Marciano, SALT lab, San Diego Supercomputer Center
Dr. Keith Pezzoli, Urban Studies and Planning
Dr. Marshall Cheung, Director 29 Palms Tribal science lab
Dr. Palmer Taylor
Dr. Zoran Radic

The agenda:
1. Status of Palmer Taylor's SBRP research concerning pesticides
2. Potential application of Dr. Taylor's research (biomarkers, biosensors) to field applications concerning pesticide exposure
3. Tour of Dr. Taylor's lab.

Communique of the US Tribes and Mexico Indigenous Peoples

The following message was copied from theBorder Environment Cooperation Comm & N. Amer. Dev. Bank Listserve.

Representatives of the 26 U.S. tribes and Mexican indigenous communities in the border region have issued a joint communiqué to express their environmental issues, accomplishments and priorities. The communique stems from the National Coordinators' Meeting held in Tucson, Arizona, (March 2006). A pdf version of the Communique is available on line at: http://www.naepc.com/Tribal2005.pdf

For more information on the Tribal Communique, please contact Nina Hapner, California Tribal Border Coordinator with the Native American Environmental Protection Coalition (NAEPC) at (951) 296-5595; or, Ty Canez, Arizona Tribal Border Coordinator, at (480) 820-1426. For information about NAEPC and Tribes in the Border, please visit NAEPC's
website at http://www.naepc.com/.

For more information on the Border 2012 Program, please visit EPA's website: http://www.epa.gov/usmexicoborder. For questions about EPA's Tribal Border program, please contact Linda Reeves at (415) 972-3445 or reeves.linda@epa.gov