Spatial Analysis and Decision Assistance

Training

Upcoming Trainings

TRIAD 2008 Conference!!! June 10th-12th, 2008
Join us at the TRIAD 2008 Conference at Amherst, MA. The conference is co-hosted by the U.S. EPA Office of Superfund Remediation and Technology Innovation and The Environmental Institute.
As part of that conference, plans are in the works to provide about a day of SADA V5 training. We'll post more here as we learn or you can check the site out yourself at http://www.umass.edu/tei/conferences/triad.html.

ARAMS/SADA Technology Transfer Workshop, October 6th-8th, 2008
The ITRC (http://www.itrcweb.org/) is hosting a technology transfer workshop that highlights SADA and ARAMS. Click here to download a copy of the "save the date" flyer. The workshop is in beautiful KennebunkPort, ME. While the format has not been finalized, this will be a great opportunity for training and discussion on these tools and their approaches. We will be covering SADA V5. Click here to see planned features for version 5.

Introduction to Environmental Assessment Methods Using SADA Version 5!!, October 21st-23rd, 2008(open)
The next training will be using Version 5. More class information will be posted soon that includes new features of V5. An overview of the class can be found here. Click here to see new features in version 5.

We'll put a REGISTRATION LINK HERE when it becomes available.

Special Note to folks outside the US: There is a bug on the registration web page. Here is the work around.
First enter your city, the international postal code, select any state in the US, and change the country to your own country. If you enter your own country first it flips it back to US.

Here are some links were for places to stay and how to get to the meeting place.

• Cumberland House Hotel
• Holiday Inn- Downtown Knoxville at Convention Center
• UT Conference Center/Knoxville Info
• Directions, Maps, and the UT Airport
• Directions to UT Conference Center
• Meeting Rooms

Interested in SADA training?
If you are interested in finding out more about how you could have a SADA training at your facility, email us at sada@tiem.utk.edu to learn more.

Past Trainings(publicly open)

• State of Illinois, Department of Natural Resources May 21-22nd, 2008 (closed)
• University of Tennessee SADA Training, Knoxville, TN, April 23rd-25th, 2008 (sold out)
• NMA Uranium Recover Workshop, Denver, May 17th, 2007 (closed)
• University of Helsinki, Finland, May 28-29th, 2007 (closed)
• University of Tennessee SADA Training, Knoxville, Tennessee, April 25th-27th, 2007 (Sold out)
• SADA Cluin Internet Seminar on Geospatial Tools, Sponsored by: U.S. EPA, Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response, Technology Innovation Program, March 9th, 2007
• University of Tennessee SADA Training, Knoxville, Tennessee, 25-27 October 2006
• SADA Cluin Internet Seminar, Uses of Spatial Analysis and Decision Assistance (SADA), Sponsored by: U.S. EPA, Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response, Technology Innovation Program, 15 August 2006
• Swedish Geotechnical Institute Training, Stockholm, Sweden, 15-17 May 2006.
• Swedish Geotechnical Institute Training, Goteborg, Sweden, 10-12 May 2006.
• University of Tennessee SADA Training, Knoxville, Tennessee, 26-28 April 2006
• University of Tennessee SADA Training, Knoxville, Tennessee, 5-7 October 2005
• Swedish Geotechnical Institute Training, Goteborg, Sweden, 12-15 September 2005.
• US Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) SADA Workshop, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2-3 August 2005.
• NRC SADA Training, Rockville, MD, 12-14 April 2005.
• University of Tennessee SADA Training, Knoxville, Tennessee, 23-25 February 2005.
• Petrobras Training in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 17-20 August 2004.
• NRC SADA Workshop, Rockville, MD, 4-5 May 2004
• Society for Risk Analysis- World Congress on Risk, Brussels, Belgium, 22 June 2003.
• FIELDS/SADA 2003 Training Conference in Chicago, 5-7 March 2003.
• Illinois Natural History Survey/ Department of Natural Resources/ Environmental Protection Agency SADA training, Champaign, IL, 21 May 2002
• EPA Ecological Risk Assessment Forum, National Conservation Training Center, Shepherdstown, West Virginia, 9 January 2002
• EPA Region 9, San Franciso, California, 28-29 August 2001
• EPA Region 5, Chicago, Illinois, 16-17 July 2001
• 2001 Fields with SADA Conference EPA Region 6, Denver, Colorado, 6-8 March 2001
• Fifth Course on Mathematical Ecology Conference Trieste, Italy, 28 February - 24 March 2000

Training sessions are typically from 8-32 hours in length and focus on the mechanics of using SADA. If you are interested in SADA training, you can email us at sada@tiem.utk.edu.