BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:EventsCalendar PRODID:-//hacksw/handcal//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York LAST-MODIFIED:20240422T053451Z TZURL:https://www.tzurl.org/zoneinfo-outlook/America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:College of Engineering,Thesis/Dissertations DESCRIPTION:Advisor: Dr. Nefeli Bompoti Committee members: Dr. Jonathan Mel lor, Dr. Sukalyan Sengupta, Dr. Taylor Lange Abstract: Brownfields revital ization transforms vacant, contaminated properties into valuable community assets, and it is crucial in restoring the environment, protecting human health, boosting local economies, and promoting environmental justice. Thi s thesis aims to investigate brownfields cleanup and redevelopment through the lens of sustainability. Using Massachusetts brownfields that have und ergone cleanup as a study group, a sustainability index for brownfields cl eanup and redevelopment was developed. This framework is built on the thre e pillars of sustainable remediation: environmental, social, and economic. For each pillar, the framework incorporates indicators based on publicly available data to calculate an overall sustainability score. Applying this framework to the study group revealed opportunities to enhance sustainabi lity in brownfields cleanup and redevelopment in Massachusetts. The result s indicate that the two most influential factors for sustainability are re medial practices and land reuse. To increase sustainability, it is vital t o implement green remediation methods and ensure future land uses (e.g., a ffordable housing and greenspace) directly benefit surrounding communities . Overall, the developed framework for measuring sustainability in brownfi elds revitalization can be implemented at the local, state, or federal lev el in remedial alternative analysis, redevelopment planning under various land reuses, and reporting on sustainability impacts after cleanup and red evelopment.\nEvent page: https://www.umassd.edu/events/cms/master-of-scien ce-thesis-defense-by-marisa-gay.php\nEvent link: https://teams.microsoft.c om/meet/262147156806325?p=QYOjlwIqXm0OuBqGd9 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Advisor: Dr. Nefeli Bompoti

Committee members: Dr. Jonathan Mellor\, Dr. Sukalyan Sengupta\, Dr. Taylor Lange

Abstract: Brownfields revitalization transforms vacan t\, contaminated properties into valuable community assets\, and it is cru cial in restoring the environment\, protecting human health\, boosting loc al economies\, and promoting environmental justice. This thesis aims to in vestigate brownfields cleanup and redevelopment through the lens of sustai nability. Using Massachusetts brownfields that have undergone cleanup as a study group\, a sustainability index for brownfields cleanup and redevelo pment was developed. This framework is built on the three pillars of susta inable remediation: environmental\, social\, and economic. For each pillar \, the framework incorporates indicators based on publicly available data to calculate an overall sustainability score. Applying this framework to t he study group revealed opportunities to enhance sustainability in brownfi elds cleanup and redevelopment in Massachusetts. The results indicate that the two most influential factors for sustainability are remedial practice s and land reuse. To increase sustainability\, it is vital to implement gr een remediation methods and ensure future land uses (e.g.\, affordable hou sing and greenspace) directly benefit surrounding communities. Overall\, t he developed framework for measuring sustainability in brownfields revital ization can be implemented at the local\, state\, or federal level in reme dial alternative analysis\, redevelopment planning under various land reus es\, and reporting on sustainability impacts after cleanup and redevelopme nt.

Event page: https://www.umassd.edu/events/c ms/master-of-science-thesis-defense-by-marisa-gay.php
Event link: < a href="https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/262147156806325?p=QYOjlwIqXm0OuBq Gd9">https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/262147156806325?p=QYOjlwIqXm0OuBqGd9

DTSTAMP:20260501T155141 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260518T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260518T143000 LOCATION:Conference Room Seng 104 & Teams SUMMARY;LANGUAGE=en-us:Master of Science Thesis Defense by Marisa Gay UID:a8cd328574cf1560487e7d1a874a6a07@www.umassd.edu END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR