Deploying Drones for Improved Environmental Results  

Thursday, December 17, 2020
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM Eastern

Drones or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are taking environmental agency programs to new heights! States, tribes, and EPA are generating better environmental results and improving worker safety by deploying drones in emergency response, compliance monitoring, mapping, sampling, and other activities. This webinar explored these soaring efforts, techniques for managing all the new data, and lessons learned on the ground and in the sky.

Resources

• Slides From Lightning Talks

• Q&A Transcript

• Drone Discussion Thread on E-Enterprise Community Inventory Platform

Webinar Agenda

1:00 – 1:05 | Welcome and Introduction

Sarah Abramowitz, Ross Strategic

1:05 – 1:10 | Opening Remarks 

Beth Graves and Paulina Lopez-Santos, ECOS

• Agenda Review

• Forthcoming ECOS research on state agency drone usage 

1:10 - 1:40 | Lightning Talks on Agency Drone Programs

• Michigan Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) 
  Arthur Ostaszewski 

• Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community 
  Ryan Bonney 

• North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality 
  Toby Vinson, Michael Griffin, Michael Ware 

• Fort Sill Apache Tribe 
  Josh Worcester, Monte Scammahorn 

• Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality  
  Jason Smith 

• U.S. EPA Region 9 
  Pete Guria 

1:40 - 2:05 | Panel Discussion on Drone Programs 

Moderators: Beth Graves and Paulina Lopez-Santos, ECOS 

2:05 – 2:25 | Q&A and Open Discussion 

2:25 – 2:30 | Webinar Wrap-Up 

Kurt Rakouskas, ECOS