February 3, 2007
Remediation
Thursday, a day long workshop at Stanford, on bio-preparedness (or more accurately lack of bio-preparedness) led by Richard Danzig.
Remediation is one of the key technical terms that folks from the national labs use. It seems to mean ‘bring back to acceptable levels.’
Many interesting interventions: one from a vetenary specialist talking about how much anthrax is found in the soil after minor outbreaks with cattle.
concepts floating invisibly across domains. Who will chart this motion?
I dated an environmental scientist for a few months last year, and she talked a lot about “soil remediation” .. which was fascinating, given the discussions we were having in ARC Berkeley at the time. The focus of her project wasn’t bioterrorism, but the clean-up of “routine” toxic waste (if there is such a thing). I think the definition “bring back to acceptable levels” nails the sense of that usage rather nicely.
Question: since the term is the same but the referents are different, is it actually the same concept “floating invisibly across domains”?