Tracking Heavy Metal Life Cycle Pathways with Input-Output Methods Faculty: Lave (Economics), Hendrickson (Civil and Env. Eng.), Matthews (CEE & Eng. Public Policy), Small (CEE & EPP)Post-Doc: Suh (Env. Eng.) Graduate Students: Amit Goyal, Troy Hawkins, Cortney Higgins, Paulina JaramilloUndergraduate: Roxanne Bromiley (Summer)
Progress to Date Updated to include 1997 benchmark. Initial heavy metal estimates of product and sector flows over multiple life cycles. Comparison of metal emissions databases and ambient air quality. Papers: –Lead Management Issues and Automobile Batteries –Closing the Loop on Cadmium: An Assessment of the Material Cycles of Zinc and Cadmium in the U.S.
Broader Impacts still receiving heavy use. Continuing public concern for heavy metals in the environment. Apprenticeship secondary school outreach program on life cycle assessment. Design work for kid.eiolca.net.