To further prepare the teams, they will perform water sampling and analyses techniques at the RAD Liquid Waste Facility at Technical Area 50. Finally, the teams are required to review the Laboratory's Material Safety Data Sheet before they can begin their projects. The program also includes a night of swimming at the Larry R. Walkup Aquatic Center and visits to the Bradbury Science Museum and Bandelier National Monument. Enter said visits to other Lab sites are possible as well. The close-out luncheon at the Hilltop House will include team presentations and an awards ceremony.
All participants receive T-shirts.
For more information, call Enter at 5-0756. Workshops will examine gender issues, philosophical aspects of cultural difference, and Navajo and modern perspectives of nature. The conference continues through Thursday at the Marriott Hotel on Louisiana Boulevard N.E. Tom Garcia, the Lab's director of institutional development, is one of the conference's scheduled speakers. Sandia National Laboratories, Allied Signal, Westinghouse and Mason and Hanger Corp. are co-hosts of the conference. The working group was created last year by the Lab's Diversity Office to provide input to management on Native American diversity issues at the Lab, said Debbi Wersonick of the Diversity Office.