Brownfields 2025 Poster Gallery

The Poster Gallery offers a venue to visually depict innovative practices (brownfields assessment, cleanup, redevelopment), share brownfields success stories, and present research findings. Posters are displayed in the Exhibit Hall for the duration of the conference, and feature an award for the Best Overall Poster and a People’s Pick Award voted by conference attendees.

2025 Poster Gallery Winners

People’s Pick Award

Redevelopment of Hotel Grim

Presented by Reed Russell, Purchasing Administrator/City Management Fellow (L) and Ryan Galvan, City Management Fellow (R), City of Texarkana, Texas
Voted on by Brownfields 2025 Attendees

Best Overall Poster

Reclaiming of Espy Run from Legacy Mine Impacts

Presented by Elizabeth Hughes, Director of Communications, Earth Conservancy
Selected by Judges Panel

2023 Poster Gallery Winners

People’s Pick Award

Gordie Howe International Bridge | Presumptive Environmental Risk Management Process

Presented by Walter Bolt
Voted on by Brownfields 2023 Attendees

Best Overall Poster

Partnerships, Persistence, & Patience | Transforming a Brownfields Into an Urban Land Lab

Presented by Tom Evans
Selected by Judges Panel

2022 Poster Gallery Winners

People’s Pick Award

Brownfields Land: A Game of Gas Stations and Rural revival

Presented by Jeff Myers and Madeline Dillner, Oklahoma Corporation Commission

Best Overall Poster

Environmental Career Worker Training Program: A Justice40 Pilot and Workforce Development Model

Presented by Sharon Beard, Director, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) Worker Training Program (WTP)

2019 Poster Gallery Winners

People’s Pick Award

Let Us Build Cully Park

Presented by Travis Ruybal, Portland Parks and Recreation; Rebecca Well-Albers and Tim Spencer, Oregon Department of Environmental Quality; Mike Coenen and Lon Yandell, GeoDesign, Inc.

(L-R) Lon Yandell, GeoDesign; Rebecca Wells-Albers, Oregon DEQ; and Malin Jimenez, Verde

Best Overall Poster

Learning How the Community Leads: Participatory Engagement in Disenfranchised Communities

Presented by Allison Smith, City of Louisville, KY