HazMaTON Webinar: Stream Studies and Ecological Response Following the February 2023 Train Derailment in East Palestine

2026 Hazardous Material Transport Outreach Network (HazMaTON) Summer Webinar Series
On behalf of the Hazardous Material Transport Outreach Network (HazMaTON), Minnesota Sea Grant invites you to the third installment of the 2026 HazMaTON Summer Webinar Series with William Zawiski, environmental supervisor of the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency Division of Surface Water. 
 
This presentation will focus on the 2023 train derailment in East Palestine. Response activities will be discussed along with other restoration and remediation efforts. Aquatic ecological impacts and recovery will complete the discussion. 
 
The HazMaTON Summer Webinar Series, first started in 2016, continues through 2026 with monthly webinars from May through September. Anyone interested in how hazardous materials, such as crude oil and its refined products, move throughout the Laurentian Great Lakes region may find these webinars informative. Past webinars are available on HazMaTON's website.
 
This webinar is free and open to the public. Registration is required. 
 

When
Wednesday, July 15, 2026
11:00 a.m. to noon CDT

Registration
Registration is required for this free virtual event.

Presenter

Collaborators

Minnesota Sea Grant, on behalf of Hazardous Material Transport Outreach Network (HazMaTON), is leading the 2026 Hazardous Material Transport Outreach Network (HazMaTON) Summer Webinar Series.

Contact
Kelsey Prihoda, Great Lakes transportation extension educator, Minnesota Sea Grant. [email protected].