December 2019 Holiday Meeting

Members of AHMP-NJ met at the Green Knoll Grill in Bridgewater NJ for a dinner and a presentation about Flavors and Fragrances – How do they impact the Hazardous Materials Manager by Damaris Gomez of Sapphire Flavors and Fragrances. 

October 2019 Joint Chapter Meeting with ASSP

Members of AHMP-NJ and ASSP met at the L'Oreal facility in Clark, NJ for a tour and to learn about sustainability. Meeting minutes are found here. 

September 2019 Chapter Meeting with the Philadelphia Chapter

Members of AHMP-NJ and the Philadelphia Chapter met at Kleinfelder in Hamilton NJ for a presentation on Cyanobacteria & Algal Blooms; A Threat to Our Recreational & Drinking Water by Dr. Stephen J. Souza. The presentation explored why Hazardous Algal Blooms occur, what the dangers of HAB's are and what can be done to prevent them.  A copy of the presentation can be found here. Meeting minutes are found here. 

June 2019 Chapter Meeting

Wetlands Ecological Restoration at the Firmenich Facility in Newark.  Blaine Rothauser (GZA Geoenvironmental); Ron Kurtz, CHMM (Firmenich); & Joe Galley, CHMM (GZA Geoenvironmental) gave a very interesting presentation about the work thus far.  Many in attendence and great food!

April 2019 Cleanup at Round Valley Reservoir Site 4

AHMP-NJ members helped to clean up the area.  Joe found a TV!

 June 2018 Chapter Meeting

The June general meeting “Waters of The US”; Clean Water Act, Rapanos Decision and Current Status (Confusion)" featured Steven Miano Esq. Former Chair American Bar Association (ABA) Environmental Section.

February 2018 General Meeting

The February general meeting "Students 2 Science": Motivating and Educating Students for 21st Century STEM Careers featured a presentation and tour of the program laboratories.

Paul Winslow, Ph.D., President and Co-Founder of Students 2 Science (S2S), developed the S2S program to inspire, motivate, and educate elementary, middle and high school students to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM subjects). The program provides an authentic, state-of-the-art laboratory experience complete with modern instrumentation and professional scientists.  S2S also offers remote, web-based virtual STEM experiences.  Teams of students, work collaboratively with scientific professionals who serve as role models, solve real life problems while being introduced to a wide variety of 21st century STEM career opportunities.

 Parker Trail Maintenance

AHMP-NJ members met up at High Point State Park on October 14th to clean-up part of the Parker Loop.  The full loop is an 11.8 mile moderately trafficked loop trail located near Montague, NJ.  Our team concentrated on about 1 mile of the trail.

We successfully cleared the trail of undergrowth and fallen logs and timber.  Along the way, we found some wildlife and collected 2 bags of garbage.  We accomplished the clean-up in around 4 ½ hours and had an exciting, entertaining and productive morning. 

December, 2014 Holiday Meeting

At our Holiday Meeting, Richard Cartwright spoke on 101 Places a Hazardous Materials Manager Must Visit Before They Die. This is also the title of one of the books he is writing. Mr. Cartwright’s presentation, while quite comical at points, brought up the very serious issues of social consciousness, the need for people to become involved in their community, and that while we make advances in environmental stewardship we can’t forget the past or we will repeat our mistakes.

In other business Alain Fortier received the Thomas Dalton Scholarship from former President Joe Galley who passed the responsibilities to current President Philip Apruzzese at the Holiday meeting / party.

New Leaders were sworn in to their new posts for 2015 at the Holiday Meeting / Party

Left to right:

Philip Apruzzese - President
Dan Levine – Director at Large
Rodger Watson – Secretary

Members enjoy the hot antipasto before the main holiday dinner

But some people just can't leave work behind, here Brian is studying for the CHMM test with his Hazardous Materials Management Desk Reference at the party

And finally, while we all ate well, we also did some real good, collecting quite a haul for the local food bank so that others could share the bounty.

Somerset Patriots Game 8/27/2013

The meeting minutes of past meetings are included below:

ACHMM-NJ Business Meeting Minutes 2-15-11_Final.pdf