No doubt my first thing would be just pick up a camera and go shoot a story.. The edit it. Learn from it. Rinse and repeat :)

You know what I think the most best advice that I could give for young filmmakers is just to get out and start making films.

These days it's so easy to do so everybody's got an iPhone - please just make sure that you film horizontally and not in portrait :) But just going out and shooting ANYTHING that has motion and is of some interest and then editing films is the most important thing.

Editing is one of the most amazing processes in filmmaking and is crucial, crucial, crucial to anyone wanting to be a filmmaker, So go out, shoot something, come back in, edit it together. Make sure there's wide shots, cutaways reaction shots, etc.

Once you watch your edit (start on I-Movie if you have to!) you go back and you shoot something again. So it all comes down to get out and shoot something. Edit it, show your friends and post it. It won't be perfect the first 100 times - but you build experience and get better.

I held myself back for years waiting for the right moment - I wish someone had just told me "just get a story and go shoot it!"

The most difficult aspect of cleanup is identifying what needs to cleaned up. The initial process is easy, anything with staining, or a foul odor can easily be removed. However, chemicals can still have adverse health effects when you can't even detect the chemical through olfactory senses. As such, identifying contaminated areas beyond gross contamination through laboratory analysis is the only way to ensure nothing that poses a risk remains. This takes time and a lot of energy in the field, collecting samples, storing them, submitting them to a lab, etc. Then you have to wait for results before you can act. Once you have delineated the unseen contamination, you may begin to fully remediate the site.

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Everything currently recommended in the workplan for the site is what I would normally recommend in this scenario, however, I can't offer any specific advice without seeing the raw data collected for soil and groundwater data in the area, which is not currently publicly available.

The immediate area air monitoring results indicate that concentrations in the air should not cause any adverse health effects. However, air behaves differently at different levels within the atmosphere. The plume of air going up into the sky may travel quite a distance and may even travel in a different direction than the air at ground level. That being said, air concentrations are a function of volume, speed, and degradation over time and space (distance in the x,y, and z direction). So as it spreads the concentrations become more dilute. I would expect you would have more exposure to being near a running car than to anything from the Palestine spill site

What’s a film that didn’t get a great reception but you love?

I have a degree in environmental engineering which is a bachelors of science awarded by the college of engineering at the University of Georgia.

How concerned should I be about this spill as a resident of Pittsburgh? All the media is focused on the impact of the immediate area, but should I be concerned about any negative impact 50miles away?

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I'm confused by your diploma. You were in an engineering college at U of G, but have a degree in environmental science?

What technical difficulties you actually face in cleaning process?and what's your solutions(by your opinion)on it

Interested in answers to some of the questions you laid out:

>Has shooting an Oscar-winning documentary considerably impacted your career?
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>What should be the approach to making an independent movie versus a major production?
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>What’s an element of a movie that can make you love a movie despite its flaws?
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>How does your festival distinguish itself from other film festivals? What kind of crowds does your festival attract?

Do you think you've developed any mental health problems as a result of reporting on war?

Has there been discussion in the industry regarding maintaining mental health when faced with PTSD inducing tragedies?

Has your reporting on war affected the way you read about other wars or consume war related media like movies?

We are a small business located near Atlanta, Georgia.

I wanted to go ahead and just say that is a complicated question. I will attempt to answer it later as I am at work right now, but I don't have the time to answer that right now. I will go ahead and answer the media question though. In general the media is just as uninformed as anyone else not in this industry, without reviewing the actual site data, all they can rely on is what the company reps and government agencies release as statements. It does also seem that the media likes to hype up events out of proportion and that can create public concern that isn't really necessary.

Thank you for giving us the opportunity to create a dialogue, the first questions that come to my mind are how do you prepare mentally before filming in a war zone? And globally, are there a lot of misconceptions about war filming?

Fellow Environmental Consultant here!

Just curious to know who you work for? Is it a small local or one of the big ones?

What was the process for your documentary to qualify to be eligible for an Oscar?

Oh man, I specialize in oil cleanups on land, I could give a 2-hour presentation on it and would still have so much to cover. However, for water, its much different. Oil spills to water and eventual cleanup of those spills is heavily dependent on the water body in which it was spilled. For oceans, you have to account for currents, waves, wind, etc. The short response is yes, kind of. You will be able to cleanup the visible oil or product but there is what is called the dissolved phase, which is much more difficult to cleanup since it is dissolved in the water itself. However, the dissolved phase is typically left unaddressed as those chemicals will quickly disperse in water and will quickly degrade as well. The general process therefore, relies on removing as much of the gross product as possible through absorbent and adsorbent material such as booms or oleophilic (attracts oily substances) floating devices.

Is there a certain criteria or checklist you use for deciding on which films to select for your film festival?

Any tips that you could give to an aspiring screenwriter?

In your experience, does media reporting of an environmental disaster effect the quality of the disaster response?

What event would you consider the worst environmental disaster response? What event had the best?

What is the process for cleaning up oil spilled in water and is it possible for it all to be extracted?

What the best story you got? And do you have any movie recommendations?

Favorite: Creosote, its sticky and tar like, very difficult to remediate, but with careful engineering and adequate data you can manage it. I had a site in London, UK where they had a former manufactured gas plant (MGP), which is similar to creosote (it was coal tar instead) and because it it denser than water it will slowly seep into the subsurface and stop on the nearest impermeable layer. Which in this case was a unit called the London Clay layer. We conducted soil borings throughout the site and determined the topographic surface of the clay layer beneath the site and identified a low point where the coal tar would naturally settle. We then installed a well at that low point and began recovering the coal tar through the well with specialized remediation equipment.

Least Favorite: tetrachloroethylene, its everywhere, sticks around in the environment forever, and it degrades into even worse chemicals, including vinyl chloride over time.

It is difficult to say what affect that would have on the surrounding air near the release. It is generally a best practice to attempt to contain and quantify releases rather than destroying them with uncontrolled fire, in order to quantify the amount of product captured to compare it to the amount released. In some facilities that deal with VOCs a flare is installed to perform controlled burns of such chemicals. I would therefore, not recommend burning the chemical due to the unknown affects it may have on air quality in the immediate vicinity and the damage to long term cleanup efforts.