We hope you can join this lecture — part of the monthly lecture series, You Don't Know What You Don't Know!

In this month's episode, we will be exploring emergency response issues associated with lithium ion batteries, with Dalina Thrift-Viveros, Chemistry Team Lead in the Emergency Response Division of NOAA's Office of Response and Restoration. Dalina will discuss what makes these common household appliances dangerous, and the response measures that should be taken during an incident.

Dalina Thrift-Viveros serves as the Chemistry Team Lead for NOAA OR&R’s Emergency Response Division (ERD), coordinating chemistry hazard assessment support for the U.S. Coast Guard in the event of an oil or chemical spill. She has worked in ERD since 2011, and also serves as a chemistry subject matter expert on a variety of ERD-produced response software projects, including ALOHA, CAMEO Chemicals, ADIOS, and CAFE. Originally from Long Beach, California, Dalina graduated from Caltech in 2007 with a bachelor’s degree in chemistry, and then moved to Seattle for graduate school at the University of Washington, where she earned a master’s degree in inorganic chemistry in 2010. After graduate school, Dalina taught introductory chemistry for two years at South Seattle Community College.

Mark your calendar for the third Thursday of the month — and please feel free to share the series with others in the professional spill planning, response, and environmental science communities.