Welcome from NACSETAC, Maura Suprenant, NAC president
SETAC North America Update, Sandra Brasfield, Student Board representative

• INNOVATIVE APPROACHES IN CHEMISTRY, TOXICOLOGY, & RISK ASSESSMENT   (Maura Suprenant, Session Chair)

• ARE SEDIMENT TOXICITY BIOASSAYS ALWAYS RELEVANT FOR ECOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENTS? William R. Alsop, AMEC Earth & Environmental, 239 Littleton Road, Suite 1B, Westford, MA 01886 (Bill.alsop@amec.com) AND John Samuelian, AMEC E&E, 15 Franklin Street, Portland, ME 04101

• SPATIALLY-EXPLICIT WILDLIFE EXPOSURE MODELING TOOLS: SEEM AND FISHRAND. Katherine von Stackelberg, Menzie-Cura & Associates, Inc., 8 Winchester Place, Suite 202, Winchester, MA 01890 (kvon@menziecura.com); W. Theodore Wickwire, Menzie-Cura & Associates, Inc., 477 Congress Street, 5th Floor, Portland, ME 04011 (wickwire@menziecura.com); Charles A. Menzie and Dimitriy Burmistrov, Menzie-Cura & Associates, Inc.; Todd S. Bridges, US Army Corps of Engineers Waterways Experiment Station; and Mark S. Johnson, US Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine

• THE STATISTICAL FINGERPRINTING OF POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON SOURCES IN ENVIRONMENTAL SAMPLES, A WEIGHT OF EVIDENCE APPROACH. Michael J. Bock, ARCADIS, 24 Preble St Suite 100, Portland Maine, 04101 (mbock@arcadis-us.com)
• SYNERGISTIC USE OF ENVIRONMENTAL FORENSICS AND RISK ASSESSMENT TECHNIQUES DURING A SEDIMENT INVESTIGATION IN NARRAGANSETT, RHODE ISLAND. Emsbo-Mattingly, Stephen, Hinckley, D., Speicher, J., and Leather, J., NewFields Environmental Forensics Practice, 100 Ledgewood Place, Suite 302, Rockland, MA 02370
   

EMERGING ISSUES (Duane Huggett, Session Chair)

• MORE THAN A GUT FEELING… USE OF A NATURAL RESOURCE ECONOMIC MODEL TO SUPPORT SITE CLOSURE. Jonathon Weier (jweier@ch2m.com) & Stephen Petron, CH2M HILL, 25 New Chardon Street, Suite 300, Boston, MA 02114; AND Tim Reisch & Ed Corl, NAVFAC Atlantic
• Bob Castanza, University of Vermont
• SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION OF MAJOR PHARMACEUTICALS AND S-TRIAZINE HERBICIDES IN WATERS FROM THE UPPER DETROIT RIVER. W.Y. Hua, University of Windsor, Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research, Windsor, Ontario, Canada; Erin R. Bennett (ebennett70@hotmail.com), University of Windsor, Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research, Windsor, Ontario, Canada and Mills Consulting, Salem, MA; C.D. Metcalfe & X. Maio, University, Environmental and Resource Studies, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada; AND R.J. Letcher, University of Windsor, Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research, Windsor, Ontario, Canada and National Wildlife Research Centre, Canadian Wildlife Service, Environment Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
   

POPULATION & COMMMUNITY CONSIDERATIONS IN ECOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT (Mike Thompson, Session Chair)

• CHARACTERIZATION OF BREEDING AMPHIBIAN COMMUNITIES IN PCB-CONTAMINATED FLOODPLAINS OF THE HOUSATONIC RIVER. Michael E. Thompson (mthompson@woodlotalt.com), Robert D. Roy, & John P. Lortie, Woodlot Alternatives, Inc., 30 Park Drive, Topsham, Maine 04086; AND Susan Svirsky, U.S. EPA, Boston, Massachusetts
• EXTINCTION RISK IN A WOOD FROG (RANA SYLVATICA) METAPOPULATION UNDER ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATION BY PCBs. Tucker, W. Troy, Applied Biomathematics, 100 North Country Rd., Setauket, NY 11733; Michael E. Thompson & John P. Lortie, Woodlot Alternatives, Inc., 30 Park Drive, Topsham, ME 04086; Douglas J. Fort, Fort Environmental Laboratories, 1414 South Sangre Road, Stillwater, OK 74074; Susan Svirsky, US EPA New England, 1 Congress St., Boston, MA 02114; AND Scott Ferson (scott@ramas.com) Applied Biomathematics, 100 North Country Rd., Setauket, NY 11733
• DEVELOPING POPULATION-LEVEL ECOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT FRAMEWORK FOR SMALL FRESHWATER SYSTEMS USING SMALL BODIED FISH. Sandra Brasfield, Canadian Rivers Institute, Department of Biology, University of New Brunswick, Saint John, NB E2L 4L5, Canada
• USE OF BIOSIM2 TO IDENTIFY RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN BIOTIC AND ABIOTIC PARAMETERS FOR LOW ELEVATION, WADABLE STREAMS OF MODERATE GRADIENT IN VERMONT. S.Fiske, Biomonitoring and Aquatic Studies Section, Vermont DEC, Waterbury, VT 05671; AND C.F.A. Pinkham (http://www2.norwich.edu/pinkhamc/) Biology Department, Norwich University, Northfield, VT 05663

WILDLIFE RISK ASSESSMENT (Sylvain DeGuise, Session Chair)

• CANARY DATABASE: ANIMALS AS SENTINELS OF HUMAN ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH HAZARDS. P. Rabinowitz, Z. Gordon, D. Chudnov, M. Wilcox, & Lynda Odofin (Lynda.Odofin@yale.edu), Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven CT 06510; AND J. Dein, USGS National Wildlife Health Center, Madison, WI 53711
• NON-COPLANAR PCB-INDUCED MODULATION OF PHAGOCYTOSIS IN MARINE MAMMALS, HUMANS, AND MICE: NEW MECHANISMS. Milton Levin (milton.levin@uconn.edu), B. Morsey, C. Mori, & S. De Guise, Department of Pathobiology and Veterinary Science, University of Connecticut, 61 North Eagleville Road, U-89, Storrs, Connecticut 06269; AND P.R. Nambiar, Division of Comparative Medicine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139
• CONTAMINANTS IN AMERICAN WOODCOCK FROM THE NORTHEASTERN ATLANTIC REGION. Brian J. Hiller and J.S. Barclay, Wildlife Conservation Research Center, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269
• SODIUM CHROMATE TOXICITY IN STELLER SEA LION CELLS. Amie L. Holmes, S.S. Wise, A.T. Morin, C.E.C. Goertz, & J.P. Wise, Sr., Wise Laboratory of Environmental and Genetic Toxicology, Maine Center for Toxicology and Environmental Health, University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME 04104; S. Atkinson, Alaska SeaLife Center., Seward, AK 99664; J.L. Dunn, Mystic Aquarium., Mystic, CT 06355; and F.M.D. Gulland, The Marine Mammal Center, Sausalito, CA 94965.
   

ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS – HORMONES R US   (Dodi Borsay Horowitz & Jocelyne Hellou, Session Chairs)

• REVIEW OF EVIDENCE: ARE ENDOCRINE-DISRUPTING CHEMICALS IN THE AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT IMPACTING FISH POPULATIONS? Lesley Mills (mills.lesley@epa.gov), Ruth Gutjahr-Gobell, and Jerry Zaroogian, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, Atlantic Ecology Division, Narragansett, Rhode Island 02882
• ESTROGENIC COMPOUNDS IN HALIFAX HARBOUR: THE ROLE OF PARTITIONING AND BIODEGRADATION. Brian Robinson, Dept. of Oceanography, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS; and J. Hellou, Dept. of Fisheries and Oceans, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS
• NEW JERSEY FROGS, ATRAZINE AND ENDOCRINE DISRUPTION: THE INITIAL FINDINGS. Marisol M. Gutierrez (mmgrib@eden.rutgers.edu) & K. R. Cooper, Rutgers University, Joint Graduate Program in Toxicology, Piscataway, NJ 08854; and M. G. Robson, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, School of Public Health, Piscataway, NJ 08854

ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY  (Maura Suprenant, Chair)

• COPPER TOXICITY FOR TWO SPECIES OF MARINE GASTROPOD IN THE GENUS CREPIDULA WITH DIFFERENT DISPERSAL POTENTIAL. Steven Untersee (steven.untersee@tufts.edu) and Jan A. Pechenik, Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155
• EVALUATION OF CHEMICAL POLLUTANTS LEVELS IN THE CHARLES RIVER & THEIR EFFECT ON ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE BACTERIA. Sarmad Saman and Hillary Hagget, Massachusetts Bay Community College, 50 Oakland Street, Wellesley, Ma.02481
• ENSURING DATA QUALITY OBJECTIVES FOR VAPOR INTRUSION INVESTIGATIONS UTILIZING EPA METHOD TO-15. Gina M. Plantz, Severn Trent Laboratories, Inc., 208 South Park Dr. Colchester, VT 05446

BEHAVIOURAL RESPONSE OF THE PERIWINKLES LITTORINA LITTOREA, TO HARBOUR SEDIMENTS. Stephen Marklevitz, Marine Biology and Oceanography Departments, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; and Jocelyne Hellou, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada and Chemistry and Oceanography Departments, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

BEHAVIOURAL RESPONSE OF THE AMPHIPOD COROPHIUM VOLUTATOR TO PESTICIDES. Laurie Tremblay, Department of Earth Sciences, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; Jim Leonard, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada; and Jocelyne Hellou, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada and Chemistry and Oceanography Departments, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

NEW JERSEY FROGS, ATRAZINE AND ENDOCRINE DISRUPTION: THE INITIAL FINDINGS. Marisol M. Gutierrez (mmgrib@eden.rutgers.edu) & K. R. Cooper, Rutgers University, Joint Graduate Program in Toxicology, Piscataway, NJ 08854; and M. G. Robson, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, School of Public Health, Piscataway, NJ 08854