Welcome from NAC SETAC, Janet Robinson - NAC SETAC President
Message from SETAC National representative

SESSION 1: Innovative Approaches in Environmental Toxicology: Part I. Risk Assessment and Management.  (Chair, Sylvain DeGuise, sylvain.deguise@uconn.edu)

• A Pilot Study to Evaluate the Potential Increase in River Water Toxicity Following Dam Removal.  Adria A. Elskus (aelskus@usgs.gov), U.S. Geological Survey, Maine Field Office, Orono, ME 04469; G. Mayer, C. Kim, L. LeBlanc, L.B. Perkins and R. Van Beneden, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469.

• EVALUATION OF BUFFER ZONE EFFECTIVENESS IN THE MITIGATING THE RISKS OF AGRICULTURAL RUNOFF IN PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND.  Allison M. Dunn¹ (Allison.Dunn@EC.GC.CA), G. Julien¹, W. R. Ernst¹, A. Cook², K.G. Doe², and P.M. Jackman². ¹Environment Canada, Environmental Protection Branch, Dartmouth, NS; and ²Environment Canada, Environmental Conservation Branch, Moncton, NB.

• INTERPRETATION OF UNCERTAINTY IN DIOXIN/FURAN DATA FOR THE RISK ASSESSOR AND ENVIRONMENTAL DECISION-MAKER.  Nancy C. Rothman, New Environmental Horizons, Inc., 34 Pheasant Run Dr., Skillman, NJ 08558 and Susan D. Chapnick (s.chapnick@comcast.net), New Environmental Horizons, Inc., 2 Farmers Cir., Arlington, MA 02474.

SESSION 2: Innovative Approaches in Environmental Toxicology: Part II. Toxicity Testing & Ecotoxicology.  (Chair, Sylvain DeGuise, sylvain.deguise@uconn.edu)

• *MERCURY LEVELS IN WILD-GROWING FUNGI FROM INTERIOR AND COASTAL FORESTS NEAR THE BAY OF FUNDY, CANADA.  Mina Nasr (c4a33@unb.ca) and Paul A. Arp_, Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Management, UNB, Fredericton, N.B., Canada, E3B 6C2.

• *ANALYSIS OF ZEBRAFISH EXPOSED TO SYNTHETIC HORMONES.   Emily Notch (emily_notch@umit.maine.edu), Danielle Miniutti, Greg Mayer, Biochemistry, Microbiology & Molecular Biology Department, University of Maine Orono.

• *Avoidance response of the marine snail, Ilyanassa obsoleta, to harbour sediments.   Steve Marklevitz¹ (smarklev@dal.ca), J. Hellou^{2, 3}, ¹Marine Biology and Oceanography Departments, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. ²Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada; ³Chemistry and Oceanography Departments, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

• *APPLICATIONS AND ASSUMPTIONS OF STABLE ISOTOPE ANALYSIS IN ECOTOXICOLOGY.  Timothy D. Jardine (m614u@unb.ca), Karen A. Kidd, Canadian Rivers Institute and Biology Department, University of New Brunswick, Saint John, NB, Canada, and Aaron T. Fisk, Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of Georgia, Athens, GA.

• *MODELING ECOLOGICAL PATHWAYS OF MERCURY THROUGH AQUACULTURE.  Laura B. Sweeney (laura.sweeney@unb.ca), M.D.B. Burt, A. Diamond, P.A. Arp, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada.

SESSION 3: Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA) (Chair, Stephen E. Petron, Stephen.Petron@ch2m.com)

• INNOVATIVE APPROACHES TO PROVIDING RESTORATION FOR SMALL SPILLS.   Kate Clark (Kate.Clark@noaa.gov) NOAA Office of Response and Restoration (ORR), 28 Tarzwell Drive, Narragansett, RI 02882, T. Brosnan, NOAA ORR, 1305 East-West Highway, Silver Spring, MD, 20910.

• NATURAL RESOURCE DAMAGE ASSESSMENTS:  HOW COOPERATIVE ASSESSMENTS YIELD SIGNIFICANT RETURNS.  Steve Davis (SDavis@entrix.com), A. Parsons, and T. Williams, ENTRIX, Inc., Augusta, ME., Methuen, MA., and Barrington, Il.

• NOAA’S APPROACH TO COOPERATIVELY RESOLVING NATURAL RESOURCE LIABILITY.   Kenneth Finkelstein (Ken.Finkelstein@noaa.gov), NOAA Office of Response and Restoration, c/o EPA Region 1 (HIO), 1 Congress Street, Boston, MA 02114.

• ESTIMATION OF NATURAL RESOURCE DAMAGES FOR 23 FLORIDA CASES USING MODELING OF PHYSICAL FATES AND BIOLOGICAL INJURIES.  Jill Rowe (jrowe@appsci.com), Deborah French McCay, and Nicole Whittier; Applied Science Associates, Inc., 70 Dean Knauss Drive, Narragansett, RI 02882-1143.

• NATURAL RESOURCE DAMAGE ASSESSMENTS IN URBANIZED AND CHANGING HABITATS - BERRY'S CREEK, NJ.  Mark S Laska (mlaska@geeinc.net), Great Eastern Ecology, Inc., 2231 Broadway, New York, NY 10024, Richard W. Galloway, Honeywell International, Morristown NJ, and Daniel T. Guest, MACTEC, Hamilton NJ.

SESSION 4: What’s New in the Gulf of Maine? (Chair, Janet Robinson, jrobinson@woodardcurran.com)

• BACTERIAL POLLUTION SOURCE TRACKING IN COASTAL NEW HAMPSHIRE AND MAINE.  Steve H. Jones (shj@cisunix.unh.edu), University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, 03824; N. Landry and S. Sumner, NH Department of Environmental Services, Concord, NH 03301.
• MERCURY LEVELS IN SEABIRDS IN THE GULF OF MAINE.  W. Goodale¹ (wing.goodale@briloon.org), D. Evers¹, B. Allen², J. Ellis³, S. Hall⁴, S. Kress⁴,  S. Mierzykowski⁵, and L. Welch⁶; ¹BioDiversity Research Institute, ²Maine Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, ³Shoals Marine Laboratory, ⁴National Audubon Society, ⁵U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, ⁶Maine Coastal Islands NWR.
• CONCENTRATION OF TOXIC POLLUTANTS IN CASCO BAY SEDIMENTS AND BLUE MUSSELS AS INDICATORS OF ECOSYSTEM CONTAMINATION.  Diane Gould (gould.diane@epa.gov), US Environmental Protection Agency and Lee Doggett, Maine Department of Environmental Protection.

SESSION 5: Spatial Ecology in Ecological Risk Assessment (Chair, Anne Kuhn-Hines, kuhn.anne@epa.gov)

• Forensic Mapping: Using GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS (gis) to track environmental contaminants.  Kirsten Read Boettcher (kirsten@orbismaps.com) & Rosemary Mosher, Orbis, LLC, 19 Hyde Road, PO Box 1105, Gray, Maine 04039.

• EVALUATING EFFECTS OF LOW QUALITY HABITATS ON REGIONAL POPULATION GROWTH IN PEROMYSCUS LEUCOPUS: INSIGHTS FROM FIELD-PARAMETERIZED SPATIAL MATRIX MODELS.   Jason S. Grear¹ (grear.jason@epa.gov) and Catherine E. Burns² (catherine.burns@yale.edu), ¹U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Atlantic Ecology Division, 27 Tarzwell Drive, Narragansett, RI 02882 and ²Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Yale University, 165 Propect St., New Haven, CT 06511.

• UTILIZING BROAD SCALE ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING DATA TO PREDICT ESTUARINE SEDIMENT METAL CONCENTRATIONS ALONG THE UNITED STATES’ ATLANTIC COAST.  Jeffrey W. Hollister (holister.jeffrey@epa.gov -after 6/1/06), Department of Natural Resources Science, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI  02881,  Peter V. August, Department of Natural Resources Science, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI  02881, and John F. Paul, Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711.

• CONSIDERING HABITAT, BEHAVIORS AND SPATIAL INTERACTIONS WITHIN TERRESTRIAL ECOLOGICAL EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT:  A CASE STUDY APPLICATION OF THE SPATIALLY EXPLICIT EXPOSURE MODEL (SEEM).  Wickwire W,T.¹ (wickwire@menziecura.com), Johnson MS², Parsons PJ³, Burmistrov D¹, and Menzie CA¹.  ¹Menzie-Cura & Associates, Inc., Winchester, MA. ²U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD. ³Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, NY.
   

SESSION 6: Application of Molecular Approaches and Tools to Ecological Risk Assessment (Chair, Diane Nacci, nacci.diane@epa.gov)

• Application of Genomic Technologies to Ecological Risk Assessment.  Joshua W. Hamilon, Professor Pharmacology and Toxicology, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire.

• Molecular evolution and molecular modeling of ecotoxicologically relevant CYP1A genes.  Jared Goldstone¹ (jgoldstone@whoi.edu), Jahnavi Prasad², Sandor Vajda², and John Stegeman¹; ¹Biology, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and ²Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University.

• NEUTRAL MOLECULAR MARKERS AND THEIR VALUE IN ASSESSING IMPACTS TO WILDLIFE POPULATIONS.  Amy M. McMillan (MCMILLIAM@buffalostate.edu), Buffalo State College, Buffalo, NY 14222.

• *THE LITTLE SKATE (LEUCORAJA ERINACEA) AS AN IN SITU INDICATOR OF ENVIRONMENTAL SPERMATOTOXICANTS. K.B. Engel (kabonner@bu.edu), G.V. Callard, GV, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215; R. Merson, M.E. Hahn, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, Woods Hole, MA 02543.

POSTER PRESENTATIONS

FUGAWEB, A PROBABILISTIC FUGACITY AND FOOD WEB MODEL FOR ASSESSING ECOLOGICAL RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH CONSUMER PRODUCTS.  M.J. Bock (mbock@Environcorp.com), ENVIRON International Corporation, Portland, ME 04101; and T.R. Barber and M. Ferguson, ENVIRON International Corporation, Burton, OH  44021.

*Non-Lethal effects due to pesticides’ exposure.  Kathryn Dunphy¹ (kathryn@dal.ca), Laurie Tremblay², Jim Leonard³ and Jocelyne Hellou ^{3,4.  1}Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; ²Department of Earth Sciences, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; ³Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada; and ⁴Chemistry and Oceanography Departments, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

THE CYTOTOXICITY AND GENOTOXICITY OF HEXAVALENT CHROMIUM AND HYPOXIA IN MEDAKA CELLS.  Britton C. Goodale¹ (britton.goodale@maine.edu), Sandra S. Wise¹, Ronald B. Walter², Zehnlin Ju² and John Pierce Wise Sr¹.  ¹Wise Laboratory of Environmental and Genetic Toxicology, Maine Center for Toxicology and Environmental Health, University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME. ²Texas State University, San Marcos, TX.

INTEGRATING ECOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCE DAMAGE ASSESSMENT: A HYPOTHETICAL CASE STUDY INVOLVING MULTIPLE RESOURCES.  Allison Guinan (AGuinan@entrix.com) and H. Byrd (HByrd@entrix.com) ENTRIX, Inc, Methuen, MA 01844; and ENTRIX, Inc. New Castle, DE 19720.

ENTERIC ADENOCARCINOMA IN THE EASTERN OYSTER, CRASSOSTREA VIRGINICA.  Doranne Borsay Horowitz (borsay.dodi@epa.gov), Atlantic Ecology Division, US EPA, NHEERL, 27 Tarzwell Drive, Narragansett, RI 02882 and Inke Sunila (isunila@snet.net), CT Dept of Agriculture, Milford, CT.

*semiconductor Nanoparticle Uptake and Toxicity correlates with Particle Size and core degradation.  A.N. Johnson (adam.johnson@umit.maine.edu), G. D. Mayer, University of Maine, Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Orono, ME 04469 and B.E. Bragdon, A. Nohe, University of Maine, Department of Chemical Engineering, Orono, ME 04469.

*CYP1A1 EXPRESSION IN SPERM WHALE (PHYSETER MACROCEPHALUS) SKIN BIOPSIES FROM THE PACIFIC OCEAN SHOWS SITE BUT NOT SEX DIFFERENCES. Carolyne LaCerte^1,2 (Carolyne_Lacerte@umit.maine.edu), Rebecca Clark², Ildiko Polyak², John Cannon², Kim Pinkerton², Nadia Rubio-Cisneros³, Sarah Mesnick⁴, Michael Moore5, Roger Payne², John P. Wise Sr.¹, John J. Stegeman5, and Céline A.J. Godard-Codding^1,2. ¹Wise Laboratory of Environmental and Genetic Toxicology, University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME 04104, USA; ²Ocean Alliance, Lincoln, MA 01773, USA; ³Centro de Investigationes Biologicas del Noroestre (CIBNOR), La Paz, B.C.S., Mexico; ⁴Southwest Fisheries Science Center, NOAA, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA; 5Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA.

INTEGRATION OF ARCVIEW AND EVS FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING OF SEDIMENT DEPTH DATA FOR A CREEK IN SOUTHWESTERN OHIO.  Erik Martin (emartin@environcorp.com), ENVIRON International Corp., Portland, ME, Tim Barber, Ph.D. and Michael Ferguson ENVIRON International Corp., Burton, OH, and Angela DeDolph, ENVIRON International Corp., Deerfield, IL.

*EVALUATION OF THE EFFECTS OF SEDIMENT CONTAMINANT RELEASE.  Danielle M. Miniutti (danielle.miniutti@umit.maine.edu), Emily G. Notch, and Gregory D. Mayer, Biochemistry, Microbiology, & Molecular Biology Department, University of Maine Orono.

*ESTROGENIC COMPOUNDS IN HALIFAX HARBOUR:  ANALYTICAL METHODS OF DETECTION AND ENVIRONMENTAL FATE STUDIES.  B. Robinson, Dept. of Oceanography, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS; and J. Hellou, Dept. of Fisheries and Oceans, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS.

*THE CYTOTOXICITY AND GENOTOXICITY OF CR(VI) IN LUNG AND TESTES CELLS FROM THE NORTHERN RIGHT WHALE (EUBALAENA GLACIALIS).  Fariba Shaffiey¹ (fariba.shaffiey@maine.edu), Sandra S. Wise¹, Scott Kraus², Todd O’Hara³ and John Pierce Wise, Sr.¹; ¹Wise Laboratory of Environmental and Genetic Toxicology, Maine Center for Toxicology and Environmental Health, University of Southern Maine, 96 Falmouth St., Portland, ME. 04104; ²New England Aquarium, Edgerton Research Laboratory, Central Wharf, Boston, MA 02110; ³Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK 99775.

*FATE OF ESTROGENIC COMPOUNDS IN THE MUD SNAIL.  A. Parsons^1,2 (ashley.parsons@dal.ca), K. Campbell^1,2 (campbell_katie@hotmail.com) and J. Hellou^1,2 (HellouJ@mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca), ¹Chemistry Department, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, B3H 4J3; ²Bedford Institute of Oceanography, 1 Challenger Drive, Dartmouth, NS, B2Y 4A2.

*THE EFFECTS OF PCBs ON IMMUNE FUNCTIONS OF THE EASTERN OYSTER.  J. M. DiGalbo (Jennifer.Digalbo@uconn.edu), S. De Guise, Department of Pathobiology and Veterinary Science, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269.

*In Vitro effects of individual polychlorinated biphenyl congeners on lymphocyte proliferation in HUMANS, MARINE MAMMALS AND MICE.   H. Leibrecht (heather.leibrecht@uconn.edu), C. Mori, M. Levin, M. Trailsmith, S. De Guise, Department of Pathobiology and Veterinary Science, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269.

IMPACTS OF MULTIPLE STRESSORS ON COMMON LOONS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE, USA: A DEMONSTRATION STUDY FOR STRESSOR EFFECTS ACROSS SPACE.  Steven Walters¹ (walters.steven@epa.gov), Anne Kuhn¹, Jason S. Grear¹, Matthew C. Nicholson², Jane Copeland³, Steven A. Rego¹, and Diane E. Nacci¹.  ¹U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, Atlantic Ecology Division, Narragansett, RI; ²U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 3, Philadelphia, PA; ³Computer Sciences Corporation.

*CYTOTOXICITY AND GENOTOXICITY OF MERCURY IN BOWHEAD WHALE (BAELAENA MYSTICETUS) AND HUMAN LUNG CELLS.  Heather Throckmorton¹ (Heather.throckmorton@maine.edu), Sandra S. Wise¹, Rebecca Kelly¹, Scott Kraus², Todd O’Hara³, Tracy Romano⁴, John Pierce Wise, Sr.¹; ¹Wise Laboratory of Environmental and Genetic Toxicology, University of Southern Maine, 96 Falmouth St., Portland, ME 041042 New England Aquarium, ²Edgerton Research Laboratory, Central Wharf, Boston, MA 021103 Institute of Arctic Biology, ³University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK 99775, ⁴Mystic Aquarium, 55 Coogan Blvd, Mystic, CT 06355.

*GENE EXPRESSION IN ZEBRAFISH EMBRYOS AS AN ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR SCREEN. Lucinda Burnam (lcburnam@bu.edu), Apolonia Novillo, and Gloria V Callard, Boston University Department of Biology, Boston MA, 02215.

* denotes student presentations.