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June 4 - 6, 2008
Atlantic Oakes-By-The-Sea Resort & Conference Center
Bar Harbor, Maine
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4
All day short course, 8:00AM - 5:00PM,
“Population
Modeling for Environmental Scientists”
Instructor:
Scott Ferson, Applied Biomathematics, RAMAS.
THURSDAY, JUNE 5
7:30 Coffee and light snacks
8:15 Welcome, Mike Thompson, NAC president
SESSION 1
MERCURY IN THE AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT
(David Taylor, Session Chair)
8:20
TEMPORAL CHARACTERISTICS OF FISH TISSUE MERCURY CONCENTRATION RESPONSES TO
CHANGING MERCURY INPUTS TO THE ENVIRONMENT.
Michael S. Hutcheson,
C.M. Smith, J. Rose, C.R. West, O. Pancorbo, J. Sullivan, & C Batdorf.
8:40
(STUDENT)
BIOACCUMULATION OF MERCURY IN YOUNG-OF-THE-YEAR ESTUARINE FISH.
Joey T. Szczebak
& David L. Taylor.
9:00
MERCURY BIOACCUMULATION AND TROPHIC TRANSFER IN RESIDENT ESTUARINE FOOD WEBS.
C. Chen, Jason Williams, B. Mayes; B. Jackson, V. Taylor, & J. Shaw.
9:20
Stable isotope analysis reveals differences in mercury bioaccumulation rates in
benthic versus pelagic estuarine food webs.
David L. Taylor,
Joseph T. Szczebak, Eric J. Payne, Stacey A. Helming,
Loong Fat Ho, Maria N. Piraino, and
Jennifer Linehan.
9:40 Break
SESSION 2
Regional
Endangered Species Issues
(Alan
Parsons and Patti Reilly, Session Co-Chairs)
10:00 Pesticides, Environmental
Risks, including Endangered Species in Maine.
LeBelle Hicks.
10:20 AMPHIBIAN
PRESENCE AND BREEDING SUCCESS IN FRESHWATER WETLANDS AFFECTED BY COAL COMBUSTION
BYPRODUCTS.
Allison Nightingale
& J. Robb.
10:40
multiple stressor
effects in early life stage Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar): initial
findings.
Adria A. Elskus
& C. Straub.
11:00
(STUDENT)
HEXAVALENT CHROMIUM MAY BE A
RISK FACTOR FOR THE NORTH ATLANTIC
RIGHT WHALE (EUBALAENA GLACIALIS).
Tânia Li Chen,
S. S. Wise, S. Kraus, F. Shaffiey, M. Grau, C. Perkins, W. D. Thompson, T. Zheng,
Y. Zhang, T. Romano, T.O’Hara, and J. P. Wise, Sr.
11:20 (STUDENT)
CYTOTOXIC AND GENOTOXIC EFFECTS OF CHROMIUM ON MARINE MAMMAL LUNG CELLS.
Julieta Martino, T. Li Chen, S.
Wise, F. Shaffiey, O. Popa,
C. E. C. Goertz, S. Krauss, J.
L. Dunn, F. M. D. Gulland, W. D. Thompson, T. Zheng,
and J. P. Wise, Sr.
11:40
AFTER THE FACT. Brian Reilly.
12:00
– 1:30 LUNCH (Included) NAC SETAC Business Meeting
SESSION 3
EMERGING CONTAMINANTS
(Diane Nacci, Session
Chair)
1:30
Environmental fate and toxicity of the PBDE flame retardants.
Deborah Rice.
2:10
Temporal trends of Triclosan in sediment cores collected from TWO urbanized
estuaries.
Mark Cantwell, B. Wilson, J. Zhu, & J. King.
2:30
MassDEP's Emerging Contaminants Project: Future Implications for Ecological Risk
Assessment.
Nancy Bettinger.
2:50
Stage-specific Effects of Acute Exposure to Pesticides on the Soft-shell Clam,
Mya arenaria.
Sara Lindsay,
Jill Chasse, Rondi A. Butler, Wendy Morrill, & Rebecca J. Van Beneden.
3:10
BREAK
3:30
EVALUATION OF BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICE FOR REDUCING RISK FROM SPRAYER TRACK ROWS
IN POTATO PRODUCTION.
Allison Dunn.
3:50
Mechanistic Basis of Resistance to PCBs in Atlantic tomcod from the Hudson
River, New York.
Isaac
Wirgin,
Nirmal Roy, Mathew Loftus, R. Christopher Chamber, & Mark Hahn.
4:10
ADJOURN
5:00 – 7:30
POSTER SESSION AND RECEPTION
7:30 – 9:30 MAINE SHORE
DINNER, with KEYNOTE SPEAKER, DR. WAYNE MUNNS,
USEPA, AED, NHEERL
FROM PICKLE JARS TO ECOSYSTEM SERVICES: WHO CARES ABOUT WATER FLEAS ANYWAY?
Dr. Wayne R. Munns, Jr.
(munns.wayne@epa.gov), U.S. EPA Office of
Research and Development, Narragansett, RI.
We’ve made tremendous progress in protecting the environment since
Ohio’s
Cuyahoga River burned in 1969 – the air, water and
land of this country are cleaner due in major part to the kinds of science
represented by SETAC. And yet, the
environment continues to take a back seat to human health issues in many
important decisions. Because humans
are the deciders when it comes to environmental protection, our science can be
made more influential by casting environmental effects in terms that people care
most about: valued ecological properties and human well being.
Two developments – one recent and one not so much – are helping to shape
the future research agenda for environmental protection.
The first is an expansion of consideration beyond death and reproduction
of easily tested lab organisms to the risks that stressors present to real
populations, communities and ecosystems.
By sliding attention further along the scale of biological hierarchy,
population-level ecological risk assessment provides evidence that can be linked
more directly to the things we value: the vitality of ecosystems around us.
Who cares if 50% of the Daphnia
die in a pickle jar, when the real goal is a healthy lake community with frogs
for catching and fish for eating? We
can better inform the decisions to meet such goals by furthering the progress of
the science and knowledge needed to assess risks to populations.
The second development takes this decidedly anthropocentric perspective
further still by concentrating on ecosystem goods and services – the outputs of
ecological functions and processes that directly or indirectly contribute to
social welfare (or have the potential to do so in the future).
New concepts, approaches and tools are needed to evaluate the outcomes of
various environmental management options in terms of their influence on the
delivery of ecosystem services.
We’ll want to become more interdisciplinary as a Society to include the
ecological, social, economic, and decision science perspectives required to
support environmental decisions effectively.
The game no longer is an insolated one of protecting the environment for
the environment’s sake, but rather is one played on an expanded field of the
entire social-environmental system.
By shifting our attention from classical toxicological endpoints to those
reflecting societal values and human well being more directly, SETAC science
will continue to play a primary role in environmental protection.
KEYNOTE BIOSKETCH
Dr. Wayne R. Munns, Jr. is the Associate Director for Science for the U.S. EPA’s
Atlantic Ecology Division (Office of Research and Development) in Narragansett,
Rhode Island. A marine ecologist by
training (University of Rhode Island, 1984), Wayne has expertise in developing and applying
quantitative methods for ecological risk assessment, ecological modeling with
particular emphasis on population dynamics, and large spatial scale
environmental assessments. He has
conducted research and managed programs addressing ocean disposal, hazardous
waste sites, contaminated sediments, wildlife risk assessment and environmental
criteria development. His current
interests include population-level ecological risk assessment, ecosystem
services and their valuation, bird watching, and integration of assessment
approaches to enhance the value of information supporting environmental
protection decisions (not necessarily in that order).
Prior to joining EPA, Wayne was a Senior Scientist, Division Manager
and Assistant Vice President for Science Applications International Corporation.
He has been a member of EPA’s Risk Assessment Forum, has advised the
World Health Organization on the integration of human health and ecological risk
assessment, and holds an adjunct faculty position at the
University
of Rhode Island.
Wayne
is an editor of recent books on population-level ecological risk assessment and
valuation of ecological resources, and is Chair of SETAC’s Ecological Risk
Assessment Advisory Group.
FRIDAY, JUNE 6
7:30 Coffee and light snacks
SESSION 4
Invertebrates and
pollution.
(Peg Pelletier, Session Chair)
8:00
Application
of equilibrium partitioning sediment benchmarks for pah contaminated sediments.
Sue Kane
Driscoll.
8:20
effects of hypoxia on animal burrow construction and subsequent effects on
sediment redox profiles.
Eric Weissberger, Laura Coiro, & Earl Davey.
8:40
TESTING FOR DISCHARGE-RELATED CHANGE IN MASSACHUSETTS BAY BENTHIC COMMUNITIES.
Kenneth Keay,
J. Blake, N. Maciolek, W. Smith, D. Dahlen & C. Hunt.
9:00
Using
invertebrates in bioassessment in Maine.
Susan Davies.
SESSION 5
TOPICS IN ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY.
(John Williams, Session Chair)
9:20
ROLE OF APATITE IN
REMEDIATION OF METAL-CONTAMINATED SEDIMENTS.
Anna S. Knox & Michael H. Paller.
9:40
POTENTIAL SIDE-EFFECTS OF SEQUESTERING AGENTS
USED IN ACTIVE CAPS FOR REMEDIATING CONTAMINATED SEDIMENTS.
Michael H. Paller & Anna S. Knox.
10:00
MOLYBDENUM ACCUMULATION IN MARINE
SEDIMENTS AS AN INDICATOR OF HYPOXIC WATER CONDITIONS.
Warren Boothman & L. Coiro.
10:20
BREAK
SESSION 6
Maine Local and Regional
Issues.
(Janet Robinson, Session Chair)
10:40 ANALYSIS
OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINANTS IN SHELL-DISEASED AND NON-DISEASED AMERICAN
LOBSTERS (HOMARUS AMERICANUS.
Lawrence A. LeBlanc &
Deanna Prince.
11:00
POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHERS (PBDES) IN NORTHWESTERN
ATLANTIC HARBOR SEALS AND THEIR FISH PREY.
Susan D. Shaw, Michelle L. Berger, Diane Brenner, Nina Lohmann
, & Olaf Paepke.
11:20
(STUDENT)
Effects of De-icing Salt (nacl)
on Amphibian Community Structure in Nova Scotia.
R.
W. Russell and Sara E. J. Collins.
11:40
(STUDENT)
THE USE OF GREEN CRAB, AMERICAN EEL,
MUMMICHOG, AND FISH PARASITES AS BIOMONITORS OF THE SYDNEY TAR PONDS.
Lydia S. Rockwell, K.M.M. Jones, & R.W. Russell.
12:00
Preliminary findings of contaminant screening of Maine bird eggs: 2007
Field Season.
Wing Goodale, David Evers, & Steve Mierzykowski.
12:20 NAC SETAC Student
Awards
12:45 ADJOURN MEETING
1:00 NAC SETAC Board Luncheon Meeting
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