WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10
ALL DAY SHORT COURSE, 8:00AM - 5:00PM
“Causal Analysis/Stressor Identification”
Instructor: Dr. Susan M. Cormier (US EPA)
Jackson Estuarine Laboratories tour, 5:00PM
– 7:00PM
Student Pizza Mixer at NEC, 7:30PM
THURSDAY, JUNE 11
7:30 Coffee and light snacks
8:15 Welcome, John Williams, NAC president
SESSION 1
ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS: PAHs
(Susan Kane-Driscoll, Chair)
8:20 Evaluating the Ecological Risk of PAHs in
Sediments: A Regulatory Perspective. Thomas Angus.
8:40 PAHs And Parking Lots: A Field Study on PAHs
Exported From Sealed and Unsealed Parking Lots at the UNH Stormwater Center.
Alison Watts.
9:00 Subsurface Oil Persistence and Shoreline Type in
the Exxon Valdez Spill Zone of Prince William Sound, Alaska. David
Page.
9:20 Implementing an Oil Toxicity Field Guide for
Spill Response. Ken Finkelstein.
9:40 Use and Validation of a Biological Effects Model
for Oil Spills. Jill Rowe.
10:00 BREAK
SESSION 2
OTHER TOPICS: ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY
(Adria Elskus, Chair)
10:20 (student)
Fish Scales and Gills: Possible
Non-Lethal Biomarkers for Waterborne Organic Contaminants. Jennifer
Meyers.
10:40 Response of Fish Populations and Caged Mussels
to Pulp and Paper Mill Effluent and Municipal Sewage Treatment Plant Effluent in
Maine Rivers. Barry Mower.
11:00 Bringing Gulf Of Maine Ecosystem Indicators to
the Users. Christine Tilberg.
11:20 (student)
Gellyfish: An In-Situ
Equilibrium-Based Sampler for Determining Multiple Free Metal Ion Concentrations
in Aquatic Systems. Zhao Dong.
11:40 Analysis of PCB in Seafood Tissue: A Case Study
from New Bedford Harbor. Paul Craffey & Jim Occhialini.
12:00 – 1:20 LUNCH & NAC SETAC Business Meeting
(12:00-1:20pm) (included)
INTERACTIVE SESSION 3
CAUSAL ANALYSIS AND BEYOND
(Charlie Menzie. Chair)
1:20 – 2:20 Applied Causal Analysis Approaches: As
Illustrated Through Case Studies. Charles Menzie (Exponent) & Susan
Cormier (EPA).
People’s brains have evolved to seek patterns and to make
connections among potential causes and effects. Most of these analyses occur at
the subconscious level and only a tiny fraction involves the deliberate choice
to analyze information in a structured or scientific way.
In both conscious and subconscious
attribution of causation, these mental connections reflect an individual's
experience, perceptions, and even values.
As issues become more complex and are associated with decisions that can
affect several parties, there is increasing need for explicit formalized
approaches of causal analysis. This
discussion will describe general explicit approaches that have proven effective
for causal analysis. These can be applied
to a variety of problems. Illustrations are provided for three different
environmental case studies: 1. Causes of damage to plants and farms in the Yemen
desert, 2. Sources of contamination at a complex environmental site, and 3.
Predicting conditions related to beach closures.
This session will be an interactive session with Dr. Susan Cormier, US
EPA, also contributing. Susan is the instructor for our preceding short course,
Causal Analysis/Stressor Identification (Wednesday, June 10).
We will provide for and encourage
opportunities for audience discussion and participation.
2:20 BREAK
SESSION 4
CONTAMINATED SEDIMENTS (Peg
Pelletier, Chair)
2:40
An Introduction to the Radiometric
Dating of Sediments. Darryl Luce.
3:00 Temporal Trends of Triclosan in Dated Sediment
Cores from Four Urbanized Estuaries: Evidence of Preservation and Accumulation.
Mark Cantwell.
3:20 (student)
Bioavailability Assessment of a Contaminated
Field Sediment From Patrick Bayou, Texas: TIE
and Equilibrium Partitioning.
Monique Perron.
3:40 Field Validation of Molybdenum Accumulation in
Sediments as an Indicator of Hypoxic Water Conditions. Warren Boothman.
SESSION 5
EMERGING CONTAMINANTS
(Jimmy Hauri, Chair)
4:00 Green Pharmacy: Strategies for Reducing the
Pharmaceutical Footprint. Nick Anastas.
4:20 (student)
Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers
(PBDEs): Promoters of Sweet Preference, Overeating, and
Weight Gain in Male Rats.
Stephen Hennigar.
4:40 (student)
The Effect of Diet and
Polybrominated Diphenyl Ether (PBDE) Exposure on Adipocyte and Whole Body
Metabolism in Male Wistar Rats. Erin Allgood.
5:00 ADJOURN
5:00 - 7:30
POSTER SESSION AND RECEPTION
8:00 - 9:30 BANQUET
with Keynote Speaker
“Science To Inform Decision
Making”, Susan M. Cormier, PhD (Cormier.Susan@epa.gov), Senior
Scientist, National Center for Environmental Assessment, USEPA, Cincinnati,
Ohio.
Scientists have access to information that others need.
Not only do we have a grasp of facts that
others do not have, but we have the ability to make those facts relevant.
How do we develop and share useful
information while also being scientifically rigorous and maintaining our
reputation as objective witnesses? First
we must continue to be skeptics, but in a productive way.
We must be willing to go beyond providing
raw facts and associated uncertainties.
We need to use a wider array of information and learn to
consider the value of that information. We
need to show how the facts fit together and suggest options for a course of
action. As scientists it is our
responsibility to remain open to possibility. We need to be aware of where and
how we can make a difference and then provide the information at the right time
and in the right way so that good science will guide or even compel right
actions. We need to know that what we do matters and that it makes a difference.
To that end, I will share with you a way
to connect scientific investigations and assessments to resolve environmental
problems. To make it interesting, I will
share a few stories of how integrated assessments have made a difference in the
real world of environmental protection.
FRIDAY, JUNE 12
7:30 Coffee and light breakfast snacks
SESSION 6
LOCAL AND REGIONAL ISSUES
(Allison Dunn, Chair)
8:00 (student)
Preliminary Results of the
Examination of Thermal Impacts from Stormwater BMPs. Nicholas
DiGennaro.
8:20 (student)
Impacts of Culverts and Impervious Areas
on Water Temperatures in Southern NH Streams. Gary Lemay.
8:40
Integration of Geospatial and
Risk-Based Analyses to Prioritize Sediment Management Actions for the
St.Clair River Area of Concern.
Allison Glessner.
9:00 Sixteen Years of Contaminant Monitoring in the
Gulf of Maine and Bay of Fundy by Canada and the United States: 1993 to 2006.
Jack Schwartz.
SESSION 7
NANOMATERIALS: ENVIRONMENTAL IMPLICATIONS AND APPLICATIONS
(Stephen Clough, Chair)
9:20 Big Concerns with the Very Small: The Emergence
of Nanotoxicology. Emily Monosson.
9:40 Open Group Discussion
led by Stephen Clough and Emily Monosson.
10:00 BREAK
SESSION 8
METALS IN THE ENVIRONMENT
(David Taylor, Chair)
10:20 (student)
Effects of In Vitro Exposure of
American Woodcock Splenocytes to Cadmium Chloride.
Brian Hiller.
10:40 (student)
Influence of Metal Contamination
Source and Soil Properties on Bioaccumulation by Plants. Laurel
Schaider.
11:00 (student)
Estuarine Invertebrates and Forage
Finfish as Bioindicators of Environmental Mercury Levels.
Jennifer Linehan.
11:20 Quality Assurance is
Not a Guarantee: False Positives and Negatives for Metals Data Used in
Quantitative Risk Assessment. Susan Chapnick & Leonard Pitts.
11:40 Metal Bioavailability and Trophic Transfer in
Intertidal Food Webs. Celia Chen.
12:00 NAC SETAC Student Awards
12:20 ADJOURN MEETING
1:00 NAC SETAC Board Luncheon Meeting
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