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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2
All day short course, 8:00AM - 5:00PM
“Introduction to Green Chemistry.” Instructors: Nicholas Anastas
(Poseidon's Trident), Wei Zhang (UMass Boston), Bela Torok (UMass Boston), and
Michael Viola (Warner Babcock Institute for Green Chemistry).
THURSDAY, JUNE 3
7:30 Coffee and continental breakfast
8:00 Welcome, Jim Hauri, NAC president
8:15 Welcome, SETAC North America, Greg Schiefer, President
8:30 SESSION 1
ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY
(Tim Verslycke, Session Chair)
8:35
A RETURN TO HOLISTIC ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP
THROUGH GREEN CHEMISTRY. Nicholas Anastas (nanastas@poseidonstrident.net),
Poseidon’s Trident, 83 Sassamon Avenue, Milton, MA
8:55 A SIMPLE DEVICE FOR
CONTROLLING pH IN AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS FOR TOXICITY EVALUATIONS. John Williams
(jwilliams@aquatecb.com), P.C. Downey, J. Garrison, K. Koch, O. Kunkel, Aquatec
Biological Sciences, Inc., 273 Commerce Street, Williston, VT
9:15 (student)
FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY AS A RAPID, COST-EFFECTIVE METHOD TO MONITOR AND
ANALYZE LOW LEVELS OF PHARMACEUTICALS AND PERSONAL CARE PRODUCTS IN
ENVIRONMENTAL WATER SAMPLES. James Killarney
(james_killarney@umit.maine.edu), H. Patterson, Department of Chemistry,
University of Maine, Orono, ME
9:35 (student) USING LASER
ABLATION ICP-MS TO UNDERSTAND MOOSE WITH BAD TEETH. Cynthia S. Kendall
MacKenzie (cynthia.kendall@smu.ca) and Hugh Broders. Saint Mary’s University,
Halifax, NS, Canada B3H 3C3
9:55 BREAK
10:15 SESSION 2
LOCAL ISSUES IN RHODE ISLAND
(Dave Taylor, Session Chair)
10:20 SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION
OF TRICLOSAN IN A SEMI-ENCLOSED ESTUARINE EMBAYMENT; GREENWICH BAY, RHODE
ISLAND. David Katz (katz.davidr@epa.gov), M. Cantwell, M. Perron, R.
Burgess, and K. Ho. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Narragansett, RI
10:40
INDICATORS OF ENVIRONMENTAL AND BIOLOGICAL
MERCURY CONTAMINATION IN THE NARRAGANSETT BAY (RHODE ISLAND, USA). David L.
Taylor (dtaylor@rwu.edu) and Jennifer Linehan,
Roger Williams University, Department of Marine Biology, Bristol, RI
11:00 LOBSTERS AS AN
ECOTOXICOLOGICAL RESEARCH MODEL IN NEW ENGLAND COASTAL WATERS. Tim Verslycke
(tverslycke@gradientcorp.com) Gradient, 20 University Road, Cambridge, MA 02138
and Ann M. Tarrant (atarrant@whoi.edu) Biology Department, Woods Hole
Oceanographic Institution, 45 Water Street, Woods Hole, MA
11:20 CAREERS IN
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES: VIEWPOINTS FROM ACADEMIA, GOVERNMENT, CONSULTING
12:00 – 1:25 LUNCHEON &
CAREER SPEED DATING (Included)
1:25 SESSION 3
CONTAMINATED SEDIMENTS. (John
Williams, Session Chair)
1:30
EFFECTS OF TRICLOSAN ON MARINE BENTHIC AND
EPIBENTHIC ORGANISMS. M.M. Perron (Monique_Perron@brown.edu), Brown
University, Providence, RI, 02912; K.T. Ho, M.G. Cantwell, R.M. Burgess,
M.C. Pelletier, D.R. Katz, U.S. EPA AED, Narragansett, RI
1:50 (student)
BLACK CARBONMEDIATED DESTRUCTION OF NITROGLYCERIN AND RDX BY HYDROGEN SULFIDE:
RELEVANCE TO INSITU REMEDIATION. W. Xu (wenqing.xu@yale.edu), K. E. Dana,
and W. A. Mitch, Department of Chemical Engineering, Environmental Engineering
Program, Yale University, New Haven, CT
2:10 SEASONAL PHOSPHORUS
DYNAMICS IN THE SURFICIAL SEDIMENT OF SHALLOW TEMPERATE LAKES: A DIFFUSIVE
EQUILIBRIUM STUDY. B.A. Lake (bjorn.lake@umit.maine.edu), S.A. Norton, and
A. Amirbahman, University of Maine, Orono, ME
2:30 INITIAL RESULTS OF TWO FIELD DEMONSTRATIONS USING SEDIMITE. TM
B. Amos (bamos@exponent.com), C. Menzie,
& Susan Kane Driscoll, Exponent, Inc., Maynard MA; U. Ghosh, C. Cardona & S.
Kwon, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore MD; and C. Gilmour,
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, MD.
2:50 NAC SETAC Business
Meeting
3:10 BREAK
3:30 POSTER PREVIEW
OVERVIEWS
4:00 SESSION 4
ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT
(Jimmy Hauri, Session Chair)
4:05 OIL SPILL INJURY
ASSESSMENT - SOME LESSON LEARNED. David S. Page (dpage@bowdoin.edu), Bowdoin
College, 29 Magean Street, Brunswick, ME
4:25 (student)
ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCES OF CONVENTIONAL
GASOLINE AND WOOD-BASED BIOETHANOL IN U.S. NORTHEAST REGION THROUGH LIFE CYCLE
ASSESSMENT. Binod Neupane
(binod_neupane@umit.maine.edu) and Anthony Halog. School of Forest Resources,
University of Maine, Orono
4:45 A NEW MODEL FOR
INVASIVE SPECIES: URINALMINTUS. Walter J. Berry (berry.walter@epa.gov) U.S.
EPA, Atlantic Ecology Division, Narragansett, RI
5:05 ADJOURN
5:05 – 7:00 POSTER SESSION
AND RECEPTION (cash bar)
7:00 – 9:00 BANQUET,
followed by KEYNOTE SPEAKER,
“UNDERSTANDING COASTAL GEOLOGIC HAZARDS, SEA LEVEL RISE AND CLIMATE CHANGE IN
RHODE ISLAND," Dr. Professor Jon C.
Boothroyd, Department of Geosciences, University of Rhode Island.
9:00 – 11:00 NAC SETAC JAM
Session (cash bar)
FRIDAY, JUNE 4
8:00 Coffee and continental breakfast
8:30 SESSION
ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY
(Allison Dunn, Session Chair)
8:35 (student) TOXICITY OF
DEICING SALT COMPONENTS ON EARLY AMPHIBIAN LIFE STAGES. S. E. J. Collins
(sara.collins@smu.ca) and R. W. Russell, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Nova
Scotia, Canada.
8:55 BEYOND THE HAZARD
QUOTIENT: CASE STUDY OF RISK ASSESSMENT FOR PENINSULA HARBOUR FISH EXPOSED TO
MERCURY. R. Osborn (rosborn@environcorp.com), M.H. Henning, M. Bock, ENVIRON
International Corporation, Portland, ME
9:15 TOXICOLOGICAL
IMPLICATIONS OF OCEAN ACIDIFICATION ON MARINE BIVALVES, BASED ON FREE METAL ION
ACTIVITY MODELING. William E. Robinson (William.Robinson@umb.edu) and
Marianna Nappi, University of Massachusetts Boston, Environmental, Earth and
Ocean Sciences Department, Boston MA
9:35 EVOLUTION OF THE TOXIC RESPONSE. Emily Monosson
(emonosson@verizon.net) PO Box 329, Montague MA 01351
9:55 BREAK
10:15 SESSION 6
OTHER TOPICS IN ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY AND
CHEMISTRY (Peg Pelletier, Session Chair)
10:20 POPULATION-LEVEL
EXPERIMENTS FOR POPULATION-LEVEL RISK ASSESSMENT: AN EXAMPLE USING THE OPOSSUM
SHRIMP AMERICAMYSIS BAHIA.
J.S. Grear (grear.jason@epa.gov), D. Borsay Horowitz and R. Gutjahr-Gobell, U.S.
EPA, Atlantic Ecology Division, Narragansett, RI
10:40 ECOSYSTEM SERVICES –
AN EMERGING DIRECTION FOR THE U.S. EPA. Walter J. Berry
(berry.walter@epa.gov) and W.R. Munns, Jr., U.S. EPA, Atlantic Ecology Division,
Narragansett, RI
11:00 SETAC NA
11:30 NAC SETAC Student
Awards
12:00 ADJOURN MEETING
1:00 NAC SETAC Board Luncheon Meeting
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POSTER PRESENTATIONS
(student) A VISUAL DOCUMENTATION OF ACUTE
TOXICITY IN ZOOPLANKTON. K. Cushing, Kathryn Frazier
(kafrazier@assumption.edu), and J. Hauri, Assumption College, Worcester, MA.
(student) USING FISH SCALES AS NON-LETHAL BIOSENSORS OF
SURFACE WATER CONTAMINANTS. Daniel G. Skall (Daniel.Skall@umit.maine.edu),
University of Maine, Orono, ME and A.A. Elskus, U.S. Geological Survey, Aquatic
Toxicology Section, Orono, ME.
(student) SYNERGISM AND
ANTAGONISM IN TOXICITY OF MIXTURES OF PHARMACEUTICALS TO DAPHNIA MAGNA.
Pooja Shakya (pooja.shakya@trincoll.edu),
Richard S. Kim and Alison J. Draper, Environmental Science Program, Trinity
College, Hartford, CT.
U.S. EPA WILDLIFE DATABASE: A PUBLIC RESOURCE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL
QUALITY INFORMATION. Melissa Hughes a
(hughes.melissa@epa.gov), David Bender1,
Jane Copeland2,
Marguerite Pelletier3, Anne Kuhn3,
and Diane Nacci3.
1Raytheon
Corporation and 2SRA
International, on contract to US EPA, Narragansett, RI 02882;
3U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,
Narragansett, RI.
(student) MERCURY
ACCUMULATION IN BRAIN AND MUSCLE TISSUES OF BLUEFISH (POMATOMUS SALTATRIX)
AND TAUTOG (TAUTOGA ONITIS).
Nichole L. Ares and David L. Taylor (dtaylor@rwu.edu), Roger Williams
University, Department of Marine Biology, Bristol RI.
(student) DEVELOPMENTAL EXPRESSION OF AHR IN THE LITTLE
SKATE. Daniel Reeves (dreevite@gmail.com) and R. Merson, Biology Department,
Rhode Island College, 600 Mt. Pleasant Ave, Providence, RI.
CYTOCHROME P450 2AA GENES IN ZEBRAFISH (DANIO RERIO): EXPRESSION
OF CYP2AA1 AND CYP2AA2 IN RESPONSE TO PHENOBARBITAL-TYPE INDUCERS. Akira
Kubota (akubota@whoi.edu) 1,
ACD Bainy1,2,
BR Woodin1,
JV Goldstone1,
JJ Stegeman1,
1Biology
Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA; and
2Departamento
de Bioquímica, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianopolis, Brazil.
(student) OCCURRENCE AND
TRANSPORT OF PBDE, TRICLOSAN, AND ALKYLPHENOLS IN AN URBAN ESTUARY DETERMINED
USING PE PASSIVE SAMPLERS. Victoria P. Sacks (vpsacks@gso.uri.edu) and R.
Lohmann. University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography,
Narragansett, RI.
(student) FOOD CONTAMINATION: ANALYSIS FOR MERCURY AND
COCKROACH ANTIGEN IN FOODS. Richard S. Kim (richard.kim@trincoll.edu) and
Alison J. Draper. Interdisciplinary Science Program, Trinity College, Hartford
CT.
EVALUATION OF BIOGEOCHEMICAL VARIABLES AFFECTING DISTRIBUTIONS
OF MULTIPLE METAL ION CONCENTRATIONS IN BOSTON HARBOR. Z.Dong
(zdong@hsph.harvard.edu), C.G.Lewis, R.M.Burgess, B.Coull, J.P.Shine. Exposure,
Epidemiology and Risk Program, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard
School of Public Health, 401 Park Drive, Boston, MA.
INDUCTION OF CYP1 GENES AND EFFECTS OF AHR AGONISTS IN
XENOPUS TROPICALIS TADPOLES. Maria
Jönsson (maria.jonsson@ebc.uu.se), Cecilia Berg, Environmental Toxicology,
Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden; Jared Goldstone, John Stegeman, Biology
Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA.
SETAC NORTH AMERICA 32 ND
ANNUAL MEETING, BOSTON, MA, NOVEMBER, 2011.
Diane Nacci (nacci.diane@epa.gov), U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency, Narragansett, RI, and Erin Bennett,
Bioengineering Group.
THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EARTH (EoE). Emily Monosson
(emonosson@verizon.net) PO Box 329, Montague MA.
(unmanned poster) ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF LONG-TERM MERCURY
CONTAMINATION ON WILDLIFE HEALTH IN NEW YORK, USING THE COMMON LOON AS SENTINAL
SPECIES. Nina Schoch (aclp2@juno.com), BioDiversity Research Institute’s
Adirondack Center for Loon Conservation; David Evers, BioDiversity Research
Institute; Keith Grasman, Calvin College; and Stephanie James & Paul Calle,
Wildlife Conservation Society’s Global Health Program.
MEETING AGENDA (pdf file)
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