Welcome from Rod Parrish. Executive Director, SETAC North America

PLATFORM SESSIONS

NRDA /Oil Spills (David Page, Session Chair)

• Deborah French McCay, Applied Science Associates, Inc. MODELING THE FATE AND IMPACTS OF THE NORTH CAPE OIL SPILL
• Christopher Reddy, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. THE FLORIDA OIL SPILL: THIRTY YEARS LATER
• Gregg Douglas, Arthur D. Little Inc. THE OSSA II SPILL: THE UNIQUE OIL DEGRADATION PATHWAYS OF HIGH ALTITUDE CRUDE OIL SPILLS
• Joecelyne Hellou, Marine Environmental Sciences Division, Fisheries and Oceans, Bedford Institute of Oceanography. VARIATIONS IN THE PAC FINGERPRINT OF SEDIMENTS AND MUSSELS COLLECTED AROUND AN URBAN HARBOUR
• David Page, Bowdoin College. SEDIMENT TOXICITY MEASUREMENTS IN OIL SPILL INJURY ASSESSMENT: A STUDY OF SHORELINES AFFECTED BY THE EXXON VALDEZ OIL SPILL IN PRINCE WILLIAM SOUND, ALASKA

Sediment Toxicity (Walter Berry, Session Chair)

• Robert L. Jaffe, Environmental Toxicology Laboratory LLC. TEMPORAL TRACKING OF TOXIC SEDIMENTS DURING STORM EVENTS USING TETRAMITUS FLAGELLATES
• Rebekah Lacey, Menzie-Cura & Associates, Inc. USING THE SEDIMENT QUALITY TRIAD TO ASSESS ESTUARINE SEDIMENTS: A CASE STUDY IN A METALS-CONTAMINATED TIDAL RIVER
• Sarah Griscom, State University of New York, Stony Brook. BIOAVAILABILITY OF CONTAMINANT METALS FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF A BENTHIC CLAM: ASSIMILATION EFFICIENCY, GUT GEOCHEMISTRY AND INFLUENCE OF ACID VOLATILE SULFIDE
• Katherine von Stackelberg, Menzie-Cura & Associates, Inc. A TIERED RISK ASSESSMENT PROCEDURE FOR INTERPRETING SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY AND BIOACCUMULATION TEST RESULTS
• David Tomey, US EPA Region I. HUMAN HEALTH RISK SCREEN FOR THE PROPOSED OPEN WATER DISPOSAL OF CONTAMINATED DREDGED MATERIALS
• Charlie Menzie, Menzie-Cura & Associates, Inc. APPLICATIONS OF LINES-OF-EVIDENCE (A.K.A. WEIGHT-OF-EVIDENCE) METHODOLOGIES FOR ASSESSING ECOLOGICAL RISKS AT CONTAMINATED SEDIMENT SITES: LESSONS LEARNED
• Kay Ho, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. IDENTIFICATION OF STRESSORS IN TOXIC SEDIMENTS: WHOLE SEDIMENT AND INTERSTITIAL WATER RESULTS

Ecological Risk Assessment/Risk Management (Susan Kane Driscoll, Session Chair)

• Nancy Bettinger, Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection. USING ECOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENTS IN WASTE SITE CLEANUP DECISIONS: A MASSACHUSETTS PERSPECTIVE
• Cheryl Montgomery, Montgomery & Associates, Inc. TIERED DECISION-MAKING: USING ECOLOGICAL RISK AND RISK MANAGEMENT FOR TIERED, RISK-BASED SITE EVALUATIONS
• Kenneth Finkelstein, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. A USER-FRIENDLY WATERSHED DATABASE AND MAPPING TOOL THAT QUERIES AND INTEGRATES DATA FOR REMEDIATION AND RESTORATION PLANNING, CHARLES RIVER, MASSACHUSETTS
• Dave Aubrey, The Woods Hole Group. RISK ASSESSMENT AND RISK MANAGEMENT: THE INTERFACE WITHIN THE INTERNATIONAL ARENA

Lobsters in Long Island Sound (Scott Stoner, Session Chair)

• Richard French, University of Connecticut.  LONG ISLAND SOUND LOBSTER MORTALITIES: IMPLICATIONS OF ANTHROPOGENIC AND CLIMATIC FACTORS
• Nancy Balcom, University of Connecticut.  RESPONDING TO A LOBSTER FISHERY FAILURE IN LONG ISLAND SOUND

Additional Topics (Dodi Borsay Horowitz, Session Chair)

• Nicholas Drenzek, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. STABLE CARBON ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION DURING THE REDUCTIVE DECHLORINATION OF POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS
• Ian Voparil, University of Maine.  BIOAVAILABILITY OF PAH ASSOCIATED WITH URBAN PARTICLES
• Kate Beardsley, Battelle Duxbury Operations.  HEMOGLOBIN AND HYPOXIA: ATLANTIC CROAKER RESPIRATORY ADAPTATIONS TO OXYGEN STRESS

Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (Dodi Borsay Horowitz, Session Chair)

• Romona Haebler, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. ENVIRONMENTAL ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS: A REVIEW OF EFFECTS ON AQUATIC/MARINE ORGANISMS
• Les Burridge, St. Andrew's Biological Station.  EFFECTS OF WATER-BORNE 4-NONYLPHENOL AND ESTROGEN ON THE GROWTH, SURVIVAL AND PHYSIOLOGY OF ATLANTIC SALMON (SALMO SALAR) SMOLTS 
• Leslie Mills, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.  EFFECTS OF ETHYNYL ESTRADIOL EXPOSURE ON REPRODUCTIVE PARAMETERS IN AN ESTUARINE FISH

Kathryn Ford, University of Rhode Island.  BASELINE DISTRIBUTION OF CONTAMINANTS IN A SHALLOW LAGOON, QUONOCHONTAUG POND, RHODE ISLAND

Jeffrey Giddings, The Cadmus Group.  EXTRAPOLATION FACTORS, LEVELS OF CONCERN, AND ADDITIONAL TOXICITY TESTING IN THE EARLY STAGES OF A PESTICIDE RISK ASSESSMENT

Romona A. Haebler, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.  INVENTORY OF COMMON LOON, GAVIA IMMER , AND MERCURY DATA COLLECTED IN NEW ENGLAND: A GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM ANALYSIS

Romona A. Haebler, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.  NORTHEAST LOON STUDY WORKING GROUP: PARTNERSHIP TO ASSESS ENVIRONMENTAL RISK

Romona A. Haebler, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.  OPPORTUNISTIC INVESTIGATION OF THE COMMON LOON, GAVIA IMMER: TAKING SCIENTIFIC ADVANTAGE OF A DISASTROUS OIL SPILL

Ana Lucia Lima, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.  HAS RHODE ISLAND SUCCUMBED TO URBAN SPRAWL?

Cheryl Montgomery, Montgomery & Associates, Inc.  RISK-BASED CORRECTIVE ACTION (RBCA) FOR THE PROTECTION OF ECOLOGICAL RESOURCES: AN ASTM STANDARD GUIDE IN DEVELOPMENT 

Antonio Quiñones-Rivera., Cornell University.  STUDY OF THE EFFECTS OF NON-AQUEOUS PHASE LIQUIDS ON THE AVAILABILITY OF PAHS IN SOIL TO WORMS

Helen K. White, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.  RADIOCARBON AS A TRACER OF PETROLEUM RESIDUES IN WILD HARBOR SEDIMENTS

William E. Robinson, University of Massachusetts. Role of Histidine-rich Glycoprotein from Mytilus edulis Hemolymph in Transporting Class A, B and Borderline Metals