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All Day Wednesday, June
10, 2009 (8am - 5pm)
"Causal Analysis/Stressor Identification"
This specialized short course will be conducted by
Susan Cormier, National Center for Environmental Assessment, USEPA,
Cincinnati.Connecticut LEP and
Massachusetts LSP
approved for 8 CEU credits
(CT LEP & MA LSP members contact
webmaster@nacsetac.org
if you wish to register for this short course)
Link
to EPA information about CADDIS
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Although a laptop computer is not required for the course, those
participants who bring a laptop will have the opportunity to use
some of the tools available through CADDIS. These include
accessing information, using interactive conceptual models,
developing species sensitivity distributions, and potentially
using the GUI interface to more easily access and use the open
source statistical package "R." Computers will need to
have the ability to access the New England Center's wireless
internet. Participants wanting to try their hand at
developing SSD's, will need Excel. Participants wanting to
download "R" and the CADStat GUI must have XP, the Vista
operating system is not compatible. |
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Instructor:
Susan Cormier has authored more than eighty peer reviewed
publications and has been a regular presenter and workshop instructor at
National SETAC meetings since the 1980’s. She has made substantive contributions
to the development of methods for biocriteria, non-chemical criteria, condition
assessment, and ecological risk assessment. Dr.Cormier co-led the
development of the US-EPA Stressor Identification Guidance for the Agency and
the CADDIS website and has applied these methods in several cases in the
Willimantic and Naugatuck Rivers in CT and Long Creek in Maine. She believes
that caring about the environment is not enough and that you also have to care
enough to try to do the right things.
Cormier
Biosketch (PDF file)
Cormier Short CV
(PDF file)
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Agenda
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TIME
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TOPIC
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8:00am - 8:15am
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Introductions,
logistics, & objectives
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8:15am - 8:45am
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Integrated
Assessment Framework, context for causal assessment using the Stressor
Identification Process
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8:45am - 9:15am
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Applications of
Stressor Identification
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9:15am - 9:30am
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BREAK
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9:30am - 9:45am
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Story swap
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9:45am - 10:15am
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History,
Philosophy, & Framework of Causation & Causal Analysis
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10:15am - 10:45am
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Setting up the
problem, Defining the Case, Listing Candidate Causes
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10:45am - 11:00am
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Exercise on
conceptual models
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11:00am - 11:45am
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Types of Evidence
& Where they come from
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11:45am - 1:00pm
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LUNCH
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1:00pm - 1:45pm
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Analyzing
Evidence for Causal analysis (statistical analysis)
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1:45pm - 2:15pm
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Identifying
Probable Cause
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2:15pm - 3:00pm
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Exercise on Types
of Evidence & Scoring Evidence
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3:00pm - 3:15pm
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BREAK |
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3:15pm - 3:45pm
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Navigating &
Getting Tools from CADDIS
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3:45pm - 4:30pm
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Using CADStat,
Landscape & Predictive Tools, & other Web resources
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4:30pm - 5:00pm
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Customized
Issues, Discussion, Sum-up &
Adjourn
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Agenda
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MEETING REGISTRATION FORM |
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