NAC SETAC MEETING: June 13-14 University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
MONDAY June 13
9:00 Continental breakfast and registration: Marriott Center
10:00 NACSETAC WELCOME
10:15 Session 1: Perfluorinated Compounds in the Environment Chair: Courtney Carignan
Dick Clapp: Perfluorinated Alkyl Substances: Emerging Insights Into Health Risks
Laurel Shaider: Per- and polyfluoroakyl substances and other organic wastewater
compounds in private wells on Cape Cod, MA
Brandon Kernan: The assessment and regulation of perfluorinated compounds in New Hampshire’s drinking water
Lauren Richter*: PFASs Past and Present: FRASs re-emerging contaminants
Discussion
12:15 SETAC welcome: Katherine von Stackelberg, ScD, NEK Associates LTD; Harvard University Center for Health and the Global Environment, SETAC Board
SETAC GLOBAL: Charlie Menzie, SETAC Global Executive Director, Exponent
12:30 Lunch: Amherst Room
1:30 Panel/DISCUSSION: Endocrine Disruption, past, present and future Moderator, Emily Monosson; Marriott Center
Tim Verslycke, Gradient Cambridge, MA
Leslie Mills, USEPA, Atlantic Ecology Division, Narragansett, MA
Laura Vandenberg, School of Public Health, University of Massachusetts
3: 00 Coffee
4:00 SESSION 2: Aquatic Pollution, Chair, Ken Finkelstein
Adria Elskus: Efficacy & residual toxicity of a NaOH-based ballast water treatment system for freshwater ships: mesocosm-scale shipboard trials
Ariyarathna Thivanka*: Tracking the fate of explosive-trinitrotriazine (RDX) in coastal marine ecosystems using stable isotopic tracers
Megan McCuller: Rafts and Routes: Japanese Tsunami Marine Debris Bryozoan Biofouling as Indicators of Pacific Ocean Pathways
5:00 Poster Social (w/cash bar): Amherst Room
Silent AUCTION CLOSES AT 5:30, Winners announced at 6:30
6:30 Banquet: Amherst Room
TUESDAY June 14
7:00 Continental breakfast and registration: Marriott Center
8:00 SESSION 3: Nanomaterial/Ecohealth Chair, Lisa McIntosh
Bonnie Blalock*: DEVELOPMENT OF THE COASTAL BIOSENSORS FOR ENDOCRINE DISRUPTION (C-BED) ASSAY REVEALS IMPLICATIONS FOR ECOLOGICAL HEALTH
Ariette Schierz: FATE OF SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES IN WETLAND ECOSYSTEMS
Paramjeet Pati: LIFE CYCLE CONSIDERATIONS IN GREEN SYNTHESIS OF NANOMATERIALS AND PRECIOUS METAL RECOVERY FROM NANOMATERIAL WASTE STREAMS
9:10 SESSION 4: Pharmaceuticals Chair, Tim Verslycke
Lisa Weatherly*: TRICLOSAN IS A PROTON IONOPHORE MITOCHONDRIAL UNCOUPLER SUPER-RESOLUTION MICROSCOPY REVEALS DISRUPTED MITOCHONDRIAL ULTRASTRUCTURE
Juyoung Shim*: TRICLOSAN IS A MITOCHONDRIAL UNCOUPLER IN LIVE ZEBRAFISH
Sarah Brown*: BUTYL PARABEN AFFECTS PANCREATIC DEVLOPMENT IN ZEBRAFISH (Danio Rerio) EMBRYOS
10:20 Coffee
10:40 SESSION 5: Metals in the Environment/and Decisions Chair, Celia Chen
Amanda Curtis: THE EFFECTS OF MULTIPLE ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS ON THE BIOACCUMULATION OF MERCURY IN ESTUARINE ORGANISMS
Amy Regish: EFFECT OF ACID AND ALUMINUM EXPOSURE ON OSMOREGULATION, GILL Na+/K+-ATPase ISOFORMS AND IONOCYTES IN ATLANTIC SALMON SMOLTS
Carol Johnson: EFFECTS OF ACTIVATED CARBON AMENDMENTS ON THE BIOAVAILABILITY AND METHYLATION OF DIFFERENT FORMS OF INORGANIC MERCURY
Rachel Katz: EVALUATING STRATEGIES FOR DISEASE AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINANT MANAGEMENT USING STRUCTURED DECISION MAKING
12:00 Student Awards and Poster Winner Talks
12:20 NAC SETAC Business Meeting and Elections
12:45 Adjourn
1:00 NAC BOD (Bag Lunch) Marriott Room