Environmental Contaminants at Low-levels and in Complex Mixtures
Organizers:
Eric M. Suuberg, Sc.D., P.E. – Professor
Brown University
Division of Engineering
Box D, 182 Hope Street
Providence, RI 02912-D
Email: Eric_Suuberg@brown.edu
(401) 863-1420
Kelly G. Pennell, Ph.D., PE – State Agencies Liaison/Post-Doctoral Research Associate
Brown University
Division of Engineering
Box D, 182 Hope Street
Providence, RI 02912-D
Email: Kelly_Pennell@brown.edu
(401) 863-1073
Jeffrey Moffit, Ph.D. – Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
Brown University
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Box G-E5, 70 Ship Street
Providence, RI 02912-G
Email: Jeffrey_Moffit@brown.edu
(401) 863-2985
Robert Vanderslice, Ph.D. – Chief for the Office of Environmental Health Risk Assessment, Rhode Island Department of Health
Rhode Island Department of Health
3 Capitol Hill - Room 201
Providence, RI 02908-5097
Email: Robert.Vanderslice@health.ri.gov
(401) 222-7766
The aim of this session is to present research findings that relate to environmental contaminants typically found at low-levels, and/or in complex mixtures. The human and ecological health effects of these contaminant types can be difficult to predict. Accordingly current environmental regulations do not incorporate specific risk criteria for low-level exposures or co-exposures of chemicals. Instead, regulatory standards are developed based on default risk scenarios. These standards, which serve as cleanup goals for contaminated properties and waste streams, may not be relevant with regards to the protection of environmental health.
Aside from uncertainty with regard to health effects, low-level and complex mixtures of environmental contaminants pose a range of engineering related challenges. For instance, complex contaminant mixtures can demonstrate non-ideal thermodynamic behavior that can complicate their fate in the environment and within treatment systems. Challenges posed by low-level contaminants may include analytical limitations, the lack of available treatment technologies and many more.
Abstracts that discuss research findings related to low-level contaminants or complex contaminant mixtures are invited for consideration.
Presenters are required to submit a short abstract to the ACS by April 1, 2007, using the ACS online system (OASYS) at http://oasys.acs.org/. This division also requires an extended abstract of two or more pages that must be submitted to the symposium organizer by April 1, 2007 using the instructions posted on the web at http://envirofacs.org. The organizer prefers to receive extended abstracts as attachments to e-Mail in MS Word or RTF file formats. Please label the abstract file with the ACS abstract number and first author’s last name.