February 26 - March 1, 1991
Airlie Foundation
Warrenton, VA
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1991
4:00 | WELCOME Bernard Goldstein, Committee Chairman, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School |
4:15 | DISCUSSION OF PURPOSE Lawrence Barnthouse, Workshop Chairman, Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
KEYNOTE SPEECHES | |
4:30 | Broad Policy View, Terry Yosie, American Petroleum Institute |
5:00 | Relationship of Workshop to NRC's 1983 Risk Assessment Study Warner North, Decision Focus, Inc. |
5:30 | U.S. EPA Activities in Ecological Risk Assessment Michael Slimak, ORD, U.S. EPA |
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1991
CASE STUDIES | |
CHEMICAL STRESSORS | |
8:30 | Tributyl tin Robert Huggett, Virginia Institute of Marine Science |
8:55 | Discussants: Lawrence Barnthouse, Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
9:05 | Discussants: Peter Seligman, Naval Ocean Systems Center |
9:15 | General Discussion |
9:30 | Agrochemicals Ronald Kendall, Clemson University |
9:55 | Discussants: Bill Williams, Ecological Planning and Toxicology, Inc. |
10:05 | Discussants: James Gagne, American Cyanamid Company |
10:15 | General Discussion |
10:30 | Break |
11:00 | PCBs and TCDD Dominic DiToro, Manhattan College |
11:25 | Discussants: Dennis Paustenbach, McLaren/Hart |
11:35 | Discussants: Larry Burns, U.S. EPA, Athens, GA |
11:45 | General Discussion |
noon | Lunch |
OTHER STRESSORS | |
1:30 | Habitat loss (spotted owl) David Anderson, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service |
1:55 | Discussants: Orie Loucks, Miami University, OH |
2:05 | Discussants: Mary Kentula, U.S. EPA, Corvailis, OR |
2:15 | General Discussion |
2:30 | Introduction of species Ray Carruthers, USDA, Cornell University |
2:55 | Discussants: David Policansky, National Research Council |
3:05 | Discussants: James Carlton, Williams College |
3:15 | General Discussion |
3:30 | Break |
4:00 | Harvesting (George's Bank Fisheries) Andrew Rosenberg, National Marine Fisheries Service |
4:25 | Discussants: J. Larry Ludke, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service |
4:35 | Discussants: Randall Peterman, Simon Fraser University |
4:45 | General Discussion |
5:00 | Adjourn |
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1991
BREAKOUT SESSIONS | |
7:30 | Breakfast |
8:30 | RELEVANCE OF NRC 1983 RED BOOK PARADIGM TO ECOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT |
| Hazard identification Alan Maki, Exxon Corporation Dorothy Patton, Risk Assessment Forum, U.S. EPA |
| Dose-response assessment John Bailar, McGill University School of Medicine Judy Meyer, University of Georgia |
| Exposure assessment Brian Leaderer, Yale University School of Medicine Don Porcella, Electric Power Research Institute |
| Risk characterization William Farland, OHEA, U.S. EPA Glenn Suter, Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
10:00 | Break |
10:30 | Reconvene |
12:30 | Lunch |
1:30 | ANALYTICAL ISSUES IN ECOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT |
| Modeling Robert Costanza, University of Maryland David Mauriello, U.S. EPA |
| Uncertainty Richard Kimerle, Monsanto Company Eric Smith, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University |
| Valuation William Desvousges, Research Triangle Institute F. Reed Johnson, U.S. Naval Academy |
| Relationship of risk assessment to regulatory process Warner North, Decision Focus, Inc. William Cooper, Michigan State University |
3:30 | Break |
4:00 | Reconvene |
6:00 | Adjourn |
6:30 | Dinner |
| Speaker Erich W. Bretthauer, Assistant Administrator for Research and Development, U.S. EPA |
FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1991
CONCLUDING PLENARY SESSION | |
7:30 | Breakfast |
RELEVANCE OF NRC 1983 RED BOOK PARADIGM TO ECOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT | |
8:00 | CONTEMPLATIONS ON ECOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT Thomas Lovejoy, Smithsonian Institution |
8:30 | Hazard identification, Maki and Patton |
8:45 | Dose-response assessment, Bailar and Meyer |
9:00 | Exposure assessment, Leaderer and Porcella |
9:15 | Risk characterization, Farland and Suter |
9:30 | Discussion, North |
10:00 | Break |
ANALYTICAL ISSUES IN ECOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT | |
10:15 | Modeling, Costanza and Mauriello |
10:30 | Uncertainty, Kimerle and Smith |
10:45 | Valuation, Desvousges and Johnson |