Sunday Evening
June 14 |
Anticipating Adverse Effects from Chemicals in the Environment |
- 7:00 pm - Welcome and Introductions
- 7:30 pm - Discussion Leader: Anne McElroy (SUNY Stony Brook)
- 7:45 pm - Tom Wiese (Univ. NC/US EPA) - Ligand Structure as a Predictor of Endocrine Disruptor Potential
- 8:30 pm - Beate Escher (EAWAG) - Predicting Toxicity of Hydrophobic Ionogenic Organic Compounds: Uptake and Speciation versus Intrinsic Toxicity
- 9:15 pm - Discussion
Monday Morning
June 15 |
Anticipating the Behaviors and Effects of Metals |
- 9:00 am - Discussion Leader
: Bill Sunda (Beaufort Lab, NMFS)
- 9:15 am - Greg Mierle (Ontario Ministry of the Environment) - Mercury in the Canadian Environment: The Evolution of an Environmental Issue
- 10:00 am - Robert Hudson (University of Illinois) - What changes in global mercury pollution can we anticipate? The challenge of prognostic modeling based on the past and present
- 10:45 am - Coffee Break
- 11:15 am - Simon Silver (Univ. of Illinois) - Mercury and Arsenic Metabolism by Bacteria: From Genomics to Geocycles
- 12:00 - Discussion
- 12:30 - Lunch
Monday Evening
June 15 |
Anticipating the Behaviors and Effects of Metals (cont'd) |
- 7:30 pm - Discussion Leader: Mark Wells (University of California, Santa Cruz)
- 7:45 pm - William Sunda (Beaufort Lab, NMFS) - Eutrophication
and Induced Iron/Light Limitation of Phytoplankton in Coastal Waters
- 8:30 pm - Jack DiTullio (University of Charleston) - Iron limitation of estuarine phytoplankton resulting from land-use changes
- 9:15 pm - Discussion
Tuesday Morning
June 16 |
Anticipating the Behaviors and Effects of Organic Compounds |
- 9:00 am - Discussion Leader: Eric Weber (US EPA - Athens)
- 9:15 am - James Pankow (Oregon Graduate Institute) - MTBE: A Case Study in Environmental Chemistry
- 10:00 am - Bernd Nowack (Johns Hopkins Univ.) - Metal Exchange Reactions and Transformations of Chelating Agents in the Environment
- 10:45 am - Coffee Break
- 11:15 am - A. Lynn Roberts (Johns Hopkins Univ.) - Predicting Rates and Products of Environmental Dehalogenation Reactions
- 12:00 pm - Discussion
- 12:30 pm - Lunch
Tuesday Evening
June 16 |
Computational Approaches for predicting Properties and Reactivities |
- 7:30 pm - Discussion Leader: Samuel Karickhoff (US EPA - Athens)
- 7:45 pm - Erno Pretsch (ETH Zurich) - Property Estimation by Local Modeling in Data Bases
- 8:30 pm - Chris Cramer (Univ. of Minnesota) - Modeling Chemical Aspects of Environmentally Important Processes -- Rationalization, Prediction, and Experimental Design
- 9:15 pm - Discussion
Wednesday Morning
June 17 |
Anticipating Photochemical Processes |
- 9:00 am - Discussion Leader: Neil Blough (Univ. of Maryland)
- 9:15 am - Susan Burns (Western Michigan University) - Access to Intra- and Extrahumic Reactivity: What is the Right Place and the Right Time?
- 10:00 am - Bruce Faust (UCLA) - Effect of Structure and Stoichiometry on the Phototransformations of Selected Metal-Organic Complexes Relevant to Surface and Atmospheric Waters
- 10:45 am - Coffee Break
- 11:15 am - Michael Robb (Kings College, London) - Modeling Photochemical Stability: A Case Study of an Insecticidal Nitromethylene Heterocycle
- 12:00 pm - Discussion
- 12:30 pm - Lunch
Wednesday Evening
June 17 |
Anticipating Biological Processes |
- 7:30 pm - Discussion Leader: Alfred Spormann (Stanford University)
- 7:45 pm - Larry Forney (Univ. Groningen) - BESS (Biodegradation Evaluation and Simulation System): A Tool for Predicting the Environmental Fate of Chemicals Using Knowledge of Microbial Biochemistry and Physiology
- 8:30 pm - Derek Lovley (UMass Amherst) - Mechanisms for Microbial Metal and Metalloid Reduction
- 9:15 pm - Discussion
Thursday Morning
June 18 |
Anticipating Chemical Fates in the Environment Using Models |
- 9:00 am - Discussion Leader: Kevin Farley (Manhattan College)
- 9:15 am - Wilbert Lick (UC Santa Barbara) - Modeling Big Events
- 10:00 am - Patricia Wiberg (University of Virginia) - Exploring the Gap between Laboratory Sorption Studies and Contaminant Transport on the Continental Shelf
- 10:45 am - Coffee Break
- 11:15 am - Michael Matthies (Univ. Osnabrück) - Geo-Referenced Spatial Exposure Assessment
- 12:00 pm - Discussion
- 12:30 pm - Lunch
Thursday Evening
June 18 |
What Does it Cost Not to Anticipate Environmental Problems? |
- 7:30 pm - Discussion Leader: Simon Silver (University of Illinois)
- 7:45 pm - Earl Beaver (Monsanto) - The Business Rationale for Being Green - Costs and Benefits of Staying ahead of the Legislative Curve
- 8:30 pm - Discussion
- 9:15 pm - Two briefs chosen from poster session presentations
Friday Morning
June 19 |
Conference Adjourns following Breakfast |
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