Past SRA-NE Seminars

2006

• January 11, 2006 - Risk Analysis: 25 years of the SRA and a perspective on the field and Mercury, Myths, and Children’s Environmental Health

2005

• November 9, 2005 - Traffic Proximity, Health Effects, and Infrastructure Planning: A Workshop Summary

• September 14, 2005 - Integrating Risk and Economic Assessments

• July 7, 2005 - Decision Support and Scenario Evaluation Using QnD Methodology: Case Studies in Risk Assessment and Software Tools for Risk−Based Decision Making and Scenario Planning

• March 3, 2005 - Overdriving the Headlights: Empirical Data Limit Risk Analyses and Risk Perception and the Problems we Make for Ourselves

• February 16, 2005 - An Expert Judgment Assessment of the Concentration Response Relationship Between PM_2.5 Exposure and Mortality and Allocating Efforts in Characterizing a Portfolio of Risks: A Value of Information Approach

• January 19, 2005 - Evaluating Children’s Risk of Infection from Exposure to Municipal Solid Waste Truck Leachate: Complementary Evidence-based and Risk-based Assessments and Comparing Life Cycle and Risk Assessment: Complementary Tools for Management and Policy-Making

2004

• December 1, 2004 - A Screening Methodology for the Identification and Ranking of Infrastructure Vulnerabilities due to Terrorism and Modeling Exposure, Reliability, and Recovery in Complex Clinical Settings Participation

• November 3, 2004 - Use of Multi-criteria Decision Analysis in Environmental Management and The Role of Trust in Legitimating Stakeholder Participation

• September 22, 2004 - Integrated Disinfection Byproducts Mixtures Research: Assessing Reproductive and Developmental Risks Posed by Complex Mixtures of Disinfection Byproducts and Particulate Composition Matter(s)

• July 14, 2004 - Summer Poster Session and Roundtable (some posters are available to download)

• May 2, 2004 - Assembling the Pieces of the Puzzle: A Vapor Intrusion Case Study and Risk Assessment and Medical Error Associated with Transitions of Care

• April 14, 2004 - Risk Management Considerations in Redeveloping a Property that was Contaminated: A Brownfields Case Study and Management of Brownfield Sites: Programming Issues, Regulatory and Risk Considerations

• March 2, 2004 - The Need for Better Risk Communication (handouts are available to download)

• February 11, 2004 - Assessment Endpoints in Ecological Risk Assessments - The Devil is in the Details and Multicriteria Decision-Analysis for Management of Contaminated Sediments

• January 14, 2004 - Detecting and Reducing Allergy Triggers by Educating and Assisting Residents to Manage Risks from Pests and Pesticide use: Application of IPM Methods in Boston Housing, and Regulating Pesticides under the Act to Protect Family and Children: Some Considerations of the Integrated Pest Management Methods

2003

• December 3, 2003 - Insights into the Public Health Legacy of the Cold War Era and Ecological Risk Assessment: Reconciling Theory and Practice

• November 12, 2003 - Managing Children's Risks: It Takes a Commitment, and Age Related Differences in Susceptibility to Carcinogenesis

• October 8, 2003 - The Spatially Explicit Exposure Module (SEEM): An Expanded Landscape For Wildlife Exposure Assessment Tools, and
  Using Landscape Analysis to Estimate Exposure—Estimating PCB Concentrations in Floodplain Soils Using Habitat Constrained Spatial Weighting

• September 10, 2003 - Public Participation in Environmental Assessment and Risk Decision-Making: Linking Process Design, Context, and Participants, and The Role of Risk Assessors in Public Participation

• June 11, 2003 - The South Boston Scleroderma and Lupus Study -- Investigating Environmental Exposures and Autoimmune Disease

• May 21, 2003 - Effects of asbestos and update on EPA's toxicity evaluation (handouts are available to download)

• May 14, 2003 - Risk Communication and Multiple Unexplained Symptoms and Vulnerability: Methods and Models for Science and Sustainability (handouts are available to download)

• April 9, 2003 - Environmental Risk Factors Relating to the Spread of West Nile Virus

• March 4, 2003 - Modeling the Vapor Intrusion Pathway: Revisions to the MCP GW-2 Groundwater Standards (handouts are available to download)

• February 11, 2003 - Should Socioeconomic Health Effects Be Included In Risk Assessments?, and Evaluation of Human Health Risks from Exposures to Inorganic Arsenic Associated with CCA-Treated Wood (link to handouts)

• January 8, 2003 - Statistics - Sampling-Boot Strap (handouts are available to download), and Environmental Cancer Risk Factors

2002

• December 5, 2002 - To Be Rescheduled Due to Inclement Weather - A Comprehensive Evaluation of the Potential Health Risks Associated with Occupational and Environmental Exposures to Styrene (handouts are available to download), and Environmental Risk Factors Which Affect the Transmission of West Nile Virus to Human Populations

• November 13, 2002 - USEPA Cancer Guidelines (handouts available to download)

• October 9, 2002 - A New Database for Potential Use in Radiation Risk Assessment and The USGS National Geochemical Database and Its Use in Determining "Background" Concentrations of Trace Elements in Surficial Materials

• September 18, 2002 - Susceptibility Genes and Dioxin Resistance in Fish Inhabiting a Superfund Site and Should We Adjust our Current Cancer Potency Factors to Account for Likely Differences in Sensitivity Between Children and Adults?

• July 25, 2002 - Ecological Risk Assessments in Terrestrial Systems: Discussion of Habitat Characterization and Food Webs and Spatially Explicit Risk-Based Approaches for Assessing Environmental Value and Reuse Options at Contaminated Sites

• June 12, 2002 - Genetic Susceptibility to Environmental Cancer: The Case of Lung Cancer and Global Air Quality: A Challenge for the Twenty-First Century

• May 29, 2002 - Low-Level Chemical Exposures: A Challenge for Research and Public Policy

• May 8, 2002 - Communicating Risk Information to Change Behavior in Disadvantaged Communities: The Role and Limitations of Science and Endocrine Disruptors and Low Doses: The Challenge to Traditional Toxicology

• April 10, 2002 - Radiological Health and Cleanup Issues at Nuclear Weapons Sites, and Local Human Exposures to Industrial Emissions: A Case Study of Five Cities in China

• March 13, 2002 - Progress in Lead Toxicity Research: Much Studied, Much Regulated, but Much Remains Unknown, and Development of a Risk-Based Contaminated Land Management Program for Hong Kong

• February 20, 2002 - Epidemiology and the EPA Dioxin Reassessment

• February 5, 2002 - Using Statistics to Guide Measurement and Decision Making at 21E Sites