Invitation for Comment on Short List of Candidates for the
Metals Risk Assessment Framework Review Panel Of the
EPA Science Advisory Board

The EPA Science Advisory Board (SAB) Staff Office announced in a Federal Register
Notice (Volume 69, Number 145; Pages 45314-45315) that it was forming a panel to conduct a
peer review of EPA's Framework for Metals Risk Assessment. To form the panel, the SAB Staff
Office sought public nominations of individuals with expertise in: environmental chemistry of
metals, environmental fate and transport of metals, bioavailability of metals, routes of exposure
of aquatic and terrestrial species to metals, routes of human exposure to metals, human health
effects of exposure to metals, and ecological effects of exposure to metals. Background
information on the project and details on the nomination process appeared in the cited notice.
The notice is available on the SAB Website at www.epa.gov/sab/.

The SAB Staff Office has received 27 nominations of individuals in response to the
request. Based on qualifications, interest, and availability of the nominees, the SAB Staff Office
identified the "Short List" of nominees. Brief biographical sketches of candidates on the "Short
List" are listed below for comment. We welcome information, analysis or documentation for the
Staff Office to consider in evaluating the "Short List" candidates.

The SAB Staff Office Director, in consultation with SAB leadership, as appropriate,
makes the final decision about who will serve on the panel in the "Panel Selection" phase of this
process. In that phase, the SAB Staff completes its review of information regarding conflict of
interest, possible appearance of impartiality, and appropriate balance and breadth of expertise
needed to address the charge. Staff reviews all information provided by candidates, along with
any information that the public may provide in response to the posting of information about the
prospective panel on the SAB Web site during the "Short List" phase and information gathered
by SAB Staff independently on the background of each candidate.

Please provide any comments you may have with respect to the "Short List" candidates,
no later than October 11, 2004. Please make your comments to the attention of Dr. Thomas
Armitage, Designated Federal Officer. Emailing comments (armitage.thomas@epa.gov) is the
preferred mode of receipt.

[NOTICE: THE COMMENT PERIOD HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO NOVEMBER 5, 2004]

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Metals Risk Assessment Framework Review Panel Nominee Short List

Rick Cardwell

Dr. Rick Cardwell is a senior scientist with Parametrix Environmental Research Laboratory in Albany,
Oregon. He holds a B.S. in Fisheries from Oregon State University, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in
from the University of Washington, where he studied the toxicity of stress and diesel oil toxicity on
aquatic life. He has 37 years of experience studying the fate and effects of pollutants on freshwater
and marine aquatic ecosystems. Over the past 20 years, he has specialized in risk assessment,
especially in studying the fate and toxicology of metals and mining wastes in the environment. A
special focus has been on accounting for the bioavailability of the various metal species found in
different environmental compartments, including surface waters, groundwaters, sediments, and tissues
of plant and animal prey. He has worked on these issues throughout the U.S. and internationally. He
was an early pioneer in the development of aquatic ecological risk assessment methodologies, and has
served as either a peer reviewer or member of science advisory panels to EPA and the states of
Oregon and Washington. For example, he peer reviewed EPA's risk assessment framework and
served on EPA's national review of perchlorate. Currently, he is a member of the Oregon Dept. of
Environmental Quality's Technical Advisory Committee concerning development of State sediment
quality standards. In addition, he served as a peer reviewer of EPA water quality criteria documents for
cadmium, copper, methyl tertiary butyl ether, perchlorate, and tributyltin.

John Consolvo

Mr. John Consolvo is the analytical chemist in charge of overseeing the collection, processing,
analysis, and review of quality control of environmental samples for metals analysis at the Philadelphia
Water Department's Bureau of Laboratory Services. Mr. Consolvo has an MS in chemistry from Old
Dominion University. His research focused on aquatic trace metal complexation and speciation. At
the Philadelphia Water Department Mr. Consolvo is currently involved in research to assess the fate-
and-transport of metals in the urban watershed and an American Water Works Association Research
Foundation (AwwaRF) funded project on the Occurrence of Manganese in Drinking Water. Mr.
Consolvo is a member of the American Water Works Association's (AWWA) Inorganic Contaminants
Committee and a PAC member on an AwwaRF project studying the formation of hydrazine as a
possible byproduct of chloramination. Mr. Consolvo served on the AwwaRF Unsolicited Proposal
Review Committee in 2003.

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Max Costa

Dr. Max Costa is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Environmental Medicine, Director of the
Nelson Institute of Environmental Medicine, Deputy Director NYU Cancer Institute, Professor of
Pharmacology, Department of Pharmacology at New York University School of Medicine. Dr. Costa
has been working in the area of molecular mechanisms of nickel and chromium carcinogenesis. In the
late 1980s, Dr. Costa discovered that nickel compounds could silence genes by increasing DNA
methylation and proposed an epigenetic mechanism of nickel carcinogenesis involving
hypermethylation of genes and their silencing. Dr. Costa continues to investigate the molecular
mechanisms by which nickel compounds produce gene silencing by inhibiting histone acetylation and
inducing DNA methylation. Dr. Costa has received numerous awards including the Young
Environmental Scientist Award from NIEHS; the Kenneth Morgareidge Award from the International
Life Sciences Institute; Burroughs Wellcome Visiting Professor in the Basic Sciences and Distinguished
Scientist Speaker, NIH. He has served on the study sections and panels, such as Toxicology Study
Section (1991-1995); Ad Hoc NIH Chemical Pathology Study Section (1997); ALT Toxicology I Study
Section (1997); US EPA Scientific Peer Review Panel (1984-1992); University of California Tobacco-
Related Disease Study Section (1991-1997). Dr. Costa has been Session Chairman and invited
speaker to over 100 symposia and conferences and an invited lecturer to over 60 universities. He has
currently published 240 articles in peer-reviewed journals and books. He has served on many Editorial
Boards including Editor, Environmental Carcinogenesis, Chemosphere (1981-1983); Editor, Biology of
Metals (1988-1990); Associate Editor, Cell Biology and Toxicology (1987-present); Editorial Board,
Biological Trace Element Research (1988-present); Editor-in-Chief, Molecular Toxicology (1989-1991);
Editorial Board, BioMetals 1992-present); Editor, Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental
Therapeutics (1992-1994); Editorial Advisory Board, Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology (1996-
present); Board of Associate Editors, Environmental Health Perspectives (1996-present); Editorial
Board, NIEHS Environmental Health Perspectives (1997-present). He has served on national and
international committees including the IUPAC Subcommittee on Environmental Services and
Occupational Toxicology of Nickel (1979-present); American Association for Cancer Research Program
Committee (1989); IARC International Working Group on Metals and Their Compounds, Lyon, France
(1989); Member of the Board of Directors for Cancergrams and Oncology Overviews (1987-1989);
Reviewer for the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry "Toxicology Profiles" (1985-
present); Member of the ICOH Scientific Committee on the Toxicology of Metals (1988-present);
Member of the Organizing Committee for the International Association of Environmental Analytical
Chemistry (1990- present); Vice President-Elect, Vice President, President, Past President; Society of
Toxicology-Metals Specialty Section (1993-1996); Member of the Organizing Committee for the 6th
International Symposium on Metal Ions in Biology and Medicine, San Juan, Puerto Rico (2000). He
organized the First (1988), Second (1993), and Third (2001) International Meeting on Molecular
Mechanisms of Metal Toxicity and Carcinogenicity. Dr. Costa obtained his Ph.D. in 1976 from the
University of Arizona Medical School, Tucson, AZ, and his B.S. in 1974 from Georgetown University,
Washington, DC. Dr. Costa has had several grants from NIH/ NIEHS. Within the last ten years, he has
also had funding from NIH/NCI and the U.S. EPA.

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David Dzombak

Dr. David A. Dzombak is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Carnegie Mellon
University, a registered Professional Engineer in Pennsylvania, and a Diplomate of the American
Academy of Environmental Engineers. He holds a Ph.D. in Civil-Environmental Engineering from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The emphasis of his research is on water and soil quality
engineering, especially the fate and transport of chemicals in subsurface systems and sediments,
wastewater treatment, in situ and ex situ soil/sediment treatment, hazardous waste site remediation,
and abandoned mine drainage remediation. Dr. Dzombak has served on the National Research
Council Committee on Bioavailability of Contaminants in Soils and Sediments, and on various research
review panels for the Department of Defense, Environmental Protection Agency, National Institute of
Environmental Health Sciences, and National Science Foundation. He has also served on the Board of
Directors and as an Officer of the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors;
as chair of committees for the American Academy of Environmental Engineers, American Society of
Civil Engineers, and Water Environment Federation; and on advisory committees for various
community and local government organizations, and for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Dr.
Dzombak was elected a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers in 2002. Other recent
awards and honors include an Aldo Leopold Leadership Program Fellowship by the Ecological Society
of America and The David and Lucile Packard Foundation in 2000, the Professional Research Award
from the Water Environment Association of Pennsylvania in 2002, the Jack Edward McKee Medal from
the Water Environment Foundation in 2000, and a Distinguished Service Award from the Association of
Environmental Engineering and Science Professors in 1999. (11/2003)

Robert Edstrom

Dr. Robert Edstrom is the Minnesota Department of Transportation Chief Toxicologist. He has a
Bachelor of Arts degree in biology from St. Cloud State University, a Masters of Science in
environmental chemistry from the College of William and Mary, and a Ph.D. in chemical oceanography
from the School of Marine Science of the College of William and Mary. Dr. Edstrom specializes in the
measurement of toxic chemicals as well as their fate and transport in the environment. Dr. Edstrom's
current research areas support the Minnesota Department of Transportation in studying the fate,
effects, and transport of metals from treated wood structures, the metals and organics in coal
combustion by-products, de-icing chemicals, and new procedures for evaluating the environmental
hazards associated with road construction products.

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Kevin Farley

Dr. Kevin J. Farley is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Manhattan College. He
received his B.E. in Civil Engineering and his M.E. in Environmental Engineering from Manhattan
College, and his Ph.D. in Civil-Environmental Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. His research focuses on the fate and bioaccumulation of toxic chemicals in surface
waters and sediment. Current projects include studies on the speciation and cycling of arsenic in lakes
and reservoirs (NIEHS/EPA Superfund Basic Research Program), the development of a "unit world"
model for metals in aquatic environments (EPA Center for Metals in the Environment), and
contaminant fate and bioaccumulation modeling of PCBs, dioxins, and mercury New York Harbor
sediment and biota (Hudson River Foundation). Dr. Farley has served on the National Research
Council Committee on Remediation of PCB-Contaminated Sediments, on EPA scientific review panels
for the Chesapeake Bay Eutrophication Model, the Lake Michigan Mass Balance Modeling Study, and
the Hudson River PCB Superfund Reassessment Study, and on expert panels for the American
Geological Institute and the Delaware River Basin Commission. Dr. Farley also serves as a consultant
for HydroQual, Inc., is a co-director of the Manhattan College Institute of Water Pollution Control, and is
a recipient of the American Society of Civil Engineers Wesley W. Horner Award.

Ivan Fernandez

Dr. Ivan Fernandez, is a professor and forest soils scientist at the University of Maine, Orono. He
chairs the Department of Plant, Soil, and Environmental Sciences. His expertise is in nutrient and metal
cycling in forested ecosystems, particularly in soil biogeochemical responses to ecosystem
disturbance. He publishes regularly in professional journals on a multi-media range of subjects
pertaining to forest ecology including soil biogeochemistry, fire ecology, nutrient cycling in soil and
water, watershed processes and soil microbial ecology. He has also published numerous technical
reports, book chapters, and a book. He is a member of numerous professional organizations such as
the Society of American Foresters, Soil Science Society of America, National Association of
Environmental Professionals and the Soil and Water Conservation Society to name a few. He serves
as a member of the national Council of Soil Science Examiners, the Maine Board of Certification for
Professional Geologists and Soil Scientists, and is responsible for oversight of the long-term whole
ecosystem research program at the Bear Brook Watershed in Maine. His research interests are in
atmospheric deposition and climate change effects on forested ecosystems and watershed processes,
as well as the ecological impact of residuals utilization in forests. Current research projects include
studies of long-term watershed acidification, base cation depletion, nitrogen saturation, municipal
residuals utilization in forests, and the effects of fire and climate on mercury and nitrogen dynamics.
His advanced degrees are in soil chemistry and forest resources from the University of Maine.

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Bruce Fowler

Dr. Bruce Fowler is Assistant Director for Science, Division of Toxicology , Agency for Toxic
Substances and Disease Registry. Dr. Fowler holds a B.S. degree in Fisheries (Marine Biology) from
the University of Washington in 1968 and a Ph.D. in Pathology from the University of Oregon Medical
School in 1972. He was a staff scientist at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
from 1972 until 1987 when he became the first Director of the University of Maryland System-wide
Program in Toxicology and Professor of Pathology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
In 2001, he became Professor and Director of the Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Toxicology in
the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. From 2002 - 2003
he was a Senior Research Advisor to the Agency for Toxic Substances and Diseases Registry
(ATSDR) in the Division of Toxicology. He was appointed as the Assistant Director for Science in the
Division of Toxicology and to the Senior Biomedical Research Service (PHS) at ATSDR in November
2003. Dr. Fowler, who is an internationally recognized expert on the toxicology of metals has served
on a number of State, National and International Committees in his areas of expertise. These include
the Maryland Governor's Council on Toxic Substances (Chair), National Academy of Sciences /
National Research Council Committees on Toxicology, Toxicology Information Committee, Committee
on Women in Science and Engineering, Measuring Lead in Critical Populations (Chair), Biological
Markers of Urinary Toxicology, Committee on the Evaluation of Augmenting Potable Water Supplies
with Reclaimed Water, and the Subcommittee on Arsenic in Drinking Water of the Committee on
Toxicology. He has also served as a temporary advisor to the World Health Organization (WHO) and
the International Agency for Research Against Cancer (IARC). Dr Fowler has been honored as a
Fellow of the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (1990), a Fulbright Scholar and Swedish
Medical Research Council Visiting Professor at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm , Sweden (1994 -
1995) and elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Toxicological Sciences (2000). He served as
Chairman of the Scientific Committee on the Toxicology of Metals under the International Commission
on Occupational Health (ICOH) 1996-2002, as a consultant to the USEPA Science Advisory Board and
a member of the Fulbright Scholarship review committee for Scandinavia (1999-, Chair, 2000-2001).
He is a member of the AAAS Recruitment and Screening Committee for the Court Appointed Scientific
Experts (CASE) Demonstration Project 2000. Dr. Fowler is the author of over 200 research papers
and book chapters dealing with molecular mechanisms of metal toxicity and biomarkers for early
detection of metal-induced cell injury. He has been the editor or co-editor of 5 books or monographs
on metal toxicology and mechanisms of chemical - induced cell injury. His current research is
focused on the toxicology of chemical mixtures involving metals, particularly in relation to
semiconductors, lead, cadmium, arsenic mixtures and the role(s) of lead - binding proteins in
mediating the toxicity of this ubiquitous metal to the kidney and brain. He serves on the editorial
boards of a number of scientific journals in toxicology and environmental health. Dr. Fowler has
received peer-reviewed research funding from the EPA STAR Grant Program and the National
Institutes of Health.

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Andrew J. Friedland

Dr. Andrew J. Friedland is Professor and Chair of the Environmental Studies Program at Dartmouth
College. His research has focused on understanding the effects of atmospheric deposition of pollutants
on elemental cycling processes in high-elevation forests of New England and the Northeastern United
States. He has examined the processes and behavior of trace elements such as lead, copper, zinc,
nickel and cadmium and major elements such as nitrogen and calcium on vegetation, soils and water.
In a number of related projects, he has described the decline of red spruce in the mountains of New
England and has examined water relations in conifers during winter. More recently, Dr. Friedland has
begun to explore the role of individual action and personal choice in relation to energy consumption
and environmental impact. Friedland has published 48 peer-reviewed articles on these topics and
many more conference proceedings and other papers. He has written one book, co-authored with
biology professor Carol Folt, Writing Successful Science Proposals (Yale University Press, 2000). Dr.
Friedland has received funding from the National Science Foundation, the US Forest Service, the
Environmental Protection Agency and private foundations. Dr. Friedland has taught introductory and
advanced environmental science courses as well as soil science, forest biogeochemistry and an
interdisciplinary course on science and literature. He was a member of the Citizens Advisory Panel of
the Strategy for Vermont's Third Century, an environmental risk assessment program conducted by the
State of Vermont and the U.S. EPA. From 1995-1998, he chaired the College Board Advanced
Placement Environmental Science development committee. This committee designed the first
Advanced Placement course in environmental science that was offered nationwide for the first time in
1998. Approximately 25,000 students took the most recent AP Environmental Science exam earlier in
2002. Dr. Friedland is a member of the Soil Science Society of America, the Ecological Society of
America and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is currently on the editorial
board of the Journal of Sustainable Forestry and recently left the editorial board of Science of the Total
Environment. In 2002 and 2003, Dr. Friedland was a member of the Metals Assessment Panel of the
EPA Scientific Advisory Board. Friedland has B.A.s in Biology and Environmental Studies (double
major) (1981) and a Ph.D. in Geology (1985), all from the University of Pennsylvania

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John Froines

Dr. John Froines is Director of the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) Program in
Occupational and Environmental Health and he is Associate Director of the NIEHS Southern California
Environmental Health Sciences Center. Dr. Froines received his B.S. in Chemistry from the University
of California at Berkeley in 1963. He received his M.S. (in 1964) and Ph.D. (in 1966) in Physical-
Organic Chemistry from Yale University. Dr. Froines was a NIH postdoctoral fellow with Nobel
Laureate, Sir George Porter at the Royal Institution of Great Britain. From 1974 to 1977, he was the
Director of the Occupational and Radiological Health Division of the Vermont Department of Health and
the Director of Occupational Lung Disease at the Vermont Lung Center. Dr. Froines was the Director of
Toxic Substances Standards at Occupational Safety and Health Administration from 1977 to 1979.

From 1979 to 1981, he was the Deputy Director of the National Institute of Occupational Safety and
Health. In 1981, Dr. Froines was recruited to the UCLA School of Public Health and from 1991 to 1998
he was the Chair of the Department of Environmental Health Sciences. Dr. Froines is the chairman of
the California's Scientific Review Panel where he is charged with reviewing data on proposed toxic air
contaminants to ensure the appropriate applications of science and risk assessment. As the Director
of the UCLA Center for Occupational and Environmental Health, Dr. Froines leads a multidisciplinary
Center comprised of the UCLA schools of Public Health, Medicine, and Nursing. Dr. Froines' air
pollution related research includes the health effects of particulate matter in the ambient environment,
lung cancer and non-cancer health effects attributable to air pollution, and the biochemical mechanism
of the carcinogenicity of toxic air contaminants, just to name a few. He directs the Southern California
Particle Center and Supersite, a major research center devoted to studying the effects of particulate
matter on human health. Dr. Froines is Director of the NIH Fogarty's UCLA Program in Occupational
and Environmental Health and he is Associate Director of the NIEHS Southern California
Environmental Health Sciences Center. In addition to his research on air pollution he has conducted
research on the carcinogenicity of arsenic, beryllium and chromium during the past decade. In the
former case he has focused on the genetic determinants of the mechanism of arsenic related systemic
cancers. He has conducted extensive research on pesticide exposure in Mexico. He has served on
the National Toxicology Board of Scientific Counselors as Chair of the Carcinogen Subcommittee. Dr.
Froines has received numerous honors including recent citations for his contributions from the
Governor and the head of CAL/EPA.

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A. Jay Gandolfi

Dr. A. Jay Gandolfi is the Assistant Dean for Research and Graduate Studies for the College of
Pharmacy at the University of Arizona. He is also Chair for the Department of Pharmaceutical
Sciences as well as the Director of the NIH-sponsored Superfund Hazardous Waste Research
Program at the University of Arizona. Dr Gandolfi received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry with a minor in
Toxicology from Oregon State University in 1972. This was followed by a Research Fellowship
studying volatile halogenated hydrocarbons toxicity at the Mayo Clinic. After three years in inhalation
toxicology research with Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratories, in 1778 Dr. Gandolfi joined the faculty
of the University of Arizona with appointments in Pharmacology, Toxicology, and Anesthesiology. .
Dr. Gandolfi has received grants for research to investigate metal-metal interactions in the kidney, the
study of arsenic in biology and medicine, and the investigation of agricultural chemicals as a major
non-point source of arsenic. His publications include articles on: interaction of metals during their
uptake and accumulation in renal tissue, use of the nuclear microprobe for the study of heavy metal
deposition in rabbit renal tissue, arsenate induced gene expression, metabolism of inorganic arsenic,
gallium arsenide, and arsine, arsenic drinking water exposure and urinary excretion, selenium and
selenomethoione levels in prostate cancer patients. He has served on research review committees for
federal organizations (NIH, VA, EPA) and various national or private foundations. He has been on the
Editorial Board for 8 toxicology journals. Dr. Gandolfi has been very active with the Society of
Toxicology, holding numerous elected and appointed offices. Dr. Gandolfi's research has focused on
three areas: aliphatic halocarbon fate and toxicity, in vitro systems for toxicological evaluations, and
renal toxicity. His research has been continuously funded by federal, foundation, and industrial
support. Dr. Gandolfi has published almost 250 experimental papers in both basic science and
medical journals. He has published 12 book chapters and is co-Editor-in-Chief of Comprehensive
Toxicology, a 13 volume review of the broad field of toxicology.

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Joshua Hamilton

Dr. Joshua Hamilton is a molecular toxicologist at Dartmouth College. He has been at Dartmouth since
1985 and is currently a Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology at Dartmouth Medical School and
an Adjunct Professor of Chemistry at Dartmouth College of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Hamilton is the
Director of Dartmouth's Center for Environmental Health Sciences and directs two of its federally
funded interdisciplinary program projects. He is also Director of Dartmouth's Molecular Biology and
Proteomics Core Facility. Dr. Hamilton received a M.S. in genetics and a Ph.D. in toxicology from
Cornell University. His current research interests are primarily in the areas of molecular toxicology and
toxicogenomics, focusing in particular on the effects of toxic metals and other environmental agents of
concern in the environment on gene expression, and the role of such changes in adverse health
effects. Dr. Hamilton's laboratory recently discovered that arsenic can act as a potent endocrine
disruptor, blocking steroid hormone mediated signaling at very low doses relevant to U.S. drinking
water exposures. He has also done extensive research on mechanisms of chemical carcinogenesis
working with arsenic and other metals as well as with organic chemicals such as polycyclic aromatic
hydrocarbons, dioxins, PCBs and other persistent organic contaminants. A new collaborative project is
applying genomic tools to develop molecular biomarkers for examining effects of toxic metals and other
environmental chemicals on aquatic food webs. Dr. Hamilton has published extensively in the scientific
literature on these and other research results from his laboratory. He is a member of the Society of
Toxicology, the American Association for Cancer Research, the American Chemical Society, and the
American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is a regular reviewer for over three dozen
journals and has served as an Associate Editor on several journals including Toxicology and Applied
Pharmacology and Chemico-Biological Interactions. He has served as a reviewer for several different
NIH study sections and has served as Chair of a special review panel for NIEHS. He is an external
reviewer for several university centers or interdisciplinary programs at other universities. Dr. Hamilton
was an external reviewer for the National Research Council's recent report, Arsenic in Drinking Water,
2001 Update. He has served as Chair of Dartmouth's Radiation Safety and Environmental Health and
Safety Committees. He was a member of New Hampshire's Healthy People 2010 Committee
evaluating the role of environmental agents in human health, and is a member of the State of New
Hampshire's Biomonitoring Council as well as the City of Manchester NH's Environmental and Public
Health Leadership Council. He is also a founding member of the New Hampshire Arsenic Consortium,
composed of scientists from Dartmouth, the State of New Hampshire, the U.S. Geological Survey and
the U.S. EPA working together on arsenic as a public health problem in the northeast. Dr. Hamilton is
currently the Principal Investigator and Director of Dartmouth's NIH-NIEHS Superfund Basic Research
Program Project grant on toxic metals, and also directs a multi-institutional NSF Biocomplexity grant on
Daphnia toxicogenomics. He is an Associate Director of Dartmouth's NIH COBRE program project
grant on lung pathobiology. He is also a Co-Investigator or collaborator on several other individual
research grants from NIH.

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Kim Hayes

Dr. Kim Hayes is Professor and Program Director of the Environmental and Water Resources
Engineering Program in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of
Michigan. Professor Hayes' research focuses on the effects of interfacial properties on transport and
transformation processes of environmental contaminants. Dr. Hayes has more than 20 years of
experience in conducting experiments on the sorption of heavy metal ions and radionuclides to soil and
sediment mineral constituents. His recent research activities include surface spectroscopic
investigations of metal ion sorption reactions; impact of trace metal sorption processes on organic
pollutant transformation rates; reductive dechlorination by reduced mineral surfaces in anaerobic
environments, investigation of nanostructured particles for remediation of metal contaminated
groundwaters, sequestration of metals in the subsurface through precipitation and sorption processes;
and the study of binders and barriers materials for nuclear waste containment. Support for this work
has been provided by the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Science Foundation,
Department of Energy, and National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences. Professor Hayes has
served as a reviewer of a National Research Council report on the "Bioavailability of Contaminants in
Soils and Sediments." He recently served as a member of a peer-review panel for the Strategic
Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) to evaluate proposals on "In-Situ merits
of Sequestration Enhancement and Engineered Bioavailability Reduction of Metals in Soils." He has
also participated on a variety other workshops and review panels for the Environmental Protection
Agency, National Science Foundation, and Department of Energy related to metal ion speciation,
sequestration and mobility. Professor Hayes is currently a member of the Board of Director's and an
Executive Officer of the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors as well as a
member of the Technical Advisory Board of the Great Lakes Protection Fund for the state of Michigan.
Professor Hayes has more than 100 publications in peer-reviewed manuscripts, book chapters,
technical reports, and proceedings detailing work on environmental chemistry and interfacial processes
for contaminant remediation. Professor Hayes was awarded a National Science Foundation
Presidential Young Investigator Award earlier in his career (1989-1994). His research group has been
selected 4 times for American Chemical Society Environmental Chemistry paper awards (1992, 1996,
1997, 1999). Professor Hayes obtained his BS degree in Chemistry (1980), MSE in Environmental
Engineering (1980), MSE Chemical Engineering (1982), a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering (1987),
all from Stanford University.

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Robert Hudson

Dr. Robert J.M. Hudson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental
Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr, Hudson has been actively involved in
environmental research, education, and service since earning his Bachelor of Science degrees in
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1979. In his
first professional position as an engineer at Tetra Tech, Inc., he was responsible for developing the
biogeochemistry module of the ILWAS Acid Rain Model under the direction of Mr. Steven Gherini.

Next, he undertook doctoral studies in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. For his dissertation research with Professor Francois Morel, he conducted
novel investigations which demonstrated that coordination kinetics control the bioavailability of iron
during uptake by phytoplankton. This lead directly to his present research interest in the bioavailability
and speciation of trace metals. During his postdoctoral research, conducted both at the University of
California at Santa Cruz with Professor Kenneth Bruland and at Tetra Tech, Dr. Hudson was
responsible for developing biogeochemical models that simulated: i) the cycling and bioaccumulation of
mercury in lakes and ii) the global cycling of mercury and of carbon. Dr. Hudson is now an
Associate Professor in the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. At the University of Illinois, he has begun two new major
new directions in his research. The first is developing advanced empirical modeling approaches for
analyzing trace metal speciation data from field studies. This approach permits both extant and new
data to be analyzed in ways that overcome recently-identified, serious problems in calibrating the
current state of the art analytical methods, CLE-CSV in particular. It also permits accurate estimates of
the uncertainties in speciation measurements to be made. The second is a new method for analyzing
methylmercury based on ion chromatography of mercury complexes and detection with cold vapor
atomic fluorescence spectrometry. This nearly-completed method has the same sensitivity and
selectivity as the current standard method based on gas chromatography, but has the advantage of
being automatable. Since moving to Illinois, he has also began investigating the coupling of trace
metal and major nutrient biogeochemistry in rural watersheds. At present, he is focusing on watershed-
scale studies of mercury and manganese in streams. At different points in his career, Dr. Hudson has
emphasized either: i) conducting field and experimental studies of biogeochemical processes or ii)
modeling biogeochemical processes. His current approach to research emphasizes studies that require
bringing both together. Data are analyzed using sophisticated statistical methods, such as inverse
modeling, multidimensional optimization, and non-linear regression, and models are used to assist in
designing field studies. Dr. Hudson has received research funding from the USDA, the Illinois Council
on Food and Agricultural Research, the USGS, the National Great Rivers Research and Educational
Center in Brighton, IL, and the Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant College program.

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Margaret Karagas

Dr. Margaret Karagas is a professor in the Department of Community and Family Medicine at the
Dartmouth Medical School. Dr. Karagas is an epidemiologist with specific expertise in the conduct of
complex, interdisciplinary investigations of environmental exposures, biomarkers, and host-susceptibility. She
has been principal investigator on 13 NIH grants over the past 10 years, and co-investigator on numerous others.
One of her major research interests is the epidemiology of arsenic and other toxic metals. The level at which
arsenic poses a cancer risk has been a topic of considerable debate. Her study represents one of the first
U.S. efforts to evaluate cancer risk on an individual level (versus using the ecologic measures typical of
international studies). Dr. Karagas identified accurate exposure assessment as a critical element for studies
determining the relationship between low-level arsenic exposure and cancer risk, and published several
papers evaluating alternative biomarkers of arsenic exposure. Dr. Karagas also has a particular research focus
on skin cancer. Many environmental carcinogens and gene-environment interactions were first discovered by
their link to skin cancer either in the occupational or clinical setting, including ionizing radiation, non-ionizing
radiation, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, chronic immunosuppression, arsenic. In 1993, Dr. Karagas
established a collaborative network of dermatologists and pathologists throughout New Hampshire to
develop one of the few population-based registries and case-control studies for non-melanoma skin cancer in
the world. Through this work, she has acquired a large, highly unique archive of blood and tissue samples from
which to conduct collaborative, population-based molecular-genetic and proteomic investigations. In
another NIH-funded study, Dr. Karagas has been investigating the potential effects of female sex steroids on
women's risk of melanoma skin cancer. The study involves the collaboration of 15 investigators from six
different countries. Additionally, Dr. Karagas has conducted investigations of drinking water fluoride and
fracture risk, and maternal smoking and congenital anomalies. More recently she has been involved in an
international study of risk factors for extremely low birth weight infants with members of the Vermont Oxford
Network. Dr. Karagas also was part of the investigative team of a study of disseminated BCG (Bacille
Calmette-Guerin) among children in Zambia. She also recently completed a biomarker study of toxic metal
exposure in children and adults living near a gold mine in Siuna, Nicaragua. Currently, she is working with
investigators from Thailand and the US on a toxicogenomic study of multiple exposures including arsenic among
pregnant women and newborns.

Thomas La Point

Dr. Thomas La Point directs the Institute of Applied Sciences at the University of North Texas and is a
Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of
Biological Sciences at Idaho State University in Aquatic Biology. His primary research and teaching
interests include contaminant effects on freshwater aquatic communities, specifically how metals and
organic contaminants affect benthic population dynamics and freshwater fisheries. He has published
on ecosystem measures, contaminant bioaccumulation, and sub-lethal effects on aquatic populations.
Dr. La Point has served on several USEPA Science Advisory panels concerned with pesticides and
ecological risk and has worked as a consultant on Superfund issues at large sites. Dr. La Point is
presently serving on a National Academy of Science NRC Committee on Superfund Site Assessment
and Remediation in the Coeur d'Alene River Basin. He is serving as Chair of a Water Environment
Research Foundation subcommittee on whole-effluent testing as an indicator of aquatic health. He has
served on several NSF, USEPA and USGS panels to review proposals submitted for funding. He is on
the editorial board for Chemosphere and Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology and has served
as Editor of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) Special Publication
Series. Dr. La Point's current research is funded by the NSF, USEPA and the City of Denton, TX.

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Leonard Levin

Dr. Leonard Levin is Technical Leader and Program Manager in Air Toxics Health and Risk
Assessment at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). He holds a B.S. in Earth, Atmospheric
and Planetary Sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an M.S. in Atmospheric
Sciences from the University of Washington, and a Ph.D. from the Institute for Fluid Dynamics and
Applied Mathematics from the University of Maryland. His research interests and expertise deal with
environmental modeling, air and environmental quality, human exposure, risk assessment, and
atmospheric physics and circulation. Dr. Levin has served on EPA Peer Review Panels, including
those for the Mercury Study Report to Congress, the Mercury Research Strategy, and the Air Toxics
Research Strategy, and for the American Chemistry Council, on multimedia studies. He has served on
the U.S. Department of Energy panel on multimedia modeling for hazardous waste mitigation;
curriculum committee, Environmental Management program, University of California at Berkeley.
Dr. Levin has developed simulation models for atmospheric circulation at the global scale; for mercury
emissions and transport at regional scale; and for microscale turbulence transfer to water surfaces. He
serves and has served as project manager on modeling efforts for mercury and other trace substances
at local and continental scale, and in model verification studies for atmospheric chemistry and
deposition processes. Dr. Levin's financial support is from EPRI operating funds, which originate with
member institutions and special project funders (including private and public corporations, international
energy organizations, and U.S. government agencies).

Samuel Luoma

Dr. Samuel N. Luoma is a Senior Research Hydrologist with the US Geological Survey and served as
the first Lead Scientist for the CALFED Bay-Delta program between August 2000 and November 2003.
As Lead Scientist he helped establish peer review, approaches to using scientific experts as advisors,
a broad system of new studies relevant to CALFED, and improved the credibility and clarity of the
science CALFED uses in its decisions. He is broadly interested in California water issues, ecosystem
restoration and in improving uses of science in water policy decisions. His research interests include
the effects of pollutants in aquatic environments, with special emphasis on metals. The studies he and
his project have conducted are available in leading publications and recognized as among the leaders
in fields such as metal bioavailability, dietary exposure of aquatic organisms to metals, determination of
metal effects at the individual, population and community level in field studies; evaluation of methods
like AVS/SEM for their useful in regulatory arenas; tolerance of aquatic organisms to metals and
fundamental aspects of metal effects in nature. He has worked in San Francisco Bay since 1974 and
has authored more than 180 peer-reviewed publications. He wrote the textbook, Introduction to
Environmental Issues, in 1984. He was editor of Marine Environmental Research from 1996 - 2003
and is an editorial advisor for the Marine Ecology Progress Series. He is a Fellow in the American
Association for the Advancement of Science and was awarded the U. S. Department of Interior's
Distinguished Service Award in 1986. He has participated nationally and internationally as an expert or
advisor, including advising the USEPA's Science Advisory Board on sediment quality criteria and the
NAS/National Research Council's Committee on the Bioavailability of Contaminants in Soils and
Sediments. He was one of four people who originally designed USGS' successful National Water
Quality Monitoring Assessment. He has advised and mentored students and postdoctoral associates
from Asia, Europe, Latin America and North America. He is presently serving as a William J. Fulbright
Distinguished Scholar studying "International approaches to applying best available science in water
pollution issues" in collaboration with colleagues at the Natural History Museum in London.

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Glenn Miller

Dr. Glenn C. Miller is a Professor of Natural Resources and Environmental Science at the University of
Nevada, Reno (UNR). He is also the Director of the Graduate Program in Environmental Sciences and
Health at UNR. He has a B.S. in Chemistry from the University of California, Santa Barbara and a Ph.D. in
Agricultural and Environmental Chemistry (1977) from the University of California at Davis. Following
graduate studies, he spent a year of postdoctoral study at the EPA's Environmental Research Laboratory
in Athens, Georgia and has been at UNR since 1978. Current areas of research include acid mine
remediation using anaerobic sulfate reducing systems, closure of precious metals heaps, and precious
metals pit water quality. In the recent past he has examined emissions from marine engines into Lake
Tahoe and the associated risks with those emissions. He teaches courses in Environmental Toxicology,
Risk Assessment and Environmental Chemistry. He is a member of the American Chemical Society,
SETAC, AAAS and Sigma Xi. He has also been active on policy issues related to mining and is a
member of the Board of Directors of Earthworks and Great Basin Mine Watch. Service on other
advisory committees and professional societies include, among others: National Academy of Science
committee on mining technology, 2000-2002; National Academy of Science committee on USGS
Mineral Resources Program,2000-2003; and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Advisory
Committee on Mining Waste, 1991-1993. Recent grants include: U.S. EPA funded study of "Mercury
Deposition Associated with Mining", National Science Foundation funded study of trifluroacetic acid in
Antarctic ice, and a Placer Dome Corporation funded study of passivation of acid generating rock at the
Golden Sunlight Mine.

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Robin Reash

Mr. Robin J. (Rob) Reash is Principal Environmental Scientist, American Electric Power, Water and
Ecological Resource Services, Columbus, Ohio. Mr. Reash's education includes: B.A., Biology (cum
laude), Wittenberg University, 1981 Marine Biology and Oceanography, Duke University Marine
Laboratory, 1981; M.S., Environmental Biology, The Ohio State University, 1984. Mr. Reash's work
experience includes: Environmental Consultant, 1984; Fisheries Intern, Ohio Environmental Protection
Agency, 1984; Aquatic Biologist, American Electric Power, 1984-1988; Environmental Scientist,
Oklahoma Water Resources Board, 1989; Principal Environmental Scientist, American Electric Power,
1990 to present. Mr. Reash's current activities include: Board member, Ohio Valley Chapter, Society
of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry; Water Environment Research Foundation, Steering
Committee chairman for "Validation of Underlying Assumptions for Integrating Frequency, Magnitude,
and Duration in NPDES Permit Conditions", 2001 to present; Water Environment Research
Foundation, Steering Committee member for "Bioassessment: a tool for managing urban aquatic life
uses", 2000 to present; Leader, Utility Water Act Group selenium workgroup; Member, steering group
for SETAC book on environmental indicators of reduced mercury emissions from combustion sources;
Member, peer review group for ORSANCO temperature water quality criteria re-evaluation; Manuscript
reviewer, Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 1999 to present; Manuscript reviewer,
Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 2004. Mr. Reash's current research projects include:
Assessment of atmospheric deposition/bioaccumulation of mercury and other trace metals in a
common lichen species (Flavoparmelia caperata) collected near coal-fired power plants; Assessment
of mercury concentrations in Ohio River fish compared to modeled deposition patterns ;Toxicity
Identification valuation/Toxicity Reduction Evaluation of a coal ash effluent. Mr. Reash's professional
experience includes: External peer reviewer for U.S. EPA's "Draft Revised Aquatic Life Criteria for
Selenium", 2002; Chairman, Utility Water Act Group Water Quality Committee, 2000 to 2003;

President, Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, Ohio Valley Chapter, 1992-1993; Co-
chair, Ohio EPA TMDL External Advisory Group, 1999 - 2001; Water Environment Research
Foundation, steering member committee member on Chemical Frequency, Magnitude, and Duration
Versus Ecological impact", 1997 -2002; Member, ORSANCO Ohio River biocriteria development
advisory committee, 1997 -2002. Mr. Reash's Honors and Professional Certification include: Marquis
"Who's Who in Science and Engineering", 2004; Steven J. Koorse Award of Excellence, Utility Water
Act Group, 2004; Certified Fisheries Scientist (American Fisheries Society), 1998 to present; American
Electric Power, Gold Star Award for Environmental Achievement, 2000. Professional memberships
include: Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry; Ohio Valley Chapter, Society of
Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry.

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Julio Salinas

Dr. Julio Salinas received a Ph.D. in Mammalian Biochemistry and Metabolism from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, and a Professional Degree and Title in Biochemistry from the University of
Chile. He has been Staff Toxicologist Specialist with the Office of Environmental Health Hazard
Assessment (OEHHA), at the Sacramento Headquarters of the California Environmental Protection
Agency (Cal/EPA), for the past 15+ years. The primary focus of his expertise and duties is in methods
and approaches for health risk assessment of environmental contamination problems and the interface
between risk assessment and risk management. He provides assistance to organizations within
Cal/EPA, such as Regional Water Quality Control Boards, California Integrated Management Board,
and the Department of Toxic Substances Control, and has assisted in the risk assessment of about
hundred contaminated sites in California. He conducts scientific review of work plans, site
characterization, health risk assessment reports, risk-based remedial activities, permitting of facilities,
remedial actions, and closure plans, for soils and groundwater contaminated with organic and heavy
metals. He has also prepared and reviewed standard and criteria reports. He reviewed numerous site-
specific reports for ATSDR. He conducts training for Cal/EPA in health risk assessment and the
interface with risk management, and has conducted training in toxicology and risk assessment in
Mexico in Spanish. Invited in 2003 by the Comision Nacional del Medio Ambiente (CONAMA) (National
Commission for the Environment), Ministry of Internal Affairs of Chile, Dr. Salinas provided ad honorem
a cycle of conferences on health risk assessment and the interface with risk management in Chile.

Prior to joining the State of California, he worked as a consultant and in private business. Under
contract with Eastern Research Group, Arlington, MA, Dr. Salinas reviewed and prepared technical
documents for the U.S.EPA Drinking Water Criteria and Health and Environmental Effects Profile
reports, researched on verification of uncertainty factors in inhalation reference doses, prepared the
IPCS Environmental Health Criteria #107 on Barium, and reviewed and reported on risk assessment
approaches for DEHP. Dr. Salinas has extensive expertise in the management and the scientific
direction of contract toxicology laboratories. He provided total project management from concept to
conduct to report for in vivo safety and toxicological characterization studies for compliance with
U.S.EPA, U.S.FDA and OECD protocols, and developed quality assurance and corporate Good
Laboratory Practice programs. He was a Ford Foundation Fellow at M.l.T. (1973-1976), and received
a Cal/EPA Certificate of Recognition for Outstanding Job Performance and Contributions (1997).
Professional interests include methods for data quality, analysis of causal inference, probabilistic risk
assessment, total quality management, and guidance documents in health risk assessment.
Extracurricular activities have not involved external financial support.

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James Shine

Dr. James Shine is currently an Assistant Professor of Aquatic Chemistry in the Department of
Environmental Health at the Harvard School of Public Health. His background is in aquatic
biogeochemistry, and his research examines the transport, fate, and effects of contaminants in aquatic
ecosystems, with an emphasis on heavy metals. He has a particular interest in understanding the role
of biogeochemical cycling on the form and bioavailability of heavy metals, thus affecting exposure and
risks to both human and ecological receptors. Dr. Shine has served on a number of advisory panels
that range from local to international in scope. For example, through the non-profit group Seachange,
Dr. Shine has worked with the citizens of Fairhaven, Massachusetts, to understand the technical issues
associated with a Superfund Site in their town. At the regional level, Dr. Shine has been appointed to a
science advisory panel to oversee issues associated with the discharge of sewage into Massachusetts
Bay by the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA). This unique panel, independent from
the MWRA, is required by the USEPA and Massachusetts Dept. Environmental Protection as part of
the MWRA discharge permit. At the international level, Dr. Shine is a part of an Intergovernmental
Oceanographic Commission (UNESCO) ad hoc group of experts charged with the development of
indicators of marine ecosystem stress applicable for assessments of marine environmental health in
developing nations. Through these activities Dr. Shine has come to appreciate the role of academic
research science in the formulation and application of sound environmental policies. Dr. Shine's
current and pending sources of research funding are varied . They range from several federally funded
grants from NIEHS to study the transport, fate, and effects of heavy metals in the environment, through
internal Harvard funding to investigate novel environmental contaminants. Dr. Shine also has funding
from organizations such as the American Chemistry Council (through an award from the Society of
Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry) to study the regulation of metal mixtures in aquatic
sediments. Dr. Shine's current sources of research funding include: National Institute of
Environmental Health Sciences, "Exposure Assessment of Children to Metals in Mining Waste:
Composition Environmental Transport and Exposure Patterns", 2004-2009; Harvard University Center
for the Environment, "Risk-based Prioritization of a New Class of Aquatic Pollutants: Pharmaceuticals
and Personal Care Products (PPCPs), 2004-2005; Harvard-NIEHS Center Grant. "Risk-based
Prioritization of a New Class of Aquatic Pollutants: Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products
(PPCPs)", 2004-2005; National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, "Superfund Toxic
Substances: Development and Application of Methods to Determine the Bioavailability of Contaminants
in Aquatic Sediments", 2001-2006; National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, "Superfund
Toxic Substances: Biological Responses of Organic and Metal Contaminants in New Bedford Harbor:
Methods for Monitoring Ecological Health, 2001-2006; National Institute of Environmental Health
Sciences, "Superfund Toxic Substances: Environmental and Biological Chemistry", 2001-2006;
American Chemistry Council, "Risk Assessment in Contaminated Sediments: Accounting for
Speciation, Multiple Routes of Exposure, and Complex Mixtures", 2001-2004. Dr. Shine's pending
sources of grant funding include: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, "Coastal
Eutrophication and Hypoxia: Implications for Mercury Methylation, Mercury Biomagnification, and
Human Health", 2004-2007; and United States Environmental Protection Agency, "Statistical Modeling
of Contaminant Thresholds in Aquatic Sediments Using Multiple Biological Outcomes Occurring at
Different Time Scales", 2005-2007.

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Katherine Squibb

Dr. Katherine S. Squibb is an Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive
Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, MD and Director of the
University of Maryland System-Wide Graduate Program in Toxicology. Dr. Squibb's research in
toxicology focuses on the target organ effects of metals such as arsenic, lead, cadmium and mercury
and on the biological pathways that control their toxicity and ability to cause cancer. She currently
directs EPA funded research on the health effects of ambient air particles and is working with the
Baltimore VA Medical Center on a clinical surveillance program designed to develop better exposure
monitoring and an understanding of the health effects of depleted uranium (DU) exposure in U.S.
soldiers. Dr. Squibb also has experience in the evaluation of public health risks associated with
environmental chemical exposures. Dr. Squibb has worked with citizen groups, federal and state
agencies, and restoration advisory boards on environmental monitoring, risk assessment, and the
clean up of Superfund hazardous waste sites. In collaboration with the University of Maryland
Environmental Law Clinic she has worked on issues dealing with chemical discharge permits, the
clean-up of local Brownfields sites, and health risks associated with chemical contaminants at military
bases. She has recently served as chair of the Environmental Issues committee for Maryland's Cancer
Control Plan and is an active member of the Society of Toxicology, serving in the past as president of
the metals specialty section and is currently on the governing board for the regional National Capital
Area Chapter of the Society of Toxicology. Dr. Squibb received her PhD in biochemistry from Rutgers,
the State University of New Jersey in 1977 and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the National
Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) in Research Triangle Park, NC in 1982.

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William Stubblefield

Dr. William Stubblefield is a senior environmental toxicologist with Parametrix, Inc. in Corvallis, Oregon;
he also holds a courtesy faculty appointment in the Department Molecular and Environmental
Toxicology at Oregon State University. Dr. Stubblefield has more than 15 years of experience in
environmental toxicology, ecological risk assessment, water quality criteria derivation, and aquatic and
wildlife toxicology studies. He has authored more than 50 peer-reviewed publications and technical
presentations in the areas of aquatic and wildlife toxicology and environmental risk assessment. He is
a co-editor of a recently published book entitled, "Re-evaluation of the State of the Science for Water
Quality Criteria," that specifically examines the issues and approaches to be used in the evaluation of
environmental impacts associated with contaminants in multiple media. Dr. Stubblefield's research
efforts have looked at the fate and effects of metal and hydrocarbon contaminants in the environment
and the relationships between these contaminants in the water/sediment/soil compartments. He has
also investigated food chain concerns through research efforts such as the investigation of metals
transfer in resident aquatic and terrestrial organisms on Alaska's North Slope. His most recent
research uses a combination of laboratory and field methods to investigate the effects of storm water-
associated short-term pulse exposures of metals to aquatic organisms and examines the fate and
disposition of storm water-associated metals in natural systems. About 70% of Parametrix projects
are funded by municipal and other government agencies the remainder are industrial clients. Funding
for the majority of Dr. Stubblefield's metal related work comes from industrial trade associations or not-
for-profit research organizations working in cooperation with U.S. EPA. Dr. Stubblefield is an active
member of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, where he serves as President of
SETAC North America, member of the SETAC World Council, chairman of the SETAC's Metals
Advisory Group, past member of the Editorial Board for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. He
has been an invited participant at a number of scientific and regulatory conferences, served on U.S.
EPA peer-review panels, and frequently acts as a technical reviewer for a number of scientific
publications. Dr. Stubblefield has a Ph.D. in Environmental Toxicology from the University of
Wyoming, a M.S. degree in Toxicology/Toxicodynamics from the University of Kentucky, and a B.S. in
Biology from Eastern Kentucky University.

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Bernard Weiss

Dr. Bernard Weiss is currently Professor of Environmental Medicine at the University of Rochester
School of Medicine and Dentistry, where he has been a member of the faculty since 1965. He
received the B.A. degree from New York University and the Ph.D. from the University of Rochester.
Before joining the faculty at Rochester, he served on the faculty of the Johns Hopkins School of
Medicine, and, earlier, held an appointment at the U.S. Air Force School of Aviation Medicine. He has
served as a member of many committees and panels devoted to toxicology and environmental health,
including those organized by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Science Advisory Board
(such as the Dioxin Reassessment Review Panel, the Human Health Research Strategy Panel, and
the Subcommittee on Human Testing of Pesticides), and the National Academy of Sciences (for
example, the recent Committee on Air Quality in Passenger Aircraft, and, currently, the Space
Exposure Guidelines Committee). He is especially concerned with risk assessment issues arising from
the effects of environmental chemicals on the brain, behavior, and performance. In 1986 he was
named Scientist of the Year by the Learning Disabilities Association of America, and, in 1990, was
awarded the Stokinger Prize by the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists
(ACGIH). In 2003, he received a Distinguished Investigator Award from the Neurotoxicology Specialty
Section of the Society of Toxicology. He has served as president of several organizations in the area of
neurotoxicology. Dr. Weiss is the editor or co-editor of seven books and monographs and author or
co-author of over 200 articles. His special interests and publications lie primarily in areas that involve
chemical influences on behavior; these include the neurobehavioral toxicology of metals such as lead,
mercury and manganese; endocrine disruptors such as dioxin; solvents such as toluene and methanol;
drugs such as cocaine; and air pollutants such as ozone. His current research anticipates funding from
NIH (NIEHS) for a project to investigate the joint toxicity of mercury.

John Westall

Dr. John Westall is Professor of Chemistry at Oregon State University. He received a B.S. in
Chemistry from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from MIT, and
he did postdoctoral research at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EAWAG/ETH) and the
University of Bern, Switzerland. His area of expertise and current research activities are focused on
the application of surface and solution chemistry to problems in environmental geochemistry,
electrochemistry, and analytical chemistry. He has served recently on the National Research Council
Committee on Technologies for Cleanup of Subsurface Contaminants in the DOE Weapons Complex
(1997-1999), and he was a participant in the Workshop on "Hazard Identification Approach for Metals
and Inorganic Substances," and Chair of the Workgroup on "Science Underpinnings of the Use of
Persistence as an Indicator of Hazard and of Persistency Measurements," sponsored by the Society for
Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (2003). His research has been funded recently by the
National Science Foundation and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

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Herbert Windom

Dr. Herbert Windom is a geochemist at the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography where he has been
employed since 1968. He was Acting Director from 1/94 until 3/2001 at which time he became an
Emeritus Professor. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of Georgia and at Georgia Tech
from which most of his graduate students come. Over the past thirty plus years his research has
focused the transfer and fate of trace elements in riverine, estuarine and coastal marine environments
and the contamination of these systems from land-based sources. To understand how such things as
watershed characteristics, climatology and human intervention affect processes, he has conducted
studies in various parts of the world from the Russian Arctic to the Asian tropics and has studied
heavily impacted as well as relatively pristine systems. This research has been/is funded by NSF,
NOAA, EPA, ONR, DOD and other State and Federal agencies. Past national and international service
includes the United Nations sponsored Group of Expert on the Protection of the Marine Environment
(Chairman), several environmental committees of the International Council for the Exploration of the
Seas and UNESCO and several review committees and panels for National and State environmental
programs. Present service includes EPA's Board of Scientific Councilors, the Coastal Advisory Council
for the State of Georgia and several additional State, private and professional boards, panels and
committees Dr. Windom received his BS from Florida State University and MS and Ph.D degres from
the University of California, San Diego (Scripps Institution of Oceanography).

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Judith Zelikoff

Dr. Judith T. Zelikoff is a tenured-Associate Professor at New York University School of Medicine in the
Department of Environmental Medicine, where she has been on the faculty since 1984. She is also an
adjunct professor at Cornell University (Ithaca, NY). Her scientific interests concern the effects of
environmental chemicals, in particular metals on the immune response of exposed hosts. Her research
in eco-immunotoxicology has demonstrated the effects of metal and organic polluted aquatic sites on
the health status of resident fish. Along these lines, she has also employed fish as well as other
sentinel species for evaluating chemical pollutant-induced health effects in mammalian systems. In
addition to research in ecotoxicology, Dr. Zelikoff's studies in environmental science also include
research in the area of inhalation toxicology, with particular emphasis on the role of metallic, gaseous,
and particulate air pollutants on pulmonary host resistance against infectious disease. She has well-
funded, active research programs in both of the aforementioned scientific areas. The ecotoxicological
studies are supported, for the most part, by the Department of Defense (DOD, U.S. Army), while
studies in pulmonary toxicology are supported by a variety of Federal and Private Agencies including
the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and National Institute of Occupational
Safety and Health (NIOSH). Dr. Zelikoff has over 70 publications in the areas of ecotoxicology and
pulmonary toxicology, as well as edited three books including "Immwiotoxicology of Occupational and
Environmental Metals" Ecotoxicology: Responses, Biomarkers and Risk Assessment" and "Pulmonary
Immwiotoxicology". In addition, she is an Associate Editor for the journal Biomarkers and Journal of
Toxicology and Environmental Health, as well as an Editorial Board member for six journals including
Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology, Toxicology, Fish and Shellfish Immunology, and Diseases of Aquatic
Organisms. In addition, she served from 1995-1998 as the North American Editor for Toxicology and
Ecotoxicology News. Dr. Zelikoff has also organized numerous meetings/workshops/symposia worldwide
including one on the "Mechanisms of Metal Toxicity in Aquatic Organisms" and "Health Risks
Associated with Prenatal Metal Exposure". She is an active member of the National Society of
Toxicology (SOT) and currently serves as president-elect of the Metals Specialty Section, as well as a
member of the Education Committee and Sub-Committee for Minority Initiatives. Over the last 5 years,
she has served as president of the SOT Immunotoxicology Specialty Section, Chair of the Continuing
Education Committee, and member of the Program Committee. Moreover, she currently serves on the
National Research Council Subcommittee for Spacecraft Water Guidelines, and from 1996 - 2000
served as a member of the NIEHS Special Emphasis Panel. She also serves as an ad hoc grant
Reviewer for EPA, DOD, NIH, and a variety of state Sea Grant Programs. Dr. Zelikoff has also
contributed to the American Lung Association Criteria Document on Woodsmoke and EPA document
on endocrine disruptors. Dr. Zelikoff received her Ph.D. in experimental pathology from the University
of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ), a master's degree in microbiology from Fairleigh
Dickinson University, and a BS in biology from Upsala College.

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