Emerging Contaminants: Understanding their Occurrence, Fate, and Effects

USGS scientist Dana W. Kolpin adding Rhodamine WT dye to Fourmile Creek, IA, during a dye-tracing test to determine traveltimes used to understand the distribution and transport of emerging contaminants in streams (Click on photo for larger version)

U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) scientist Dana W. Kolpin gave the keynote address "Emerging Contaminants: Understanding their occurrence, fate, and effects" at the conference Risk Assessment of Pharmaceuticals and Veterinary Medicines in the Environment, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 26-27, 2006. Mr. Kolpin spoke on the occurrence, fate, and effects of human and veterinary pharmaceuticals and other organic wastewater contaminants in the environment.

More Information

• Are veterinary medicines causing environmental risks?: Boxall, A.B.A., Kolpin, D.W., Halling-Sorensen, B., and Tolls, J., 2003, Environmental Science and Technology, v. 37, no. 15, p. 286A-294A.
• Emerging Contaminants in the Environment

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