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Using information from Ecological Risk Assessments for Natural Resource Damage Assessment
Midwest Region, August 22, 2008
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The Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) convened an expert workshop titled "The Nexus Between Ecological Risk Assessment (ERA) and Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA)" August 18-22, 2008. One of the session chairs and two of the invited experts were from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Roger Helm - WO, Kathryn Jahn - R5/NYFO;and Lisa Williams - R3/ELFO, respectively). The primary objective of this workshop was to evaluate critically the scientific underpinnings, overlaps, and boundaries between ERA and NRDA under U.S. federal statutes, as they relate to the collection, interpretation, and utilization of environmental data, and the subsequent management actions that are developed using this and other information. The participants evaluated the applicability and technical underpinnings of methodologies used in the translation of natural resource injuries into natural resource service losses, and the relevance of ecological risk assessment methodologies to these issues. The results of the workshop are expected to be published in three papers in the peer-reviewed SETAC journal "Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management".

Contact Info: Lisa Williams, 517-351-8324, lisa_williams@fws.gov



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