Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals--Analytical Methods and Environment Processes

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) sponsored the special session "Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals--Analytical Methods and Environment Processes" at the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) North America 30th Annual Meeting--Human-Environment Interactions: Understanding Change in Dynamic Systems, in New Orleans, Louisiana, on November 19-23, 2009. Several presentations were given on laboratory analytical methods used to detect a wide variety of endocrine disrupting chemicals as well as field methods involving passive samplers. In addition, presentations on evaluating the estrogenicity of wastewater and characterizing hormones and other pharmaceuticals in wastewater were given.

USGS Presentations

• Combined Sewer Overflows as a Source of Hormones to Surface Water, by P. Phillips (USGS), A. Chalmers (USGS), J.L. Gray (USGS), W.T. Foreman (USGS), D. Kolpin (USGS), G. Wall (USGS)
• Exploring the Role of Photochemical Processes on the Fates of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals, by D.E. Latch (Seattle University), K.E. Daumit (Seattle University), C.M. Whidbey (Seattle University), J.L. Gray (USGS), G.R. Aiken (USGS)

Conveners

• William T. Foreman, USGS,
• James L. Gray, USGS,
• Patrick J. Phillips, USGS,

General Conference Information

• Conference Home Page
• Full Conference Agenda (pdf)
• Abstract Book (pdf)

More Information

• Emerging Contaminants in the Environment
• Endocrine Disruption Studies, Emerging Contaminants in the Environment
• Organic Geochemistry Research Laboratory
• Water Quality of the Boulder Creek Watershed, Colorado
• Chemical Transformations in Water Reclamation and Reuse
• Endocrine Disruptor Research, Contaminant Biology Program, USGS

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