Toxicology Working Group Summit

Tuesday, August 15, 2006 to Wednesday, August 16, 2006
Seattle, Washington

Meeting Goals

The objective of the Summit was to bring the Toxicity Working Group members and Center-funded PIs together to discuss strategies for transforming research results into operations and to identify people or teams to implement the strategies. Issues such as methods for modeling PAHs, appropriate exposure and analytical methods, and multiple mechanisms of toxicity associated with PAHs were examined. 

Workshop Overview

Agenda

Participants

Presentations

Background and Goals of Summit
Amy Merten, NOAA Co-Director of Coastal Response Research Center

Conceptual Example: How NOAA uses existing complex data to interpret and predict impacts to natural resources from oil spills
Alan Mearns, NOAA

Exposure regimes for assessing dispersant and dispersed oil effects on Cnidarian spp.: Challenges and Advancements
Carys Mitchelmore, UMD/CBL - not yet available

Compound-specific toxicities and new tools for elucidating multiple mechanisms using a model species, Danio rerio
John Incardona, NOAA/NWFSC - not yet available

Acute and Chronic Effects of Crude and Dispersed Oil on Chinook Salmon Smolts-use of metabolic endpoints
Ching-Yu Lin, UC Davis

Integrating multiple endpoints for understanding individual and population effects on sensitive species
Carys Mitchelmore, UMD/CBL

PAH Ecotoxicology-Example study: Correlating fish growth to dietary exposures of mixtures
Jim Meador, NWFSC

Oil in the environment; development of new study tools
Mark Carls, NWFSC

Impacts of Low Levels of Residual Oils on Toxicity Assessment of Oil Spills: Equilibrium Approach
Joy McGrath, Hydroqual, Inc.

Survival time models quantitatively predict lethal effects to grass shrimp: Pulsed and different duration exposures to single PAH and PAH mixtures from spilt oil: Toxico-kinetic approach
Michael Unger, VIMS

Utility of Meiobenthos for Risk Assessment of Low-Level Crude Oil WAFs: Rapid Copepod-Based Approaches for Evaluating Reproductive and Population-Level Toxicity: Population Approach
Tom Chandler, USC

Workshop Participant Reading Materials

Utility of Meiobenthos for Risk Assessment of Low-Level Crude Oil WAFs: Rapid Copepod-Based Approaches for Evaluating Reproductive and Population-Level Toxicity - Chandler, Thomas

Conceptual Example: How NOAA Uses Existing Complex Data to Interpret and Predict Impacts to Natural Resources from Oil Spills - Alan Mearns

Compound-specific toxicities and new tools for elucidating multiple mechanisms using a model species, Danio rerio - John Incardona

• Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor–Independent Toxicity of Weathered Crude Oil during Fish Development
• Defects in cardiac function precede morphological abnormalities in fish embryos exposed to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons

Impacts of Low Levels of Residual Oils on Toxicity Assessment of Oil Spills: Equilibrium Approach - Joy McGrath
Read the project final report here

PAH Ecotoxicology - Example Study: Correlating Fish Growth to Dietary Exposures of Mixtures - Jim Meador

Rationale and procedures for using the tissue-residue approach for toxicity assessment and determination of tissue, water, and sediment quality guidelines for aquatic organisms - Jim Meador

Exposure Regimes for Assessing Dispersant and Dispersed Oil Effects on Cnidarian spp.: Challenges and Advancements and Integrating Multiple Endpoints for Understanding Individual and Population Effects on Sensitive Species - Carys Mitchelmore

Acute and Chronic Effects of Crude and Dispersed Oil on Chinook Salmon Smolts - Use of Metabolomic Endpoints - Ron Tjeerdema

Predicting PAH Toxicity to Grass Shrimp (P.pugio) - Mike Unger

Oil in the environment; development of new study tools - Mark G. Carls

• Cytochrome P4501A Induction in Oil-Exposed Pink Salmon Oncorhynchus Gorbuscha Embryos Predicts Reduced Survival Potential

• Monitoring Polynuclear Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Aqueous Environments with Passive Low-Density Polyethylene Membrane Devices

• Nonparametric Identification of Petrogenic and Pyrogenic Hydrocarbons in Aquatic Ecosystems

Location

The Talaris Conference Center

Questions?  Please contact kathy.mandsager@unh.edu (603.862.1545)