Endocrine Disrupting Compounds: What We Know and What We Don't
November 16, 2006
Holiday Inn – Fort Detrick
Frederick , MD
Agenda
Presentations
- What are Endocrine Disruptors and Why are We Concerned?
Edward Orlando, Florida Atlantic University - Persistent Antimicrobials as Emerging EDCs in U.S. Water Resources, Biosolids and Sediments
Rolf Halden, Johns Hopkins University - Poultry Litter-Induced Endocrine Disruption: Laboratory and Field Investigations
Lance Yonkos, Wye Research Institute - Quantifying Endocrine Disruption in Threatened and Endangered Fish Species
David Walker, University of Arizona - Endocrine disruption and human health: Are there opportunities for preventing disease?
Pete Myers, Environmental Health Sciences - The Effects of EDCs in Birds
Mary Ann Ottinger, University of Maryland - Intersex and other potential indicators of exposure to estrogenic chemicals in fishes from the Potomac drainage
Vicki Blazer, USGS – Leetown Science Center - Endocrine disruptors in invertebrates
Geoff Scott, NOAA – Center for Coastal Environmental Health and Biomolecular Research - Managing Emerging Contaminants of Concern in Wastewater and Animal Wastes
Marc Mills, U.S. EPA – Office of Research and Development - Thermophilic Composting of Poultry Layer Manure: Significantly Reduces Endocrine Compounds and Pathogens while Stabilizing Organic Matter
Patricia Millner and Heldur Hakk, USDA – Beltsville Agricultural Research Center - Fate of Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers in Wastewaters
Mark La Guardia, Virginia Institute of Marine Science