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Global Executive Director's Corner
Mike Mozur |
16 February 2012
Volume 13 Issue 2 |
Each new year brings considerable promise and 2012 certainly does for me, as I start my sixth year with SETAC as Global Executive Director. This is a special year indeed, with the upcoming 6th SETAC World Congress in May in Berlin-a major SETAC event. The local organizing and science committees for the Congress are working extremely hard to ensure a truly outstanding meeting, and I believe that our members will see an impressive demonstration of SETAC as a fully fledged global scientific society with meaningful and positive impact around the world. I think that the best evidence of this success is our growing membership, now totaling some 6,000 scientists and environmental practitioners, a gain of almost 25 percent from just four years ago.
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Message from SETAC Europe President
Peter Campbell
Last year was a most exciting and productive period for SETAC Europe. The highlight was our 21st annual meeting in Milan focused on "Ecosystem Protection in a Sustainable World: a Challenge for Science and Regulation". This meeting had a most interesting scientific and social programme and the second highest number of participants so far at a SETAC Europe annual meeting (more than 2100)!
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IEAM Spotlight: Special Series on Lab-Field Bioaccumulation Workshop
Lawrence Burkhard and Robert Hoke
To start the new year, SETAC has published a special series of papers resulting from a workshop on comparing and contrasting laboratory and field bioaccumulation data in our journal, Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management. The incentive for this workshop came from the growing use of field bioaccumulation data in bioaccumulation assessments of existing chemicals across the globe, and the resulting need to better understand the level of agreement as well as causes of disagreement between laboratory and field bioaccumulation measurements.
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21st Century Environmental Risk Assessment
John Toll and Mark Johnson
The conceptual framework for environmental risk assessment (ERA) hasn't changed much in a long time…at least since 1998. The turn of the century brought a flurry of activity with regard to the development of promising new analytical tools, but a decade later, relatively few risk assessments have incorporated the use of these tools. Is the conceptual framework itself part of the problem?
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SETAC Europe Nano Training School Success
Richard Handy
Environmental research activity on nanomaterials is growing rapidly, and with every new field of science comes the need to train new scientists. To this end, SETAC Europe held the first Nano Winter Training School on the "Synthesis, Characterisation, Ecotoxicity, Hazard and Risk Assessment of Engineered Nanoparticles" 4-6 January 2012
at the University of Plymouth.
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SETAC CEE Prepares for Ecotoxicology Revisited
in Krakow
Globe Editors
On 17-19 September 2012, SETAC Central & East Europe Branch will hold its 3rd annual meeting at the Institute of Environmental Sciences at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. The theme of the meeting is "Ecotoxicology Revisited," and the goal is to explore fresh perspectives on problems, both old and new, in ecotoxicology and environmental chemistry faced by those in Central and Eastern Europe.
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| SETAC Journals ET&C and IEAM Open Access |
 
January issues of both ET&C and IEAM are open access to SETAC members and nonmembers alike, for the entire year of 2012. Be sure to alert your colleagues to ET&C's special issue on nanomaterials in the environment and to IEAM's special series on comparing and contrasting lab and field bioaccumulation data, both in the January 2012 issues.
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| NEWS AND UPDATES: |
Graduate students or post-doctoral scientists can now apply for the SETAC and Pan-American Advanced Studies Institute (PASI) Program short course on Air Quality at the Interface: Mega Cities and Adjacent Agroecosystems. Learn more at www.setac.org/pasi. Hurry, the deadline is right around the corner!
The Life Cycle Assessment Steering Committee of SETAC Europe is seeking new members and a student representative. Visit www.setac.org/node/550 for more details and contact information. The deadline to submit your application is 15 March 2012.
Qualified students are encouraged to apply for 2 open positions in a SETAC Technical Workshop on passive sampling approaches. This invitation-only workshop will take place in Costa Mesa, CA the week before the SETAC North America 33rd Annual Meeting in Long Beach, CA. Visit www.setac.org/node/552 for more information.
Nominations are now being accepted for SETAC North America and SETAC Global awards and fellowships. Learn more at http://www.setac.org/
node/547.
The North America Student Advisory Council (NASAC) has recently created a Facebook group! Join the NASAC Facebook group for student information including events, news, and opportunities!
Have you enjoyed the varying covers of ET&C over the past year? Check out the new ET&C cover gallery!
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Coming in the March issue: Ecosystem Services symposium,
SETAC Europe Executive Director's Corner, and more… |
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