2016 Events

Superfund Research Program

• Is a Health Study the Answer for Your Community? A Guide for Making Informed Decisions
  Grantee Event: Co-Sponsored by the Boston University SRP
  January 26, 2016 • 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. EST
  Conference Call

• Karst, Groundwater Contamination, and Public Health: Moving Beyond Case Studies
  See also: Conference Circular
  Grantee Event: Co-Hosted by the Northeastern University SRP
  January 27 – 30, 2016
  San Juan, Puerto Rico

• NC Society of Toxicology Spring Meeting
  March 2, 2016
  Research Triangle Park, North Carolina

• NIH Fellowships and Career Development Awards
  March 3, 2016 • 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. EST
  Webinar

• Developing a Pan American Hub for Environmentally and Socially Compatible Mining
  Grantee Event: Co-Sponsored by the University of Arizona SRP
  March 7, 2016
  Lima, Peru

• SRP Small Business Water Innovation - An Integrated Approach to Sustainable Solutions
  Session I: Sustainable Approaches to Remediation
  March 21, 2016 • 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. EDT
  Webinar

• SRP Small Business Water Innovation - An Integrated Approach to Sustainable Solutions
  Session II: Innovative Detection Technologies
  March 23, 2016 • 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. EDT
  Webinar

• Status Report on Coal Ash Response
  Co-Hosted by the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill SRP
  April 6, 2016 • 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. EDT
  Chapel Hill, North Carolina

• Central and Eastern European Conference on Health and the Environment
  Grantee Event: Co-Hosted by the University of Kentucky SRP
  April 10 – 14, 2016
  Prague, Czech Republic

• From Lab Bench to Commercial Product: A Case Study of Quad Technologies and a Discussion of Commercializing Academic Discoveries
  Grantee Event: Co-Sponsored by the Northeastern University SRP
  April 11, 2016 • 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. EDT
  Webinar

• SRP Water Innovation - An Integrated Approach to Sustainable Solutions
  Session I: Introducing the Big Picture
  April 25, 2016 • 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. EDT
  Webinar

• Role of Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor Polymorphisms on TCDD-mediated Suppression of Human B cell Function
  April 26, 2016 • 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. EDT
  Webinar

• Wetterhahn Award Lecture: Taking a Holistic Approach to Risk Reduction - Nutritional Intervention, Pollutant Remediation, and Research Translation (894KB)
  May 5, 2016 • 9:30 – 10:30 a.m.
  Research Triangle Park, North Carolina

• EPA New England Update: Innovation and Collaboration on Hazardous Waste Clean-Up
  Grantee Event: Sponsored by the Northeastern University SRP
  May 9, 2016 • 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. EDT
  Webinar

• PEPH Webinar: Urban Gardening
  This webinar featured grantees from the Boston University SRP and the University of California, San Diego SRP
  May 26, 2016 • 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. EDT
  Webinar

• SRP Water Innovation - An Integrated Approach to Sustainable Solutions
  Session II - Technologies for Water Remediation
  June 20, 2016 • 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. EDT
  Webinar

• SRP Water Innovation - An Integrated Approach to Sustainable Solutions
  Session III - Water Detection Technologies
  June 27, 2016 • 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. EDT
  Webinar

• Obesity: From Biology to Policy
  June 30, 2016
  Washington, D.C.

• NIEHS and the Society of Toxicology - Past, Present, and Future: 50 Years of Collaboration (1MB)
  July 13, 2016 • 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. EDT
  Research Triangle Park, North Carolina

• The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences: The Future of Environmental Health - Linda Birnbaum, Ph.D.
  Co-Hosted by the Northeastern University SRP
  July 18, 2016 • 10:00 – 11:30 a.m.
  Boston, Massachusetts

• NIEHS WTP 2016 Spring Workshop/Awardee Meeting
  July 20, 2016
  Boston, Massachusetts

• SRP Water Innovation - An Integrated Approach to Sustainable Solutions
  Session IV - Communicating Risk and Engaging Communities: Arsenic and Well Testing
  July 21, 2016 • 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. EDT
  Webinar

• Applied Bioinformatics 2016
  July 23 – 28, 2016
  Salisbury Cove, Maine

• Appalachian Health and Well-Being Forum
  Grantee Event: Hosted by the University of Kentucky SRP
  July 25, 2016 • 6:30 – 8:00 p.m. EDT
  Whitesburg, Kentucky

• Fatty Bones Make Bad Skeletons: Influence of Bone-Disrupting Chemicals Across the Lifespan
  Grantee Event: Co-Sponsored by the Boston University SRP
  July 26, 2016 • 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. EDT
  Conference Call

• Joint National and International Workshop on Chronic Kidney Disease of Unknown Etiology (CKDu) to Recommend a CKDu Policy, Research Agenda, and an Action Plan
  August 11 – 20, 2016
  North Central Province, Sri Lanka

• Elongate Mineral Particle Workshops
  September 7 – 9, 2016
  Bethesda, Maryland

• Everything but the Kitchen Sink: Efforts to Reduce Exposure to Arsenic from Well Water in Maine
  Andrew Smith, S.M., Sc.D.
  Maine Department of Health and Human Services
  
  Impact of Soil Arsenic on Rice Yields in Bangladesh
  Brittany Huhmann, M.S.
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  
  Grantee Event: Sponsored by the Columbia University SRP
  September 19, 2016 • 3:30 – 5:30 p.m. EDT
  Palisades, New York and Online

• SRP Trainee Webinar: AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellowship Experiences
  September 21, 2016 • 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. EDT
  Webinar

• Manganese Health Effects on Neurodevelopment and Neurodegenerative Diseases
  September 25 – 28, 2016
  New York, New York and Online

• What's In My Foam?
  Grantee Event: Sponsored by the Duke University SRP
  September 26, 2016 • 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. EDT
  Webinar

• 13th International Phytotechnologies Conference: Plant-Based Solutions for Environmental Problems from Lab to Field
  September 26 – 28, 2016
  Hangzhou, China

• U.S. Small Business Funding Opportunities (SBIR/STTR) for Environmental Technologies at NIEHS SRP, EPA, NSF, and USDA
  October 3, 2016 • 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. EDT
  Webinar

• The 9th PCB Workshop: PCB Risk Evaluation and Environmental Protection
  October 9 – 13, 2016
  Kobe, Japan

• The Interplay Between Environmental Exposures and Infectious Agents
  Session I - Introduction to Infectious Agents and Their Interactions with Environmental Exposures
  October 17, 2016 • 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. EDT
  Webinar

• Bangladesh Vitamin E and Selenium Trial: Preliminary Results and Lessons Learned
  Habibul Ahsan, M.D.
  University of Chicago
  
  New Jersey's Private Well Testing Act and Geographic Summary of Over a Decade of Data
  Nicholas Procopio, Ph.D.
  New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection
  
  Grantee Event: Sponsored by the Columbia University SRP
  October 17, 2016 • 3:00 – 5:00 p.m. EDT
  New York, NY and Online

• North Carolina Society of Toxicology Annual Meeting (140KB)
  October 25, 2016
  Research Triangle Park, North Carolina

• Karst Aquifers: Water Quality, Vulnerability, and Public Health in a Complex Groundwater System
  Grantee Event: Sponsored by the Northeastern University SRP
  October 31, 2016 • 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. EDT
  Webinar

• The Interplay Between Environmental Exposures and Infectious Agents
  Session II - Environmental Chemicals and Immune Response
  October 31, 2016 • 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. EDT
  Webinar

• Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry: 7th SETAC World Congress / 37th SETAC North America Annual Meeting
  November 6 – 10, 2016
  Orlando, Florida

• The Interplay Between Environmental Exposures and Infectious Agents
  Session III - Co-Exposures in the Lung
  November 7, 2016 • 1:00 – 3:00 pm EST
  Webinar

• The 8th Princess Chulabhorn International Science Congress: Environmental Health - Inter-Linkages Among the Environment, Chemicals, and Infectious Agents
  November 13 – 17, 2016
  Bangkok, Thailand

• Preterm Birth in Puerto Rico: A Changing Landscape
  Grantee Event: Sponsored by the Northeastern University SRP
  November 28, 2016 • 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. EST
  Webinar

• Wetterhahn Award Lecture: Nishad Jayasundara
  November 29, 2016 • 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. EST
  Research Triangle Park, North Carolina and Online

• Organic Carbon Dynamics and Redox Changes in an Arsenic Contaminated Aquifer in Bangladesh
  Mason Stahl, Ph.D.
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  
  Epidemiologic Research on Arsenic at Low Exposure Levels: Exposure Assessment Challenges and Possible Solutions
  Ana Navas-Acien, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D.
  Columbia University
  
  Grantee Event: Sponsored by the Columbia University SRP
  November 30, 2016 • 3:00 – 5:00 p.m. EST
  Palisdes, New York and Online

• NIEHS Environmental Health Science FEST
  December 5 – 8, 2016
  Durham, North Carolina
  (The SRP grantee meeting was held on December 5.)

• Zika Virus Emerging Disease in Puerto Rico: What Public Health Officers Need to Know
  Grantee Event: Sponsored by the Northeastern University SRP
  December 12, 2016 • 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. EST
  Webinar

• Out of the Frying Pan, Into the Drinking Water: Health Hazards and Community Responses to Water Contaminated with PFCs
  Co-Sponsored by the Boston University SRP
  December 20, 2016 • 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. EST
  Conference Call