IEAM: Recent Episodes
Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
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Untapped resources: Finding the right ecotox studies for risk assessment, with Christina Rudén
You are what you eat, or so you think. The next time you sit down to enjoy that bowl of cioppino or salmon fillet, you may be ingesting more than you realize. Plastic pollution is widespread in global waters, and microplastics—particles smaller than 5 mm—are being increasingly found in the most popular seafood items
Wayne Munns discusses the reasons for and challenges to the routine inclusion of ES endpoints in ERAs.
IEAM challenges practitioners and researchers to rethink the traditional linear, sequential process of ecological restoration
Author Valentina Castellani uses life cycle assessment to quantify the environmental impacts avoided by the reuse of commonplace items
An interview with Todd Bridges, US Army senior research scientist for environmental sciencee
From synthetic estrogens that feminize male fish to concerns about resistance to antibiotics, this is a growing area of research and public attention. Yet potential and long-term effects on human and ecosystem health remain largely unknown.
Biomarkers—biological endpoints long used in medical screening and disease detection—are finding new relevance in the environmental science community. Although toxicologists have been using biomarkers in certain aquatic contaminant assessments these endpoints hold great value for ecological risk assessments and integrated monitoring.
The management of contaminated sediment is often expensive and time-consuming, involving millions of dollars over many years at a single site. However, passive sampling methods offer several advantages over traditional remediation and monitoring techniques.
The January 2014 issue of IEAM contains a critical review describing a solution to a problem common to all wildlife risk assessments: how to work with sparse dose-response data.
Monique Dubé discusses cumulative effects assessments (CEA), which account for the accumulated change over time—past, present, and future, which have been employed in limited situations in Canada and with limited success.
For What It’s Worth: Using the Ecosystem Services Concept in ERAs, with Valery Forbes and Peter Calow.
David Mayfield and Anne Fairbrother talk about how they describe the challenges that ecological risk assessors face when trying employing wildlife toxicity values.
The seven articles in the series address one aspect of a multi-phase project to define sediment quality objectives, including a new sediment quality guideline, SQG, index.
Dr. David Barton, Guest Editor of the special series Bayesian Networks in Environmental and Resource Management discusses the basics of Bayesian approaches in environmental management.
Discussing the Phenomenon of Pre-Spawn Mortality in Coho Salmon, with Julann Spromberg and Nat Scholz .
Discussing various aspects of environmental, management and policy impact as a result of the nuclear accident in Japan in March 2011.
Drs Paul van den Brink and Donald Baird define and discuss Traits-based Ecological Risk Assessment and contrast its advantages over traditional taxonomy-based ERA.
Drs Paul van den Brink and Donald Baird focus on specific types of data needed for TERA and how TERA can be implemented in a statutory framework.
A brief introduction to the tissue residue approach for toxicity assessment (TRA); advantages and disadvantages.
TRA examples and ways to improve this underutilized tool for assessing risk from contaminants.