Arsenic in New England
:
A Multidisciplinary Scientific Conference
May 29-31, 2002
Manchester, New Hampshire
Sponsored by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences,
Superfund Basic Research Program
Speaker Anstracts
Poster Session Astracts
Mission of the New Hampshire Consortium on Arsenic
The New Hampshire Consortium on Arsenic
was formed in May 2000 by researchers, regulators, and public
health representatives from academia, Federal, and State agencies in New Hampshire
to work together on the important problem of arsenic in drinking water. Goals
of the Consortium include improving the sharing of information among agencies
and the coordination of research and outreach efforts, ultimately to better
protect the health of the citizens of New Hampshire. This Conference is a
cooperative outreach effort of the Consortium.
The Consortium consists of
members from the NIEHS-sponsored Toxic Metals Research Program at Dartmouth's
Center for Environmental Health Sciences, the New Hampshire Department of
Health and Human Services, the New Hampshire Department of Environmental
Services, the U.S. Geological Survey, and the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency (Region 1).
2002 Conference Organizing Committee
Center for Environmental Health Sciences at Dartmouth - Joshua
Hamilton, Co-Chair; Nancy Serrell; Laura Turner
US Geological Survey - Joseph Ayotte, Co-Chair; Debra Foster
New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) - Gayle Bagley;
Stephanie Miller
New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services (DES) - Richard Thayer;
Bernard Lucey
US Environmental Protection Agency, Region 1 (USEPA) - Patricia Hamlin,
Richard Willey
Web Site for Arsenic in New England Conference:
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~cehs/ArsenicConference/IndexAS.html
HEALTH EFFECTS OF ARSENIC EXPOSURE IN
BANGLADESH: PROGRESS AND PRELIMINARY FINDINGS FROM A COHORT STUDY.
Habibul Ahsan, M.D.
EFFECTS OF ARSENIC ON EXPRESSION OF
DNA REPAIR GENES.
Angeline S. Andrew, Margaret R. Karagas, and Joshua W. Hamilton.
ARSENIC IN GROUND WATER IN EASTERN NEW
ENGLAND: OCCURRENCE, CONTROLS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR HUMAN HEALTH.
Joseph D. Ayotte, Denise L. Montgomery, Sarah M. Flanagan, Keith W. Robinson,
and Laura Hayes.
CELLULAR MECHANISMS FOR THE CARDIOVASCULAR
EFFECTS OF ARSENIC.
Aaron Barchowsky, Nicole V. Soucy, Linda R. Klei, Chandrashekhar D. Kamat.
ARSENIC SOURCES TO GROUND WATER AND
SIMULATION OF GEOCHEMCIAL EXPERIMENTS ON AQUIFER CORES AT A LANDFILL, SACO,
MAINE: IMPLICATIONS FOR NATURAL REMEDIATION.
John A. Colman, Kenneth G. Stollenwerk, and Forest Lyford.
ARSENIC SOURCES AND PATHWAYS IN THE
OVERBURDEN OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS.
Rudolph Hon, Kevin Doherty, Thomas Davidson, William C. Brandon, Carol L.
Stein, and David F. McTigue.
ARSENIC EXPOSURES AND REPRODUCTIVE EFFECTS.
Claudia Hopenhaun.
AN INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDY OF ARSENIC
EXPOSURE AND CANCER RISK IN NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Margaret R. Karagas.
ARSENIC: MOVING TOWARD A REGULATION.
Ira W. Leighton
ARSENIC IN GROUND WATER WELLS IN MAINE.
Marc C. Loiselle, Robert G. Marvinney, and Andrew E. Smith .
REMEDIATION STRATEGIES FOR PUBLIC AND
PRIVATE WATER SUPPLIES—OVERVIEW.
Bernard Lucey, P.E.
NEW TECHNOLOGIES FOR ARSENIC CONTAMINATED
DRINKING WATER REMEDIATION.
Susan Murcott, Jessica Hurd, Tommy Ngai, and Barika Poole.
ARSENIC PROCESSES: EXAMPLES FROM NEW
HAMPSHIRE
Stephen C. Peters, Joel D. Blum, Bjorn Klaue, and Margaret R. Karagas.
ARSENIC GEOCHEMISTRY IN A BEDROCK AQUIFER,
NORTHPORT, MAINE
Andrew Reeves, Michael Horesh, Robert Marvinney, and Robert Ayuso.
SPATIAL ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN ARSENIC
IN GROUNDWATER, SEDIMENTS, BEDROCK, AND AGRICULTURAL LANDUSE IN NEW ENGLAND.
Gilpin R. Robinson, Jr., and Joseph D. Ayotte.
PREDICTING ARSENIC IN WATER FROM AQUIFERS
IN EASTERN NEW ENGLAND.
Sarah Ryker.
"EVERYTHING BUT THE KITCHEN SINK":
EXPOSURE TO ARSENIC FROM BATHING AND OTHER INDIRECT WATER PATHWAYS.
Andrew E. Smith.
THE METABOLIC BASIS OF ARSENIC TOXICITY.
David J. Thomas.
NATIONAL TO LOCAL SCALE CYCLING OF
ARSENIC IN GROUND WATER.
Alan H. Welch and Joseph D. Ayotte.
ARSENIC GEOCHEMICAL BEHAVIOR DURING
GROUND WATER-SURFACE WATER INTERACTIONS AT A CONTAMINATED SITE.
Richard Wilkin, Robert Ford, Frank Beck, Patrick Clark, Cynthia Paul, Joseph
LeMay, and Robert Puls.
Poster Session Abstracts
DIFFERENTIAL EFFECTS OF ARSENIC, CHROMIUM,
CADMIUM, NICKEL AND MITOMYCIN C ON GENE EXPRESSION AS MEASURED BY DNA MICROARRAY.
Angeline S. Andrew, A.J. Warren, K.A. Temple and Joshua W. Hamilton.
PB ISOTPPES, ARSENIC SOURCES AND ENRICHMENT
PATHWAYS LINKING SULFTDES FROM MINES AND UNMINERALISED ROCKS TO SECONDARY
IRON OXIDES, COASTAL NEW ENGLAND.
Robert A. Ayuso, Nora K. Foley, Joseph D. Ayotte, Ann Lyon, John Bums, Robert
G. Marvinney, Andrew S. Reeve, and Gilpin R. Robinson, Jr.
ARSENIC PLUMES WHERE THE "SOURCE" CONTAINS
NO ARSENIC: THREE CASE STUDIES OF APPARENT DESORPTION OF NATURALLY OCCURRING
ARSENIC.
Richard S. Behr and John E. Beane.
ARSENIC IN BEDROCK WELLS IN CONNECTICUT.
Craig J. Brown and Stewart K. Chute.
A CASE FOR BACKGROUND LEVELS OF ARSENIC
IN GROUNDWATER AT THE MASSACHU-SETTS MILITARY RESERVATION.
Jay L. Clausen, Diane M. Curry, Joe Robb, and William B. Gallagher.
A PILOT STUDY OF ARSENIC SPECIATION IN
DOMESTIC WELL-WATER SUPPLIES IN MAINE.
Charles W. Culbertson, Deborah M. Moll, Lorraine C. Backer, Mary L. Gilbertson
and Andrew E. Smith.
REDOX CONTROLS ON ARSENIC MOBILITY BENEATH
WINTHROP LANDFILL, MAINE.
Saugata Dattalt, Alison R. Keimowitz, H. James Simpson, Martin Stute, Steven
Chillrud, Monique Tsang, Yan Zheng, Alexander van Geen1 and Greg M. Dobbs.
MINERALOGICAL PATHWAYS FOR ARSENIC IN
WEATHERING META-SHALES: AN ANALYSIS OF REGIONAL AND SITE STUDIES IN THE NORTHERN
APPALACHIANS.
Nora K. Foley, Robert A. Ayuso, Joseph D. Ayotte, Robert G. Marvinney, Andrew
S. Reeve, and Gilpin R. Robinson, Jr.
ARSENIC REMEDIATION OF DRINKING WATER
IN NEW ENGLAND: POINT-OF-USE (POU) and POINT-OF-ENTRY (POE) OPTIONS USING
ADSORPTION TECHNOLOGY.
Gregory C. Gilles.
THE NATURAL OCCURRENCE OF ARSENIC IN
GROUNDWATER AT THE COMBUSTION ENGI-NEERING SITE IN WINDSOR, CONNECTICUT.
Nadia S. Glucksberg, Nelson M. Breton, Hank Andolsek, and Elaine M. Hammick.
COMPARISON OF TWO ARSENIC EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT
PROTOCOLS IN A CHRONICALLY EXPOSED POPULATION.
Edward E. Hudgens, Dina M. Schreinemachers, David J. Thomas, X. Chris Le,
and Rebecca L. Calderon.
ESTIMATING RESIDENTIAL EXPOSURE TO DRINKING
WATER ARSENIC IN INNER MONGO-LIA, CHINA FOR EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES.
Richard Kwok, Pauline Mendola1 Zhixiong Ning, Zhiyi Liu, and Judy Mumford.
ARABIDOPSIS MUTANTS EXHIBITING INCREASED
TOLERANCE TO ARSENATE.
David A. Lee, Alice Chen, and Julian I. Schroeder.
ARSENATE REDUCTION BY ANAEROBIC SEDIMENT
ISOLATES.
Anbo Liu. Elizabeth Garcia-Dominguez, E. Danielle Rhine, and Lily Y. Young.
MICROBIAL ARSENATE REDUCTION IN ANAEROBIC
GROUNDWATER.
Kevin A. McCaffery.
ARSENIC IN GROUNDWATER IN MICHIGAN:
STANDARDIZED MORTALITY RATIO ANALYSIS AND DEVELOPMENT OF A SPACE-TIME INFORMATION
SYSTEM.
Jaymie R. Meliker, Jerome O. Nriagu, Robert Wahl, Pierre Goovaerts, and Geoffrey
M. Jacquez.
EFFECT OF ARSENICALS ON CELL CYCLE DISTRIBUTION
AND EXPRESSION OF CELL CYCLE PROTEINS IN HUMAN PRIMARY KERATINOCYTES.
Anuradha Mudipalli, R. Julian Preston, and James C. Fuscoe.
EXPOSURE TO ARSENIC VIA BATHING AND
OTHER CONTACT IN HOUSEHOLDS THAT USE BOTTLED WATER OR POINT-OF-USE TREATMENT
DEVICES FOR DRINKING WATER.
Chris A. Paulu, Deborah M. Moll, Lorraine C. Backer, Raquel I. Sabogal, Robert
L. Jones, Mary L. Gilbertson, and Andrew E. Smith.
REMOVAL OF ARSENIC SPECIES BY FOAM FLOTATION.
Zhonghua Pan, Lei Zhang, and P. Somasundaran.
ARSENIC TARGETS THE DEVELOPING RAT LUNG:
GENE EXPRESSION ALTERATIONS FOL-LOWING CHRONIC LOW-DOSE EXPOSURE.
Jay S. Petrick, Francoise M. Blachere, Kevin A. Greer, Mark A. Schwartz,
Matthew J. Scholz, Omella Selmin, Raymond B. Runyan, James B. Hoying, and
R. dark Lantz.
LANDFILL INDUCED REDUCTIVE DISSOLUTION
OF ARSENIC AT A MASSACHUSETTS LAND-FILL.
Stanley W. Reed and David I. Margolis.
COST COMPARISONS FOR ARESENIC CONTAMINATION
AVOIDANCE ALTERNATIVES FOR MAINE HOUSEHOLDS ON PRIVATE WELLS.
Jessica M. Sargent-Michaud and Kevin J. Boyle.
INTERACTIONS IN ARSENIC BINDING SURFACES;
A STUDY USING SURFACE PLASMON RES-ONANCE SPECTROSCOPY.
Diptabhas Sarkar and P. Somasundaran.
AN AUTOMATED ION CHROMATOGRAPHY-INDUCTIVELY
COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY METHOD FOR SPECIATION OF ARSENIC IN GROUND
WATERS.
Jonathan L. Talbott, John W. Scott, and Marvin D. Piwoni.
INSTRUMENTAL VARIABLE ANALYSIS FOR ARSENIC
AND CANCER.
Tor D. Tosteson, Raymond J. Carroll, David Ruppert, and Margaret R. Karagas.
CYCLIC VOLTAMMETRIC STUDY OF REDOX REACTIONS
OF ARSENIC.
Zhenqiang Wei, Paul F. Duby, and Ponisseril Somasundaran.
OCCURRENCE OF ARSENIC IN RESIDENTIAL
DRINKING WATER WELLS PROXIMATE TO OLD MINE SITES IN NEW HAMPSHIRE: A SURVEY
OF FOUR SELECTED MINE SITES.
Michael J. Wimsatt and Thomas P. Ballestero.