Agenda
VENUE
| University Club, Ballroom B (2nd fl), 123 University Place, Pittsburgh, PA 15260 Friday, November 9, 2012 7:30 AM - 5:30 PM |
AGENDA
Location is "Ballroom B" unless marked otherwise
| 7:30 – 8 AM | Registration and Continental Breakfast (Hallway and Entrance to Ballroom B) |
| INTRODUCTION TO THE ISSUES | |
| 8 - 8:20 am | Welcome Donald S. Burke, MD — Dean, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh |
| 8:20 - 8:50 AM | Keynote: Unconventional Oil and Gas: Health-Related Activities of the US Government Glenn Paulson, PhD, ScD (Hon.) — Science Advisor to the Administrator, US Environmental Protection Agency |
| 8:50 - 9:15 AM | Recommendations for the Protection of Public Health Preceding the Development of the Natural Gas Industry in New Brunswick, Canada Karen White, MEng, PEng — director, Healthy Environments Branch, Office of the Chief Medical Officer of Health, Department of Health, New Brunswick (Canada) |
| 9:15 - 9:40 AM | Data-driven Insights into the Shale Gas Industry Brook Lenker, MA — Executive Director, FracTracker Alliance |
| 9:40 - 10 AM | Break - Student Poster Sessions (Gold Room - 2nd Floor) |
| WATER QUALITY AND WASTE WATER ISSUES | |
| 10 - 10:25 AM | Resilience and Energy Production Legacy Landscapes: Unconventional Gas Extraction and Long-term Ecosystem Function Daniel Bain, PhD — Assistant Professor, Department of Geology and Planetary Science, University of Pittsburgh |
| 10:25 - 10:50 AM | Seismicity and Water Quality Issues Associated with Shale Gas Exploration and Production Jeffrey Dick, PhD — Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Youngstown State University |
| 10:50 - 11:15 AM | Bromide in the Allegheny River: A possible link with Marcellus Shale Operations Leonard Casson, PhD, PE, BCEE — Associate Professor/Academic Coordinator, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Swanson School of Engineering; Secondary Appointment – Associate Professor, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh |
| 11:15 - 11:40 AM | Origin and fate of NORM in Marcellus shale flowback/produced water Radisav Vidic, PhD, PE — Professor of Environmental Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Pittsburgh |
| BREAK FOR LUNCH | |
| 11:40 AM - 1 PM | Free Buffet Lunch (Ballroom A - 1st Floor) |
| AIR AND WORKER EXPOSURES | |
| 1 - 1:25 PM | Environmental Health Risks and Natural Gas Development: Where Do We Go From Here? John L. Adgate, PhD, MSPH — Professor and Chair, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado |
| 1:25 - 1:50 PM | Worker Exposures David Goldsmith, MSPH, PhD — Associate Research Professor, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, The George Washington University |
| 1:50 - 2:15 PM | Engineered Safety Systems and Best Practices in Gas Extraction and Processing James Sewell — Appalachia Environmental and Regulatory Team Lead, Shell Exploration and Production Company |
| HEALTH IMPACTS RESEARCH | |
| 2:15 - 2:40 PM | Impacts of gas drilling on human and animal health Robert Oswald, PhD — Professor of Pharmacology, Department of Molecular Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University; and Michelle Bamberger, MS, DVM — Veterinarian, Vet Behavior Consults |
| 2:40 - 3:05 PM | Resource Extraction and Infant Health Elaine L. Hill — Applied Economics and Management PhD Candidate, Cornell University |
| 3:05 - 3:25 PM | Break - Student Poster Sessions (Gold Room - 2nd Floor) |
| COMMUNITY RESPONSES | |
| 3:25 - 3:50 PM | Public Opinion about Shale Gas Drilling in Pennsylvania: Do Health and Environmental Risks Matter? Jill Kriesky, PhD — Senior Project Coordinator, Center for Healthy Environments and Communities, Environmental and Occupational Health Department, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh |
| 3:50 - 4:15 PM | Integrated guidance for persons with health concerns from Water and Air exposures during natural gas extraction David Brown, ScD — Environmental Health Consultant, Southwest Pennsylvania Environmental Health Project |
| CONCLUSIONS | |
| 4:15 - 4:30 PM | Closing Remarks and Questions |
| 4:30 - 5:30 PM | Networking Reception with Complimentary Cocktails and Hors d'oeuvres (Gold Room and 2nd Floor Hallway) |
Hosted by the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health
