Source: RISK newsletter,
Third Quarter 1996, published by the Society for Risk Analysis
Michael L. Dourson of Toxicology Excellence for Risk Assessment announces the company’s first independent peer review meeting for the International Toxicity Estimates for Risk (ITER) data base, to be held September 19-20 at the University of Cincinnati in Ohio. The chemicals acrylonitrile and hexachlorobutadiene will be reviewed. More information is available on the World Wide Web at http://www.tera.org or by contacting Jacqueline Patterson, ITER Leader, telephone (513) 521-7426, fax (513) 542-7487, e-mail jptera@aol.com.
Gay Goodman, formerly of the California Department of Pesticide Regulation, is now the principal at the new Seattle-area consulting company Human Health Risk Resources, P.O. Box 1645, Edmonds, WA 98020, telephone (206) 546-1577, fax (206) 542-1094, e-mail ggdabt@aol.com. She is organizing a symposium on the epidemiology of low-level environmental exposures for the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science to be held in Seattle in February 1997.
Ray Kemp, president of SRA-Europe, is now manager of risk services in northwest Europe for Dames and Moore, c/o O’Brien-Kreitzburg, 7th Floor, Artillery House, Artillery Row, London SW1P 1RT, United Kingdom, telephone (44) 171 331 8900, fax (44) 171 331 8919.
Eugene A. Rosa, professor and recently named chair of sociology at Washington State University, has been named the first Edward R. Meyer Distinguished Professor of Natural Resource and Environmental Policy in the university’s recently dedicated Thomas F. Foley Institute of Public Policy and Public Service.
Paul Slovic of Decision Research in Eugene, Oregon, has a new telephone area code: telephone (541) 485-2400, fax (541) 485-2403.
Michaela Zint has a new teaching and research position
in the School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of
Michigan, Dana Building, 430 E. University, Ann Arbor MI
48109-115, telephone (313) 763-6961, e-mail zintmich@umich.edu.