Conferences

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Upcoming Conferences

November 2-5, 2009 - National Forum on Contaminants in Fish

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency invites you to attend the 2009 National Forum on Contaminants in Fish in Portland, OR. This event will bring together public health and environmental professionals from government agencies, industry, environmental and health advocacy groups, and other interested parties to discuss the many issues related to the risks and benefits of fish consumption. For more information, please visit the conference web site at http://www.epa.gov/waterscience/fish/forum/2009/.
December 6-9, 2009 - SRA 2009 Annual Meeting

The 2009 annual meeting of the Society for Risk Analysis will take place at the Renaissance Inner Harbor in Baltimore, MD. The theme of the meeting is Risk Analysis: The Evolution of a Science. For more information, please visit the conference web site at http://www.sra.org/events_2009_meeting.php .
March 17-19, 2010 - Strengthening Environmental Justice Research and Decision-Making: A Symposium on the Science of Disproportionate Environmental Health Impacts

ORD's National Center for Environmental Research and National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, the Office of Environmental Justice, and the Office of Children's Health Protection and Environmental Education are cosponsoring a 2 1/2 day science symposium on disproportionate environmental health impacts, planned for March 2010 at the Washington Convention Center. The primary goal is to lay the foundation for developing analytical tools that federal, state, and local governments can use to better quantify and characterize disproportionate environmental health impacts on minority and low-income populations that may result from their programs, policies, and activities.
June 6-10, 2010 - National Tribal Science Forum
June 6-11, 2010 - Joint Summer Meeting of the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography and the North American Benthological Society

The 2010 summer meeting will take place in Santa Fe, NM. The theme of the meeting is Aquatic Sciences: Global Changes from the Center to the Edge. For more information, please visit the conference web site at http://www.aslo.org/meetings/santafe2010/ .