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WED Scientist To Participate in ICP Meeting
John Stoddard, a scientist with the NHEERL Western Ecology Division's (WED's) Freshwater Ecology Branch, will attend the 25 Task Force meeting of the International Cooperative Programme (ICP) on Assessment and Monitoring of Acidification of Rivers and Lakes. The primary aims of the meeting are to assess the degree and geographic extent of the impact of atmospheric pollution, in particular acidification, on surface water; to collect information to evaluate dose-response relationships; and to describe and evaluate long-term trends and variation in aquatic chemistry and biota attributable to atmospheric pollution. The United States, through EPA, is one of 25 countries contributing surface water monitoring data to ICP, and data from the LTM project have been part of the ICP database since it was first created in 1986.
Dr. Stoddard is the official U.S. representative to the ICP on Assessment and Monitoring of Acidification of Rivers and Lakes and the International Cooperative Programme on Integrated Monitoring on Air Pollution Effects, operated under the auspices of the United Nations Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution. While at the meeting, to be held in Burlington, Ontario, Canada, October 19-21, 2009, he will present the results of the ongoing activities of the Temporally Integrated Monitoring of Ecosystems/Long-Term Monitoring Project (TIME/LTM) being conducted at WED, with regard to trends in water chemistry and biology, heavy metals, persistent organic pollutants, dynamic modeling, analytical challenges, and method development.