Meetings
Upcoming CREEC Events:
Next Meeting: March 10, 2011, 2pm to 5pm,
Metro Wastewater Reclamation District, 6450
York St., Denver, CO 80229.
Sources of Emerging Contaminants - A Landscape-Based Perspective.
Dr. Larry Barber, USGS, Boulder, CO. To facilitate entry to the
Installation, attendees must provide their name and affiliation to:
Admin@CREEC.net Be sure to
bring photo ID with you.
Larry Barber is a research geochemist with the United
States Geological Survey in
Boulder,
Colorado.
He received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in geology from the University of
Colorado and his BS degree in Geology at the University of Arkansas. For the
past twenty-five years he has conducted research on the occurrence, fate,
and transport of inorganic and organic compounds in natural waters. A
particular focus of his research is the effects of biologically active,
consumer-product derived, trace-organic contaminants in municipal
wastewaters on receiving aquatic ecosystems. His interdisciplinary research
integrates chemistry, hydrology, geology, and biology in evaluating
chemicals in the natural environment.
Other Upcoming Meetings
EmCon 2011. 3rd International Conference on
Occurrence, Fate, Effects, and Analysis of Emerging Contaminants in the
Environment 23-26 August 2011, Copenhagen, Denmark.
www.EmCon2011.com
(Website for Conference not Linked as of 1-3-11). Abstracts due March 14,
2011. Scientific Committee: Bjarne W. Strobel (chair),
bjwe@life.ku.dk. Thomas Borch,
thomas.borch@colostate.edu.
Alistair Boxall, a.boxall@csl.gov.uk.
Edward T. Furlong, efurlong@usgs.gov.
Dana W. Kolpin,
dwkolpin@usgs.gov.
Past CREEC Events
December 2, 2010 CREEC Meeting, Boulder, CO.
Presentations by Dr
Djanette Khiari, Project Manager, Water Research Foundation, “An update on Water
Research Foundation research on emerging contaminants” and Dr E Michael Thurman
and Dr Imma Ferrer, Research Chemists, CU Center for Environmental Mass
Spectrometry, “Analysis of pharmaceuticals and personal care product in drinking
water by advanced mass spectrometry techniques”.
Download Notes for Meeting.
September 30, 2010 CREEC Meeting was sponsored by Alan Vajda at the University of
Colorado, Denver, in the Auraria Science Building. Dr. Jeff Writer, UC Boulder,
spoke on "The role of stream biofilms in controlling fate and transport of endocrine disrupting compounds
in surface waters", and Alan Vajda, Assessing human-health challenges of
EDCs in surface waters - Discussion of research needs and strategies.
February 11, 2010
CREEC Meeting was sponsored Thomas Borch at Colorado State
University (did a great job at making this work). Theo Colborn,
author of Our Stolen Future, spoke via phone
from her home in Southwest Colorado on health effects, recent research, and
the politics of the Kerry/Moran Bill. Mike Focazio (USGS Office of
Water Quality and Toxics Substances Hydrology Program) was snowed in on the East
Coast, but convinced Ed Furlong (USGS Denver) to do his presentation about
recent studies of contaminants of emerging concern by the USGS.
Copy of intro slides.