Notice: This year printed programs will not be distributed to attendees to reduce the paper and carbon footprint of our meeting.

 

If you would like to download the program onto your device, and/or print your own copy please click here for the full program including abstracts of all presentations and posters.

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See below for an up-to-date schedule of events.

8:30 A.M. Registration and Continental Breakfast

 

9:30 A.M. Welcome and Announcements

Keith Maruya, SoCal SETAC Past President

 

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Toxicity Testing for California’s Waterways

Facilitated by Chris Stransky, SoCal SETAC President

 

9:40 A.M. State Water Board toxicity provisions

Karen L. Mogus

 

10:00 A.M. Challenges with aquatic toxicity testing: problem resolution in regulatory settings

Stephen L. Clark

 

10:20 A.M. Site-specific water quality objectives: applications of water-effect ratios

Ashley N. Parks

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10:40 A.M. Break

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11:00 A.M. An environmentally relevant approach for stormwater toxicity testing compliance monitoring

Molly Colvin

 

11:20 A.M. Evolution of a NPDES permit- Novel implementation strategies for stormwater compliance monitoring at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego, CA

Rolf Schottle

 

11:40 A.M. Strategies for increasing success rates of toxicity identification evaluation studies (TIEs)

Peter Arth

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12:10 P.M. Lunch

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General Session #1

Facilitated by Wendy Hovel, SoCal SETAC Board Member

 

1:40 P.M. Overabundance of microRNA 133b induces oil-like cardiotoxicity in zebrafish (Danio rerio) embryos

Justin B. Greer*

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2:00 P.M. Transcriptomic analysis of juvenile mahi-mahi (Coryphaena hippurus) epidermal mucus as a noninvasive monitoring tool for effects of Deepwater Horizon oil exposure

Nicolette Andrzejczyk*

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2:20 P.M. Evaluating the impact of wastewater effluent discharge into the Santa Ana River

Gary T. Harraka* 

 

2:40 P.M. The sea anemone Anthropleura sola: A potential indicator of coastal waters health

Kelly E. Govenar*

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3:00 P.M. Detection, characterization, and classification of bacteria using surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy coupled with machine learning approaches

Robert George*

 

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3:20 P.M. Break

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General Session #2

Facilitated by Nick Hayman, SoCal SETAC Board Member

 

3:40 P.M. Urban recreational fisheries: Implications for public health in metro-Phoenix

Daniel A. Lucas*

 

4:00 P.M. Patterns of mercury cycling in the profundal zone of Hodges Reservoir, California

Marc Beutel

 

4:20 P.M. Are microplastic measurements comparable and do they reflect reality?

Win C. Cowger*

 

4:40 P.M. Microfibers pollution: Global monitoring initiative

Dimitri D. Deheyn

 

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5-5:30 P.M. Break and Poster Setup

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Poster Social

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5:30–7:30 P.M. POSTER SOCIAL

Appetizers, beer, wine, and non-alcoholic beverages will be served

8:30 A.M. Registration and Continental Breakfast

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9:00 A.M. Welcome and Announcements

Chris Stransky, SoCal SETAC President

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Screening for Emerging Contaminants

Facilitated by Keith Maruya, SoCal SETAC Past President

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9:10 A.M. Novel screening methods to assess environmental contaminants in aquatic environments

Alvine C. Mehinto

 

9:30 A.M. Multi- and transgenerational effects of environmental stressors:

responses in a euryhaline model and implications for risk assessment

S. Brander

 

9:50 A.M. Non-targeted analysis in environmental contaminant monitoring

Eunha Hoh

 

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10:10 A.M. Break

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General Session #3

Facilitated by Scott Coffin, State Water Board

 

10:40 A.M. The impacts of developmental thyroid disruption on immune function and the immune response in the fathead minnow

Leah M. Thornton Hampton*

 

11:00 A.M. Update from SETAC North America

Leah M. Thornton Hampton, Graduate Student Representative, SETAC N/A Board of Directors

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11:10 A.M. Leveraging zebrafish to identify chemicals disrupting early development

Sara M. Vliet*

 

11:30 A.M. Assessing marine disrupting compounds in the critically endangered California condor and marine mammals

M.E. Stack*

 

11:50 A.M. Detection of microcystins in water samples from Los Angeles area waterbodies

Bowen Du

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12:10 P.M. Lunch

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1:30 P.M. CLOSING CEREMONY: Board recognition, Student Presentation Awards, and Raffle Prizes

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2:30 P.M. Adjourn