2019 Annual Meeting
May 6-7, 2019
La Jolla, California
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.
See below for an up-to-date schedule of events.
Schedule - Monday May 6th
8:30 A.M. Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:30 A.M. Welcome and Announcements
Keith Maruya, SoCal SETAC Past President
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
10:40 A.M. Break
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
12:10 P.M. Lunch
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*
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*
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*
3:00 P.M. Detection, characterization, and classification of bacteria using surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy coupled with machine learning approaches
Robert George*
3:20 P.M. Break
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
5-5:30 P.M. Break and Poster Setup
Poster Social
5:30–7:30 P.M. POSTER SOCIAL
Appetizers, beer, wine, and non-alcoholic beverages will be served
Schedule - Tuesday May 7th
8:30 A.M. Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00 A.M. Welcome and Announcements
Chris Stransky, SoCal SETAC President
Screening for Emerging Contaminants
Facilitated by Keith Maruya, SoCal SETAC Past President
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
10:10 A.M. Break
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
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
12:10 P.M. Lunch
1:30 P.M. CLOSING CEREMONY: Board recognition, Student Presentation Awards, and Raffle Prizes
2:30 P.M. Adjourn