2021 Annual Meeting
Program
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