The Network has recruited a team of three highly qualified and experienced risk assessors to supervise the integration of the MITHE-SN's results into the framework for risk assessment: Evert Nieboer, Team Leader (McMaster University and the University of Tromsø, Norway), Steve Sheppard (ECOMatters Inc.) and Peter Chapman (EVS Consultants Ltd.). These three individuals have combined expertise in risk assessment for human populations (Nieboer), terrestrial ecosystems (Sheppard) and aquatic ecosystems (Chapman). They are responsible for ensuring that the MITHE-SN addresses the risk assessment priorities of all of our partners by providing continuous assessment of individual projects to ensure that their potential contribution to E & HHRA is fully realized by:
- Ensuring E & HHRA linkages are evident in papers by the MITHE-SN researchers submitted to discipline-specific journals and the Human and Ecological Risk Assessment (HERA) Journal; and preparation of a joint integrative paper by Nieboer, Chapman, and Sheppard.
- Preparing and updating, annually, a tabular summary for each Network project that lists subject metals, other elemental species with which they are likely to interact, experimental approaches, relationships to anticipated findings for E & HHRA, and anticipated usefulness of the findings to regulators and non-scientists.
- Development of Science Briefs that highlight Network results and summarize results of other metals research data.
- Supervising deliverables from the MITHE-SN Risk Assessment (RA) Intern Program. Two Risk Assessment (RA) interns will be placed in organizations with the specific objective of liaising between the MITHE-SN activities and the RA objectives of the respective organizations.
- Presenting E & HHRA information at our annual symposia and providing input into the metals risk communication session scheduled for our January 2006 research symposium.
- Assisting MITHE-SN researchers to develop tools for furthering community-based Risk Assessment (CBRA). Tools developed through MITHE-SN research projects may be applied not only to specific sites where studies are conducted, but also broadly throughout Canada and the world.
Contact Information:
Evert Nieboer, Ph.D.
Emeritus Professor of Toxicology, McMaster Univ.
Tel. 905-525-9140 X 22048
Email: nieboere@mcmaster.ca
Steve C. Sheppard, Ph.D.
ECOMatters Inc.
Tel. 204-753-2747
Email: sheppards@ecomatters.com
Peter Chapman, Ph.D.
EVS Environment Consultants
Tel. 604-904-4005
Email: pchapman@attglobal.net
pmchapman@golder.com
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