WP1 Sediment Quality Assessment
256 Portland Ballroom
1:20 PM - 4:40 PM, Tuesday

1:20 PM -

552 :: Sediment contamination in the Anacostia River: A pollution history of Washington, D.C. Riedel, G1, Velinsky, D2, Ashley, J3, Wade, T4, Cornwell, J5, 1 Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, MD, USA2 Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, PA, USA3 Philadelphia University, Philadelpha, PA, USA4 Texas A&M University, College Station, TX5 University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Cambridge, MD

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553 :: Role of Sediment Quality Values in the Management of Sediment in England and Wales. Crane, M1, Apitz, S2, Power, E3, Wilkinson, H4, 1 Crane Consultants, Faringdon, Oxfordshire, UK2 SEA Environmental Decisions, Little Hadham, Hertfordshire, UK3 Azimuth Consulting Group Inc., Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada4 Environment Agency, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK

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554 :: Development of Freshwater SQGs for Washington State: The Floating Percentile Method for Optimizing Sediment Quality Guidelines. Michelsen, T1, Betts, B2, 1 Avocet Consulting, Kenmore, WA, USA2 Washington Department of Ecology, Olympia, WA, USA

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555 :: Deriving sediment quality standards from field-based species sensitivity distributions. Leung, Kenneth 1, Lam, Paul2, Yuan, Wang3, Bjørgesæter, Anders 4, Gray, John4, 1 Swire Institute of Marine Science, Department of Ecology & Biodiversity, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China2 Department of Biology and Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China3 School of the Environment, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China4 Institute of Biology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

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556 :: Evaluation of risk from exposures to tributyltin in the Puget Sound sediments. Gries, T.1, Meador, J.2, Michelson, T.3, 1 Department of Ecology, Olympia, Washington, USA2 NOAA Fisheries, Seattle, Washington, USA3 Avocet Consulting, Kenmore, Washington, USA

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3:40 PM -

557 :: Sorption of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons to diesel soot. White, K1, Shea, D1, 1 Department of Environmental and Molecular Toxicology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA

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558 :: Kinetics of PAH sequestration in freshwater and marine sediments. Pelletier, E.1, Brion, D.1, 1 ISMER, Université du Québec, Rimouski, Québec, Canada

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559 :: Sediment toxicity associated with oil and/or brine spills in southern Illinois. Orr, T1, Halbrook, R1, 1 Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, USA

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