CHEEC sponsors a continuing seminar series on environmental health issues. Since the fall of 1987, the following seminars have been presented on the campus of The University of Iowa. To obtain further information on these seminars contact CHEEC.
"Risk-Based Decision Making for Environmental Restoration/Remediation"
Gene Parkin, Ph.D., Civil and Environmental Engineering, The University of Iowa
co-sponsored by UI Environmental Health Sciences Research Center
"Drinking Water Nitrate and Health"
Mary Ward, Ph.D. National Cancer Institute
co-sponsored by UI Women in Science and Engineering
"Drinking Water Disinfection By-Products and Adverse Reproductive Outcomes"
Michele Lynberg, Ph.D. National Center for Environmental Health
co-sponsored by UI Department of Epidemiology
1998
"Municipal drinking water nitrate level and the risk of Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, colon cancer, and other GI tract cancers: The Iowa Women's Health Study"
Peter Weyer, Ph.D., Program Director, Center for Health Effects of Environmental Contamination, The University of Iowa
co-sponsored by UI Environmental Health Sciences Research Center
"Municipal water softening and mortality rates of cardiovascular disease in Iowa"
Matt Phoenix, M.S. Candidate, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The University of Iowa
co-sponsored by UI Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
"CHEEC: 10 Years after the Groundwater Protection Act"
Peter Weyer, Ph.D., Program Director, Center for Health Effects of Environmental Contamination, The University of Iowa
co-sponsored by the University Hygienic Laboratory
"Pesticides in Ambient Air and Precipitation in Rural, Urban, and Isolated Areas of Iowa"
Beth Hochstedler and David Larabee-Zierath, Chemists, The University of Iowa Hygienic Laboratory
co-sponsored by the University Hygienic Laboratory
1997
"Risk management of arsenic in drinking water"
Jerald Schnoor, Ph.D., Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The University of Iowa
"Exposure-sensitization relationships for allergens in the baking industry"
Dick Heedrick, Ph.D., Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Agricultural University Wageningen, The Netherlands
co-sponsored by UI Environmental Health Sciences Research Center
"Respiratory disease after long-term exposure to cotton dust and Endotoxin"
David Christiani, M.D., Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health
"Temporal and spatial variation of waterborne point-of-use 222Radon in three water distribution systems"
Eileen Fisher, Ph.D., Department of Preventive Medicine and Environmental Health, University of Iowa
"Air pollution control strategies and public health in Slovenia"
Dusan Hrcek, Director, Hydrometeorological Institute of Slovenia
co-sponsored by UI Center for International Rural and Environmental Health and UI Environmental Health Sciences Research Center
1996
"Ozone air quality: A unique experiment in environmental decision making"
Ellis Cowling, Ph.D., College of Forest Resources, North Carolina State University
co-sponsored by: UI Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research, UI Graduate College, UI Chapter of Sigma Xi, UI Center for International Rural and Environmental Health, UI International Health Program, UI Public Policy Center
"Pollutants in the air and acids in the rain: Lessons from history and visions of environmental futures"
Ellis Cowling, Ph.D., College of Forest Resources, North Carolina State University
co-sponsored by: UI Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research, UI Graduate College, UI Chapter of Sigma Xi, UI Center for International Rural and Environmental Health, UI International Health Program, UI Public Policy Center
"Water, water everywhere, but is there a drop to drink?"
George Hallberg, Ph.D., University Hygienic Laboratory, sponsored by CHEEC in conjunction with the Johnson County Water Festival
"Amnestic disturbance and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in the aftermath of a chemical release"
Rosemarie Bowler, Ph.D., San Francisco State University
co-sponsored by the UI Department of Psychology, UI Environmental Health Sciences Research Center, and UI Women in Science and Engineering Program
"Epidemiological health study of a town exposed to chemicals"
Rosemarie Bowler, Ph.D., San Francisco State University
co-sponsored by UI Environmental Health Sciences Research Center and UI Women in Sciences and Engineering Program
"Air quality and the health of persons living near swine confinement operations"
P. Subramanian, Ph.D., Kendall Thu, Ph.D., Department of Preventive Medicine and Environmental Health, The University of Iowa
1995
"Demonstration of a Geographic Information System to accommodate exposure and environmental data in Iowa"
U. Sunday Tim, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, Iowa State University
"Non-cancer health outcomes in the Agricultural Health Study"
Dale Sandler, Ph.D., National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
Health aspects of the Rwandan refugee crisis"
Alfredo Vergara, Ph.D., Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, co-sponsored by: Department of Preventive Medicine and Environmental Health, Center for International Rural & Environmental Health, Environmental Health Sciences Research Center
"Where are the errors in radon dose assessments? Assessing radon/lung cancer epidemiologic studies"
William Field, Ph.D., Department of Preventive Medicine and Environmental Health, The University of Iowa
co-sponsored by the Environmental Health Sciences Research Center
1994
"Soil and water quality: An agenda for Agriculture - National Research Council-Board of Agriculture Report"
George Hallberg, Ph.D., Chief of Environmental Research, University Hygienic Laboratory, The University of Iowa
"The current status and future of environmental and public health in Hungary"
Ferenc Bojan, M.D., Professor and Head, Department of Social Medicine, University Medical School of Debrecen, Hungary
"Pesticide bioremediation by exploiting the rhizosphere effect"
Joel Coats, Ph.D., Professor of Entomology, Pesticide Toxicology Laboratory, Iowa State University
"Microbiological quality of public drinking water supplies"
Edwin Geldreich, Senior Research Microbiologist, Drinking Water Research Division, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency co-sponsored with the University Hygienic Laboratory: The Robert L. Morris Memorial Lecture on Water Quality
1993
"Ozone and ultraviolet radiation: The implications of trends on UV-B exposure"
Gregory Carmichael, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, The University of Iowa
"Environmental factors associated with radon in rural Iowa homes"
Leann Weih, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Preventive Medicine and Environmental Health, The University of Iowa
"Water chlorination by-products and cancer in Iowa"
Kenneth Cantor, Ph.D., Environmental Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Etiology, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD
"Source of drinking water and cancer incidence in Iowa"
Charles Lynch, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Preventive Medicine, The University of Iowa
"Association of intrauterine growth retardation with chloroform in drinking water"
Michael Kramer, M.D., Allergy and Pulmonary Division, Department of Pediatrics, The University of Iowa
"Farm exposures and female infertility in Iowa"
Kathy Clark, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Nursing, The University of Iowa
"Environmental policy: current and future priorities"
David Osterberg, Representative, Mt. Vernon, Iowa; ranking member, Committee on Energy and Environmental Protection, Iowa House of Representatives
1992
"It's healing time on Earth"
David Brower, Chairman of Earth Island Institute; co-sponsored by the UI Lecture Committee, the UI Environmental Coalition, and the UI Institute for Agricultural Medicine & Occupational Health
"Potential health effects of global environmental change"
Janice Longstreth, Ph.D., Technology Policy and Analysis Center, Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratories, Washington, D.C.
"Drugs and chemicals in breast milk"
Anthony Scialli, M.D., Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, D.C.
"Mechanisms of plant activation of environmental chemicals into mutagens"
Michael Plewa, Ph.D., Professor of Genetics, Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Public water distribution systems as a source of radon in drinking water"
Richard Valentine, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Environmental Engineering, The University of Iowa
1991
"Environmental liabilities in Iowa - and waste reduction solutions"
John Konefes, Director, Iowa Waste Reduction Center, University of Northern Iowa
"Our environment - Our responsibility"
Ralph Nader
co-sponsored by: UI Environmental Coalition, Riverfest, College of Law, CHEEC, WORKSAFE IOWA, UI Injury Prevention Research Center, UI Environmental Health Sciences Research Center, Center for Agricultural Disease and Injury Research Education and Prevention
"The 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments: A panel discussion"
Allan Stokes, Environmental Protection Division, Iowa Dept. of Natural Resources; Peter Thorne, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Preventive Medicine, The University of Iowa; Jerald Schnoor, Ph.D., Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering, The University of Iowa; Robert Patrick, Air and Toxics Branch, Office of Regional Counsel, U.S. EPA, Region VII, Kansas City
"Natural cleansing and bioremediation of oiled shoreline in Prince William Sound"
Hans O. Jahns, Ph.D., Research Manager, Exxon Production Research Company, Houston, Texas
"Great Lakes Initiative to protect streams from toxics: Too early or too late?"
William Beranek, Jr., Ph.D., Indiana Environmental Institute, Inc., Indianapolis
"The New Jersey case-control radon study: Policy implications"
Judith Klotz, Ph.D., Environmental Health Service, New Jersey State Department of Health
1990
"Fate and transport of alachlor and atrazine in the subsurface environment: Laboratory and field studies"
Gene Parkin, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The University of Iowa
"The Statewide Rural Well Water Survey"
Burton Kross, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Preventive Medicine and Environmental Health, The University of Iowa
"The National Alachlor Well-Water Survey: An overview"
Larry Holden, Ph.D., and Andrew Klein, Ph.D., Monsanto Agricultural Company, St. Louis
1989
"The role of hazardous waste cleanup in protecting human health"
J. Winston Porter, Ph.D., Assistant Administrator for Solid Waste and Emergency Response, U.S. EPA, Washington, D.C.
"Environmental epidemiology: Separating politics and science"
Michael Gough, Ph.D., Project Manager, Environ Corporation, Washington, D.C.
"Endangerment assessment at Superfund sites"
Jerald Schnoor, Ph.D., Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The University of Iowa
"Love Canal: At the frontier of science and politics"
John Deegan, Jr., Ph.D., Dean of College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of Northern Iowa
"Trihalomethanes in Iowa municipal drinking water supplies"
Charles Lynch, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Preventive Medicine and Environmental Health, The University of Iowa
"Sustainable agriculture and environmental health"
David Osterberg, State Representative, Mt. Vernon, Iowa, Chair, Agriculture Committee, Iowa House of Representatives
"Agent Orange: The misuse and abuse of science by the United States government"
Jeanne M. Stellman, Ph.D., Associate Professor, School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York
"Studies of non-occupational radon exposure and lung cancer"
John Neuberger, M.D., Associate Professor of Preventive Medicine, the University of Kansas
"The annual report on carcinogens: A study in science, policy and the law"
Dorothy Canter, Ph.D., National Toxicology Program, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
"Risk assessment and EPA drinking water standards"
Joseph Cotruvo, Ph.D., Director of Criteria and Standards, Office of Drinking Water, U.S. EPA, Washington, D.C.
