Course Description
June 7 & 14, 2021 8:30-11:00
We’ll explore the basics of human health and ecological risk assessment as a tool in contaminated sites remediation including conceptual exposure model development, common methods for predicting and measuring exposure and effects, and estimating and interpreting risks.
Key learning objectives include:
- Understand the importance of the conceptual site model that emerges from the site investigation process to producing a defensible risk assessment
- Understand the risk paradigm and how to develop human and ecological conceptual exposure models
- Understand the basics of chemical toxicity and how it is considered in risk assessment
- Understand how to estimate and measure human and ecological exposure
- Understand how to measure or predict human and ecological effects
- Understand the importance of evaluating assessment uncertainties
- Understand how to estimate risks and interpret risk estimates
Instructor(s)
Scott Steer & Jenn Mayberry
Course curriculum
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1
June 7, 2021 - Part 1
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Module 6A - Introduction
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Module 6B - Problem Formulation & Exposure Assessment
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Module 6C - Toxicity Assessment & Risk Characterization
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Assignment 1 Introductory Video
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Assignment 1 Questions
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PART 1 RECORDING - Session Intro and Review of Last Week's Assignment
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PART 2 RECORDING - Introduction to Human Health and Ecological Risk Assessment
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PART 3 RECORDING - Problem Formulation - Human Health
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PART 4 RECORDING - Exposure Assessment - Human Health
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PART 5 RECORDING - Effects Assessment - Human Health
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PART 6 RECORDING - Risk Characterization - Human Health
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PART 7 RECORDING - Assignment - Human Health
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Assingnment 1 - REVISED FOR UPLOAD
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2
June 14, 2021 - Part 2
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Module 6D - Introduction & Problem Formulation
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Module 6E - Exposure Assessment
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Module 6F - Effects Assessment
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Module 6G - Risk Characterization
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Assignment 2 Questions
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PART 1 RECORDING - Intro and Assignment Review
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PART 2 RECORDING - Eco Risk Assessment - Intro and Problem Formulation
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PART 3 RECORDING - Eco Risk Assessment - Exposure Assessment
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PART 4 RECORDING - Eco Risk Assessment - Risk Characterization
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PART 5 RECORDING - Eco Risk Assessment - Case Studies and Assignment
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Assignment 2 Solution
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