ANALYTICAL TOPICAL GROUP

2005 Annual Report
 
 

Officers 2004-2005

Chairman
Robert P. Nolan, PhD
     International Environmental Research Foundation
Post Office Box 3459
 Grand Central Station
 New York, NY 10063-3459
Tel/Fax (800) 709-0028
 E-mail  rnolan@ierfinc.org

 Treasurer
Evelyn Sarnoff

Chairman Emeritus
William E.L. Grossman
Department of Chemistry
Hunter College of The City University of New York

Board of Directors
David C. Locke, Chairman
Department of Chemistry
Queens College of The City University of New York

Malgorzata Ciszkowska
Department of Chemistry
Brooklyn College of The City University of New York

Ronald L. Birke
Department of Chemistry
The City College of The City University of New York

 Urs Jans
Department of Chemistry
The City College of the City Univesity of New York

 The Group’s main activity was an effort to re-organize to more effectively provide seminars of interest to the Analytical community.

 The seminars contribute in a significant way to the educational mission of the New York Section.  They provide an important, ongoing forum at which practicing analytical chemists in the region can hear about advances in their field or related areas.  The post-seminar dinners give attendees the opportunity to meet and talk with their colleagues in a more relaxed atmosphere than is usually afforded by a technical meeting.  Most importantly, students in the graduate program in Analytical Chemistry at the City University are required to attend the seminars, and they are considered a critical part of that program.
 


May 5, 2005
The Graduate Center of the City University of New York
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY

 Sampling for Hydrophobic Organics in Water and Air:
Challenges and Data Usage
 

Lisa Totten
Assistant Professor
Department of Environmental Sciences and Center for Environmental Prediction
Rutgers University
New Brunswick, NJ
 

Abstract

 Measuring hydrophobic organics such as PCBs, PAHs, brominated flame retardants, and polychlorinated dioxins and furans is essential to the development of fate and exposure models, but it is fraught with many difficulties and challenges. Methodology and quality control issues will be discussed.
 
 


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December 8, 2005
The Graduate Center of the City University of New York
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY
 
 

 Risk Assessment for Asbestos-Related Cancer from the 9/11 Attack on the World Trade Center
 

Robert P Nolan, PhD
Center for Applied Studies of the Environment &  Earth and Environmental Sciences
of the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY
 

Abstract

Objective:   Estimate the lifetime risk of asbestos-related cancer for residents of Lower Manhattan due to asbestos released into the air by the 9/11 attack on New York City’s World Trade Center (WTC).

Methods:   Exposure was estimated from available data and reasoned projections based on these data.  Cancer risk was assessed using an asbestos risk model that differentiates asbestos fiber-types and EPA's model that does not differentiate fiber-types and combines mesothelioma and lung cancer risks.
Results:  The upper limit for the expected number of asbestos-related cancers is less than one case over the lifetime of the population for the risk model that is specific for fiber-types and 12 asbestos-related cancers with the EPA model.

Conclusions:   The cancer risk associated with asbestos exposures for residents of Lower Manhattan resulting from the collapse of the WTC is negligible.