2005 ANNUAL REPORT
LIACS
ENVIRONMENTAL COMMITTEE
Members of the Committee:
Harold Berger
Retired, NYSDEC Region 1 Director
Barbara Hillery
SUNY/Old Westbury (Chair)
Neil Jespersen
St. John’s University
Bruce Lister
Nassau County Board of Health
David Lloyd
Hofstra University
Frank Romano
Agilent Technologies
Tim Strout
Jericho High School
The Environmental
Committee hosted the Ninth Annual Francis S. Sterrett Environmental
Chemistry Symposium on May 26, 2005. The committee met approximately
monthly (from October 2004 to May 2005) to plan and organize the symposium.
The event was held at Hofstra University in Hempstead, NY with the theme
Long
Island Air Quality—To Breathe or Not To Breathe?
Speakers for this symposium are listed
below.
Ed Olmstead
LI Occupational Environmental Health Center
at Stony Brook
Stony Brook, NY
"Household
Environmental Quality"
Lucy Zurek, M.S.,
Senior Industrial Hygienist
OSHA, Region II
Westbury, NY
"Indoor Air
Quality Reference Guide"
Ajay Shah, PE
Regional Air Engineer
NYSDEC
Stony Brook, NY
"An Overview
of Ambient Air Monitoring on Long Island"
Deborah Bauer, CHMM
Environmental Compliance Representative
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Upton, NY
"Nanoparticulates:
Inhalation Risks and Controls"
Dr. Marianne Frieri, M.D., Ph.D.
Director of Allergy and Immunology
Nassau University Medical Center
East Meadow, NY
"Understanding
Asthma Inflammation and Environmental Triggers"
By all standards the event was
successful. Speakers were excellent and comments by attendees were
universally positive. Approximately 70 people attended the environmental
conference. Unlike most LIACS events, there was a charge for attendance
at the Sterrett Symposium, twenty-five dollars for ACS members and thirty-five
dollars for non-members, helping to defray hospitality costs. In
addition, an allocation from the New York Section helped to cover the mailing
costs for this event.