7 Medical Geology

Sunday, 7 November 2004
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Presentations

• 8:10 AM
  MEDICAL GEOLOGY COMES OF AGE
  Syed E. Hasan, Univ of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, MO
  77935 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:30 AM
  AN OVERVIEW OF THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE CONCERNS SURROUNDING THE ASBESTOS CONTENT OF VERMICULITE ORE FROM LIBBY, MONTANA
  Mickey E. Gunter, Univ of Idaho, Moscow, ID
  74198 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:50 AM
  HEALTH EFFECTS OF COAL-DERIVED ORGANIC COMPOUNDS IN NATURAL WATERS: CASE STUDIES OF BALKAN ENDEMIC NEPHROPATHY AND RENAL/PELVIC CANCER
  William H. Orem, U.S. Geol Survey, Reston, VA and Calin A. Tatu, County Hospital, Timisoara, N/A and Joseph E. Bunnell, U.S. Geol Survey, Reston, VA and Harry E. Lerch, U.S. Geol Survey, Reston, VA and Cynthia A. Rice, U.S. Geol Survey, Lakewood, CO and Timothy T. Bartos, U.S. Geol Survey, Cheyenne, WY and Margo D. Corum, U.S. Geol Survey, Reston, VA
  76343 (Technical Sessions)
• 9:10 AM
  DUST IN THE WIND: INTERCONTINENTAL TRANSPORT OF DESERT DUST IN THE ATMOSPHERE AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR HUMAN AND ECOSYSTEM HEALTH
  Christina A. Kellogg, U.S. Geol Survey, St. Petersburg, FL and Dale W. Griffin, U.S. Geol Survey, St. Petersburg, FL and Virginia H. Garrison, U.S. Geol Survey, St. Petersburg, FL and Eugene A. Shinn, U.S. Geol Survey, St. Petersburg, FL
  74160 (Technical Sessions)
• 9:30 AM
  CONCENTRATIONS OF TCE AND OTHER TOXICS DELIVERED TO THE PLAINTIFFS' HOMES IN THE 'A CIVIL ACTION' TRIAL
  Maura A. Metheny, The Ohio State Univ, Columbus, OH and E. Scott Bair, Ohio State Univ, Columbus, OH
  74513 (Technical Sessions)
• 10:10 AM
  MUSINGS OF A MEANDERING MEDICAL GEOLOGIST
  Robert B. Finkelman, U.S.Geol Survey, Reston, VA
  76177 (Technical Sessions)
• 10:30 AM
  DEAD SEA BLACK MUD: MEDICAL GEOCHEMISTRY OF A TRADITIONAL THERAPEUTIC AGENT
  Ahmad N. Abdel-Fattah, Univ of Texsa at El Paso, El Paso, TX and N.E. Pingitore, Univ of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX and Beata Maciejewska, UT El Paso, El Paso, TX and Dirk Schulze-Makuch, Washington State Univ, Pullman, WA
  77118 (Technical Sessions)
• 10:50 AM
  GEOLOGIC, BIOLOGIC, AND HYDROLOGIC CONTROLS ON NATURAL ARSENIC CONTAMINATION OF GROUNDWATER IN HOLOCENE RIVER FLOODPLAINS
  James A. Saunders, Auburn Univ, Auburn, AL
  73833 (Technical Sessions)
• 11:10 AM
  THE TOXICOLOGICAL GEOCHEMISTRY OF DUSTS, SOILS, AND OTHER EARTH MATERIALS - AN OVERVIEW OF PROCESSES AND THE INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH METHODS USED TO UNDERSTAND THEM
  Geoffrey S. Plumlee, U.S. Geol Survey, Denver, CO and Thomas L. Ziegler, United States Geol Survey, Denver, CO
  80900 (Technical Sessions)
• 11:30 AM
  LEAD POISONING AND MEDICAL GEOLOGY: AN UNFINISHED STORY
  Gabe Filippelli, Indiana Univ - Purdue Univ at Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN and Mark Laidlaw, Indiana Univ - Purdue Univ at Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN and Robyn Raftis, N/A and Jennifer Latimer, Indiana Univ - Purdue Univ at Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN
  76309 (Technical Sessions)