Environmental Risk Assessment Certification

Support teaching and research in UW DEOH in areas of risk assessment, multiple stressors, and emerging tools.

ECOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT SUPPORT: design, analysis, new methods, negotiation, training, guidancehttps://bruce-duncan-environmental-consulting.business.siteSupport, conduct, and implement ecological risk assessments required under federal and state regulations. Develop solutions within mandated policies. Balance multiple tasks and competing priorities to deliver actionable products on time while maintaining effective relationships and communication. Key Interests and capabilities: Conceptual model development, sampling strategies, bioavailability, groundwater/surface water interactions, cumulative risk, new methods and tools in toxicology, guidance development, training, and negotiation.

Transition position mentoring new Regional Science Liaison

Risk assessmentUnit management - risk assessors, modelers, biologistsClimate science support for climate change adaptation

Bring science to decision-makersMatch staff science needs with ORD's research portfolioManage the Regional Science Program (http://www.epa.gov/osp/regions.htm) - Plan and Conduct Regional Science Topic Workshops - Manage the Regional Applied Research Effort (RARE) program, Regional Methods (RM) program, and Regional Research Partnership Program (RRPP) - Support Regional Participation in ORD Research Planning - Facilitate the Communication of ORD Science to the RegionsOBJECTIVES• Bridge fit-for-purpose science research with priority science needs • Leverage solutions to environmental (human health and ecological) risk issues across multiple programs, from regional to international scales • Support the emerging roles of public health, social science, cumulative risk, community decision-making, citizen science, and sustainability in evaluating adverse exposures and developing and implementing solutionsCURRENT TOPICS OF INVESTIGATION• Relate population-level effects on species to traditional toxicity testing• Incorporate Final Ecosystem Goods and Services into Superfund/RCRA ecological risk assessments and in National Environmental Policy Act assessments for federal actions• Real-time monitoring with sensors and issues of big data, participatory science and quality assurance• Systems approaches that integrate ecosystems, society, and economics – from watershed to Puget Sound scales• Evaluate critical freshwater research needs • Foster monitoring methods for microplastics in sediment and biosolids

Science Diving: Impact assessments, contaminated sediment effects, groundwater - surface water connections, in situ testing, bioavailability using SPMEs (solid phase micro extraction - coated carbon fibers). Diver-deployed seepage meters and minipiezometers.Emergency Response: Shuttle recovery.

Alaska Native Village wastewater permitsOil, Gas, Coal, Placer Mining, Seafood, Municipal permits and compliance inspections (from SE to North Slope to Aleutians and Pribilofs)