Session: The Emerging Discipline of Medical Geology (GSA Annual Meeting, November 5-8, 2001)

Session No. 10

Monday, 5 November 2001: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM

P5. The Emerging Discipline of Medical Geology

Institute for Earth Science and the Environment, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, International Union of Geological Sciences, U.S. Geological Survey, COGEOENVIRONMENT, IGCP #454, Swedish Geological Survey, Institute for Metal Biology

José A. Centeno, Peter T. Bobrowsky and H. Catherine W. Skinner, Conveners

Paper #

Start Time

8:00 AM

Introductory Remarks

8:05 AM

PANZOOTICS, PARSIMONY, AND PALEONTOLOGY: CAN DISEASE CAUSE EXTINCTION?

MACPHEE, Ross D.E., Division of Vertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Nat History, New York, NY 10024, macpheee@amnh.org, macpheee@amnh.org

8:35 AM

READING THE BONES

SKINNER, H. Catherine W., Geology and Gephysics, Yale Univ, Box 208109, New Haven, CT 06520-8109, Catherine.Skinner@Yale.edu, Catherine.Skinner@Yale.edu

9:05 AM

HEALTH IMPACTS OF COAL: FACTS, FALLACIES, AND SOME SOLUTIONS

FINKELMAN, Robert B., U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA 20192, CENTENO, Jose A., Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, DC 20306 and ZHENG, Baoshan, Institute of Geochemistry, Guiyang, 550002, China, rbf@usgs.gov, rbf@usgs.gov

9:35 AM

Withdrawn

10:05 AM

Break

10:20 AM

Withdrawn

10:50 AM

SEX AND SEWAGE: ESTROGENIC COMPOUNDS IN THE ENVIRONMENT

METCALFE, Chris D., Environmental and Resource Studies, Trent Univ, Peterborough, ON K9J 7B8, Canada, cmetcalfe@trentu.ca, cmetcalfe@trentu.ca

11:20 AM

PHARMACEUTICALS AND PERSONAL CARE PRODUCTS IN THE ENVIRONMENT: POLLUTION FROM PERSONAL ACTIONS, ACTIVITIES, AND BEHAVIORS

DAUGHTON, Christian G., National Exposure Research Laboratory, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 944 East Harmon Ave, Las Vegas, NV 89119, daughton.christian@epa.gov, daughton.christian@epa.gov

11:50 AM

Concluding Remarks

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