Northeastern Section - 48th Annual Meeting (18–20 March 2013)

Session No. 49
Tuesday, 19 March 2013: 1:30 PM-4:10 PM
Gifford Room (Omni Mount Washington Resort)

T8. Naturally Occurring and Synthetic Fibers including Nanofibers and Nanotubes

 

Brooke T. Mossman and Catherine Skinner, Advocates
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Start Time
 
1:30 PM
Introductory Remarks
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1:40 PM
MICROBIAL COMMUNITY STRUCTURE OF THE VERMONT ASBESTOS GROUP MINE
DOLCI, Elizabeth D., ENGLISH, Erika, BAKER, Jaclyn, GREGOIRE, Danielle, SANTOR, Autumn and CHAUCER, Benjamin, Department of Environmental & Health Sciences, Johnson State College, 337 College Hill, Johnson, VT 05656, elizabeth.dolci@jsc.edu, elizabeth.dolci@jsc.edu
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1:55 PM
GUIDELINES FOR "POSITIVE" IDENTIFICATION OF ERIONITE SERIES MINERALS BEFORE TOXICITY TESTS
DOGAN, A. Umran, Earth Sciences, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran, 31261, Saudi Arabia and DOGAN, Meral, Geological Engineering, Hacettepe University, Ankara, 55555, Turkey, umran-dogan@uiowa.edu, umran-dogan@uiowa.edu
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2:10 PM
MINERALOGY, LITIGATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING OF TALC-ANTHOPHYLLITE-TREMOLITIC ORES FROM THE NORTHWEST ADIRONDACKS AND THE MOJAVE DESERT-WHAT ARE THEY, WHERE DID THEY COME FROM AND ARE THEY "DANGEROUS"?
RUTSTEIN, Martin, Department of Geology, State University of New York @ New Paltz, 1 Hawk Drive, %South Campus Building, New Paltz, NY 10956, envmgmtsys@aol.com, envmgmtsys@aol.com
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2:25 PM
CURRENT CONCEPTS OF CAUSATION OF MESOTHELIOMA BY AMPHIBOLE ASBESTOS AND ERIONITE
SHUKLA, Arti, Pathology, University of Vermont College of Medicine, 89 Beaumont Avenue, Burlington, VT 05405-0068, arti.shukla@uvm.edu, arti.shukla@uvm.edu
 
2:40 PM
Break
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3:10 PM
FIBERS FIBRILS AND NANOTUBES
SKINNER, Catherine, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, Box 208109, New Haven, CT 06520-8109, catherine.skinner@yale.edu, catherine.skinner@yale.edu
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3:25 PM
POROUS SILICA PARTICLES IN BIOLOGY: STUDIES ON CELLULAR UPTAKE, MOLECULAR DELIVERY, AND IMAGING
LANDRY, Christopher, University of Vermont, Department of Chemistry, 82 University Place, Burlington, VT 05405, christopher.landry@uvm.edu, christopher.landry@uvm.edu
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3:40 PM
A REVIEW: MINERALOGY AND DIMENSIONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF AMPHIBOLES FROM THE VERMICULITE DEPOSIT, RAINY CREEK COMPLEX, LIBBY, MONTANA
WYLIE, Ann G., Geology, University of Maryland, 1121 Geology Building, College Park, MD 20742, awylie@umd.edu, awylie@umd.edu
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3:55 PM
THERMALLY STABLE NANO-COMPOSITE OF ZRO2/MWCNT WITH STRONG INTERFACIAL INTERACTION AND TUNABLE PARTICLE SIZE
LIU, Changchang1, LEE, Sungchul2, SU, Dong3, PFEFFERLE, Lisa1 and HALLER, Gary1, (1)Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Yale University, 9 Hillhouse Avenue Rm 220, New Haven, CT 06511, (2)Energy Laboratory, Corporate R&D Center, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd, 428-5, Gongse-dong, Giheung-gu, Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do, 446-577, South Korea, (3)Center for Functional Nanomaterials, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973, changchang.liu@yale.edu, changchang.liu@yale.edu
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