SETAC North American Contaminated Soils Advisory Group

SETAC North America Global Soils Advisory Group SETAC North American 35th Annual Meeting

Monday November 10, 2014 6:30 – 7:30 PM Vancouver Convention Center Vancouver, BC

Minutes

1. Welcome from the Meeting Chair – Mike Simini

2. Acceptance of last year’s minutes  Minutes accepted.

3. Acceptance of Agenda proposed by Mike Simini

4. Update on soil-related activities in North America  Yvette Lowney: reminder: human bioavailability session at SETAC NA 2014 on Tuesday.  Theresa Phillips: update on soil webinar idea from last year and this is soil chemistry geology basic course (effect of soil type, soil texture, and other physical and chemical properties on soil bioavailability). Proposal was sent to Bruce Vigon, Science Manager for SETAC NA. Volunteers and additional narrators are needed, and possible help from Laurel, Yvette, Ron, Nick and Mike.  Ron Checkai: a total of 6 new papers on soil cleanup levels in IEAM in July. Discussion of the following: soil cleanup levels should not be below background; microbes should be part of the RA; and the importance of fate studies.  Ming Fan: a good understanding of sludge application and practices is critical for soil risk assessment. There is some literature available for NA and Europe but very limited for ‘emerging economy’ countries, such as China. Propose a discussion to obtain more information on this area and potentially seek feedback from Global Soils Advisory Group members. Nick commented that there might be an interesting session for next SETAC NA conference to have a debate on pro and cons for beneficial use of sludge.  Mike will post our meeting minutes on the SETAC website.

5. Update on soil-related activities in Other Geographic Units  Gertie Arts: Basel meeting in May; terrestrial plants meeting was held. Stakeholder workshop was organized, to be published in a journal. Group is working on another workshop – opinion/ guidance development. Also looking at joint meetings with plant groups.  Minutes of Basel meeting are on the SETAC website.  Europe Soil Meeting coming up – first week of May.  As no members from the African, Asia Pacific or Latin America GU’s were present, there was no news to report.

6. Steering Committee status – Nominees and Elections  Elections are coming - Nominations took place last month. We need someone else from Industry.

1 Attendee List

Name Affiliation E-mail Nick Basta Ohio State University [email protected] Ron Checkai US Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center [email protected] Mike Simini US Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center [email protected] Roman Kuperman US Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center [email protected] Mónica Amorim Universidade de Aveiro [email protected] Theresa Phillips Exp Services Inc. [email protected] Ming Fan Procter & Gamble [email protected] Brianne Duncan Exponent [email protected] Laurael Ruyer Exponent [email protected] Yvette Lowney Exponent [email protected] Janet Burris BERA [email protected] Gertie Arts Alterra, Wageningen [email protected]

2 Appendix A

The current members of the GSAG steering committee are:

Name Country, Affiliation End of term Erik Smolders Europe, academia 2017 Kees van Gestel Europe, academia 2014 Dave Spurgeon Europe, government 2017 Michael Simini North America, government 2014 Rick Scroggins North America, government 2017 Ming Fan North America 2017 Hunter Anderson North America, government 2014 Anu Kumar Asia Pacific, government 2017 Mark Maboeta Africa, academia 2017 Cintia Niva Latin America, academia 2017 Bruce Vigon SETAC, ex officio member N/A