SoCal SETAC NEWS
Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
Southern California Chapter
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initiation of a SoCal SETAC environmental toxicology and
chemistry award at several area County Science Fairs. It is our
goal to continue and hopefully expand this program to include
all Southern California County Science Fairs and greater
participation as judges. We plan to continue to organize several
dinner meetings with invited speakers during the year. We hope
to continue the collaboration established at the 2003 annual
meeting with scientists and students from the Centro de
Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste, S.C. (CIBNOR), La
Paz, Mexico. The Board is also committed to keeping meeting
registration and short course fees down, particularly as it
pertains to students. The Chapter has a sound financial footing
and all indications are that we will be able to continue to provide
high quality, low cost professional meetings and short courses.
Steve Bay, Past President, and the entire SoCal SETAC Board is
currently in the early planning stages for the 2004 annual
meeting. Details will be provided as they become finalized.
As mentioned so many times in past issues, the ultimate
success of the SoCal SETAC Chapter depends on the
involvement and dedication of its members. By providing
feedback on chapter activities, ideas on how we can improve, or
assisting in activities, you ensure that SoCal SETAC meets its
stated mission of providing a forum for those engaged in the
study of environmental problems, regulation and management of
natural resources and environmental research and education in
Southern California. Please contact any board member or
myself if you have suggestions for SoCal SETAC, the
newsletter, or any activities or if you are interested in assisting in
any activities during the next year.
In conclusion, I would like to salute all past board
members and officers for all their hard work over the years. The
current status of this chapter (SoCal SETAC membership is at an
all-time high, annual meeting and short course content continues
to be of the highest quality, attendance is great and chapter
finances are excellent) is a direct legacy of those individuals. It
will be the responsibility of this year’s Board of Directors and
Officers to maintain their level of commitment and hopefully
increase the chapters’ ability to meet its goals.
In This Issue:
• President’s Corner
• 2003 Annual Meeting Summary
o Financial Summary
• SoCal SETAC Chronicle
o Remembering Marissa Gaumond
• Welcome New Members
• Meet The Board – Shelly Magier
• Calendar of Events
President’s Corner….
PHILIP M ARKLE
SOCAL SETAC PRESIDENT
I
would like to take this opportunity to welcome all new and
returning SoCal SETAC members as well as several new
Board members. Our 2003 annual meeting held on May 30 – 31
at UC Santa Barbara was a tremendous success with among the
highest attendance we have seen in recent years. Special
acknowledgements go out to the entire 2002 – 2003 SoCal
SETAC Board of Directors for their commitment and hard work
in pulling it all together. Rotating off the Board this year is Kat
Prickett, Past President. She has served several terms on the
SoCal SETAC Board before taking on the three-year
commitment as Vice President, President, and Past President.
We all thank you for your dedication and energy over the years
and wish you all the best. Also rotating off the Board in 2003
are Fabienne Reisen and Michelle Anghera. Thank you both for
your years of service and hopefully we can convince you to sign
on as an officer in the upcoming years. Jeff Armstrong has also
rotated off the Board but has agreed to stay on as “Chapter
Historian”. New Board members for 2003 – 2004 are Jay Gan
(UC Riverside – Academia), Cherlyn Seruto (UC Riverside –
Student), and Brian Hester (MEC Analytical - Private). Also
rejoining the SoCal SETAC Board is Lan Wiborg who has
agreed to the three-year commitment position beginning as Vice
President. Welcome aboard and we all look forward to what
promises to be an exciting and eventful year.
For 2003 and 2004, it is the chapter’s goal to continue
expanding the educational activities initiated last year. This
included a middle and high school educator outreach course and
IMPORTANT DATES
2003 SETAC North America Annual Meeting
November 9-13, Austin TX
September 15, 2003: Deadline for early-bird registration
October 15, 2003: Deadline for advance registration
Register online at: www.setac.org
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Annual Meeting Summary
Contributed by Steve Bay
The SoCal SETAC 2003 Annual
Meeting was held on May 30-31 at
the University of California, Santa
Barbara. The meeting was
attended by 82 participants, and
hosted by the Bren School of
Environmental Science and
Management. Our thanks to
Arturo Keller and BJ Danetra of
the Bren School for coordinating
the meeting facilities and
organizing a fantastic reception
and meals. The Bren School’s
seaside location provided lots of
sunshine and ocean breezes to
accompany the state-of-the-art
teaching and research facility and
helped make the meeting a great
success.
The GIS short course included
exercises using data from local
and international projects.
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Two short-courses were held on
Friday, May 30: The nuts and bolts
of GIS technologies, taught by
Timothy H. Robinson (UCSB) and
Tobias Wolf (AMEC), and
Sediment Toxicity Test Methods,
taught by Steve Bay (SCCWRP)
and Michelle Anghera (UCSB).
The participants in the GIS course
learned about the benefits and
limitations of Geographic
Information Systems for
environmental research.
Demonstrations and exercises
using ArcView and ArcGIS
covered topics such as database
design and spatial data analysis.
The sediment toxicity course was
also a true hands-on experience.
The participants spent much of the
all-day course preparing sediment
samples for different test methods
and learning how to work with
various species of test organisms.
Saturday’s meeting began with a
welcoming address from Linda
Meyers-Schone (SETAC North
America Board of Directors),
presentation of the Marissa
Gaumond Memorial Award of
Service to Kat Prickett and
recognition for departing board
members Michelle Anghera and
Fabienne Reisen. The morning
plenary session on TMDLs in
Southern California: Where are we
now? featured presentations by
representatives from regulatory,
regulated, and research agencies
on the current challenges to
developing and implementing
TMDLs. Jonathan Bishop (Los
Angeles Regional Water Quality
Control Board) presented an
overview of the many TMDLs in
progress or planned for future
development in the Los Angeles
area. Shahram Kharaghani
(Bureau of Sanitation, City of Los
Angeles) described the challenges
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and potential costs associated with
implementing the trash TMDL for
the city of Los Angeles. Drew
Ackerman (SCCWRP) described
the data needs for development of
effective TMDLs for bacteria and
nutrients. Sam Unger (Los
Angeles Regional Water Quality
Control Board) provided an update
on the development of chloride
TMDLs for the Santa Clara River
and Calleguas Creek watersheds.
Arturo Keller (UCSB) concluded
the plenary session with a
description of the nutrient TMDL
development for the Santa Clara
River watershed that illustrated the
benefits of using a stakeholder
approach. Each of the plenary
session presentations can be
viewed from the SoCal SETAC
web site (www.socalsetac.org).
A lunch buffet in the courtyard of
the Bren School provided a
wonderful setting to view the 20
posters on many topics, such as
endocrine disruption in fish,
contaminant accumulation in sea
turtles, reproductive toxicology of
cigarette smoke, and
phytoremediation of contaminated
soil. The afternoon platform
sessions included 15 presentations
focused on four themes: Science
and the TMDL Process, Coastal
Contamination, Environmental
Chemistry and Toxicology, and
Environmental Research in Baja
California. The meeting included
many student presentations in both
the platform and poster sessions
and two students were awarded
$200 and free membership in
SoCal SETAC for outstanding
presentations. Congratulations to
Duygu Tokat of UCSB, who
received the best platform
presentation award for her paper
entitled “Analysis of management
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conveyance systems to control
input of PCB-contaminated
sediments to San Francisco Bay”.
Arturo Juarez of CIBNOR (La Paz,
Baja California) received the best
poster award for his paper entitled
“Organochlorine contaminants and
other pesticides in marine turtles of
Baja California, preliminary data.
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Their presentations provided a
new perspective regarding
environmental studies in the region
and will hopefully stimulate more
international research
collaborations in the future.
Many thanks to the SETAC Board
members and others who donated
many extra hours to help organize
and conduct the meeting. We are
already planning the 2004 meeting
and hope it will be as successful as
this one.
Eight scientists and graduate
students from research institutions
in Baja California made the long
journey from La Paz to participate
in this meeting.
The UCSB Bren School provided a
wonderful location and great food
for the meeting.
Annual Meeting Financial Summary
Contributed by Arturo Keller
2003 Annual Mtg Expenses
2003 Annual Mtg Income
Travel
support
12%
Annual Dues
10%
Student
awards
9%
Insurance
8%
Instructor
short
course GIS
Supplies
8%
11%
Corporate
Sponsorship
20%
Catering
52%
Book auction
2%
Short Courses
17%
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high schools until she entered the biology program at San
Diego State University. Her studies were concentrated in
marine biology. Marissa was completely fascinated by
tide pool organisms. She spent a lot of time at the Point
Loma tide pools trudging around in her Teva sandals at
low tide observing the fascinating sea creatures. She had
the opportunity to spend a summer session at the Oregon
Institute of Marine Biology where she learned about
temperate marine biology and made many good friends.
Marissa received her bachelors’ degree in biology in 1989.
She was very proud to be a college graduate with a science
degree, which, at the time, was very uncommon for a
Mexican woman.
Editor’s Note:
As our organization continues to grow, it is with
fondness and appreciation that we, the current officers
and members of the board, recall the contributions of
those who have served the organization in the past.
Beginning with this issue, we will devote a section of
SoCal SETAC News to recognize former officers and
board members.
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Who was Marissa Gaumond?
Marissa’s first job was with Kinnetic Laboratories in
Carlsbad. She was very lucky to fall under the mentorship
of Ken Schiff, currently the deputy director of the
Southern California Coastal Water Research Project
(SCCWRP). Marissa loved working for Ken - whether it
was collecting sediment samples in the Port of LA aboard
the Shana Rae, or racing out at 2 am to collect stormwater
samples on some military base, or interfacing with the
marine biology lab in Ensenada (she was bilingual),
Marissa always gave 100 percent. In 1993, Marissa began
to suffer some health problems and had successful surgery
to remove a malignant tumor from her abdomen. She was
extremely touched by the support she received from her
Kinnetic’s co-workers who got together and donated their
own vacation and sick time to help her out.
Contributed by
Barry Snyder
AMEC Earth and Environmental, San Diego
Each year, the southern California Chapter of SETAC
donates $200 to Uplift/Kids at Heart in the memory of
Marissa Gaumond. Many long-time chapter members
have fond memories of Marissa. So, just who was Marissa
Gaumond anyway?
I met Marissa in 1994 when her interest in aquatic
toxicology lead her to seek a position at Ogden
Environmental’s Bioassay Lab is San Diego (which is now
known as AMEC). She began working at Ogden just as
the lab was going through its big move to a brand new
facility. Initially she worked as a lab technician
conducting all sorts of toxicity tests with freshwater and
saltwater organisms. She soon became the lab’s QA
supervisor. Marissa was instrumental in establishing
programs in AMEC’s San Diego bioassay laboratory that
are still in place today to ensure the highest quality data
are produced by the lab. Although she was a strict
taskmaster when it came to test quality, she also brought a
lot of humor to the lab and was, as she put it, a real
jokester. She developed strong working relationships and
friendships with her supervisor and past chapter president
Marilyn Schwartz, chapter webmaster Chris Stransky, and
colleagues Steve Carlson, Nick Buhbe, and Lawrence
Honma - and a very special friendship with me.
Marissa was born in 1966 in Baja California, Mexico to
Manuel and Elsa Aguirre. Marissa’s father was a tuna
boat captain based in Ensenada, Mexico. Marissa grew up
in Chula Vista where she attended Catholic grammar and
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one with her mother Elsa through Copper Canyon,
Mexico, a month-long trip through Ireland with her best
friend Carmel, a kayak trip to Anacapa Island with Dave
Gutoff and me, and a tour of the Northeast with Marilyn
Schwartz following the 1996 national SETAC meeting.
In December of 1998, Marissa had a reoccurrence of the
cancer that she dealt with 5 years earlier. This was a
particularly rare and aggressive form of cancer. Although
she fought hard, she passed away on March 14, 1999
surrounded by her family and friends. Her ashes were
spread in the ocean at her favorite beach, Torrey Pines.
Marissa is well remembered for her humor, generosity, and
caring. In addition to the annual donation made in
Marissa’s name by SoCal SETAC, AMEC Earth &
Environmental presents the annual “Marissa AguirreGaumond Leadership Award” to a Challenger Middle
School student who has a deep love of the ocean and it
inhabitants, and is kind and respectful to teachers and other
students.
Marissa was an active member of SoCal SETAC in the
early years and served as chapter secretary. She attended
the national SETAC meetings in Washington DC (1996)
and San Francisco (1997).
Marissa was also very active outside of work as well. She
worked as a volunteer tutor at Uplift/Kids at Heart and
Challenger Middle School. She cared dearly for children,
particularly for Latino children who struggle with English.
It’s been over 4 years now since
Marissa passed away. I’m proud
to say that her legacy of caring
continues
She loved to travel and did so extensively through
Europe, Mexico, and the US. Memorable trips included
Welcome New Members
Joseph Allen
Liz Ayres
Derek Beving
Trent Biggs
Jon Bishop
Sretlana Bondarenko
Míchel Boudrias
Victoria Broje
Norm Brown
Allen Calliupe
Mingjie Chen
Tessa Clark
Carrie Culver
Dimitri D. Deheyn
J. Lauren Everett
Choumiline Evgueni
Sionnan L. Fitzgerald
Jennifer Gibson
Adrienne Hubur
J. Arturo Juárez Cerón
Membership Reminder
Jennifer Jay
Suzanne Liebermann
Weiping Liu
Mary McGann
Lia Mendez
Ed Miller
Luke Montague
Brad Newton
Alfredo Ortega
Gail Oshorenko
Anand Patel
Chris Pincetich
David Pritchett
Timothy Robinson
Durga Rodríguez-Meza
Itzel Sifuentes
Karen Taul
Duygu Tokat
Yi Zheng
The membership term for SoCal SETAC is
Jan. 1 through Dec. 31. Current member
renewals made at the 2003 annual meeting
have been applied to 2004 membership.
Membership for new members who signed up
at the 2003 annual meeting will expire on Dec.
31, 2003.
Please fill out a membership form (found
both in this newsletter and on the website) so
we can update your contact information. Send
the form and your check (payable to SoCal
SETAC) to:
Karen Riveles
SoCal SETAC Secretary
P.O. Box 655
Riverside, CA. 92502
If you have any questions regarding your
membership status, please email Karen at:
karenriv@aol.com
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to conduct "real" science-- something that would change
the world. While I didn't end up changing the world, I
learned a lot about the logistics of designing and
implementing a nine month long science project. After
doing some research I decided to study the effects of
pulp mill effluent on the development of sea urchin
embryos. As it turned out, Steve Bay provided me with
the bulk of the guidance that I would receive on this
project. He not only put me in contact with someone
who could supply me with the toxicant, he helped my
father breath new life into a chiller from this lab. My
poor parents--their gazebo in the backyard now housed a
two hundred gallon fish tank with an exceedingly loud
chiller, their wet bar was now a wet lab, and their
daughter was chopping up sea urchins in their kitchen to
recover their gonads. My father and I would go down to
San Pedro every couple of weeks to obtain new urchins
every time a batch would inevitably perish in the
makeshift saltwater tank. We even received strange
looks from the butcher at the local market who thought
that I was really weird when I explained to him that I
needed the lobster ALIVE so that I could keep it in a fish
tank to start the process of establishing the right bugs to
ensure that the tank would remain functional.
Eventually the project had to come to an end. I had very
few data points but despite this I managed to produce a
report with graphs and photographs of the sea urchin
embryos in their various states of malformed
development.
Meet the Board
Shelly Magier
UC Santa Barbara
Bren School of Environmental Management
From the time I was a small child I was exposed to the
treasures that the rocky intertidal has to offer. Often, the
majority of my time on family vacations was spent in
tidepools looking for creatures that call this dynamic
habitat home. One of the most significant moments of
my life occurred the morning of the first day of eighth
grade. Life science was the name of the course. It was
during this first class session that I realized that the study
of all of the wonderful creatures I had been looking at in
the field, as well as on those wildlife picture cards with
the information on the back, was defined by adults as the
discipline of biology. Wow, I was relieved to know that
my explorations did not have to be relegated to a hobby- I could actually do this stuff for a living! During the
summer of eighth grade I became a certified SCUBA
diver on Catalina Island. For the remainder of my time
living under my parents' roof, my scientific endeavors
were confined to the field, except for my collections of
fossils, shells, and flowers. While I'm sure my parents
were pleased that I was turning into quite the dedicated
and enthusiastic scientist, I am positive that they could
not foresee the adventure they were about to embark
upon.
After high school I attended Bowdoin College, located
in Brunswick Maine, for the entirety of my
undergraduate career. College was an excellent excuse
to explore a part of the country that I may not have
otherwise had the opportunity to get to know so well.
While this was an incredible experience, tidepooling,
among other things, was quite a different endeavor.
While searching for intertidal invertebrates for my
ecology course, I managed to freeze my hands to the
point of getting frost nip. Of course I was so intent on
capturing the essence of these creatures with my camera
I did not realize what was happening to my hands until I
attempted to turn the key in the ignition of my car. The
30 minutes following this adventure were the most
physically painful minutes of my life. Note to everyone
reading this, should you run into a similar situation,
defrost your hands gradually--holding them in front of
the heater is not advised.
After graduation, I moved back to Chatsworth (yee ha!)
and decided that I wanted to do some thing for the
impaired habitats in my own backyard. I decided to
During my junior year of high school I decided that I
was going to conduct a senior project. Yes, I was going
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intern for Heal the Bay, a local non-profit organization
located in Santa Monica. I became involved in their
Stream Team program and found myself spending
countless hours in Malibu Creek doing water chemistry
work as well as mapping sources of impairments to the
Creek. At Heal the Bay I was exposed to many of the
tools and strategies utilized by successful environmental
advocates including, policy, public outreach, and
research. Working with such a dedicated group served
to be a constant source of inspiration. Before going to
Heal the Bay I was frustrated with the environmental
problems that face many of the human-dominated
ecosystems, but I did not know how to be an effective
force for change. After volunteering and working as
executive assistant for Heal the Bay, I realized that
objectively quantifying impairments, and being able to
effectively explain both the issues and the results to the
public and decision-makers, are equally important.
Based upon these observations my next step was to
attend the Bren School of Environmental Science and
Management at UC Santa Barbara.
August 2003
Joining SoCal SETAC Through
National SETAC?
Some problems have come to our attention as
a result of joining or renewing SoCal SETAC
membership through National SETAC.
If you joined or renewed your SoCal SETAC
membership through National SETAC,
please contact
Karen Riveles
SoCal SETAC Secretary
karenriv@aol.com
P.O. Box 655
Riverside, CA. 92502
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
I graduated from the Bren School this past June with a
Masters of Environmental Science and Management.
This program provided me with the experience and
opportunity to further explore the processes involved in
understanding the interdisciplinary nature of most
environmental issues. While I remained true to my first
love of biology, I found that landscape ecology and the
study of watershed and river systems was something that
enthralled me as well. All of these disciplines allowed
me to combine my knowledge of biological systems and
dynamic physical systems. Bringing the two together
was quite rewarding. In addition, being able to study the
effects of pollutants on the environment and the nature
of how one goes about predicting the fate and transport
of these pollutants has provided me with a fantastic base
from which to springboard into examining real world
environmental issues.
Contributed by Daniel Schlenk
September 2003 Meetings
Ecohazard 2003 IWA Conference 14 - 17 September
2003, Aachen, Germany. For more information, go to
http://www.ecohazard2003.rwth-aachen.de/main.html.
17th Biennial Conference of the Estuarine Research
Federation 14 - 18 September 2003, Seattle,
Washington. Estuaries on the Edge: Convergence of
Ocean, Land, and Culture. For more information, go to
http://fish.washington.edu/news/erf/
19th International Symposium on Polycyclic
Aromatic Compounds, 21 - 25 September 2003,
Amsterdam, The Netherlands. For more information, go
to http://www.caos.nl/ispac19.
Currently I am enjoying my free time and, of course,
actively looking for employment. I hope that the next
chapter of my life will provide me with a renewed
perspective just as my childhood adventures, academic
endeavors and, most recently, my experience at the Bren
School, have provided me.
SETAC Asia/Pacific Conference 2003. 28 September 1 October 2003, Christchurch, New Zealand. Solutions
to Pollution. For scientific information, contact
TremblayL@landcareResearch.co.nz
41st Congress of the European Societies of
Toxicology - EUROTOX 2003 28 September - 1
October 2003, Florence, Italy. Hosted by the Italian
Society of Toxicology (SITOX). For more information,
go to http://www.eurotox2003.org
Editor’s Note:
Shelly’s current email address is: smagier@bren.ucsb.edu
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October 2003 Meetings
Meadowlands Symposium: A scientific symposium
focusing on the Hackensack Meadowlands 9 - 10
October 2003, New Jersey Meadowlands Commission, 1
Dekorte Park Plaza, Lyndhurst,NJ. Announcement and
Call for Abstracts. For complete information, go to the
symposium web site:
http://cimic.rutgers.edu/meri/symposium.
International Workshop on Quality of LCI Data 20 21 October 2003, Karisruhn, Germany. First
Announcement and Call for Papers. For additional
information, go http://www.lci-network.de/lci-quality
November 2003 Meetings
November 8 through 13, 2003
24th Annual Meeting of the American College of
Toxicology 2 - 5 November 2003, Washington, DC,
USA. For more information go to http://www.actox.org/
“Science Without Borders: Developing Solutions for
Global Environmental Challenges”
SETAC North America 24 th Annual Meeting 8 - 12
November 2003, Austin, Texas, USA.
Check www.setac.org for information on abstract
submission and meeting registration
6th International Conference on the Environmental
Management of Enclosed Coastal Seas. 18 - 21
November 2003, Bangkok, Thailand "Comprehensive
and Responsible Coastal Zone Management for
Sustainable adn Friendly Coexistence between Nature
and People." For more information go to
http://www.emecs2003.com
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SoCal SETAC Officers – Fiscal Year 2003-2004
POSITION
NAME & AFFILIATION
RESPONSIBILITIES
Past President
Steve Bay
SCCWRP
steveb@sccwrp.org
Advisor/Stand-in for President and Vice-President
Program Committee Chair for SoCal SETAC
Annual Meeting
President
Philip Markle
L.A. County Sanitation Districts
pmarkle@lacsd.org
National SETAC Liaison
Board Agenda & Action Items
Vice-President
Lan Wiborg
City of San Diego
lwiborg@sandiego.gov
Newsletter Editor
Treasurer
Arturo Keller
UC Santa Barbara
Keller@bren.ucsb.edu
Maintain Chapter Finances/Non-profit status
Meeting Finances & Contracts
Secretary
Karen Riveles
UC Riverside
karenriv@aol.com
Membership Maintenance
Recording board meeting minutes
Election Coordinator
Webmasters
Chris Stransky
AMEC Earth and Environmental
chris.stransky@amec.com
Maintains and updates SoCal SETAC web site
Jon Ball
City of Los Angeles
jball@san.lacity.org
Historian
Jeff Armstrong
Orange County Sanitation District
jarmstrong@ocsd.com
Maintains So Cal SETAC archives
SoCal SETAC Board of Directors
Board Member
(2003-2005)
Brian Hester
MEC Analytical
hester@mecanalytical.com
Board Member
(2002-2004)
Daniel Schlenk
UC Riverside
daniel.schlenk@ucr.edu
Board Member
(2003-2005)
Jan Gan
UC Riverside
jgan@mail.ucr.edu
Board Member
(2002-2004)
Carlita Barton
University of San Francisco
cmatias@lacsd.org
Board Member
(2002-2004)
Paul Krause
BBL Sciences
pkrause@bbl-inc.com
Board Member
(2001-2004)
Shelly Magier
UC Santa Barbara
smagier@bren.ucsb.edu
Board Member
(2003-2005)
Cherulyn Seruto
UC Riverside
cseru001@student.ucr.edu
Board Member
(2002-2004)
Jon Ball
City Of Los Angeles
jball@san.lacity.org
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Active Member
$20.00 per year
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Regional Member
$20.00 per year
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Student Member
$10.00 per year
*Active Members and Regional Members are qualified professionals who share the stated purpose of the Chapter and who have
education, training, research or applied experience in environmental toxicology and/or chemistry. Active Members must also be
members of National SETAC. Student Members are individuals who share the stated purpose of the Chapter and are students
showing promise of becoming qualified for Regional or Active status at a later date.
Please check here if you would prefer not to be included in the membership directory
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