Eduardo Sáez Invited Speaker in NIEHS Webinar Series
Sept. 14, 2012
University of Arizona Superfund Research Program (UA SRP) investigator Eduardo Sáez was recently an invited speaker in the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) Risk e-Learning Webinar Series. The webinar series coincides with the 25th anniversary of the NIEHS SRP and the 10th anniversary of the Risk e-Learning Webinar Series, and entitled, “Arsenic – Health and Remediation Applications.”
Dr. Sáez participated in the first webinar of the series, “Emerging Issues – Arsenic Exposures.” He described the work that he and co-Investigator, Dr. Eric Betterton, have been doing as part of their UA SRP project “Characterization of wind-blown dust from tailings and other mining operations in the southwest.” He focused on dust as a mechanism for transporting arsenic from mining and smelting sites in Arizona and Australia, and discussed the impact that UA SRP’s phytostabilization field trial has had on reducing dust at an Arizona Superfund site.
Dr. Sáez was joined by Dr. Joseph Graziano (Columbia SRP) and Dr. Margaret Karagas (Dartmouth SRP), who provided an overview of the public health impacts of arsenic, and the use of epidemiology to track human health exposures to arsenic, respectively. An archive of this webinar is available on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s CLU-IN Training & Events Web page.