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May 25, 2004	Burger J., Gochfeld M., Powers C. Friedlander B., Eichelberger J., Barnes, D., Duffy L., Jewett S., and Volz C., “Science, Policy, Regulators and Stakeholders Developing a Consensus Science Plan for Amchitka Island, Aleutians, Alaska; presented at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute, Environmental Session
August 15, 2004	Ecological Risk and Conceptual Site Models Where Critical Risk is Offsite for Ecological Receptors, especially birds: The Case of the Department Of Energy's Amchitka Island Nuclear Test Site J. Burger, H. Meyer, M. Greenburg, M. Gochfeld, C. Powers and C.D. Volz American Ornithological Union Conference, Quebec City, Canada.
October 9, 2004	Volz, C. D. Story Session and Conference Paper-“Community Collaborations in Public Health: The Pittsburgh PA and Sakhalin, The Russian Republic Experience. A Partnership of Magee Women's International and the University of Pittsburgh's Graduate School of Public Health” Demonstration of an Environmental public Health Prioritization Process International Conference of Community Campus Partnerships for Health and The Network: Towards Unity for Health (World Health Organization), Atlanta, Georgia.
August 8-12, 2005	The CRESP Amchitka Expedition: A Model for Multi- and Interdisciplinary Research into Radionuclide Contamination Interdisciplinary Research into Radionuclide Contamination, Volz, C. D. NATO Conference on Containment of Natural and Manmade Disasters, Kaunas, Lithuania.
September 27, 2005	Transport and Fate of Mercury in the Environment, Volz, C. D. Sierra Club Mercury Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA.
October 8, 2005	Exposure Assessment of Pennsylvania Communities Contaminated by Legacy Iron and Steel (ISI) Waste, Volz, C.D. Collaborative on Health and the Environment for Pennsylvania and the Battle of Homestead Foundation, Homestead Pump house, Homestead, PA.
October 24, 2005	Exposure Assessment as the Basis for Evaluating Alternative Land Use End States in Pennsylvania Communities Contaminated by Legacy Iron and Steel Industry Waste, Volz, C. D. Pennsylvania Public Health Association's 2005 Annual Conference.
October 26, 2005	An Implementation Analysis of a Pittsburgh Based Environmental Asthma Intervention, Volz, C. D., Lewis, C., Horsch, J. Pennsylvania Public Health Association's 2005 Annual Conference.
October 26, 2005	Use of Conceptual Site Models to Understand Human and Ecological Risk from Legacy Iron and Steel Industry Wastes in the Three Rivers Area of Pittsburgh, Volz, C. D., Davis, D., Horsch, J., Domike, S. Ali, R. Pennsylvania Public Health Association's 2005 Annual Conference.
November 5, 2005	Transport and Fate of Air Contaminants in the Monongahela Valley REACH Mon Valley and Clean Water Action.
December, 2005	T5.5  Balancing worker risk and expedition benefit in a remote environment with uncharacterized hazards: Keeping expedition personnel safe in a risky environment . Gochfeld M., Volz D., Jewett S., Burger J. T5.3  What geophysical data can tell us about potential exposure pathways. Kosson D., Unsworth M., Johnson M., Barnes D., Vyas V., Volz D . Society for Risk Analysis, 2005 Annual Conference, Orlando Florida.
June, 2006	Skopje, Macedonia, NATO Advanced Science Institute. “Conceptual Models to Assist in Radionuclide, and Toxic and Carcinogenic Chemical and Metal Exposure Assessment” also Course Co-Director.
September 15, 2006	Volz, CD, The Relationship of Land and Water Management to Flood Risk and Contaminant Deposition for Weathering the Storm: Lessons from the Floods, Wyndham Garden Hotel, Pittsburgh, PA.
October 7, 2006	Global Problems, Global Solutions, LaRoche College and the Graduate School of Public Health –Environment Presenter- Water Management: The Most Important Public Health Challenge of the 21 st Century
March 14, 2007	Volz, CD., Results of the Pittsburgh Fish Consumption Study of 2005, Water Quality Roundtable, Sponsored by the Heinz Endowments and the Pennsylvania Environmental Council, Pittsburgh, PA.
March 16, 2007	Liu, Y., Volz, CD., and Sussman, N., Deans Day Student Presentations, First Prize Winner, Dean's Day- Graduate School of Public Health, Pittsburgh, PA.
April 17, 2007	Houghton, F.,Liu, Y.,, Price, CJ., Elm, MS., Donovan, M., Davis , D, Volz, CD., and Eagon, P. Estrogenicity of tissue extracts from white bass and channel catfish caught along the Three Rivers of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), Los Angeles, California. Full text.
April 18, 2007	Volz, CD., Houghton, F., Sussman, N., Lenzner, D., Liu, Y.,, Davis, D., Donovan, M., and Eagon, P., Pittsburgh Environmental Health Summit, Biomonitoring fishes for estrogenicity, and mercury levels in the Allegheny, Ohio and Monongahela Rivers. Sponsored by EPHT and GSPH, Holiday Inn, Campus, Pittsburgh , PA.
June 9, 2007	Volz, CD., Houghton, F., Sussman, N., Lenzner, D., El Hefnawy, T., Davis, D., Donovan, M., and Eagon, P., “REACH: A New EU Approach to Chemical Safety: Lessons for the United States ?” A conference on the European Union (EU) regulation providing for Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of CHemicals (REACH): The case of pharmaceutical estrogens and xenoestrogens in combined and sanitary sewer overflow waste streams and wastewater treatment effluent. Sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh European Studies Center And The University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health (GSPH).
June 12, 2007	Volz, CD., Houghton, F., Sussman, N., Lenzner, D., El Hefnawy, T., Davis, D., Donovan, M., and Eagon, P., University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Center for Environmental Oncology, Research Meeting, Novel ways to assess estrogenicity in fish and the use of GIS methods to determine proximity to pollution sources, Hillman Cancer Center, Pittsburgh, PA.
June 15, 2007	Volz, CD., Houghton, F., Sussman, N., Lenzner, D., El Hefnawy, T., Davis, D., Donovan, M., and Eagon, P.,.University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI)Scientific Retreat, Estrogenicity of Channel Catfish fillet and dense concentrations of combined and sanitary sewer overflows. University of Pittsburgh, Greensburg .
June 30, 2007	Volz, CD., Singleton, K. and Rucekova, A. CESRA and the Wolf Creek Water Group, Use of a Community Based Participatory Research Program in the Grove City Area to understand patterns of disease and cancer mortality. Grove City, PA.
August 8, 2007	Volz CD, Environmental Public Health Tracking Network, University of Pittsburgh Academic Center for Excellence (UPACE), Advisory Group Meeting. Biomonitoring fishes for exposure assessment and source location purposes: Examples for mercury, arsenic, selenium and estrogenicity. Graduate School of Public Health, Pittsburgh, PA.
August 23-24, 2007	Volz, C.D., Environmental Public Health Tracking Network, Water Committee Task Force. Methods to assess left censored or non-detect data. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Washington DC, EPA Headquarters.
September 13, 2007	Volz, CD., Houghton, F., Sussman, N., Lenzner, D., Davis, D., Donovan, M., El Hafnawy, T. and Eagon, P., Third National Conference on Environmental Science and Technology, Catfish estrogenicity and its association with sewer overflows: Implications for human exposure., North Carolina A&T, Greensboro, NC.
September 14, 2007	Walters, M., and Volz, C.D. Third National Conference on Environmental Science and Technology, Pharmaceutical estrogens and Xenoestrogens in wastewater treatment plant effluent: Implications for both human and wildlife effects. North Carolina A&T, Greensboro, NC .
September 17, 2007	Volz, CD., Lunch & Learn Series: Continuing Medical Education Program- Environmental Links to Cancer, University of Pittsburgh-Center for Environmental Oncology ‘Using Area Fish to Aid in Pollution Source Identification and Assess Human Exposure to Xenoestrogens, Mercury and Arsenic' Herberman Auditorium, Hillman Cancer Center, Pittsburgh PA.
September 19, 2007	Volz, CD., The Winchester Thurston School Honors Program, Combined Sewer Overflows in Pittsburgh, PA and Associated Water Quality Threats, The Winchester Thurston School, Pittsburgh, PA.
September 25, 2007	Volz, CD., Central Atlantic States Association, Food and Drug Officials: "Toxic contaminants in commercial and river caught fish", Pittsburgh Conference, Pittsburgh, PA.
October 5, 2007	Volz, C.D., Komen Foundation (Race for the Cure) and Heinz Endowments, Local and national water and the estrogenic properties effecting both men and women. Third Annual Health and the Environment Conference, Elk Regional Health System, Women's Health Initiative, St. Mary's, PA.
October 11, 2007	Volz, CD., Houghton, F., Sussman, N., Lenzner, D., Davis, D., Donovan, M., El Hafnawy, T and Eagon, P., Science 2007, University of Pittsburgh, Estrogenicity of channel catfish tissue is associated with high densities of sewer overflows in Pittsburgh Pa; Implications for human population exposure to xenoestrogens from drinking water in the Greater Pittsburgh Metropolitan Area, Alumni Hall, Pittsburgh, PA.
October 11, 2007	Liu, Y., Volz, CD., Sussman, N. and Sharma, R. Science 2007, University of Pittsburgh, Mercury, arsenic and selenium in Channel Catfish (Ictalarus punctatus): Implications for pollution source identification and food safety. Alumni Hall, Pittsburgh, PA.
October 24, 2007	Volz, C.D., The Allegheny River Stewardship Project, Three Rivers Water Roundtable, Pennsylvania Environmental Council, Pittsburgh, PA.
October 30, 2007	Volz, C.D., Community Awareness Presentation of the Allegheny River Stewardship Project, Alle-Kisk Health Foundation, Heinz Endowments and Highmark Foundation, Pittsburgh Mills Mall, Frazier Township, PA
November 7, 2007	Frank Houghton, PhD, Conrad Volz, DrPH, MPH, Yan Liu, BS Env Eng, Christopher Price, Mary Elm, Devra Lee Davis, PhD, MPH, Maryann Donovan, MPH, PhD, Patricia Eagon, PhD, Accepted for Oral Presentation 5041.0: Use of a human breast cancer cell proliferation assay as an exposure assessment tool for total bioaccumulated xenoestrogens in Channel Catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) caught in various locations on the Allegheny, Monongahela and Ohio Rivers near Pittsburgh PA: Implications for consumption of river-caught fish 2007. American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC. Full Text.
November 7, 2007	Conrad Volz, DrPH, MPH, Nancy Sussman, PhD, Devra Lee Davis, PhD, MPH, Maryann Donovan, MPH, PhD, Yan Liu, BS Env Eng, Sean Brady, BS, MA, Karen Gainey, Jeanne Zborowski, PhD, MS, Accepted Oral Presentation 5041.0: Mercury, Arsenic and Selenium in White Bass fillet caught in the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers near Pittsburgh PA; Comparisons with store-bought fish from Canadian Lake Erie. 2007 American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC. Full Text.
November 7, 2007	Conrad Volz, DrPH, MPH, Yan Liu, BS Env Eng, Nancy Sussman, PhD, Sean Brady, BS, MA, Paul Caruso, Tiffany Green, BS, Myron Arnowitt, BA, Jim Peterson, PhD, Charles Christen, MEd, LPC, Maryann Donovan, MPH, PhD, Devra Lee Davis, PhD, MPH, Patricia Eagon, PhD, Kelly McMahon, MD, Ravi K. Sharma, PhD, Accepted for Oral Presentation, 5041.0: Mercury, Arsenic and Selenium in Channel Catfish from the Allegheny, Monongahela and Ohio Rivers near Pittsburgh PA: Implications for metallotoxin source identification and fish consumption by local anglers . 2007 American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC. Full text.
November 7, 2007	Christen, C., Volz, CD., Caruso P., Arnowitt, M., Brady, S., Liu, Y., Davis, DL., and Talbott, EO. Accepted 5041.0: Results of semi-subsistence and recreational angler focus groups: Reports of combined sewer overflows, chemical releases and associated water-related illnesses in the Three Rivers area of Pittsburgh. Additionally the focus group method shows merit in reporting, often under-reported, gastrointestinal illnesses associated with recreational river water contact. American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC. Full text.
November 7, 2007	Volz, CD, Accepted-Session Moderator, Contaminants in Freshwater Fish: Toxicity, Sources and Risk Communication, 5041.0: Chemical contaminants in freshwater fish present potential health risks for subsistence fishers and recreational anglers. Many questions remain, however, about the sources and associated human health risks of those contaminants, their policy implications, and how to communicate risk information to culturally diverse fish-consuming populations. The first presentation in this session reports on the development and evaluation of a fish consumption advisory program, designed to be culturally sensitive for a Native American population. The following four presentations all originate from the comprehensive study in one geographic region, the Pittsburgh Fish Consumption Study. One presentation describes community based participatory research techniques used to understand patterns of fish consumption by semi-subsistence fishers and recreational anglers, and the discovery of unexpected results about the extent of pollution sources and under-reported gastrointestinal illnesses. The findings of fish tissue analyses for metal and xenoestrogen content are reported in the following presentations, with consideration of their broader implications, particularly source identification and health risks. American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC. Full text.
January 15, 2008	Lenzner, D, Stone, R., Wilson, J. and  Volz, C.D. Novel statistical methodologies to determine if channel catfish estrogenicity is higher in areas with dense concentrations of sewer overflows. University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Center for Environmental Oncology Scientific Research Group Meeting, Hillman Cancer Center .
January 15, 2008	Volz C. D. The Allegheny River Stewardship Project Community Meeting, Crooked Creek Environmental Center, Ford City PA.
January 17, 2008	Volz, C. D. Mercury Concentrations in River and Store-Bought Freshwater Fish of the Same Species, Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission, Mount Pleasant PA.
January 24, 2008	Volz, C. D. Estrogenicity Levels in Three Rivers Fish are Correlated with High Densities of Sewer Overflows, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection-Emerging Contaminants Forum, Harrisburg, PA.
February 7, 2008	Volz, C.D. The Tale of Two Area Fish and What they Tell Us About Water Quality, Environmental and Occupational Health Departmental Presentation, GSPH-EOH.
February 7, 2008	Volz, C.D. The Allegheny River Stewardship Project; How Community and Non-Profit Organizations Can Help, Water Quality Roundtable, Millvale, PA
February 29, 2008	Volz, C.D. 1st Annual Volunteer Internship and Career Day, Employer Panel Participant, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh
March 3, 2008	Volz, C.D. Contamination in the Allegheny River Valley-What Individuals Can Do to Help, Café Scientifique, Penn Brewery, Pittsburgh, PA.
March 29, 2008	Volz, C.D. Contaminants Emitted from Electrical Generating Facilities in Southwestern Pennsylvania, Group Against Smog and Pollution, Rodef Shalom Temple, Pittsburgh, PA.
April 7, 2008	Volz, C.D., the Allegheny River Stewardship Project and Pharmaceutical Estrogens and Xenoestrogens in Water; A Citizen Science Program. University of Pittsburgh, Bradford PA Campus; Sponsored by the McKean County Conservation District and the Pennsylvania State University, College of Agriculture, Cooperative Extension, McKean County.