State Water Resources Control Board

BPTCP RESOURCES

Bay Protection and Toxic Cleanup Program - (BPTCP)

SEDIMENT QUALITY OBJECTIVES
SCIENTIFIC STEERING COMMITTEE

Development of sediment quality objectives is a highly complex and technically difficult process do to the lack of reliable predictive tools that can relate organism exposure to biological effects. The Scientific Steering Committee (SSC) is responsible for independently assessing the soundness and adequacy of the technical approach, and the tools and indicators developed specifically for the SQO program. In addition the SSC is responsible for ensuring that all findings and conclusions are well supported by appropriate analyses and studies. The SSC provides a very high level review based upon the members technical expertise and experience from around the nation.

Members of the SSC Participating in Phase I of the SQO Developmental Process

Dr. Peter Landrum: SSC Chair: Research Chemist (Retired) NOAA/Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory Ann Arbor, MI
Mr. Ed Long: Consultant and Former NOAA Scientist and developer of empirically derived sediment quality guidelines for NOAA’s Status and Trends Program
Dr. Robert Van Dolah: Benthic Ecologist, Director of the South Carolina Marine Resources Research Institute.
Dr. Rob Burgess: Research Scientist, EPA's Office of Research and Development (Atlantic Ecology Division-Narragansett)
Dr. Todd Bridges: Research Biologist, Director of the Center for Contaminated Sediments, Waterways Experiment Station (WES) U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, ERDC, Vicksburg, MS
Mr. Tom Gries: Environmental Scientist Washington Dept. of Ecology, Olympia, WA

Meeting Summaries and Presentations