2009 Annual Conference of the International Society for Exposure Science (ISES)

Details

• Corporate Authors:
  JS.I Research and Training Institute
• Description:
  This NIOSH R13 Award provided funding to ISES in partial support of the 2009 Joint Annual Conference of the International Society for Exposure Science (ISES). The conference planning occurred over a two year period with a conference program committee that with support from the Air & Waste Management Association (for conference management) and the ISES Secretariat. During 2008 and 2009 the conference program committee organized four plenary sessions and solicited proposals for symposia, individual scientific oral presentations, and individual scientific poster presentations. The proposals were peer reviewed in Spring 2009 by an international group of experts. The program committee received 31 symposia proposals and accepted 23 symposia with an average of 5 presentations in each symposia. Authors on the various symposia and regular abstracts came from over 50 countries. The conference program committee also organized satellite workshops, morning training sessions for students and new investigators, a student program including special sessions and a poster competition, and social events for conference participants. The committee received 27 applications for travel awards from students and persons from developing nations, and was able to provide partial or total conference and/or travel support to all applicants. A total of $20,000 was devoted to student/new researcher travel awards. The conference took place as scheduled on November 1-5, 2009, at the Marriott City Center in Minneapolis, MN. The conference registration was 397 persons (including 138 regular member full and 121 non-member full registrations, 54 single day, 10 press, and 66 student registrations). A total of 42 gratis registrations were provided to international, student/new researcher, and society founders/past society president attendees. The conference had 4 plenary sessions, 23 symposia, 15 platform oral sessions, 3 interactive poster discussion sessions, two 2-day-long poster sessions, and a student poster competition on Sunday evening. The conference program and scientific proceedings were disseminated via the Internet on both the conference and ISES's web pages and were distributed to conference participants on flash drives provided to each registrant. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Education Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Environmental Health Information Dissemination
• Series:
  Grant Final Reports
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Final Grant Report
• Place as Subject:
  Massachusetts ; Minnesota ; OSHA Region 1 ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 5 ; Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  OEP - Office of Extramural Programs
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-3
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20056540
• Citation:
  Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, R13-OH-009749, 2010 Jul; :1-3
• Contact Point Address:
  ISES Secretariat, JSI Research and Training Institute, 44 Farnsworth St, Boston MA 02210
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2010
• Performing Organization:
  International Society/ Exposure Analysis, Herndon, Virginia
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20090901
• Source Full Name:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• End Date:
  20100831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:016948b14cfa8d6787718a74bd0fbe5aa62224bcb3fb8a478df6e90a0f7ae321aed0096f091b8e58c16a5ef5bc2fb9603e20d613187ab052b2580391f9f9ed09
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/218899/cdc_218899_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 21.05 KB ]