Panel Discussion on Potential Public Health Impacts of Marcellus
Shale Drilling
What do we need to know? A panel discussion on potential
public health impacts of Marcellus Shale drilling
Pitt press release (?)
22August 2010
Friday, August 27; 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
G23 Parran Hall, 130 DeSoto Street, Oakland (Pittsburgh)
Free and open to the public
For more information visit, http://www.chec.pitt.edu
and http://www.fractracker.org
Serious potential environmental and public health concerns surround the
gas extraction process used in the Marcellus Shale, the sedimentary
rock formation underlying significant portions of Pennsylvania, New
York, and West Virginia. This panel discussion will address the
following topics:
- Conceptual site modeling
- Potential human exposure pathways to water and air
contaminants
- Behavioral and community health concerns
- Public health preparedness related to gas industry operations
- Fractracker.org, a Web platform that gives researchers the
ability to directly engage citizens in the collection of data to
effectively demonstrate the impacts of Marcellus Shale gas extraction
Panelists:
All aparently from the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) GSPH (Graduate
School of Public Health)
- Dan Volz, DrPH, MPH, assistant professor in the GSPH (Graduate
School of Public Health) Department of Environmental and
Occupational Health, and director of the Center for Healthy
Environments and Communities (CHEC)
- Charles Christen, DrPH, MEd, CHEC director of operations
- Samantha Malone, MPH, CPH, CHEC communications specialist