Ken Finkelstein co-led a two day Natural Resource Damage Assessment short course on June 10-11, 2014, at the University Of Massachusetts, Amherst conference center.

The short course was sponsored by the North Atlantic Chapter of SETAC (Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry) and preceded the annual chapter meeting. The course included speakers who both represent industry and those from the State and Federal Governments. Presentations covered biological and recreational injury along with key resource economic models (habitat and resource equivalency analysis) as tools in the decision process with the goal of cooperative solutions. Kari Sheets contributed to the short course by presenting an introduction to ERMA and used some New England data to help with the student NRDA exercise.

For further information, contact Ken.Finkelstein@noaa.gov.

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