The editors of HERA are pleased to announce the selection of Papers of Year 2007. We are proud of the high quality mix of papers that are published annually in our journal. Selection of papers of the year is a special pat on the back for authors whose peers recommended it.
Selection of papers of the year begins with the HERA Editorial Board. This group of distinguished scientists and risk assessment professionals nominated papers for consideration. HERA's senior editors for human health, ecological risk assessment, and risk communication pared the list of nominated papers to two within each category: Human Risk Assessment, Ecological Risk Assessment, Integration of Human and Ecological Risk Assessment, and Risk Communication. HERA's Editors in Chief made the final selections of Papers of Year 2007. The selection criteria were twofold: (a) degree of contribution to the field of risk assessment and (b) overall quality of writing.
We congratulate the authors of the selected Papers of Year 2007.
HERA PAPERS OF YEAR 2007
Ecological Risk Assessment Paper of Year 2007
AM Colnar and WG Landis. Conceptual Model Developments for Invasive Species and a Regional Risk Assessment Case Study: The European Green Crab, Carcinus maenas, at Cherry Point, Washington, USA. HERA 13(1):120–55
“An important advance in ecological risk assessment at the regional scale dealing with invasive species, arguably a more important global stressor than chemical contamination.” (HERA Senior Editor)
Human Risk Assessment Paper of Year 2007
DR Brown, BG Callahan, and AL Boissevain. An Assessment of Risk from Particulate Released from Outdoor Wood Boilers. HERA 13(1):192–208
“An interesting human RA for wood smoke exposure that shows the problems of using 24-h and annual averages in air quality when shorter term peaks, which such averaging ignores, may be associated with appreciable risks.” (HERA Editorial Board Member)
Integration of Human and Ecological Risk Assessment Paper of Year 2007
T Vermeire, WR Munns Jr, J Sekizawa, G Suter, and G Van der Kraak. An Assessment of Integrated Risk Assessment. HERA 13(2):339–54
“The authors provide an innovative integrated approach based on common mechanisms and systems biology.” (HERA Editorial Board Member)
Risk Communication Paper of Year 2007
No paper was selected.
HERA PAPERS OF THE YEAR
Ecological Risk Assessment
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2007—AM Colnar and WG Landis. Conceptual model developments for invasive species and a regional risk assessment case study: The European Green Crab, Carcinus maenas, at Cherry Point, Washington, USA. HERA 13(1):120–55
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2006—J Meador. 2006. Rationale and procedures for using the tissue-residue approach for toxicity assessment and determination of tissue, water, and sediment quality guidelines for aquatic organisms. HERA 12:1018–73
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2005—L Hall Jr and DT Burton. An integrated case study for evaluating the impacts of an oil refinery effluent on aquatic biota in the Delaware River. HERA 11:647–936
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2004—AI Borgmann, MJ Moody, and RP Scroggins. The Lab-to-Field (LTF) rating scheme: A new method of investigating the relationships between laboratory sublethal toxicity tests and field measurements in environmental effects monitoring studies. HERA 10:683–707
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2003—PM. Chapman, F Wang, CR Janssen, RR Goulet, and CN Kamunde. Conducting ecological risk assessments of inorganic metals and metalloids: Current status. HERA 9:641–97
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2002—HM Regan, BK Hope, and S Ferson. Analysis and portrayal of uncertainty in a food-web exposure model. HERA 8:1757–77
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2001—KR Solomon, JP Giesy, RJ Kendall, LB Best, JR Coats, KR Dixon, MJ Hooper, EE Kenaga, and ST McMurry. 2001. Chlorpyrifos: Ecotoxicological risk assessment for birds and mammals in corn agroecosystems. HERA 7:497–632
Human Risk Assessment
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2007—DR Brown, BG Callahan, and AL Boissevain. An assessment of risk from particulate released from outdoor wood boilers. HERA 13(1):192–208
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2006—LR Rhomberg and TA Lewandowski. 2006. Methods for identifying a default cross-species scaling factor. HERA 12:1094–127
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2005—SH Lamm and MB Kruse. Arsenic ingestion and bladder cancer mortality—What do the dose-response relationships suggest about mechanism? HERA 11:433–50
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2004—JC Lipscomb. Evaluating the relationship between variance in enzyme expression and toxicant concentration in health risk assessment. HERA 10:39–55
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2003—JN Bunce and RBJ Remillard. Haber's rule: The search for quantitative relationships in toxicology. HERA 9:1547–59
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2002—CE Furlong, W-F Li, DM Shih, AJ Lusis, RJ Richter, and LG Costa. Genetic factors in susceptibility: Serum PON1 variation between individuals and species. HERA 8:31–43
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2001—D Bruce. KC Naumann, RD Silverman, EC Faria, and EV Sargent. 2001. Case studies of categorical data-derived adjustment factors. HERA 7:61–107
Integration of Human and Ecological Risk Assessment
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2007—T Vermeire, WR Munns Jr, J Sekizawa, G Suter, and G Van der Kraak. An assessment of integrated risk assessment. HERA 13(2):339–54
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2006—DW Pennington, M Margni, J Payet, and O Jolliet. 2006. Risk and regulatory hazard based toxicological effect indicators in life cycle assessment (LCA). HERA 12:450–75
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2005—JL Schnoor. Global warming: A consequence of human activities rivaling Earth's biogeochemical processes. HERA 11:1105–10
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2004—No paper was selected.
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2003—GW Suter II, T Vermeire, WR Munns, Jr, and J Sekizawa. Framework for the integration of health and ecological risk assessment. HERA 9:281–301
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2002—SK Driscoll, WT Wickwire, JJ Cura, DJ Vorhees, CL Butler, DW Moore, and TS Bridges: A comparative screening-level ecological and human risk assessment for dredged material management alternatives in New York/New Jersey harbor. HERA 8:603–26
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2001—No paper was selected.
Risk Communication
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2007—No paper was selected.