Announcement of HERA's Papers of Year 2010

The editors of HERA are pleased to announce the selection of Papers of Year 2010. 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, which was compiled into a catalog of 25 nominated papers. From this catalog, HERA's senior editors for human health and ecological risk assessment selected the HERA Papers of Year 2010 within their specialty areas. The risk communication/perception paper of the year was selected by HERA's Managing Editor, with advice from the journal's Senior Editor for Risk Communication/Perception. HERA's Editors-in-Chief were responsible for selecting the risk management paper of the year and for considering the integration of human and ecological risk assessment paper of year 2010. The selection criteria for all four categories 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 2010. Well done!

Barry L. Johnson and José Luis Domingo

Editors in Chief

HERA PAPERS OF YEAR 2010

Ecological Risk Assessment Paper of Year 2010

Mark A. Harwell, John H. Gentile, Charles B. Johnson, David L. Garshelis, and Keith R. Parker. A Quantitative Ecological Risk Assessment of the Toxicological Risks from Exxon Valdez Subsurface Oil Residues to Sea Otters at Northern Knight Island, Prince William Sound, Alaska. HERA 16(4):727–76. “A very well-planned and executed study that provided scientifically credible information on an issue of political and economic importance.” (HERA Senior Editor).

Human Health Risk Assessment Paper of Year 2010

Niall O’Brien and Enda Cummins. Nano-Scale Pollutants: Fate in Irish Surface and Drinking Water Regulatory Systems. HERA 16(4): 847–872. “This paper evaluates in great detail the presence and potential health significance of several nanocomponents present in general commerce. Aside from intense interest in the issue of nanomaterials in the scientific and popular press, this study is an excellent example of complete treatment of a question from detailed historical background through assessment of practical risk” (HERA Senior Editor).

Risk Communication/Perception Paper of Year 2010

Simone Dohle, Carmen Keller, and Michael Siegrist. Conjoint Measurement of Base Station Siting Preferences HERA 16(4):325–836. “A valuable contribution to a better understanding of how the public makes decisions about a contemporary challenge, placement of technology within a community.” (HERA Senior Editor)

Risk Management Paper of Year 2010

David L. Olson and Desheng Dash Wu. Earthquakes and Risk Management in China. HERA 16(3):476–93. “In conjunction with broader use of information system technology, it may be possible to improve preparedness and response to earthquakes.” (HERA Editorial Board member)

Integration of Human and Ecological Risk Assessment Paper of Year 2010

No paper was selected.

HERA PAPERS OF THE YEAR

Ecological Risk Assessment

• 2010—MA Harwell, JH Gentile, CB Johnson, DL Garshelis, and KR Parker. A Quantitative Ecological Risk Assessment of the Toxicological Risks from Exxon Valdez Subsurface Oil Residues to Sea Otters at Northern Knight Island, Prince William Sound, Alaska. HERA 16(4):727–76

• 2009—MG Carls and JP Meador. A Perspective on the Toxicity of Petrogenic PAHs to Developing Fish Embryos Related to Environmental Chemistry. HERA 15:1084–98

• 2008—M Kamo M and Wu Naito. A Novel Approach to Determining a Population-Level Threshold in Ecological Risk Assessment: A Case Study of Zinc. HERA 14:714–27

• 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 13:120–55

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 2002—HM Regan, BK Hope, and S Ferson. Analysis and portrayal of uncertainty in a food-web exposure model. HERA 8:1757–77

• 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 Health Risk Assessment

• 2010—N O’Brien and E Cummins. Nano-Scale Pollutants: Fate in Irish Surface and Drinking Water Regulatory Systems. HERA 16(4): 847–72

• 2009—MT Brown and B Foos. Assessing Children's Exposures and Risks to Drinking Water Contaminants: A Manganese Case Study. HERA 15: 923–47

• 2008—CP Boyce, AS Lewis, SN Sax, M Eldan, SM Cohen, and BD Beck. Probabilistic Analysis of Human Health Risks Associated with Background Concentrations of Inorganic Arsenic: Use of a Margin of Exposure Approach. HERA 14:1159–201

• 2007—DR Brown, BG Callahan, and AL Boissevain. An Assessment of Risk from Particulate Released from Outdoor Wood Boilers. HERA 13(1):192–208

• 2006—LR Rhomberg and TA Lewandowski. 2006. Methods for identifying a default cross-species scaling factor. HERA 12:1094–127

• 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

• 2004—JC Lipscomb. Evaluating the relationship between variance in enzyme expression and toxicant concentration in health risk assessment. HERA 10:39–55

• 2003—JN Bunce and RBJ Remillard. Haber's rule: The search for quantitative relationships in toxicology. HERA 9:1547–59

• 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

• 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

Risk Communication/Perception

• 2010—S Dohle, C Keller, and M Siegrist. Conjoint Measurement of Base Station Siting Preferences HERA 16(4):325–836.

• 2009—N Rodionova, G Vinsonneau, S Rivière, and E Mullet. Societal Risk Perception in Present Day Russia. HERA 15:388–400

• 2008—R O’Ryan and M Diaz. The Use of probabilistic Analysis to Improve Decision-Making in Environmental Regulation in a Developing Context: The Case of Arsenic Regulation in Chile. HERA 14:623–40

• 2007—No paper was selected.

Risk Management

• 2010—DL Olson and DD Wu. Earthquakes and Risk Management in China. HERA 16(3):476–93.

Integration of Human and Ecological Risk Assessment

• 2010—No paper was selected.

• 2009—No paper was selected.

• 2008—GA Kiker, TS Bridges, and J Kim. Integrating Comparative Risk Assessment with Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis to Manage Contaminated Sediments: An Example for the New York/New Jersey Harbor. HERA (14) 495–511

• 2007—T Vermeire, WR Munns Jr, J Sekizawa, G Suter, and G Van der Kraak. An Assessment of Integrated Risk Assessment. HERA 13:339–54

• 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

• 2005—JL Schnoor. Global warming: A consequence of human activities rivaling Earth's biogeochemical processes. HERA 11:1105–10

• 2004—No paper was selected.

• 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

• 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

• 2001—No paper was selected.