Linda Hall, PhD

More than 20 years of experience in environmental toxicology, with emphasis on human health risk assessment and ecological toxicology. Dr. Linda Hall is currently involved in health-effects assessments and policy analyses of goods movement activities for ports and railroads in California. Linda has managed or performed health risk assessments for Superfund and RCRA sites that encompassed a diverse range of chemical and radiological contaminants in multiple environmental media. These multi-pathway assessments included deriving uptake and exposure parameters, calculating exposure, estimating the associated cancer and non-cancer health effects, and characterizing uncertainties associated with the risk assessment process. She has extensive experience in the critical evaluation of toxicological literature for establishing ingestion and inhalation exposure guidelines. Linda has served on the Chemical Warfare Agent Exposure Guidelines Team on a Department of Homeland Security project to identify and develop human exposure guidelines for agent exposure scenarios, and served as an expert reviewer in Toxicology and Public Health for a USEPA effort to characterize chemical and biological water contaminants of human concern.

• Provided technical and managerial expertise to a project for two southern California ports in which ENVIRON is developing a baseline human health risk assessment to assess the impacts of diesel particulate matter (DPM) emissions from ports activities. These data will inform emission reduction feasibility analyses and will support development of a Clean Air Plan. Evaluated potential human health risks associated with DPM emissions from the operation of railyards in California.
• Served as Principal Investigator on the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) research project Emerging Contaminants: Application of Microarray Technology to the Detection of Mixtures of Endocrine-Active Agents.
• Served as Co-Principal Investigator of the California State Water Resources Control Board-funded project, Hexavalent Chromium and Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (EDCs), a project that used microarray signatures to identify exposure to EDCs.
• As Co-Principal Investigator on the research project, Using a Sensitive Medaka (Oryzias latipes) Fish Model for Endocrine Disruptor Screening, Dr. Hall co-led the study funded by the USEPA to develop a microarray-based methodology to screen for endocrine active chemicals.
• Played a key role on the Chemical Warfare (CW) Agent Exposure Guidelines Team, developing the Chemical Restoration Operational Technology Demonstration, a Department of Homeland Security-funded project.
• Performed and managed a multipathway risk assessment of a Department of Energy (DOE) mixed waste treatment facility being built to use innovative technologies to treat complex and unique mixtures of chemical and radiological waste.

PhD, Ecology (Ecological Toxicology), University of California, Davis
MA, Biology (Toxicology), San Jose State University
BA, Ecosystems Analysis, Antioch College

Genetic & Environmental Toxicology Association

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