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Emeritus Faculty
Part-Time Lecturer
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Anne Marie Desmarais
Lecturer, Department of Civil and Environmental
Engineering
Anne Marie C. Desmarais is a Lecturer in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
where she has taught since 1983. Prior to 1991, she was VP of Environmental
Risk Management at a Boston-area company and directed hazardous waste site
investigations and remediation. Her interests are in human health risk
assessment and exposure modeling, and in community environmental health
education. She works with local agencies and community groups to assist them in
understanding hazardous waste site cleanups in their neighborhoods, and to
provide technical assistance and interface with the Responsible Parties and the
regulatory agencies.
In addition to teaching in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, she is the
Faculty Advisor for the graduate Certificate in Environmental Management.
Teaching
- CEE 70 Introduction to Hazardous Materials Management
- CEE 137 Public Health
- CEE 168 Exposure Assessment
- CEE 173 Health Effects and Risk Assessment
- CEE 175 Hazardous Materials Safety
- CEE 292C Risk Communication and Public Participation
- CEE 292 Research Methods for Environmental Health Scientists
- ES 25 Environment and Technology
Education
- M.S.P.H. in Environmental Health, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, May
1977
- B.S. in Biochemistry, University of Maine, Orono, June 1972.
- Graduate study, Toxicology, University of Michigan, 1976-1979
Professional Organizations
- American Chemical Society
- Licensed Site Professionals Association
- Society for Risk Analysis
Professional Registrations
Licensed Site Professional
(Massachusetts)
Research Areas
- Technical assistance to communities
- Exposure modeling
- Community environmental health education
Selected Published Works
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Ellerbusch F, Gute DM, Woodin MA,
and Desmarais AM. "Community Engagement
as a Component of Revitalization: Lessons Learned from the Technical
Outreach Service to Communities (TOSC) Program,“ Local Environment,
11(5): 515-535; 2006.
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Gute DM., Woodin MA., and AM
Desmarais (2002). "TOSC-TAB Lessons
Learned“. Invited presentation at the Winter 2002 EPA/TOSC-TAB National
Conference in Portland, Oregon, 29 January.
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Desmarais, AM and Silverstein, I. "From Confrontation to Collaboration: A
case study of the Dow Chemical Company Hazardous Waste Site, Wayland,
Massachusetts. JSI Center for Environmental Health Studies, Boston, MA.
January 2004
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