Susan L. Roe

Head - Environmental Quality Guidelines and Protocols Development

Fontaine Building (Gatineau, QC)

CURRENT S&T / RESEARCH - Contributing to the development of Federal Environmental Quality Guidelines for the Chemicals Management Plan and for Clean, Safe and Secure Water. Canadian Environmental Quality Guidelines are nationally approved, science-based indicators of environmental quality. They are recommended numerical or narrative limits for a variety of substances and environmental quality parameters, which, if exceeded, may impair the health of Canadian ecosystems.

• Federal Environmental Quality Guidelines for Chemicals Management Plan (CMP) medium priorities (metals, organics) & target analytes
• Advancement of Sediment Quality Guidelines and their use in regulatory and non-regulatory instruments including Chemicals Management Plan, Federal Contaminated Sites Action Plan, Disposal at Sea and Great Lakes Action Plan
• Development of methods and protocols for the derivation of site-specific environmental quality guidelines that consider natural background, local water quality conditions, and resident species

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES / INTERESTS

Scientific support to federal/provincial/territorial (FPT) committees including Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment and Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicator (CESI) working groups

Chair, EC's Regional Guidelines Advisory Group

Chair, Sediment Quality Guideline Sub-group of the CCME Water Quality Task Group

KEY PUBLICATIONS

Contributing author to Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators - Freshwater Quality Indicator

Contributing author to Canadian Environmental Quality Guidelines

Contributing author to Science-based Solution Series: Canadian Environmental Quality Guidelines for mercury, dioxins & furans, inorganic fluorides, sulfolane, DIPA and more