Research Scientist
Energy, Environment and Resources Center
University of Tennessee
311 Conference Center Building
Knoxville, TN 37996-4134
Phone: 865-974-0642
Fax: 865-974-1838
mswanso1@utk.edu
Selected Publications:
Mary B. Swanson and Adam C. Socha, eds, Chemical Ranking and Scoring (CRS): Guidelines for Relative Assessments of Chemicals (Pensacola: Setac Press, 1997).
Mary B. Swanson et al., "A Screening Method for Ranking and Scoring Chemicals by Potential Human Health and Environmental Impacts," Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, February 1997.
Mary B. Swanson and B. Terry, An Examination of Uncertainties in the Human Health Risk Assessment Process Under CERCLA (Knoxville: The University of Tennessee, 1995).
M.S.C.E., Environmental Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
B.S., Natural Resources/Water Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.
Ms. Swanson's work focuses on risk-based chemical evaluation methodologies for pollution-prevention strategies, evaluation of products for their environmental attributes, and the fate and effects of chemicals released into the environment.
In past years she worked as an environmental chemist with CH2M Hill in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, primarily on hazardous-waste site remedial investigations and feasibility studies. She also worked as an environmental engineer/risk assessment specialist for IT Corporation in Knoxville, Tennessee, managing and conducting human health risk assessments and contaminant fate and transport modeling.
Ms. Swanson is a member of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC).
Her hobbies include hiking and gardening.