Provisional NCRP Meeting Agenda April 1998

[Mike Grissom <mikeg@SLAC.Stanford.EDU>]

Radsafers,

Okay, it IS still provisional, but the topics of this year's
NCRP annual meeting are of general interest (and relate to
frequently discussed issues on radsafe!):

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             Cosmic Radiation Exposure of Airline
               Crews, Passengers and Astronauts

                       April 1-2, 1998

Wednesday, April 1, 1998

       Welcome			Charles B. Meinhold
					President, NCRP

Setting the Framework

	Program Overview		Larry Townsend

       Overview of Radiation
	 Environments and Human
	 Exposure			John Wilson

	Biological Effects of
	 Cosmic Radiation:
	 Deterministic and
	 Stochastic			Eleanor Blakely

Radiation Exposure Assessment: Space and High Altitude
Aircraft

       Radiation Measurements in
	 Low Earth Orbit: U.S.
	 and Russian Results		Gautam Badhwar

	Radiation Exposure for
	 Human Mars Exploration	Lisa Simonsen

	Overview of Aircraft
	 Radiation Exposure and
	 Recent ER-2 Measurements	Paul Goldhagen

	British Airways Measurement
	 of Cosmic Radiation
	 Exposure on Concorde
	 Supersonic Transport	Michael Bagshaw

Radiation Exposure Assessment: Commercial Aircraft

	Potential Radiation Doses
	 to Passengers and Crew
	 of Supersonic Transports	Alexander Chee

	NIOSH/FAA Measurements	Martha Waters

       Factors Affecting Cosmic
	 Ray Exposures in Civil
	 Aviation			Gerry Kendall

       European Measurements of
	 Air Crew Exposure to
	 Cosmic Radiation		Hans Menzel

	Canadian Measurements of
	 Air Crew Radiation
	 Exposures			Pamela Tume

Epidemiology

	Epidemiology Studies of
	 Commercial Aircraft Crews	John Boice

Twenty-Second Lauriston S. Taylor Lecture on Radiation
Protection and Measurements

       Introduction of the Lecturer	Sarah Donaldson

       From Chimney Sweeps to
	 Astronauts: Cancer Risks in the
	 Workplace				Eric J. Hall

Thursday, April 2, 1998

Business Meeting

Current Regulatory Programs

	Dose Limits for Astronauts		Warren Sinclair

	Cosmic Radiation Exposure During
	 Air Travel: Guidance Provided by
	 the Federal Aviation
	 Administration			Wallace Friedberg

	Regulatory Control of Air Crew
	 Exposure to Cosmic Radiation:
	 The European Approach		Ian McAulay

	Perspectives of Those Impacted:

	  Flight Attendant's Perspective	Emily Carter
	  Airline Pilot's Perspective	Gary Butler
	  Airline Passenger's Perspective	Marty Solfen
	  An Airline's Perspective		Michael Bagshaw

	Panel Discussion			Robert Barish, Chairman
						Michael Bagshaw
						Gary Butler
						Emily Carter
						Wallace Friedberg
						Ian McAuley
						Warren Sinclair
						Marty Solfen

Summary of Presentations

	Exposure to Cosmic
	 Radiation--Where Do We
	 Go from Here?			Roger Clarke

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