Presenter

Christine McFarland is a Senior Scientist with Intrinsik Corp., an employee-owned scientific and regulatory consulting firm with offices in Canada and the United States. She received her Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Biological Science (First Class Honours) at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. She is certified as a Professional Biologist in Alberta, Canada and a Register Professional Biologist in British Columbia, Canada.

Ms. McFarland has more than two decades of experience conducting Human Health and Ecological Risk Assessments, including air toxics and prospective health risk assessments for exploration and development activities surrounding sour gas wells, power generation projects, steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) technology and mining operations, oil storage facilities, marine port facilities and marine transportation, and contaminated site risk assessments for pipeline releases as well as former military sites, gas stations, dry cleaners, and bus depots and maintenance terminals. She specializes in assessing health risks associated with criteria air contaminants (e.g., particulate matter, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide), metals, petroleum hydrocarbons (PHCs), polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), dioxins and furans, and volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Ms. McFarland has provided strategic and technical advice in policy development in Canada on a variety of human health-related issues, including the development of ambient air quality objectives and guidance related to the human health within environmental impact assessments (EIAs) in Canada.