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Division:
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EC
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Status:
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Federal, NOAA Fisheries
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Job Title:
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Division Director
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Phone:
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206-860-3312
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Email:
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send e-mail
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NWFSC Publications
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Background
As Director of the Environmental Conservation Division of NOAA's Northwest Fisheries Science Center, Dr. Tracy Collier supervises a research enterprise comprised of approximately 80 scientists. The Division contains four research programs, namely Watershed Processes, Ecotoxicology, Environmental Chemistry, and Marine Biotoxins. Dr. Collier is responsible for overall science direction and quality, personnel and budgets. He has worked for NOAA since 1972. He received his B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Washington College of Fisheries in 1976, 1978, and 1988, respectively. His research interests over the years have covered some of the first work on metabolism of PAHs by fish, studies of the impacts of oil spills on marine fish and mammals, the enzymology of carcinogen activation and detoxication, and assessing overall effects of contaminants on fish populations through the use of field investigations. His current personal research interests are in the area of environmental toxicology, field investigations of causality, the use of marine mammals as sentinel species for assessing oceans and human health, and the ecological sequelae resulting from exposure to sublethal levels of chemical contaminants. Recently the Division has become involved in assessing the impacts of human activities on marine mammals, and using analytical chemistry (stable isotopes, fatty acid rations, and chemical contaminant fingerprinting) to better understand life history traits of marine mammals. Dr. Collier is a post-doctoral advisor to the National Research Council, having supervised several post-docs in the past 5 years. In 2005 he led a group of scientists from the Center to assess seafood safety in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, and he and his team received a Department of Commerce Silver Medal for their efforts in the face of adversity.
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