Dr. James P. Meador
Team Leader
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The
main goal of the HARM team is to quantitatively describe the
relationships of organismal and population responses to alterations
in habitat quality resulting from anthropogenic disturbances.
A major function of the team is to generate toxicity data to
support the development of water, tissue, and sediment quality
guidelines that can be used to protect fish and invertebrate
populations from adverse effects. We conduct research that is
designed to help identify thresholds for pollutant effects that
may indicate or lead to population level impacts and we act as
consultants to various agencies on issues relating to contaminant
impacts.
The main functions of the HARM team are:
- Hazard Assessment - Lab and field studies to characterize
toxicant effects for water, tissue, and sediment quality guidelines.
- Method Development - Invertebrate and fish bioassays.
- Natural Resource Damage Assessment - Conduct experiments
and provide expertise for NRDA cases.
- Risk Modeling - Determination of threshold concentrations;
dose response.
- Support for Regional Office/ NOAA labs - Review ESA documents
(e.g., Biological opinions), provide technical information, and
conduct peer review.
- Interagency Hazard Assessments - Participate in assessments
of contamination.
- Consulting - Statistical analysis; database issues; environmental
chemistry; bioassays.
- Provide Expertise - to NOAA, EPA, and local agencies (e.g.,
WDOE, ODEQ) on pollution issues.
- Field Support - Assist in field studies (e.g., EMAP, PSAMP,
Watershed group).
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