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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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Research Chemist
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Phone:
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206-860-3304
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Email:
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send e-mail
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Programs:
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NWFSC Publications
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Background
Catherine Sloan graduated magna cum laude from the University of Washington with a B.S. in chemistry. She began working at the NWFSC in 1983 as a chemist in the Organic Analyses group. In 1989, she began supervising the Organic Analyses sample preparation and the gas chromatograph laboratory within the group. Prior to the Center's reorganization, she held the position of Supervisory Research Chemist from 1991 to 1997 where she supervised up to 13 chemists and technicians in the Organic Analyses laboratories within the Environmental Assessment Program. Subsequently, she participated in developing and improving methods to analyze for environmental contaminants and fatty acids.
Current Research
Catherine is involved in the quality assurance of analyses for organic contaminants and in developing, testing and evaluating new analytical methods. These analyses include the operation of an accelerated solvent extractor, a high-performance liquid chromatograph and gas chromatograph-mass spectrometers (GC/MS) for precisely measuring concentrations of anthropogenic contaminants, such as polyaromatic hydrocarbons, chlorinated pesticides, polychlorinated biphenyls and polybrominated diphenyl ethers in various samples of marine tissues and sediment. Catherine also supervises the team that performs the analyses for contaminants by GC/MS, the analyses for lipid classes by thin-layer chromatography/flame ionization detection and the analyses of bile for metabolites of polyaromatic hydrocarbons.
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