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Terrance D. Hubert

Position title: Chemist; Safety Officer

Email: thubert@usgs.gov
Phone: 608.781.6227
Fax: 608.783.6066

Education:
1985 Ph.D., Organic Chemistry, University of Iowa
1980 BS, Ripon College, Chemistry (with Honors)                

Primary Responsibilities/Activities:
Invasive Species Team Leader – oversight of program and daily supervision of staff. Meet with partners and determine research needs. Great Lakes Fishery Commission Technical Assistance Project Leader – daily supervision of project. Meet with partners to determine research needs. Develop and administer project budget; Collateral Duty Safety and Environmental Compliance Programs – oversight of safety and environmental management programs. Provide expertise and guidance on safety and environmental issues.  Ensure that USGS, OSHA, and all other applicable state and federal regulations for safety and environmental compliance are followed. Report on compliance to USGS Eastern Region Safety Manager. Radiation Safety Program – oversight of UMESC radiation safety program. Ensure that USGS license requirements are followed. Report on all aspects of radiation safety to USGS Radiation Safety Officer.

Research Interests:

• Metabolism of xenobiotic materials in animals and plants
• Methods to control nuisance aquatic species
• Effects of pharmaceuticals and personal care products on aquatic organisms
• Isolation and characterization of biologically active natural products.

Active Projects:

• General technical assistance to the Great Lakes Fishery Commission (GLFC)
• General regulatory affairs for the Great Lakes Fishery Commission (GFLC)
• Support for pheromone experimental use permits (GLFC)
• Study of issues related to stream pH variation and lampricide treatments.  (GLFC)
• Toxicity of lampricides to mudpuppies. (GLFC)                
• Granular Bayluscide avoidance by juvenile sturgeon. (GLFC)
• Reevaluate low pH/low alkalinity MLC. (GLFC)
• Analysis of water, sediment, and insects from the Platte River. (GLFC)                                           

Select Publications:
Hubert, T. D., J. A. Bernardy, C. Vue, V. K. Dawson, M. A. Boogaard, T. M. Schreier, and W. H. Gingerich. 2005.  Residues of the lampricides TFM and niclosamide in muscle tissue of rainbow trout.  Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.  53:5342-5346.

Graebing, P. W., J. S. Chib, T. D. Hubert, and W. H. Gingerich.  2004.  Metabolism of niclosamide in sediment and water systems.  Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 52:5924-5932.

Graebing, P. W., J. S. Chib, T. D. Hubert, and W. H. Gingerich.  2004.  Aqueous photolysis of niclosamide.  Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 52:870-878.

Hubert, T. D.  2003.  Environmental fate and effects of TFM:  a review.  Journal of Great Lakes Research  29(Supplement 1): 456-474.

Vue, C., J. A. Bernardy, T. D. Hubert, W. H. Gingerich, and G. R. Stehly.  2002. Relatively rapid loss of lampricide residues from fillet tissues of fish after routine treatment.  Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 50:6786-6789.

Hubert, T. D., C. Vue, J. A. Bernardy, D. L. Van Horsen, and M. I. Rock.  2001.  Determination of 3-trifluoromethyl-4-nitrophenol and 3-trifluoromethyl-4-nitrophenol glucuronide in edible fillet tissue our rainbow trout and channel catfish by solid-phase extraction and liquid chromatography.  Journal of the Association of Official Analytical Chemists International 84:392-398.

Hubert, T. D., J. A. Bernardy, C. Vue, and W. H. Gingerich. 1999.  Uptake, metabolism, and elimination of TFM by fish.  In Xenobiotics in Fish (D. J. Smith, W. H. Gingerich, and M. G. Barconi-Barker, Eds).  Kluwer: New York. 177-187.

Meinertz, J. R. G. R. Stehly, T. D. Hubert, and J. A. Bernardy.  1999.  Liquid chromatographic determination of benzocaine and N-acetylbenzocaine in the edible fillet tissue from rainbow trout.  Journal of Chromatography A. 855:255–260. 

Links:
Fishery Management Chemicals

Lampricide registration and reregistration technical assistance to the Great Lakes Fishery Commission

Technical Assistance Provided to the Great Lakes Fishery Commission for Lampricides

Reregistration research for the lampricide niclosamide

Reregistration research for the lampricide TFM

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