Nathaniel Scholz
Acting Program Manager
Program Staff Directory
Projects/Teams
Hazard Assessment & Risk Modeling
Dr. James P. Meador
Immunology
Dr. Mary R. Arkoosh
Fish Neurobiology & Development
Dr. Nathaniel Scholz
Pathology
Mark S. Myers
Reproductive Toxicology
Lyndal Johnson
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Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Programs
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The core mission
of the Ecotoxicology and Environmental Fish Health Program is
to determine the impacts of human activities on the health of
wild fish, especially Pacific salmon and marine fish. To do this,
the program has five research teams, four of which focus on different
aspects of fish physiology and biology, and one of which focuses
on assessing risks posed to fish health by human activities,
especially the releases of chemical contaminants into freshwater,
estuarine, and marine waters.
While the primary expertise of
the Program is in ecotoxicology, there is substantial effort
made to assess the normal physiology of wild fish, and natural
variations in response to non-anthropogenic factors, as a backdrop
against which human activities, such as the release of toxic
chemicals, can be assessed. In addition to determining the effects
of toxic contaminants on fish health, an important part of our
research also examines the recovery of fish health after remedial
activities are undertaken to clean up contaminated sites. This
important line of research allows us to determine the efficacy
of cleanup operations, and better determine the accuracy of our
models which predict risk to our living aquatic resources.
New! Pre-spawn mortality of adult coho salmon in
Seattle's urban streams. To see videos from the 2002 field survey on Longfellow Creek, click here.
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