Research Centers
Center for Ecological Health Research (Cal Davis)
University of California - Davis
The central goal of the Center is to understand how multiple stresses affect biological processes in aquatic and terrestrial systems. Within five to ten years, research in this area should provide improved indicators of ecological change from multiple environmental stressors as well as techniques to predict and manage at least population-level changes in impacted species. Integrated biochemical and ecological studies will provide improved understanding of stressor effects at the ecosystem level. The objectives of the center are: (1) conduct multidisciplinary research on complex ecosystem processes, (2) develop new data management, analysis and modeling techniques, (3) develop new, sensitive and reliable methods of molecular and population epidemiology, and (4) use these new methodologies and increased understanding to predict effects of multiple stresses organized by aquatic and terrestrial environmental research areas, with subdivisions into lakes and wetlands, rivers and estuaries, forests, and agriculture. Four additional core programs provide service, technical support, and developmental capability for new approaches: Analytical, Molecular Epidemiology, Transport and Fate, and Decision Support systems.
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Center for Ecological Health Research
Center Research Projects:
R825433C001 - Potential for Long-Term Degradation of Wetland Water Quality Due to Natural Discharge of Polluted Groundwater
R825433C002 - Sacramento River Watershed
R825433C003 - Endocrine Disruption in Fish and Birds
R825433C004 - Biomarkers of Exposure and Deleterious Effect: A Laboratory and Field Investigation
R825433C005 - Fish Developmental Toxicity/Recruitment
R825433C006 - Resolving Multiple Stressors by Biochemical Indicator Patterns and their Linkages to Adverse Effects on Benthic Invertebrate Patterns
R825433C007 - Environmental Chemistry of Bioavailability in Sediments and Water Column
R825433C008 - Reproduction of Birds and mammals in a terrestrial-aquatic interface
R825433C009 - Modeling Ecosystems Under Combined Stress
R825433C010 - Mercury Uptake by Fish
R825433C011 - Clear Lake Watershed
R825433C012 - The Role of Fishes as Transporters of Mercury
R825433C013 - Wetlands Restoration
R825433C014 - Wildlife Bioaccumulation and Effects
R825433C015 - Microbiology of Mercury Methylation in Sediments
R825433C016 - Hg and Fe Biogeochemistry
R825433C017 - Water Motions and Material Transport
R825433C018 - Economic Impacts of Multiple Stresses
R825433C019 - The History of Anthropogenic Effects
R825433C020 - Wetland Restoration
R825433C021 - Sierra Nevada Watershed Project
R825433C022 - Regional Transport of Air Pollutants and Exposure of Sierra Nevada Forests to Ozone
R825433C023 - Biomarkers of Ozone Damage to Sierra Nevada Vegetation
R825433C024 - Effects of Air Pollution on Water Quality: Emission of MTBE and Other Pollutants From Motorized Watercraft
R825433C025 - Regional Movement of Toxics
R825433C026 - Effect of Photochemical Reactions in Fog Drops and Aerosol Particles on the Fate of Atmospheric Chemicals in the Central Valley
R825433C027 - Source Load Modeling for Sediment in Mountainous Watersheds
R825433C028 - Stress of Increased Sediment Loading on Lake and Stream Function
R825433C029 - Watershed Response to Natural and Anthropogenic Stress: Lake Tahoe Nutrient Budget
R825433C030 - Mercury Distribution and Cycling in Sierra Nevada Waterbodies
R825433C031 - Pre-contact Forest Structure
R825433C032 - Identification and distribution of pest complexes in relation to late seral/old growth forest structure in the Lake Tahoe watershed
R825433C033 - Subalpine Marsh Plant Communities as Early Indicators of Ecosystem Stress
R825433C034 - Regional Hydrogeology and Contaminant Transport in a Sierra Nevada Ecosystem
R825433C035 - Border Rivers Watershed
R825433C036 - Toxicity Studies
R825433C037 - Watershed Assessment
R825433C038 - Microbiological Processes in Sediments
R825433C039 - Analytical and Biomarkers Core
R825433C040 - Organic Analysis
R825433C041 - Inorganic Analysis
R825433C042 - Immunoassay and Serum Markers
R825433C043 - Sensitive Biomarkers to Detect Biochemical Changes Indicating Multiple Stresses Including Chemically Induced Stresses
R825433C044 - Molecular, Cellular and Animal Biomarkers of Exposure and Effect
R825433C045 - Microbial Community Assays
R825433C046 - Cumulative and Integrative Biochemical Indicators
R825433C047 - Mercury and Iron Biogeochemistry
R825433C048 - Transport and Fate Core
R825433C049 - Role of Hydrogeologic Processes in Alpine Ecosystem Health
R825433C050 - Regional Hydrologic Modeling With Emphasis on Watershed-Scale Environmental Stresses
R825433C051 - Development of Pollutant Fate and Transport Models for Use in Terrestrial Ecosystem Exposure Assessment
R825433C052 - Pesticide Transport in Subsurface and Surface Water Systems
R825433C053 - Currents in Clear Lake
R825433C054 - Data Integration and Decision Support Core
R825433C055 - Spatial Patterns and Biodiversity
R825433C056 - Modeling Transport in Aquatic Systems
R825433C057 - Spatial and Temporal Trends in Water Quality
R825433C058 - Time Series Analysis and Modeling Ecological Risk
R825433C059 - WWW/Outreach
R825433C060 - Economic Effects of Multiple Stresses
R825433C061 - Effects of Nutrients on Algal Growth
R825433C062 - Nutrient Loading
R825433C063 - Subalpine Wetlands as Early Indicators of Ecosystem Stress
R825433C064 - Chlorinated Hydrocarbons
R825433C065 - Sierra Ozone Studies
R825433C066 - Assessment of Multiple Stresses on Soil Microbial Communities
R825433C067 - Terrestrial - Agriculture
R825433C068 - Nematodes
R825433C069 - Molecular Epidemiology Core
R825433C070 - Serum Markers of Environmental Stress
R825433C071 - Development of Sensitive Biomarkers Based on Chemically Induced Changes in Expressions of Oncogenes
R825433C072 - Molecular Monitoring of Microbial Populations
R825433C073 - Aquatic - Rivers and Estuaries
R825433C074 - Border Rivers - Toxicity Studies