Ecorisk Consultants

ECORISK Inc. provides worldwide coverage with the top scientists in the fields of Environmental Toxicology, Ecological Risk Assessment, Ecological Modeling, and Chemistry.

		Todd A. Anderson, Ph.D. The University of Tennessee, Knoxville - 1991 Environmental fate and chemistry of organic contaminants, bioavailability, and phytoremediation of contaminated sites. Biographical Sketch

		Catherine M. Bens, M.S., Western Washington University, 1990. Environmental Sciences, research management, wildlife toxicology, quality assurance, quality control and GLP compliance. Biographical Sketch

		James Carr, Ph.D., University of Colorado, Boulder, 1988 Comparative neuroendocrinology with an emphasis on amphibians. Biographical Sketch

		George P. Cobb, Ph.D., University of South Florida, 1989. Analytical toxicology atmospheric chemistry, pesticide, organochlorine and metal fate and uptake by wildlife. Biographical Sketch

		Chuck Crabtree, M.S. Clemson University. Biochemical and mechanistic toxicology of dioxins and related compounds, biomarker development and validation, and ecological risk assessment of endocrine disrupting compounds. Biographical Sketch

		Kenneth R. Dixon, Ph.D., The University of Michigan, 1974. Ecological modeling, computer simulation, and GIS applied to ecological risk assessment. Biographical Sketch

		Louis Heyns du Preez, Ph.D., University of the Free State in Bloemfontein, South Africa. Parasitology with special focus on parasites of frogs and toads. Research focus on parasites of Xenopus laevis and the parasite family Polystomatidae which infect frogs, chelonians, lungfishes and the hippopotamus. Herpetology with special focus on chytrid infections of frogs and the breeding biology of Xenopus and the African Bullfrog. Biographical Sketch

		Timothy Gross, Ph.D., University of Maryland, 1986. Research physiology, ecotoxicology, reproductive physiology. Biographical Sketch

		Lenwood W. Hall, Jr., University of of Maryland, Appalachian Environmental Laboratory, 1978. Aquatic toxicology, fisheries ecology and environmental risk assessment. Biographical Sketch

		Michael J. Hooper, Ph.D., University of California at Davis, 1988. Biochemical and mechanistic toxicology, pesticide and contaminant monitoring of wildlife using biochemical endpoints and integration of laboratory and field ecotoxicology. Biographical Sketch

		Ronald J. Kendall, Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1980. Wildlife Toxicology, environmental risk assessment, ecological effects of environmental contaminants and contaminant field studies including agroecosystems, Superfund sites, golf courses and tropical ecotoxicological studies. Countermeasures to biological and chemical terrorism. Biographical Sketch

		Peter Matthiessen, Ph.D., London University, 1973. Aquatic hazard and risk assessment of new and existing chemicals, including pesticides, toxicology assessment and identification of discharges, aquatic environmental monitoring techniques, including water and sediment bioassays, assessments of community responses in mesocosms and the field, and the modes of toxic action of many common aquatic pollutants, including pesticides, planar organics, organotins, metals and endocrine disruptors. Biographical Sketch

		Scott T. McMurry, Ph.D., Oklahomma State University, 1993. Field and laboratory studies in wildlife toxicology, wildlife ecology, mammalogy and ornithology. Biographical Sketch

		R. Peter Richards, Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1970. Empirical study of watershed processes, sampling theory for estimated concentrations and loads of aquatic systems, data analysis and statistics for monitored concentration distributions, exposure assessment for human populations through drinking water, chemistry of private rural wells in the Midwest. Biographical Sketch

		Bob Sielken, Ph.D. Florida State University, 1971 Biostatistics with a major emphasis on probabilistic, Monte Carlo, and weight-of-evidence based approaches to quantitative human health risk assessment using distributional characterizations of aggregate and cumulative exposure and risk and on the design and analysis of both laboratory and field- based ecological studies requiring innovative statistical techniques. Biographical Sketch

		Ernest E. Smith, Ph.D., Texas A&M University, 1989. Developmental and biochemical toxicology and teratology, and molecular applications. Biographical Sketch

		Philip N. Smith, Ph.D Texas Tech University 2000. Terrestrial Ecotoxicology, Wildlife toxicology, Field studies investigating ecological effects of contaminants, Metabolic/energetic effects of contaminant exposure. Biographical Sketch

		Keith Solomon, Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1973. Ecological risk assessment, pesticides, pulp mill effluents and human exposure studies. Biographical Sketch

		Glen Van Der Kraak, Ph.D., University of British Columbia, 1984. Reproductive physiology and reproductive endocrinology.