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RESEARCH
IN ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
Student Research
- Selected Projects
Armand Lucas is
completing a study of the biochemical responses by estuarine fish to
PCBs and polyaromatic hydrocarbon toxins. He has measured the
activity and abundance of the cytochrome P450 involved in oxidizing
(first step towards elimination) the compounds.
Christine Bruno designed a
project at the Bronx Zoo to quantify the levels of heavy metals and PCBs
present in the eggs of the snapping turtles (Chelydra serpentina)
that come into the Zoo from the Bronx River to nest and lay eggs.
UPDATE:
Christine has just been accepted into graduate school at California
State University at Northridge. She will work with Dr. Robert
Espinoza in the Laboratory of Integrative and Comparative
Herpetology.
Pira Suthirangkul has completed
his research on the non-native Asia Shore crabs (Hemigrapsus
sanguineus). He described changes during embryo development
and quantified the number of offspring produced as a function of the
size of the female crab.
Faculty Research
The following are condensed
descriptions of the research interests of Environmental
Studies faculty. Please see individual faculty websites
for more complete information.
Liebe F. Cavalieri, Ph.D. (Research
Professor) - Impacts
of genetically engineered organisms in field populations. leec@purvid.purchase.edu
George
P. Kraemer, Ph.D. (Associate Professor) - Marine ecology; ecological effects on introduced species; integrated aquaculture; physiological ecology.
george.kraemer@purchase.edu
Barbara Hatch Rosenberg, Ph.D. (Research Professor)
- Research interests focus on implications of the use of biological and
nuclear weapons; bioterrorism. bhrosenb@purvid.purchase.edu
James M. Utter, Ph.D.
(Associate Professor) - Wetlands and conservation ecology; ecology of neotropical
migrant birds. james.utter@purchase.edu
Matthew Immergut
(Adjunct Professor) - Environmental sociology, irrational consequences of
rational systems (alà Max Weber).
matthew.immergut@purchase.edu
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