Event Details
When:
-
Location:
Online: Zoom
In-Person at WWU:
Academic West, Room 204
Price:
Free
Brought to you by:
College of the Environment, The Foundation for WWU & Alumni
Description
Check out this video to watch the Emerging Issues in the Environmental Speaker Series Presents: A Brief Ecotoxicology Tour of Fossil Fuel Pollution in Puget Sound.
Fossil fuels, particularly in the form of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), are ubiquitous chemical contaminants throughout Puget Sound freshwater, estuarine, and marine habitats. Environmental pollution involving PAHs reflect societal land uses of the past, present, and future, across multiple management and conservation sectors - e.g., historical industrial pollution, oil spills, and urban stormwater runoff associated with an expanding regional transportation grid. This presentation will briefly review a few decades of continuous PAH ecotoxicology research by NOAA Fisheries, with an emphasis on the stewardship and restoration of vulnerable habitats for Pacific salmonids and marine forage fish, particularly Pacific herring. Focal topics will include complex mixture toxicity; converging habitat stressors (particularly interactions with climate-driven thermal stress); sublethal or delayed-in-time effects; biological scaling (genes to populations); novel biomarkers for PAH exposure and response; and the use of models to align empirical research to regional conservation and recovery goals.
The Environmental Speaker Series is free and open to the public. Talks are held each Thursday at 4:30pm in Academic Instructional Center West, room 204. Join us at WWU or online on Zoom!
Featuring:
Nat Scholz, PhD, Speaker
Ecotoxicology Program Manager, NOAA Fisheries, Northwest Fisheries Science Center
Nat is a marine biologist and zoologist by training. He has managed the multidisciplinary Ecotoxicology Program since 2004. He joined the Center in 1998 as a Postdoctoral Associate with the National Academies of Science and Engineering (National Research Council) after completing a doctorate in zoology from the University of Washington. Prior to that he did masters and undergraduate research in Boston University's Marine Program in Woods Hole. He has published widely on the ecological impacts of freshwater and marine pollution - see Google Scholar for publications.
Accommodations and Other Details
Contact the The Foundation for WWU & Alumni for this event if you have questions or need disability accommodations by calling (360) 650-3353 or emailing Alumni@wwu.edu.
Advance notice for disability accommodations and special needs is greatly appreciated. Please indicate your special needs on the registration form.
There will be auto-captions available for the Zoom webinar.
Limited paid parking is available in the C lots at the south end of campus and in lots 6V and 7G at the north end of campus. Western provides comprehensive parking details—including lot locations, applicable fees, and campus map. Please note that parking in the C lot and 12A by Fairhaven College is free after 4:30pm on weekdays and all hours on weekends.