Senior Research Biologist, Section Research Biologist And Research Biologist
Ecotoxicologist (1994 to 1999) – Designing, monitoring, editing and summarizing more than 150 acute and chronic toxicology studies on fish, aquatic invertebrates, aquatic invertebrates, terrestrial insects, earthworms and aquatic plants and algae. Environmental Scientist and Metabolism Chemist (1983 to 1994) – Conduct of biological and Chemical analysis of more than 50 studies; design, placed and monitored studies at contract laboratories when there was inadequate staff to conduct studies in-house; included field soil dissipation studies, aquatic dissipation studies, hydrolysis studies, batch equilibrium studies, octanol water partition studies, crayfish bioaccumulation studies, crop rotation studies, chicken, goat , fish and small grain metabolism studies. Entomologist (1979 to 1983) – Applied research on insect resistance control; lead and management of synergist research program. Part of insect rearing team dealing with dietary requirements, pathogenic and genetic disease control in insects raised for screening of insecticides • Supervised the research activities six technicians.• Consulted with groups internal to DuPont, contractors and government agency experts to ensure adequate study design and statistical power.• Led project management teams that developed methodology for difficult test systems in consultation with government agency experts.• Led teams to write position papers to address US EPA and EU Reporter State Data-Call-Ins.• Design and Monitoring and Interpretation of Field Studies to determine the risk of insecticides to honeybees. • Medico-economic and agronomic research on insecticides that control mosquitoes and crop pests.• Led product and technology focus teams that were responsible for writing instructional materials for the conduct of various ecotoxicology and environmental fate studies.• Developed rapid and inexpensive soil mobility tests from comparison of Freündlich Isotherm Partition Coefficients with Soil-TLC Rf.
