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Paul Pickhardt PhD

Publications during training:

Chen CY, Stemberger RS, Klaue B, Blum JD, Pickhardt P, Folt CL. 2000. Accumulation of heavy metals in food web components across a gradient of lakes. Limnology and Oceanography. 45(7):1525-1536.

Folt CL, Chen CY, and Pickhardt PC. 2002. Using plankton food web variables as indicators for the accumulation of toxic metals in fish. In: SH. Wilson and WA Suk, editors. Biomarkers of environmentally associated disease: Technologies, concepts, and perspectives. CRC Press/Lewis Publishers, Boca Raton.

Pickhardt PC, Folt CL, Chen CY, Klaue B, and Blum JD. 2002. Algal blooms reduce the uptake of toxic methylmercury in freshwater food webs. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 99:4419-4423

Presentations during training:

2000 - Presentation, “Mercury and zinc uptake by freshwater zooplankton across an algal density gradient,” Superfund Basic Research Program Annual Meeting.

2000 - Presentation, “Using Stable Isotopes to Track Methyl and Inorganic Mercury Accumulation in Freshwater Zooplankton,” American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, Copenhagen.

2001 - Invited presentation, “Mercury cycling could be dangerous to your health,” Department of Biological Sciences, Plymouth State College, Plymouth, NH.

2001 - Presentation, “Algal cell density effects in the accumulation of mercury and zinc by diaptomid copepods.” Annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America. Madison, WI.

2002 - Invited seminar presentation, “Mercury Cycling in Freshwater Ecosystems,” Department of Biological Sciences, Plymouth State College, Plymouth, NH.

2002 - PhD thesis seminar, “Accumulation of Mercury in Freshwater Zooplankton,” Department of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth college, Hanover, NH

2002 - Invited seminar presentation, “Accumulation of Mercury in Freshwater Zooplankton,” U.S.E.P.A. Region I (New England), Boston, MA.

Current position: Postdoctoral research associate, Marine Sciences Research Center, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY