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Areas of Expertise: Ecotoxicology; science education; Health-Environment Interactions/Group Leader

Research Topics/Working Groups: Molecular toxicology of metals; Molecular biomarkers; Sources,fate and transport of toxic agents; Interrelationships of microbes with environmental factors; Uptake and cellular transport of metals; Movement of toxic agents through aquatic food webs

Research: Carol Folt's research interest is aquatic ecology, and her goal is to discover solutions to the enormous demands being placed on freshwater resources. Her current research focuses on four topics: the relationship between food web structure and metal accumulation and biomagnification; the restoration of Atlantic salmon; the biological mechanisms for and consequences of plankton patchiness; and information-gathering and decision-making in animal behavior. She also directs Environmental Detectives, a collaborative science education project being developed by the Montshire Museum in Norwich, Vermont, and the Center for Environmental Health Sciences at Dartmouth.