Cutting-Edge Research on Environmental Processes & Impacts
Deborah Swackhamer (Chair)
University of Minnesota, USA
Professor Deborah Swackhamer is the Chair of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Environmental Monitoring. She is a Professor of Environmental Chemistry in the Division of Environmental Health Sciences in the School of Public Health, and serves as Co-Director of the Water Resources Center, at the University of Minnesota. Professor Swackhamer received a BA in Chemistry from Grinnell College and a MS and PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Water Chemistry and Limnology & Oceanography, respectively. After two years post-doctoral research in Chemistry and Public & Environmental Affairs at Indiana University, she joined the Minnesota faculty in 1987. She has studied the processes affecting the behavior and fate of persistent toxic chemicals such as PCBs, dioxins, and pesticides in the Great Lakes for the past 20 years, including sediment accumulation, source determinations, water column processes, and foodweb bioaccumulation. Her current research includes projects investigating the bioaccumulation, exposure and impacts of environmental estrogenic chemicals.
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