Here, a Galápagos penguin is perched on the molten rock of the Isabela Islands. The authors captured this photo during an 2021 expedition to collect microplastics in the Galápagos Marine Reserve.

Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring was a landmark in the development of the modern environmental movement. Her scientific perspective about the effect of pesticides on the natural world sparked ...

A Galápagos penguin is perched on the molten rock of the Isabela Islands. The authors captured this photo during a 2021 expedition to collect microplastics in the Galápagos Marine Reserve.

Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 59, No. 1 (2014), pp. 141-155 (15 pages) The Great Salt Lake (Utah) is divided by a railroad causeway that causes the lake’s south arm to be chemically stratified, ...

Abstract: Mercury is a persistent, toxic heavy metal that can bioaccumulate in organisms, causing diseases and other health problems. Wilson’s snipe (Gallinago delicata) feed primarily on aquatic ...

Our research philosophy relies on the exploration of the mechanisms of chemical uptake, elimination, transformation and bioaccumulation in laboratory experiments and field studies. Mechanistic ...