Charles Christen, a graduate student in the Aquatic Toxicology Laboratory was the runner-up for the "Best Poster Presentation" at the 2021 North American SETAC meeting in Portland, OR (Nov'21). Congratulations!

 Dr. Schoenfuss was once again included in the list of exceptional reviewers for Environmental Toxicology & Chemistry for 2020-2021: 

https://setac.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/etc.5244

In addition to serving as an assistant editor for ET&C, he is also an editor for the journal Water.

Heiko Schoenfuss was named one of fifteen Exceptional Reviewers by the journal Environmental Toxicology & Chemistry for the quality and quantity of his reviews in 2018. 

SETAC 2018 Sacramento

Utku Hasbay presenting at SETAC Sacramento

Another successful SETAC North America meeting wrapped up on Thursday, November 8, 2018.  On the last day of the meeting, Utku Hasbay presented a poster on his MS research to follow up on his talk two days prior. Satomi Kohno also presented on the last day of the meeting describing recent advancements in his trans-activation assay. All around a great meeting.

Sabbatical Activities

The Aquatic Toxicology Laboratory is hosting a second sabbatical faculty in a year.  After the outstanding visit by Dr. Dan Lundberg (Gallaudet University for the Deaf & Hearing Impaired, Washington, DC) in fall 2017, Dr. Tisha King-Heiden (University of Wisconsin, La Crosse) and her graduate student Logan Keding have been sharing laboratory space with us this summer.  Her research on the impacts of liver pathology on vitellogenin expression in fish matches well with our own investigations into the effects of contaminants of emerging concern, some of which may have hepatotoxic effects.

New Study on Stormwater Discharge

Urban stormwater drain into the Mississippi River

The Minnesota Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund on the recommendation of the Legislative-Citizen Commission on Minnesota Resources is funding a new study at the SCSU Aquatic Toxicology Laboratory to assess the presence of Contaminants of Emerging Concern (CECs) in urban stormwater runoff.  In addition to measuring CECs, the study will evaluate potential remediation technology (iron-enhanced sand filtration) and examine the impact of urban stormwater runoff across species that frequently are found in the vicinity of stormwater ponds. The study represents a collaboration between Drs. Schoenfuss and Kohno at St. Cloud State University and Dr. Richard Kiesling at the US Geological Survey.

Aquatic Toxicology Laboratory in Ghana, West Africa

The National Science Foundation funded a recent trip by Dr. Heiko Schoenfuss and Dr. Paige Novak (University of Minnesota) to visit faculty at the University of Ghana in Accra.  The goal of the meetings were to establish collaboration and assess potential field sites on the Lower Volta River.

Seminar participants at the University of Ghana, Accra in December 2017