METAL

Marine Ecotoxicology and Trophic Assessment Laboratory

Faculty

- Lorrie Rea
- Research Professor
- ldrea@alaska.edu
- Nicole Misarti
- INE Director | Research Associate Professor
- nmisarti@alaska.edu
- Benjamin Barst
- Affiliated Faculty | UCalgary
- bdbarst@alaska.edu
- Julie Avery
- Research Assistant Professor
- jpavery@alaska.edu
- Amy Bishop
- Assistant Professor | UAA
- ambishop2@alaska.edu
- Todd O'Hara
- INE Affiliate Professor | Professor of Veterinary Toxicology and Pharmacology
- tmohara@alaska.edu

Senior Personnel

- Stephanie Crawford
- Research Professional
- sgcrawford@alaska.edu
- Angie Gastaldi
- Research Professional
- Katie Corliss
- Research Professional
- kcorliss@alaska.edu
- Marjolein Admiraal
- Post doc

Affiliated Student Researchers

Current

- Orlin Gologergen
- Undergraduate Scholar

Former Graduate Scholars

- Scott Chandler
- Master's student | M.S. expected 2024
- Mary Keenan
- M.S. completed 2023
- Variability of total mercury concentrations in Steller sea lion bone locations and bone elements
- Drew Porter
- M.S. completed 2022
- Acute toxicity of copper to three species of pacific salmon in water with low hardness and low dissolved organic carbon
- Michelle Trifari
- M.S. completed 2022
- Compound-specific stable isotopes of amino acids reveal the influence of trophic level and primary production sources on mercury concentrations in fishes from the Aleutian Islands, Alaska
- Stephanie Crawford
- M.S. completed 2021
- Fasting status of Steller sea lion pups
- Marianne Lian
- Ph.D. completed 2020
- Assessing adverse effects of mercury in two pinniped species
- Stephanie Kennedy
- Ph.D. completed 2019
- Determining the immune status of Steller sea lions (Eumetopias jubatus): an environmental agents of disease perspective
- Andrew Cyr
- Ph.D. completed 2019
- Mercury concentrations and feeding ecology of fishes in Alaska
- John Harley
- Ph.D. completed 2017
- One Health toxicology: expanding perspectives and methods to assess environmental contaminants

Collaborators

- NOAA Marine Mammal Laboratory
- (Alaska Ecosystems, Polar Ecosystems, Cetacean Assessment and Ecology)