This work has involved studies at both pulp mills and metal mining operations. In 2001 and 2002, our studies will take us to two sites in Ontario and Alberta. Hermaphroditic fish have the ability to change sex - because this process involves the reproductive endocrine system, they may be very susceptible during their sex changes to the presence of environmental EDSs. Kimble is presently writing his thesis. In the summer and fall of 2000, with Dr. Kelly Munkittrick of the Canadian Rivers Institute and Sean Brillant of ACAP-SJ, we began a flatfish survey of fish living at various locations within and around the Saint John Harbour.
Opportunities exist in the lab for new graduate and Honours students.
Evaluating reverse osmosis treatment for removal of compounds from recovery condensates at a bleached kraft mill that affect fish hormone control. Environmental Meeting, April 2001. Laboratory exposures of Fundulus heteroclitus to evaluate the significance of reverse osmosis treatment of clean condensates on the endocrine disruption potential of BKPM process effluents. In press for April 2001. Endocrine responses of an estuarine fish Fundulus heteroclitus to final effluent from a bleached kraft pulp mill before and after reverse osmosis treatment of clean condensate.