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susan as sentinels research , maine coast 2007 shaw with a stranded seal pup , seals university at albany , suny dallas , texas , usa 150px american environmental health , toxicology 24 october 1943 society explorers club citation of merit , gulf of maine visionary of award women geographers ' gold medal award , file : susan shaw with seal pup 2007 340x255.jpg susan d. shaw
 susan d. shaw columbia at austin university school of public health university of texas
susan d. shaw

susan d. shaw -lrb- born october 24 , 1943 in dallas , texas -rrb- is an american environmental health scientist , explorer , ocean conservationist , and author .
a doctor of public health , she is a professor in the department of environmental health sciences at the school of public health at the state university of new york at albany , and the founder of the marine environmental research institute .
shaw has worked extensively on issues related to toxic chemical exposure and its impacts on human health and wildlife .
in 1983 , with landscape photographer ansel adams , she published `` overexposure '' , the first book to document the health hazards of photographic chemicals .
shaw is credited as the first scientist to show that brominated flame retardant chemicals used in consumer products have contaminated marine mammals and commercially important fish stocks in the northwest atlantic ocean .
she is known for diving into the gulf of mexico oil slick following the 2010 bp deepwater horizon oil rig explosion to investigate the impacts of chemical dispersants used in response to the spill .
