Aquatic Ecotoxicology: Understanding Pollutants, Aquatic Organisms, and their Environments

About

Samreen Siddiqui is Sr. Ecotoxicologist (Water Quality Planner/Project Manager-III)in King County WA and affiliated researcher in Oregon State University. She received her PhD in Coastal and Marine System Sciences from Texas A & M university Corpus Christi USA in 2020 and carried out her Postdoctoral work at Oregon State University OR USA from 2020-2022. Her research focuses on GenX a perfluorinated compound pharmaceutical compound pesticides and range of micro/nano palstics. Samreen Siddiqui served as associate editor in California Fish and Wildlife Journal (2022-23) and currently serving as member of editorial Board of IEAM (SETAC Publication).. Susanne M. Brander has been faculty at Oregon State University since 2017 after moving from the University of North Carolina Wilmington where she was faculty for 4 years. She also consults as a Senior Contributing Scientist for the Environmental Defense Fund. Branders research encompasses the fields of toxicologyendocrinology and ecology; integrating molecular approaches with measurements at the organism and population level. Branders main focus is on the effects of stressors such as emerging pollutants plastics and changing climate on aquatic organisms but her research and teaching also spans the links between ecological and human health. She has a Ph.D. in Toxicology and Pharmacology from UC Davis (2011) and an M.S. in Environmental Science and Policy from Johns Hopkins University (2005). Although Brander has worked in academia for the past nine years following completion of an M.S. and prior to pursuing a Ph.D. she worked in industry as an Environmental Analyst and Project Scientist at Weston Solutions Inc. Her research is currently funded by the Sea Grant the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Science Foundation. She has presented on pollution to the legislature in Salem OR and on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C.