About the Author
A. Dennis Lemly has spent over 20 years investigating the effects of
selenium pollution in aquatic ecosystems. His career began in the late
1970s with studies of the landmark pollution event at Belews Lake,
North Carolina, which established the fundamental principles of selenium bioaccumulation and reproductive toxicity in fish. In the 1980s,
he was a research project manager for the us Fish and Wildlife Service, directing studies that determined impacts of selenium from agricultural irrigation on aquatic life in California and other western states.
In the 1990s, his emphasis shifted to the development of methods and
guidelines for hazard assessment and water quality criteria for selenium, which led to the publication of this book. He has consulted on
selenium contamination issues around the world, including such problems as power plant discharges in Australia, gold mining effluents in
the Canadian Arctic, and agricultural irrigation drainage in Egypt. He
has written over 100 scientific articles, book chapters, and technical
reports on selenium. Dennis has a Ph.D . in Biology from Wake Forest
University, and holds appointments on the faculty at Duke University
and Virginia Tech University. He is currently a Senior Research Scientist with the US Forest Service in Blacksburg, Virginia, where he is
investigating new causes of selenium pollution in the USA and elsewhere.
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A. Dennis Lemly has spent over 20 years investigating the effects of
selenium pollution in aquatic ecosystems. His career began in the late
1970s with studies of the landmark pollution event at Belews Lake,
North Carolina, which established the fundamental principles of selenium bioaccumulation and reproductive toxicity in fish. In the 1980s,
he was a research project manager for the us Fish and Wildlife Service, directing studies that determined impacts of selenium from agricultural irrigation on aquatic life in California and other western states.
In the 1990s, his emphasis shifted to the development of methods and
guidelines for hazard assessment and water quality criteria for selenium, which led to the publication of this book. He has consulted on
selenium contamination issues around the world, including such problems as power plant discharges in Australia, gold mining effluents in
the Canadian Arctic, and agricultural irrigation drainage in Egypt. He
has written over 100 scientific articles, book chapters, and technical
reports on selenium. Dennis has a Ph.D . in Biology from Wake Forest
University, and holds appointments on the faculty at Duke University
and Virginia Tech University. He is currently a Senior Research Scientist with the US Forest Service in Blacksburg, Virginia, where he is
investigating new causes of selenium pollution in the USA and elsewhere.
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