Center Director
NOAA/NOS
Center for Coastal Environmental Health and Biomolecular Research
Ph.D., University of South
Carolina
geoff.scott@noaa.gov
Environmental toxicology, environmental oncology, and ecotoxicology. Research has focused on the effects of urban and agricultural nonpoint source runoff on estuarine ecosystem health. This has included research which has assessed both the lethal and sublethal effects of chemical contaminants and methods to discern impacts from ecosystem process changes versus chemical contaminant effects. One of the primary objectives of our research is to determine the relationship between present regulatory requirements.
Publications:
Kelsey, H. E., G. Scott, D.E. Porter, B.
Thompson, and L. Webster. 2003. Using multiple antibiotic resistance and
land use characteristics to determine sources of fecal coliform
bacterial pollution. International Journal of Env. Monitoring and
Assessment 81: 337-348.
Sanders, M, S. Sivertsen, and G. Scott. 2002. Origin and distribution of
Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons In Surficial Sediments from the
Savannah River. Arch. Env. Contam. And Toxicology 43: 438-448.
Scott, G. I., M.H. Fulton, E. F. Wirth, G. T. Chandler, P. B. Key, J. W.
Daugomah, D. Bearden, K. W. Chung, E. D. Strozier, M. E. DeLoranzo, S.
Sivertsen, A. Dias, M. Sanders, J.M. Macauley, L.R. Goodman, M. W.
LaCroix, G. W. Thayer, and J. Kucklick. 2002. Toxicological studies in
tropical ecosystems: an ecotoxicological risk assessment of pesticide
runoff in south Florida estuarine ecosystems. Journal of Agricultural
Food Chem 50 (15): 4400-4408.
Wirth, E. F, S.A. Lund , M. H. Fulton and G. I. Scott. 2002.
Reproductive alterations in adult grass shrimp, Palaemonetes pugio,
following sublethal, chronic endosulfan exposure. Aquatic Toxicology
59:93-99