Item talk:Q48773

usgs_staff_profile:

 meta:
   status_code: 200
   timestamp: '2023-09-30T17:10:38.777590'
   url: https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/barnett-rattner
 profile:
   abstracts: []
   affiliations:
   - Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
   - Society of Toxicology
   - The Wildlife Society
   - American Physiological Society
   education:
   - B.S., University of Maryland, 1972 - Zoology
   - M.S., University of Maryland, 1974 - Zoology, Developmental Biology
   - Ph.D., University of Maryland, 1977 - Zoology, Environmental Physiology
   - National Research Council Postdoctoral Associateship, Naval Medical Research
     Institute, 1978 - Hyperbaric Physiology
   email: brattner@usgs.gov
   expertise_terms:
   - Ecotoxicology
   - Metals
   - Persistent Organic Pollutants
   - Pesticides
   - Pharmaceuticals
   - Risk Assessment
   - Wildlife Toxicology
   - Alternative Toxicological Methods
   - Ammunition and Lead Shot
   - Anticoagulant Rodenticides
   - Birds
   - Flame Retardants
   - Neonicotinoids
   - PCBs
   - PBDEs
   - Raptors
   - Physiology
   honors:
   - Distinguished Service Award, Department of the Interior 2018
   - Fellow, Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 2017
   - President, Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry World Council 2015
   - President, Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry - North America
     2012
   - SETAC Government Service Award 2007
   intro_statements:
   - Dr. Barnett Rattner is an ecotoxicologist at the Eastern Ecological Science
     Center in Laurel, MD.
   name: Barnett Rattner, Ph.D.
   name_qualifier: null
   orcid: 0000-0003-3676-2843
   organization_link: https://www.usgs.gov/centers/eesc
   organization_name: Eastern Ecological Science Center
   personal_statement: "He conducts hypothesis-driven laboratory and field investigations,\
     \ risk assessments and scholarly evaluations on the toxicity of legacy and contemporary\
     \ pollutants (industrial contaminants, metals, pesticides, petroleum crude oil)\
     \ to wildlife and the environment. His current focus is on exposure and adverse\
     \ effects of anticoagulant rodenticides, flame retardants and pharmaceuticals,\
     \ comparative toxicology, non-target secondary poisoning associated with rodenticides,\
     \ alternative testing methods, and screening-level risk assessments. Dr. Rattner\
     \ actively represents the DOI as a member of the Interagency Coordinating Committee\
     \ on the Validation of Alternative Methods, and serves as a special consultant\
     \ to the Fish and Wildlife Service on issues related to nontoxic shot used in\
     \ hunt nontoxic shot used in hunt waterfowl.Active Projects:Development of data\
     \ and models to evaluate the hazard and risk of anticoagulant rodenticides to\
     \ non-target raptorial speciesAbsorption, distribution, metabolism, elimination\
     \ and toxicity of neonicotinoids in seed-eating birdsHarmful algal blooms and\
     \ bird die-offs in the Chesapeake Bay: A potential link?Contaminant exposure\
     \ and potential reproductive effects in ospreys nesting in Chesapeake and Delaware\
     \ BayContaminant-related activities and synoptic reviews in support of client\
     \ agencies in the Department of the InteriorTechnical assistance to the Fish\
     \ and Wildlife Service on alternative shotAccomplishments:Authored over 135\
     \ publications, co-edited three books (Handbook of Ecotoxicology, Ecotoxicology\
     \ of Wild Mammals, Anticoagulant Rodenticides and Wildlife), and made over 160\
     \ presentations at scientific meetings, workshops and symposia.Compiled two\
     \ widely used internet-accessible ecotoxicological databases (Contaminant Exposure\
     \ and Effects\u2014Terrestrial Vertebrates database, Biological and Ecotoxicological\
     \ Characteristics of Terrestrial Vertebrate Species Residing in Estuaries).Serves\
     \ as Terrestrial Editor of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, and as an\
     \ Editorial Board member of the Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and\
     \ Toxicology, and Outlooks on Pest Management."
   professional_experience:
   - Ecotoxicologist and Physiologist (research scientist, section leader, deputy
     branch chief) Department of the Interior, FWS, NBS, and USGS (1978-present)
   - Adjunct Professor University of Maryland, Department of Animal and Avian Sciences
     & Department of Environmental Science and Technology (1988-2022)
   - National Research Council Post-doctoral Research Associate, National Naval Medical
     Center (1978
   - Guest Worker, National Institute of Arthritis, Metabolism and Digestive and
     Kidney Diseases, NIH (1974-1981)
   - Instructor and Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Maryland, Department
     of Zoology (1972-1977)
   title: Research Physiologist