Mentors

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• Sources, Fate, and Transport

  Vincent St. Louis

  Professor
  University of Alberta, Canada

  Research interests: Biogeochemical mercury cycling in the environment, human influence on mercury cycling, methyl mercury in Arctic animals.

  Hayley Hung

  Research scientist
  Environment Canada, Canada

  Research interests: Long-term trends, sources and transport pathways of atmospheric organic contaminants to the Arctic.

• Toxicity and Effects

  Nikolaus Gantner

  Adjunct Assistant Professor
  University of Northern British Columbia

  Research interests: Aquatic food webs, mercury in Arctic char, ecotoxicology.

  Bruno Danis

  Associate Professor
  Marine Biology Lab at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium

  Research interests: Distribution, fluxes and impacts of anthropogenic contaminants on marine ecosystems.

• Exposure Processes

  Cynthia de Wit

  Professor
  Stockholm University, Sweden

  Research interests: Ecotoxicology and environmental fate of persistent organic pollutants, particularly  brominated flame retardants. Persistent organic pollutants in the Arctic. Brominated and fluorinated organic compounds in indoor air and dust, including human exposure from these routes.

• Emerging topics

  Ingela Dahllöf

  Head of Department
  Gothenburg University, Sweden

  Research interests: Pharmaceuticals effects on benthic and pelagic foodwebs and on macrovegetation and macrofauna-microbial interactions, as well as on molecular analysis of microbial communities and analytical chemistry.