Richard S. Halbrook
Department of Zoology
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Research
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- Dr. Richard S. Halbrook is a Wildlife Toxicologist with the Cooperative
Wildlife Research Laboratory and Associate Professor of Zoology at Southern
Illinois University. Dr. Halbrook received his doctorate degree in
Wildlife Science from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in
1990 and received a two year research fellowship at Oak Ridge National
Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN. His research interests include the design,
implementation, and validation of biomarker-based biomonitoring
capabilities, the application of wildlife toxicological methods in
ecological risk assessments. Dr. Halbrook has used wildlife toxicological
methods to study effects of environmental contaminants on river otter and
muskrat populations and has used the starling, great blue heron, and mink in
ecological risk assessment and monitoring during environmental remedial
investigations. His current research includes evaluation of contaminant
burdens and health of Illinois mink, development and validation of mink
habitat models for use in ecotoxicological studies, and monitoring starlings
as an indicator species of contaminant affects on avian species.
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