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EDUCATION
Ph.D. Biological
Oceanography, Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island,
1984
A.B. Zoology, Rutgers College, 1974
QUALIFICATIONS
Dr. French specializes in quantitative assessments and modeling of aquatic ecosystems and populations, pollutant transport and fates, and biological response to pollutants. Her population modeling work includes models for plankton, benthic invertebrates, fisheries, birds and mammals. She has developed water quality, food web and ecosystem models for freshwater, marine and wetland ecosystems. She is also an expert in modeling oil and chemical fates and effects, toxicity, exposure and the bioaccumulation of pollutants by biota, along with the effects of this contamination. These models have been used for impact, risk, and natural resource damage assessments, as well as for studies of the biological systems. She has provided expert testimony in hearings regarding environmental risk and impact assessments.
EXPERTISE
• Environmental impact assessments
• Natural resource damage assessment
• Expert testimony
• Assessment and modeling of pollutant effects on aquatic biota and ecosystems
• Aquatic toxicology
• Current OSHA HAZWOPPER Certification
• Biological oceanography
• Numerical ecosystems modeling
• Analysis and modeling of plankton and nutrient dynamics
• Modeling population dynamics of fish and wildlife
• Fisheries biology
• Modeling of animal migrations
• Marine, estuarine, freshwater and wetland biology and ecosystem analysis
• Salt and freshwater wetland assessments
• Biological and chemical sampling and analysis of aquatic environments
• Biological and environmental data analysis