Deke Gunderson

Biography

Education:  Post Doctoral Appointment, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Ore., in 1995 Ph.D. in Toxicology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Ore., in 1994 Master of Science in Biology, University of Louisville, Louisville, Ky., in 1990 Bachelor of Science in Biology with a minor in Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind., in 1987

Research Interest

Areas of Research & Specialization:  Currently I am responsible for teaching Environmental Studies Seminar, Environmental Science, Environmental Toxicology and Problem Solving, Human Physiology, and Animal Physiology. Areas of research include: aquatic toxicology and adaptational fish physiology; ecotoxicology; toxicant effects on fisheries, particularly on reproductive success; the use of in vitro systems to assess toxicity mechanisms on physiological processes in fish; the use of biomarkers to assess the heath of endangered and threatened fish in large river systems. I also am interested in implications for re-introducing California condors, Gymnogyps californianus, in Oregon Recently I published a paper titled: "Organochlorine contaminants in blubber from stranded marine mammals collected from the Northern Oregon and Southern Washington coasts: implications for re-introducing California Condors, Gymnogyps californianus, in Oregon" in the Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology.