Eric B. Guinther

Biography

    Eric Guinther is president of AECOS Inc. and has been conducting environmental studies throughout the Pacific since 1972. His responsibilities at AECOS include corporate and project management, consulting on water quality and ecological issues, production and editing of environmental reports, conducting wetland delineations, and conducting botanical field surveys. His educational background emphasized ecology, and included geography, geology, and botany in addition to his declared major in invertebrate zoology. Guinther received a degree in biology from the University of the Pacific in 1965 and undertook graduate studies in zoology at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa. These studies focused on non-marine aquatic environments (including anchialine features) on atolls in the central Pacific. He has conducted coastal zone, terrestrial, stream, and marine surveys for AECOS clients at many locations throughout the Hawaiian Islands and in the western and central Pacific, including American Samoa, Kwajalein, Canton, Tarawa, Christmas Atoll, Fanning Atoll, Guam, Saipan, Tinian, Yap, Palau, and Japan. In addition to project-related travels throughout the Pacific, during a three-year period when AECOS was affiliated with a Saudi Arabian company conducting environmental studies in the western Arabian Gulf, Mr. Guinther managed personnel and material procurement for onsite operations.  

Research Interest

 Drug Delivery and Therapeutics Advanced Drug Delivery