Seminar - Integrating One Health during Study of Urbanizing Aquatic Systems

Integrating One Health during Study of Urbanizing Aquatic Systems

Professor Bryan W. Brooks, Baylor University, Waco, Texas.

Chaired by Dr Laura Carter, School of Geography

6 August, 12.00-1.00pm  followed by Networking lunch

Please register here.

We welcome Professor Bryan W. Brooks who is distinguished Professor of Environmental Science and Public Health, and Director of Environmental Health at Baylor University in Waco, Texas.

Working with students and other collaborators, his research, which commonly focuses on environmental toxicology and chemistry, harmful algal blooms, and advancing environmental public health practice, is ongoing on 5 continents. An author of >300 manuscripts in scholarly journals and book chapters, Bryan serves as Editor-in-Chief of Environmental Science & Technology Letters (American Chemical Society Publications, and previously served as Editor in Chief of Environmental Management (Springer Nature), and Associate Editor of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC/Wiley), Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management (SETAC/Wiley), and Science of the Total Environment (Elsevier).

His current research is supported by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Science Foundation, Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention with Texas Department of State Health Services. Bryan has received the Recipharm International Environmental Award, the Kenaga Award from the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, a Leadership Award from the Water Environment Federation, two Scientific and Technological Achievement Awards from the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the Past Presidents Award from the National Environmental Health Association.

He has served as the Fulbright Visiting Research Chair of Water and the Environment in Canada, a Visiting Erskine Fellow at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, a Visiting Pearl River Scholar Chair Professor at Jinan University in China, a Visiting Professor at the University of South Bohemia in the Czech Republic, and the John P. Laborde Chair for Sea Grant Research and Technology Transfer and Visiting Professor at the Louisiana Sea Grant Program and Louisiana State University.

Bryan currently holds a Catalyst Leaders International Fellowship from the Royal Society of New Zealand, and serves on the Council Executive Committee of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, and the Royal Society of Chemistry.

If you wish to meet with Prof Brooks during his visit please contact Laura Carter directly.