Ronald Eisler

Ronald Eisler received the B.A. degree from New York University in biology and chemistry and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Washington in aquatic sciences and radioecology, respectively. He has conducted research at the University of Miami at Coral Gables, Florida; the U.S. Army afficher plus Medical Service Corps at Denver, Colorado; the University of Washington at Seattle; the Hebrew University of Jerusalem at Eilat, Israel; the U.S. Department of the Interior at Highlands, New Jersey and Laurel, Maryland; and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, at Narragansett, Rhode Island. He has participated in research and monitoring studies in the Pacific Northwest, the Territory of Alaska, Colorado, the Marshall and Marianas Islands, the Pacific Proving Ground, all along the eastern seaboard of the United States Atlantic coast, the Adirondacks region of New York, the Gulf of Aqaba in the Red Sea, and the Gulf of Mexico. He is the author of more than 150 technical articles including 10 books and 16 book chapters, mainly on contaminant hazards to plants and animals. He has held a number of adjunct professor appointments and taught for extended periods at the Graduate School of Oceanography of the University of Rhode Island, and the Department of Biology of American University in Washington D.C. He also served as Visiting Professor and Resident Director of Hebrew University's Marine Biology Laboratory at Eilat, Israel, as Senior Science Advisor to the American Fisheries Society in Bethesda, Maryland, and as Acid Rain Coordinator for the U.S. Department of the Interior in Washington, D.C. In retirement, he consults and writes on risk assessment. Eisler resides in Potomac, Maryland, with his wife, Jeannette, a teacher of French and Spanish. afficher moins