Ph.D. student- University of Massachusetts,
Amherst
Education
B. A. Boston University, 2000
Research Interests
My main research interests include the impacts of anthropogenic acidification
and increased aluminum concentrations in streams and rivers on the physiology,
endocrinology, and behavior of Atlantic salmon smolts. More specifically,
I am interested in the underlying mechanisms of acid and aluminum effects
on smolt osmoregulatory ability at the level of the fish gill. Currenlty,
I am involved in a project examining short-term, sublethal effects of
acid/aluminum on the proliferation and apoptosis of chloride cells, the
cells of the gill responsible for both ion uptake and excretion. I am
also working on a project to develop a biological marker for acid and
aluminum exposure using a non-lethal gill biopsy method to measure aluminum
in gill tissue. It is thought that this method may be used to link exposure
to acid and aluminum with negative physiological impacts on salmon smolts
in the wild. The knowledge of both the mechanisms underlying the effects
of acid/aluminum exposure as well as the extent of its impacts on both
wild and hatchery smolts is crucial to the conservation and restoration
of Atlantic salmon populations in the Northeast.
Publications
Juanes, F., G. Kligys, A.. Krauth, G. Mendez,
M. Monette, K. Nieves-Puigdoller, J. Odell and J. Sotiropoulos. 2003.
Book Review: Marine Fisheries Ecology. Transactions of the American Fisheries
Society 132: 619-620.
Monette, M.Y. and S.D. McCormick. 2003. Effects of short-term, sublethal
acid/aluminum exposure on seawater tolerance and endocrinology of Atlantic
salmon smolts. Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology 42: 1281.
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