Keith Maruya |
Keith Maruya
Associate
Professor
Skidaway
Institute of Oceanography
Presently: Southern California Coastal Water Research Project Authority
Expertise:
Fate and effects of toxic substances; environmental organic chemistry/mass
spectrometry.
Issues of Interest:
1. Disposition of persistent organic pollutants in estuaries/coastal zone
2. Development of coastal/estuarine bioindicators of sediment and water quality
3. Naturally produced organohalogen compounds
4. Environmental quality as affected by development/changing land use
Current Projects:
1. Development of coastal Georgia bioindicators of contaminant exposure (GA
DNR, CZM)
2. Analysis of Georgia coastal sediments for chlorinated and brominated contaminants
of emerging concern (GA DNR, CZM)
3. Contaminant fate and effects in tidal creek ecosystems (NOAA LU-CES)
4. Levels, accumulation, transformation and trophic transfer of toxaphene in
St. Simons Sound (EPA Region 4)
5. Mutagenicity of toxaphene residues extracted from edible fish tissue (EPA
ORD/Cinncinnati)
Location:
All Georgia coastal estuaries, particularly
St. Simons Sound
Terry/Dupree Creek/Back River (Hercules)
Turtle River/Purvis Creek (LCP)
N. Newport/Satilla
River estuaries
Wassaw Sound
Project Links:
Biomonitoring for the Georgia Coast: Oysters as Sentinels of Coastal
Water Quality
Marc
Frischer (Skidaway Institute of Oceanography), Keith Maruya (Southern California Coastal Water Research Project Authority)
Biomonitoring
for the Georgia Coast
Keith A. Maruya (Skidaway Inst. of Oceanography)
Impact
of Phenolic and Dioxin-like Contaminants on Coastal Georgia Water Quality
Keith A. Maruya (Skidaway Institute of Oceanography)
Biomarker
Response and Persistent Contamination Levels in Estuarine Fish
Keith A. Maruya (Skidaway Inst. of Oceanography)