E-mail: pldefur@vcu.edu
Contact: (804) 828-1760

VCU departmental affiliation:
Center for Environmental Studies, Research associate professor

External affiliation:
Environmental Stewardship Concepts, (private consulting firm)

Degrees:
Ph.D. (Biology) University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 1980
M.S. (Biology) The College of William and Mary, 1977
B.S. (Biology) The College of William and Mary, 1972

Courses taught at VCU:
• ENVS 601 Survey of Environmental Studies
• ENVS 550 Ecological Risk Assessment

Research interests:
• Problems of low oxygen in coastal waters and rivers, including how aquatic animals respond
• Endocrine disrupting chemicals, mechanisms, responses, regulation and policy
• Public-interest science
• Access of nonprofit groups to scientific information and expertise

Recent publications/abstracts/presentations:
deFur, P.L. and M.Kaszuba. 2001. Implementing the Precautionary Principle. Science of the Total Environment. In Press.

Hypes, R. and P.L. deFur. 2001. Effects of hypercapnic hypoxia on blue crabs, Callinectes sapidus. In Prep.

deFur, P.L and D. P. Clarke. 2001. Selecting, implementing and tracking ecological risk management decisions: Necessary elements of an effective decision-making framework. Ch 5, pp 57-74 In: R. Stahl et al., eds. Risk Management: Ecological Risk-Based Decision-Making. SETAC Press, Pensacola, Fla.