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West Virginia Education Activities

2011 Fish Physiology class

As part of our mission, Unit scientists teach graduate classes, mentor graduate students and conduct workshops for our cooperators.

Students in the West Virginia Unit can pursue an M.S. or Ph.D. degree through the Division of Forestry and Natural Resources in the Davis College of Agriculture, Forestry and Consumer Sciences.

As of September 30, 2011, 98 students have completed their degree requirements: 79 Master's students and 19 Ph.D. Students

Courses Taught

Fish Physiology (Pat Mazik 2011)
Aquatic Toxicology This course will have an emphasis on the types of toxicity testing, the environmental fate of chemicals and the types of assessment needed. This class will emphasize fish toxicity. Students will learn about different types of toxicity testing including acute, early life stage, chronic, freshwater, and seawater. The environmental fate of contaminants involving transport and transformation processes, bioaccumulation, bioavailability, biochemical mechanism, fate modeling will also be discussed. Functional endpoints of ecosystem effects, federal regulation and ecological risk assessments as they relate to toxicological assessments are also emphasized. (Pat Mazik 2010)
Fish Physiology (Pat Mazik 2009)
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Training Offered

Fish identification training for US. Forest Service Biologists, Monongahela National Forest, Elkins, WV (Stuart Welsh May 2010)
Electrofishing safety (Stuart Welsh August 2008)
Fish Identification course at NCTC for the US EPA (Stuart Welsh May 2008)
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