Teaching Faculty

Teaching faculty for the course includes:

Name	Title	Department	Affiliation	Country	Email
John Giesy	1) Prof. and Canada Research Chair, 2) Chair Prof. At-large, 3) Distinguished Prof. Emeritus 4) Concurrent Prof.	1) University of Saskatchewan, Canada 2) City University. Hong Kong; 3) Michigan State University 4) Nanjing Univeristy	University of Saskatchewan;	Saskatoon, Canada	john.giesy@usask.ca
Des Connell	Emeritus Professor	Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology, Griffith School of the Environment	Griffith University	Brisbane, Australia	D.Connell@griffith.edu.au
Rudolf Wu	Chair Professor	Department of Biology and Chemistry	City University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong, China	bhrswu@cityu.edu.hk
Paul Lam	Chair Professor	Department of Biology and Chemistry	City University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong, China	bhpksl@cityu.edu.hk
Doris Au	Associate Professor	Department of Biology and Chemistry	City University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong, China	bhdwtau@cityu.edu.hk
Michael Lam	Associate Professor	Department of Biology and Chemistry	City University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong, China	bhmhwlam@cityu.edu.hk
Wen-Xiong Wang	Professor; Chair Professor at Xiamen University	Department of Biology	The University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong	Hong Kong, China	wwang@ust.hk
Huasheng Hong	Chair Professor	State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science	Xiamen University	Xiamen, China	hshong@xmu.edu.cn
Kejian Wang	Professor	State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science	Xiamen University	Xiamen, China	wkjian@xmu.edu.cn
Dazhi Wang	Professor	State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science	Xiamen University	Xiamen, China	dzwang@xmu.edu.cn
Xinhong Wang	Associate Professor	State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science	Xiamen University	Xiamen, China	xhwang@xmu.edu.cn

 Prof. John Giesy will teach the following topics:

l        Courses on Ecotoxicology and Environmental Risk assessment (30h)

Concept and theory of Ecological Risk Assessment

Exposure Assessment

Predicting Exposure & Monitoring

Hazard Assessment

Probabilistic Risk Assessment

Sediment Toxicity Assessment

Field trips/case study

A series of special lectures will be given as follows:

l         Evaluation of Ecological and Human Health Effects of Environmental

Chemicals using Probabilistic Techniques. (Des Connell) (1.5 h)

l         Risk assessment of contaminants in marine mammals and birds (Paul Lam) (2 h)

l         Coastal Ecosystem Health (Huasheng Hong) (2h)

l         Contemporary issues in ecotoxicoology (Rudolf Wu) (2h)

l         Chemical monitoring and biomonitoring (Rudolf Wu) (2h)

l         Application of biomarkers in ecotoxicological assessments (Doris Au) (2 h)

l         Marine medaka as a model fish for marine ecotoxicology (Doris Au) (2 h)

l         Novel chemical technologies for pollution monitoring (Michael Lam) (4 h)

l         Bioavailability and Bioaccumulation of Metals in the marine environment (Wen-Xiong Wang) (4 h)

l         Immunotoxic effects on marine-cultured fish (Kejian Wang) (2 h)

l         Bioaccumulation and biotransformation of trace organic pollutants in the coastal environment (Xinhong Wang) (2 h)

l         Biotoxin and ecosafety (Da-zhi Wang) (2 h)