Appendix C
Biosketches for Workshop Planning Committee Members

Charles A. Menzie

Chair

Charles A. Menzie is principal and former practice director at Exponent, Inc. He was global executive director for the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) from 2014 to 2020. He specializes in the application of ecological and human health risk assessment and causal analysis methods for evaluating the potential for effects and for diagnosing the causes of environmental harms and damages. His technical expertise includes the evaluation of the environmental fate and effects of physical, biological, and chemical stressors on terrestrial and aquatic systems. He has applied his expertise to situations involving nutrient enrichment, chemical contamination, use of pesticides and other chemical products, oil and gas operations, fossil fuel and nuclear power plants, alternative energy projects, mining, invasive species, water management, and vulnerability assessments for climate change. As part of his risk assessment practice, he has developed exposure and food web models to evaluate how people and ecological receptors may be exposed to a variety of chemicals. These include several spatially explicit models used to refine exposure estimates. He previously served on the National Academies Committee on the Bioavailability of Contaminants in Soils and Sediments. Dr. Menzie has a B.S. in biology from Manhattan College and an M.A. and Ph.D. in biology from City University of New York.

Scott Belanger

Member

Scott Belanger retired as a research fellow from the Global Product Stewardship Global Capability Organization (Environmental Stewardship and Sustainability) of the Procter & Gamble Company, where he was in charge of aquatic toxicology research and led Procter & Gamble’s overall environmental toxicology function. He was chair of the Corporate Function Safety Innovation Research Programs for both human and environmental safety. His research involves the response of aquatic organisms to single compounds and complex mixtures including classical ecotoxicological endpoints, bioaccumulation, and critical body burdens of test compounds. He is the founder and former chair of the HESI (Health and Environmental Sciences Institute) Project Committee on Animal Alternative Needs in Environmental Risk Assessment, a consortium of approximately 100 academic, industry, regulatory, and NGO scientists and presently serves as a member of the HESI Board of Trustees, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Dr. Belanger is a member of several ongoing Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) working groups, including the OECD Fish Framework, the OECD ad hoc Expert Group on the Fish Embryo Test (FET), and the Acute Fish Toxicity IATA working group. He was appointed SETAC (Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry) Science Fellow in 2017. Dr. Belanger continues to work with regulatory agencies, academic units, and the private sector in environmental risk assessment matters including weight of evidence formulation, extrapolation of laboratory findings to the field, and use/interpretation of higher-tier forms of environmental scientific impact evidence. Dr. Belanger received a B.S. in zoology from the University of Wisconsin, a M.S. in biological sciences from Bowling Green State University, and a Ph.D. in zoology and aquatic ecotoxicology from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

Carys Mitchelmore

Member

Carys L. Mitchelmore is a professor at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory in Solomons, Maryland. Her expertise is in environmental health and aquatic toxicology and her research emphasis is on understanding the exposure to, fate and effects of pollutants in resident organisms, particularly corals. Research is directed toward the detection of chemical contaminants in various environmental matrices and understanding their routes of exposure, uptake and bioaccumulation, metabolism, mechanisms of toxicity and implications to organism and ecosystem health. Applied research includes toxicity testing for application to risk assessment, regulation and management activities and providing solutions to applied environmental problems, such as, invasive species control. Recent investigations have focused on the chemical partitioning, fate and effects of organic UV filters, crude oils, oil spill dispersants and organic disinfection by-products in numerous invertebrate and vertebrate species, but especially sensitive and/or understudied species like corals and reptiles. Dr. Mitchelmore has received funding and travel support from the Personal Care Products Council for her research and testimony on UV filter effects on corals. She provided testimony to the Hawaii legislature regarding the ban of sale of certain sunscreen ingredients in Hawaii. Dr. Mitchelmore has served on two previous National Academies Studies: the Committee on the Effects of Diluted Bitumen on the Environment: A Comparative Study (2016) and the Committee on Understanding Oil Spill Dispersants: Efficacy and Effects (2005). She was also a review coordinator for the recent 2020 Committee on the Use of Dispersants in Marine Oil Spill Response. She currently serves on the National Academies Committee on Oil in the Sea IV: Input, Fates and Effects. Dr. Mitchelmore received her Ph.D. from the University of Birmingham (UK) in 1997 investigating the metabolism and effects of organic contaminants to aquatic organisms.

Robert Richmond

Member

Robert Richmond is the director and a research professor at the Kewalo Marine Laboratory at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He received his doctorate in 1983 from the State University of New York at Stony Brook with a concentration in biological sciences. His research interests are focused on coral reef ecosystems, with studies including coral reproductive biology, ecotoxicology, coral reef ecology and the impacts of climate change. In 2006, he was awarded a Pew Fellowship in Marine Conservation during which he developed molecular biomarkers of stress in corals as a tool for coral reef conservation. In 2014, he received an award from the U.S. Coral Reef Task Force in recognition of advancing scientific research, mentoring and service. He was awarded grants from the Hawaii State Department of Health, NOAA and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation to develop biomarkers of toxicant exposure in corals in Hawaii. Dr. Richmond has provided testimony to the Hawaii legislature regarding the ban of sale of certain sunscreen ingredients in Hawaii. Dr. Richmond is currently a member of the Palau International Coral Reef Center’s board of directors and was a member of the Climate Change and Coral Reefs working group at the Center for Ocean Solutions. He is a past president of the International Coral Reef Society and served as the convener for the 13th International Coral Reef Symposium held in Hawaii in 2016. He previously served on the National Academies Committee on Interventions to Increase the Resilience of Coral Reefs.

Emma J. Rosi

Member

Emma J. Rosi is a senior scientist at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies. Previously, Dr. Rosi was an assistant professor at Loyola University of Chicago. Dr. Rosi conducts research on factors that control and influence ecosystem function in aquatic ecosystems. Her research focuses on human modifications to freshwater ecosystems such as land use change and restoration, widespread agriculture, urbanization, the release of novel contaminants, and hydrologic modifications associated with large dams. Her research spans ecosystems from small streams to large rivers and has been conducted throughout the world, and includes biogeochemistry, secondary production, food webs, carbon cycling, and the effects of emerging contaminants on ecosystem processes. She is the director of the Baltimore Ecosystem Study Long-term Ecological Research Site. Currently she conducts research investigating how microplastics and pharmaceuticals affect stream ecology and food webs. She has served as an adviser to the EPA through service on committees of the Science Advisory Board, on the board of Freshwater Biology, as an associate editor for Ecosystems, as a reviewer for proposals submitted to NSF and USDA as well as for numerous scientific journals. She holds a Ph.D. and M.S. from the University of Georgia and a B.S. from the University of Michigan.

Cheryl Woodley

Member

Cheryl M. Woodley has served as a research scientist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Ocean Service, National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science in Charleston, South Carolina for the last 30 years. With expertise in biochemistry, cellular biology, and pathobiology, she leads a multidisciplinary research team focused on understanding the effects of physical, chemical, and/or biological risk factors affecting conservation and management of vulnerable shallow-water coral species. Specific areas of interest include coral reproduction, disease pathologies and treatment, ecotoxicology, and diagnostic assay development. Dr. Woodley also holds an adjunct graduate faculty position at the College of Charleston and serves as the coordinator for the Coral Disease and Health Consortium, a working group of the U.S. Coral Reef Task-force. She is coeditor of a comprehensive reference book (Diseases of Coral) and has coauthored more than 65 publications, two of those publications concern the toxicological effects of UV filters (benzophenone-2 and oxybenzone) on coral. Upon request and in her personal capacity, Dr. Woodley has provided expert opinions to several city, state, and federal legislators on the impacts of ultraviolet filters on coral health. Dr. Woodley completed her doctorate in the molecular, cellular, and pathobiology program at the Medical University of South Carolina, studying serine proteases in the kallikrein–kinin system and received specialized training in virology at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston.

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