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Susan D. Shaw (born October 24, 1943 in Dallas, Texas) is an American environmental health scientist, explorer, ocean conservationist, and author. A Doctor of Public Health, she is a professor in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at the School of Public Health at the State University of New York at Albany, and the founder of the Marine Environmental Research Institute. Shaw has worked extensively on issues related to toxic chemical exposure and its impacts on human health and wildlife. In 1983, with landscape photographer Ansel Adams, she published ''Overexposure'', the first book to document the health hazards of photographic chemicals.〔(【引用サイトリンク】first=Ron )〕 Shaw is credited as the first scientist to show that brominated flame retardant chemicals used in consumer products have contaminated marine mammals and commercially important fish stocks in the northwest Atlantic Ocean. She is known for diving into the Gulf of Mexico oil slick following the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion to investigate the impacts of chemical dispersants used in response to the spill.〔(【引用サイトリンク】first=Susan D. )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】first=Susan D. )〕 == Education and early career == Shaw received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Texas in 1967 with a major in Plan II, an interdisciplinary honors program modeled after the Harvard Society of Fellows Program. Selected for the UT-Chilean Exchange Program in 1964, she spent a year in Chile as a Fulbright Scholar. She earned an MFA degree in Film from Columbia University in 1970, and a doctorate in Public Health/Environmental Health Sciences (Dr.P.H.) from Columbia University’s School of Public Health in 1999. In 1980, Ansel Adams commissioned her to write ''Overexposure'', published in 1983 as the first book to document the health hazards of photographic chemicals used in the darkroom.〔 A second edition of the book was published in 1991. Shaw founded the Marine Environmental Research Institute in Blue Hill, Maine in 1990 following the deaths of 20,000 harbor seals inhabiting polluted waters of northwestern Europe. This wildlife “signal” event was followed by other mass die-offs of marine mammals in polluted marine regions. Advancing understanding of the impacts of toxic chemicals on marine mammal health became the Institute’s research focus over the next two decades. The Institute’s mission is to protect the environment and people from the effects of harmful exposure in three priority areas: halogenated flame retardants and other persistent organic pollutants (POPs), chemical dispersants used in oil spills, and plastic pollution. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Susan D. Shaw」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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