Roxanne Karimi Postdoctoral Research Associate Ph.D., 2007, Dartmouth College E-mail: Roxanne.Karimi@stonybrook.edu Environmental health, freshwater and marine pollutants, ecological stoichiometry, physiological ecology

Research Interests

My research examines how ecological factors control both the cycling of contaminants in freshwater and marine systems and human exposure to contaminants. My research interests consist of three core areas: 1) bioaccumulation of mercury and other aquatic contaminants, 2) trace metal stoichiometry in aquatic organisms and 3) human exposure to mercury and persistent organic pollutants through seafood consumption.  

Currently, my work involves three main projects: 1) a large scale meta-analysis of a global database of mercury concentrations in commercial fish; 2) examining ecological drivers and temporal-spatial trends of mercury concentrations in Long Island fish; 3) investigating health effects of chronic, low-level mercury exposure through seafood consumption in Long Island adults.

Publications

Cottingham, K.L., Karimi, R., Zens, M.S., Sayarath, V., Folt, C.L., Gruber, J.F., Punshon, T., Morris, S., Karagas, M. Relation between dietary consumption and toenail arsenic concentrations among those with and without drinking water arsenic (Submitted).  

Karimi, R., Fisher, N.S. and Folt, C.L., 2010. Multielement stoichiometry: when growth dilution matters. American Naturalist 176:699-709.

Karimi, R., Chen, C.Y., Fisher, N.S., Pickhardt, P.C., Folt, C.L., 2007. Nutrient stoichiometry controls mercury dilution by growth. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104:7477–7482.

Karimi, R. and Folt, C.L., 2006. Beyond macronutrients: element variability and multi-element stoichiometry in freshwater invertebrates. Ecology Letters 9:1273-1283.

Renshaw, C.E., Bostick, B.C., Feng, X., Wong, C.K, Winston, E.S., Karimi, R., Folt, C.L., Chen, C.Y., 2006. Impact of land disturbance on the fate of arsenical pesticides. Journal of Environmental Quality 35:61-67.