Anne E. McElroy Professor Ph.D., 1985, Massachusetts Institute of Technology/ Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution E-mail: amcelroy@notes.cc.sunysb.edu Aquatic Toxicology

Research Interests

My research broadly focuses on how aquatic organisms interact with toxic chemicals in their environment. Specifically I am interested in how organisms accumulate and metabolize organic contaminants, and how they respond to such exposure at the cellular, biochemical, and physiological levels. Current projects include evaluation of the combined effects of contaminant exposure and hypoxia on gene expression in fish embryos, the influence of multiple chemical stressors on membrane efflux pumps and developmental toxicity in fish embryos, biological and chemical markers for hypoxia and sewage derived contaminants  in coastal ecosystem, responses of fish to estrogenic chemicals in urban watersheds, evaluation of biological, environmental and anthropogenic factors that influence survival and growth of young-of-the-year winter flounder, and characterization of defense parameters in lobsters associated with susceptibility to epizootic shell disease. 

Publications

McElroy, A.E., Barron, M.G., Beckvar, N., Kane Driscoll, S.B. Meador, J.P. Parkerton, T.F. Preuss, T.G. and Steevens, J.A. 2011. A Review of the tissue residue approach for organic and organometallic compounds in aquatic organisms. In press. Integ. Environ. Assess. & Manag.

Duffy, T.A., Picha, M.E. Won, E.T., Borski, R.J., McElroy, A.E. and Conover D.O.2010. Ontogenesis of gonadal aromatase gene expression in Atlantic silverside (Menidia menidia) populations with genetic and temperature-dependent sex determination. J. Exp. Zool. 313A:421-431.

Weisbrod, A.V., Woodbrun, K.B., Koelmans,A.A., Parkteron, T.F., McElroy, A.E. and Borga, K. 2009. Evaluation of bioaccumulation using in vivo laboratory and field studies. Integ. Envion. Assess & Management 5:598-623.

McElroy, A, Benotti, M., Edinger, G, Feldman, A, O'Connell, C., Stewart, G., Swanson, R.L. and Waldman, J.  2009. Assessment of Natural Resource Conditions in and Adjacent to Fire Island National Seashore.  Natural Resource Report NPS/NRPC/NRR-2009/139. National Park Service, Fort Collins, CO. 

Duffy, T. A., McElroy, A.E., and  Conover, D.O. 2009. Response to environmental estrogens in Menidia menidia; population-level susceptibility is influenced by mechanism of sex determination.   J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 380:245-254.

Mena, L, Arukwe, A., Denslow, D., and McElroy, A. 2006. Endocrine disruption in winter flounder  (Pseudopleuronectes americanus ) from an urban estuary, Jamaica Bay, NY USA. Mar. Environ. Res. 62:S223-S234.

McElroy, A.E. Bogler, A. Weisbaum, D. Norris, M., Mendelmna, L., Setlow, R. and Winn R. 2006. Uptake, metabolism, mutation frequency and mutation spectrum in cII transgenic medaka embryos exposed to benzo[a]pyrene dosed sediments. Mar. Environ. Res. 62: S273-S277.

Casares, F.M., McElroy A., Mantione, K, Baggermann, G., Zhu, W. and Stefano, G.B. 2005. The American lobster, Homarus americanus, contains morphine that is coupled to nitric oxide release in its nervous and immune tissues: Evidence for neurotransmitter and hormonal signaling.  Neuroendorcin. Let. 89-97.

Wirgin, I.I. Wise, J.S. and McElroy , A.E. 2005. Physiological and genetic aspects of toxicity in Hudson River species. In The Hudson River Ecosystem. J. Levinton, and J. Waldman, Eds. Cambridge Press. pp 441-464.

Sapozhinikova, Y., McElroy, A., Snyder, S., and Schlenk, D. 2005. Estrogenic activity measurement in wastewater using in vitro and in vivo methods. In: Methods in Aquatic Toxicology, G.K Ostrander Ed. Lewis Pub. Boca Raton, FL. Pp 465-478.

Zulkosky, A.M. Ruggieri, J.P., Terracciano, S.A., Brownawell, B.J. and McElroy, A.E., 2005. Acute Toxicity of Resmethrin, Malathion, and Methoprene to Larval and Juvenile American Lobsters (Homarus americanus) and Analysis of Pesticide Levels in Surface Waters after Scourge™, Anvil™ and Altosid™ Application. J. Shellfish, Res.24:795-804.

Rust, A.J. Burgess, R.M., Brownawell, B.J. and McElroy, A.E. 2004. Relationship between metabolism and bioaccumulation of benzo[a]pyrene in benthic invertebrates. Environ. Toxicol. Chem. 23:2587-2593.

Rust, A.J. Burgess, R.M., McElroy, A.E., Cantwell, M.G. and Brownawell, B.J. 2004. The influence of soot carbon on the bioaccumulation of sediment-bound polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) by marine benthic invertebrates: an interpspecies. comparison. Environ. Toxicol. Chem. 23:2594-2603.

Rust, A.J. Burgess, R.M., McElroy, A.E., Cantwell, M.G. and Brownawell, B.J. 2004. The role of source matrix in the bioavailability of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) to deposit-feeding benthic invertebrates. Environ. Toxicol. Chem. 23:2604-2610

Wirgin, I.I. Wise, J.S. and McElroy , A.E. In Press. Physiological and genetic aspects of toxicity in Hudson River species. In The Hudson River Ecosystem. J. Levinton, and J. Waldman, Eds. Elsevier Press.

McArdle, M.E., McElroy, A.E., and Elskus, A.A. 2004. Enzymatic and estrogenic responses in fish exposed to organic pollutants in the New York-New Jersey (USA) Harbor Complex. Environ. Toxicol. Chem. 23:953-959.

Monosson, E., Ashley, J.T.F., McElroy, A.E., Woltering, D., and Elskus A.A. 2003. PCB congener distributions in muscle, liver and gonad of Fundulus heteroclitus from the lower Hudson River Estuary and Newark Bay. Chemosphere. 52:777-787.

Todorov, J.L., Elskus, A.A., Schlenk , D. Ferguson , P.L., Brownawell, B.J., and McElroy, A.E. 2002. Estrogenic responses of larval sunshine bass (Morone saxatilis X M. chrysops) exposed to New York City sewage effluent. Mar. Environ. Res. 54:691-695.

Zulkosky, A.M.,Ferguson, P.L., and McElroy, A.E. 2002. Effects of sewage-impacted sediment on reproduction in the benthic crustacean Leptocheirus plumulosus. Mar. Environ. Res. 54:615-619.

Ferguson, P.L., Iden, C.R., McElroy, A.E., and Brownawell, B.J. 2001. Determination of steroid estrogens in wastewater by immunoaffinity extraction coupled with HPLC-MS. Anal. Chem., 731: 3890-3895.

Ahrens, M.J. Hertz, J., Lamoureux, E.M. Lopez, G.R., McElroy, A.E. and Brownawell, B.J. 2001.The effect of body size on digestive chemistry and absorption efficiencies of food and sediment-bound organic contaminants in Nereis succinea (Polychaeta). J. Exp. Mar. Bio. Ecol. 263:185-209.

Ahrens, M.J. Hertz, J., Lamoureux, E.M. Lopez, G.R., McElroy, A.E. and Brownawell, B.J. 2001. The role of digestive surfactants in determining bioavailability of sediment-bound hydrophobic organic contaminants to two deposit-feeding polychaetes. Mar. Environ. Prog. Ser. 212:145-157.

McElroy, A., Leitch, K., and Fay, A. 2000. A survey of in vivo benzo[a]pyrene metabolism in small benthic invertebrates. Mar. Environ. Res. 50:33-38.

McArdle, M., Elskus, A., McElroy, A., Larsen, B., Benson, W., and Schlenk, D. 2000. Estrogenic and CYP1A response of two species of fish, killifish and striped bass, to sewage effluent. Mar. Environ. Res. 50:175-179.

McElroy, A., Leitch, K., and Fay, A. 2000. A survey of in vivo benzo[a]pyrene metabolism in small benthic invertebrates. Mar. Environ. Res. 50:33-38.

Fay, A.A. Brownawell, B., Elskus, A.A., and McElroy, A.E. 2000. Critical body residues in Amplelisca abdita: sediment exposures to organic contaminants. Environ. Toxicol. Chem. 19:1028-1035.