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Meet the Marine Toxicologist: Susan Shaw

"Aftermath of the Gulf Oil Spill: A Marine Toxicologist's Perspective" Susan Shaw Marine Toxicologist, Doctor of Public Health, director/founder, Marine Environmental Research Institute, Blue Hill, ME Professor, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, State University of New York, Albany, NY A marine toxicologist, public health professional, explorer, and author, Dr. Susan Shaw brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise on the chemical contamination of the world's oceans and its impact on marine and human life. As an outspoken and influential voice on ocean pollution, Dr. Shaw dove into the Gulf of Mexico oil slick a month after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion in 2010 to investigate the impact of massive amounts of chemical dispersants being used to sink the oil. Her account of the hidden damage below the water's surface was published in the New York Times and widely broadcast through TED talks and international media including CNN. Dr. Shaw appears in several documentary films on the Gulf disaster including Animal Planet's Black Tide: Voices of the Gulf and Green Planet's The Big Fix, the Official Selection documentary at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. She was appointed to the U.S. Department of Interior's Strategic Sciences Working Group, a team of 14 scientists charged with assessing consequences of the oil spill and recommending policy actions. As the team's marine toxicologist and human health expert, she correctly predicted that health impacts would be severe for top predators such as dolphins and for people living in communities on Grand Isle, Louisiana. This area is known as "Ground Zero" because it was heavily sprayed and chronic exposure to carcinogenic hydrocarbons in dispersants and oil was ongoing for months. In the spring calving season, a mass die-off of hundreds of dolphins began and is still ongoing. Half of the dead dolphins were newborn or stillborn, implying that the mothers were miscarrying. In her lecture, Dr. Shaw will share insights from her investigation of toxic impacts in the Gulf. She says, "With oil, there is no safe level of exposure -- once exposed, people and animals face long-term health impacts including cancers. As we watch BP's aggressive post-spill TV ad campaign, the truth is, there are more than 600 dead dolphins and thousands of people with severe health problems in the Gulf, and it will be decades before we will know the real extent of the damage." Presented in collaboration with the Humanities Center's Artists and Practitioners in Residence Program