| Jeff Levengood | ||||
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Email: jleven@inhs.illinois.edu Title: Wildlife Contaminant Specialist
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| Research |
Environmental Contaminants in Asian carps Health Assessment of Peruvian Humboldt Penguins: Environmental Contaminants (w/Yi, Adkesson et al.) Transfer of contaminants from sediments to insectivorous birds via emergent aquatic insects (w/ Soucek et al.) Using Preserved Specimens to Ascertain Historic Trends in Mercury Deposition Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Contaminants Associated with Railroads Impacts of Contaminants Associated with Railroads on Aquatic Communities (w/Cao) Isoflavones in the agricultural environment Yet-to-emerge Contaminants in Lake Trout Nesting ecology and contaminant exposure of Lake Calumet Black-Crowned Night-Herons A comparative investigation of contaminants in fishes from the Calumet region of Chicago Patterns of contaminant exposure in unionid mussels from the MS/IL Rivers confluence area Contaminants and trematode infections in amphibians (w/Beasley et al.) Recruitment, Mortality, and Site Occupancy for Riparian Muskrats: Effects of Flow Regime and Landscape Context (w/Schooley et al.) |
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| Message to Students |
Please email me for information regarding my research group. |
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| Professional affiliations |
Dept. of Comparative Biosciences Dept. of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
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| Selected publications |
Levengood, JM and DJ Schaeffer. 2011. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in fish and crayfish form the Calumet region of southwestern Lake Michigan. Ecotoxicology Article In Press:1-11. Levengood, J. and D. Schaeffer. 2010. Comparison of PCB congener profiles in the embryos and principal prey of a breeding colony of Black-Crowned Night-Herons. Journal of Great Lakes Research 36: 548-553. Rogowski DL, DJ Soucek, JM Levengood, SR Johnson, JH Chick, JM Dettmers, MA Pegg, and JM Epifanio. 2009. Linking relative trophic position and contaminants in Asian carps, invasive species in the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 157:211-222. Esarey, J, Soucek, D, Levengood, J, Hudson, R, Wimer, W and Halbrook R. 2008. Contaminants in unionid mussels from the confluence of the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers. Illinois Natural History Survey Bulletin 38:197-214. Levengood, JM and EJ Heske. 2008. Heavy metal exposure, reproductive activity, and demographic patterns in white-footed mice (Peromyscus leucopus) inhabiting a contaminated wetland. Science of the Total Environment 389:320-328. Levengood, JM and VR Beasley. 2007. Ecotoxicology. Pp. 689-708 in R. Gupta, Ed., Veterinary Toxicology: Basic and Clinical Principles. Elsevier/Academic Press, San Diego Levengood, JM, Wiedenmann, L, Custer, TW, Schaeffer, DJ, Matson, CW, Melancon, MJ, Hoffman, DJ, Scott, JW, Talbott, JL, Bordson, JO, Bickham, JW, Rattner, BA, and Golden, NH. 2007. Contaminant exposure and biomarker response in embryos of black-crowned night-herons (Nycticorax nycticorax) nesting near Lake Calumet, Illinois. Journal of Great Lakes Research 33:791-805. |
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| Professional society involvement and activities |
Member of The Wildlife Society Member of the Wildlife Disease Association Member of the Illinois State Academy of Science Member of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry Member of Sigma Xi |
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| Education | PhD, Zoology, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, 1992 MS, Biology, Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania, 1985 BA, Biology, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, 1983 AS, Wildlife Technology, The Pennsylvania State University, 1981 | |||
Illinois Natural History Survey - University of Illinois
INRS State Scientific Surveys
