Illinois Natural History Survey - University of Illinois

Dave Soucek
1816 S. Oak Street
Champaign, IL 61820
MC–652
Phone: 217-265-5489   Fax: 217-333-8076
Email: d-soucek@inhs.illinois.edu
Title: Ecotoxicologist, Entomologist
Office Location: NRSA

Activities Aquatic Ecotoxicology; effects of environmental contaminants on invertebrate populations and communities.

Research
Aquatic Ecotoxicology with emphasis on freshwater insects, mollusks and crustaceans; assessing anthropogenic impacts on benthic macroinvertebrate communities; trophic transfer of contaminants; effects of contaminants on invertebrate bioenergetics; impacts of coal-associated contaminants; invasive species.

Recognition University of Illinois Extension Award of Excellence for Outstanding or Innovative Program (Team) for Insect Expo. October 2006.

Illinois Natural History Survey Outstanding New Staff Member Award. 2005.

Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant, Clemson University, Spring 1997.


Professional
affiliations
Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Illinois State Academy of Sciences

Selected
publications
Soucek DJ. 2007. Sodium sulfate impacts feeding, specific dynamic action, and growth rate in the freshwater bivalve Corbicula fluminea. Aquatic Toxicology 83:315-322.

Soucek DJ. 2007. Bioenergetic effects of sodium sulfate on the freshwater crustacean Ceriodaphnia dubia. Ecotoxicology 16:317-325.

Soucek DJ. 2007. Comparison of hardness- and chloride-regulated acute effects of sodium sulfate on two freshwater crustaceans. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 26:773-779.

Soucek DJ. 2006. Effects of freshly neutralized aluminum on oxygen consumption by freshwater invertebrates. Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 50:353-360.

Soucek DJ and Kennedy AJ. 2005. Effects of hardness, chloride, and acclimation on the acute toxicity of sulfate to freshwater invertebrates. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 24(5):1204-1210.


Program
Affiliates
Sue Gallo
Amy Dickinson
Cindi Jablonski


Professional
society
involvement
and activities
President of Ozark-Prairie Regional Chapter of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 2007-2008.

Manuscript reviewer for: Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology; Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology; Environmental Pollution; Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry; Hydrobiologia, Journal of the American Water Resources Association, Science of the Total Environment.

Education PhD, Biology, Virgina Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, 2001

MS, Zoology, Clemson University, SC, 1997

BA, Zoology, Miami University, Oxford OH, 1993



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