| Dave Soucek | ||||
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Email: d-soucek@inhs.illinois.edu Title: Ecotoxicologist, Entomologist
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| Activities | Aquatic Ecotoxicology; effects of environmental contaminants on invertebrate populations and communities. |
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| 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. |
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| Message to Students |
Please email me for information regarding my research group. |
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| 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. |
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| Professional affiliations |
Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry Illinois State Academy of Sciences |
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| Selected publications |
Soucek DJ, Dickinson A. Available online. Acute toxicity of nitrate and nitrite to sensitive freshwater insects, mollusks, and a crustacean. Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology DOI 10.1007/s00244-011-9705-8. Soucek DJ, Dickinson A, Koch B. 2011. Acute and chronic toxicity of boron to a variety of freshwater organisms. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 30(8):1906-1914. Soucek DJ, Linton TK, Tarr CD, Dickinson A, Wickramanayake N, Delos CG, Cruz LA. 2011. Influence of water hardness and sulfate on the acute toxicity of chloride to sensitive freshwater invertebrates. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 30(4):930-938. Yi SA, Francis BM, Jarrell WM, Soucek DJ. 2011 Toxicological effects of the carotenoid synthesis inhibitor, fluridone, on male water mites (Hydrachnidia: Arrenurus: Megaluracarus). Ecotoxicology. 20:81-87. Ward MP, Jablonski C, Semel B, Soucek DJ. 2010. The biological pathway and effect of PCBs on common terns in Lake Michigan. Ecotoxicology 19:1513-1522. Soucek DJ, Dickinson A, Cropek DM. 2010. Effects of millimeter wave carbon fibers on filter-feeding freshwater invertebrates. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety. 73:500-506. Highlighted Article. Taylor CA, Soucek DJ. 2010. Re-examining the importance of fish in the diets of stream-dwelling Orconectes crayfishes: implications for food web analysis and conservation. American Midland Naturalist 163:280-293. Rogowski DL, Soucek DJ, Levengood JM, Johnson S, Chick JH, Dettmers JM, Pegg MA, Epifanio JM. 2009. Contaminant concentrations in Asian carps, invasive species in the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 157:211-222. 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. Comparison of hardness- and chloride-regulated acute effects of sodium sulfate on two freshwater crustaceans. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 26(4): 773-779. |
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| Program Affiliates |
Amy Dickinson Kaley Major |
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| 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. |
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| Education | PhD, Biology, Virgina Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, 2001 MS, Zoology, Clemson University, SC, 1997 BA, Zoology, Miami University, Oxford OH, 1993 | |||
Illinois Natural History Survey - University of Illinois
INRS State Scientific Surveys
