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Robert Pastorok, Ph.D.

Senior Science Advisor, Ecologist

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Dr. Robert Pastorok is an ecologist specializing in ecological risk assessment and evaluation of natural resources. He has more than 30 years of experience developing and applying quantitative empirical techniques and ecological models to evaluate and solve environmental issues. Dr Pastorok has managed or served as technical lead on projects to address siting of industrial, municipal, and commercial facilities, cleanup of chemically contaminated urban-industrial habitats, restoration and conservation of habitat, and management of aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. Dr. Pastorok has led major multidisciplinary investigations in Puget Sound (Washington), the Willamette River (Oregon), the Hudson River (New York), and the Clark Fork River (Montana). He has managed projects to develop risk management decision frameworks, ecotoxicological methods, risk assessment models, and chemical standards for soil, surface water, sediments, and wetlands. He was instrumental in the development of technical approaches in the USEPA framework for ecological risk assessment, the Washington State Model Toxics Control Act program, the Puget Sound Estuary Program, and the USEPA training program for use of population modeling in ecological risk assessment.

Dr. Pastorok was the lead author and editor of the seminal book titled Ecological Modeling in Risk Assessment: Chemical Effects on Populations, Ecosystems, and Landscapes (2002, CRC Press). He contributed substantially to two SETAC Pellston workshops and the resulting books (Uncertainty Analysis in Ecological Risk Assessment and Population-Level Ecological Risk Assessment). Dr. Pastorok is internationally known for his expertise in ecological modeling and risk assessment and has been an invited technical reviewer for prominent journals, industries, and environmental management agencies.

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