Plants for Environmental Studies

Wuncheng (Woodrow) Wang is a hydrologist with the U.S. Geological Survey. Before 1991, he was a principal scientist with the Illinois State Water Survey in Peoria, IL. He has been chairing two Joint Task Groups (Lemna and marsh plants) of the Standard Methods Committee since 1987 and chaired the First ASTM Symposium on Use of Plants for Toxicity Assessment in 1989. His interest is the use of plants for water quality assessment. Joseph (Joe) W. Gorsuch is Director of Silver Issues with Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY. For the 22 years prior to April 1, 1996, he was Group Leader and Senior Environmental Toxicologist at Kodak. He chaired the ASTM E47.11 Subcommittee on Plant Toxicology from 1992 to 1995, chaired the Second ASTM Symposium on Use of Plants for Toxicity Assessment in 1990, and co-chaired the First ASTM Symposium in 1989. He is interested in using plants to evaluate sludge application practices. Jane S. Hughes is the founder and president of Carolina Ecotox, Inc., a contract environmental toxicology testing laboratory in Durham, NC. She has nearly 20 years of experience conducting and supervising aquatic toxicity testing with a variety of plants and animals to meet diverse regulatory requirements. Her specialty is aquatic plant toxicity testing, and she has chaired methods development activities relating to algae, duckweed, and aquatic macrophytes in ASTM's Committee E-47 on Biological Effects and Environmental Fate. She also served as co-chair and chair for the First and Third ASTM Symposia on Environmental Toxicology and Risk Assessment.