Dixon H. Landers
Dixon H. Landers is a Senior Research Environmental Scientist
(Limnologist) at EPA's National Health and Environmental Effects
Research Laboratory, Western Ecology Division, in Corvallis, OR.
He is also an Associate Professor in the Department of Fisheries
and Wildlife at Oregon State University. His current duties
involve directing environmental research in the Pacific Northwest
and elsewhere at multiple temporal and spatial scales to better
define scientifically defensible approaches for
watershed/ecosystem management of aquatic systems. He currently is
developing the National Park Service’s Western Airborne
Contaminant Assessment Program that will be studying lake
catchments in six western parks. The concern here is the impacts
of trans-Pacific and regional sources of airborne contaminants on
particularly higher elevation aquatic systems. Dixon also directs
the Large River component of EPA’s Environmental Monitoring and
Assessment Program now implementing the Western Pilot phase. In
2000 he completed a 4-year, interdisciplinary project addressing
the ecological function of off-channel habitats of the Willamette
River, a component of an alternative futures approach to resource
management. He is the past Director of EPA's Arctic Contaminants
Research Program (1990-1994) that investigated arctic contaminants
to determine their spatial distribution, historic loadings, food
web bioaccumulation, and ecological effects in the U. S. Arctic
and arctic Siberia.
He began working with EPA in 1984 as technical director of the
National Surface Water Survey where he was responsible for
planning and conducting the extensive probability based regional
surveys of lakes and streams in the Eastern and Western U.S. to
determine their chemical status with respect to acidity. He then
became the Director of EPA's Aquatic Effects Research Program
which conducted interdisciplinary research on the status and
magnitude of the effects of acidic deposition on aquatic resources
in the United States.
Dr. Landers received his B. S. in Zoology from Kansas State
University (1969), M.A.T. in Biology from Indiana University
(1974) and Ph. D. in Zoology/Limnology from Indiana University
(1979).
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