He teaches Ecology, Evolution, Environmental Science, Life Sciences II (Diversity of Life), Tropical Biology, Invertebrate Biology and Parasitology, Botany, Forestry, Scientific Analysis and Writing, and an Environment and Consumption course. Paul’s research program focuses on the ecotoxicology of mercury at the base of aquatic food webs and he’s particularly interested in how sub-lethal concentrations of mercury accumulate, are transferred, and impact primary producers and their invertebrate consumers in freshwater habitats. He has been a member of ACUBE since 2007 and is delighted to be serving on the steering committee from 2011 to 2013. For more about Paul, see his website at http://www.lakeland.edu/Academics/faculty/ pickhardt/research.asp