George DixonResearcher Profile

D. George Dixon

Job Title: Professor of Biology, Associate Dean of Science for Research and Graduate Studies
Employer: Faculty of Science, University of Waterloo
Place of Birth: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Public School attended: Brownsburg High School
High School attended: Brownsburg High School, Laurentian Regional High School
Further Education: Sir George Williams University (B.Sc.), Concordia University (M.Sc.), University of Guelph (Ph.D)
Geographic focus of research: Quebec, Ontario, Alberta, USA, Malawi, Uganda

Brief synopsis of current research:
My research centers on aquatic environmental toxicology with particular interest in environmental risk assessment. I have undertaken work mainly in the area of fisheries, and have worked with most groups of troublesome environmental contaminants includiing metals, PCBs, PAHs, dioxins, furans, cyanides, ammonia, and pulp mill effluent to name a few.

E-mail:
dgdixon@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca
Website:
www.science.uwaterloo.ca/biology/faculty/dixon.html

Recent Publications:

Whyte, J.J., M.R. van den Heuvel, J.H. Clemons, S.Y. Huestis, D.G. Dixon and N.C. Bols. 1998. Comparison of mammalian and teleost cell line bioassay and chemically derived TCDD equivalent concentrations in hepatic tissues of lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) from Lake Superior and Lake Ontario. Environ. Toxicol. Chem. 17: 2214-2226.

Schirmer, K., D.G. Dixon, B.M. Greenberg and N.C. Bols. 1998. Ability of 16 priority PAHs to be directly cytotoxic to a cell line from the rainbow trout gill. Toxicology 127: 129-141.

Sibley, P.K., D.G. Dixon and D.R. Barton. 1998. Environmental health assessment of the benthic habitat adjacent to a pulp mill discharge. II. Distribution of sediment EOX in relation to environmental factors. Arch. Environ. Contam. Toxicol. 34: 158-166.

Barron, M.G., M.J. Anderson, J. Lipton and D.G. Dixon. 1997. Evaluation of critical body residue QSARs for predicting organic chemical toxicity to aquatic organisms. SAR and QSAR in Env. Res. 6: 47-62.

Huestis, S.Y., M.R. Servos, D.M. Whittle, M. van den Heuvel and D.G. Dixon. 1997. Evaluation of temporal and age related trends of chemically and biologically generated 2, 3, 7, 8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin equivalents in Lake Ontario lake trout. Environ. Toxicol. Chem. 16: 154-164.