Dr. Klaine
received his doctorate from the Department of Environmental Science
and Engineering at Rice University in 1982. He has extensive experience
in environmental toxicology and chemistry as well as ecological risk
assessment. The focus of his research efforts has been chemical movement
from various land uses into aquatic ecosystems and the impact of these
chemical burdens on aquatic organisms.
Since 1991 he has been
involved with the environmental research on golf courses. Specifically,
he was responsible for much of the aquatic research performed during
the risk assessment of the Ocean Course at Kiawah Island. Since 1991,
he has directed an aquatic monitoring study at Cheraw State Park,
SC to characterize the off-site impacts of golf course chemicals.
This partnership with South Carolina Parks, Recreation and Tourism
has continued through the present and is the foundation for the proposed
research.
Most recently his laboratory
has been responsible for the successful incorporation of wetlands,
riparian zones and vegetated filter strips into agricultural and urban
watersheds to minimize impacts of rainfall runoff on adjacent aquatic
ecosystems. In addition, current research continues to focus on toxicity
and bioavailability of contaminants in water and sediments, ecological
risk assessment with point and nonpoint source contaminants, watershed-base
risk assessment and management, and the fate and effects of contaminants
in natural and constructed wetlands., and risk assessment.
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