Current member of the Board of Directors of the Chesapeake and Potomac Regional Chapter (CPRC) of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) and member of SETAC North America

Current Member

The Department of Environmental Science and Technology at the University of Maryland, College Park

Visiting Assistant Professor

Multiple peer-reviewed impact-factored journals including Environmental Pollution, Environmental Science and Technology, North American Journal of Aquaculture, and Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Serves as a Reviewer

Rappahannock EcoPark Research Support Grant - $19,828.00

Project Title: Assessing the presence, concentrations, fate, and effects of microplastics in the Rappahannock River

Grant Recipient

Crow’s Nest Research Center (CNRC) Grant - $16,504.90

Project Title: Assessing the presence, concentrations, and impacts of nutrient pollution in Accokeek Creek and the Crow’s Nest Research Center

Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

American Fisheries Society

Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology

North American Society for Comparative Endocrinology

Assessing the Impacts of Methoxychlor Exposure on the Viability, Reproduction, and Locomotor Behavior of the Seminole Ramshorn Snail (Planorbella duryi)

Exposure to levonorgestrel increases nest acquisition and decreases sperm motility in male fathead minnows (Pimephales promelas)

Exposure effects of levonorgestrel on oogenesis in the fathead minnow (Pimephales promelas)

Exposure to the contraceptive progestin, gestodene, alters reproductive behavior, arrests egg deposition, and masculinizes development in the fathead minnow (Pimephales promelas)

Aqueous exposure to the progestin, levonorgestrel, alters anal fin development and reproductive behavior in the eastern mosquitofish (Gambusia holbrooki)

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Dr. Frankel is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Mary Washington. He maintains an active ecotoxicology research program focused on the impacts of pharmaceuticals, industrial waste products, and pesticides on aquatic wildlife. He is a member of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry and currently serves on the executive committee for the Chesapeake and Potomac Regional Chapter of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. His work has been published in Environmental Science and Technology, Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, and General and Comparative Endocrinology.

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