2009
Prof. Giesy elected Einstein Professor by the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The Chinese Academy of Sciences established the Einstein Professorship in 2005 and elects 10 to 12 leading foreign scientists each year. This is the highest honor that CAS awards to foreign scientists. A purpose of the "Einstein Professor" program of CAS is to strengthen the interactions between Chinese scientists with top scientists throughout the world. Recipients are leaders in their respective fields, and include recipients of, or contenders for, major international science awards (e.g. Nobel, Wolf, Turing, Tyler prize), and are active in their respective scientific disciplines. Among the 15 recepients of the award for 2009 are six Nobel Prize laureates in fields ranging from economics to physics, and one Turing Award winner. Recipients are chosen yearly from a pool of nominees by a panel chaired by CAS President Lu Yongxiang. More
Prof. Giesy has been appointed to the Science Advisory Board of the US Environmental Protection Agency. As a chartered member, he serves on the executive committee of the SAB. The SAB provides advice and guidance to the agency on all aspects of their operations. Periodically ad hoc committees are formed to provide the agency with opinions on important issues. http://yosemite.epa.gov/sab/sabproduct.nsf/Web BOARD/CommitteesandMembership?OpenDocument
Prof. Giesy makes a lecture tour in China. Prof Giesy spent two weeks in China, presenting lectures at Xiamen, Nanjing and Peking Universities as well as the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing.
2008
Prof. Giesy and a number of his colleagues, post docs, and students from both Michigan State University and the University of Saskatchewan attended the 29th annual meeting of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC), which was held November 16-21, Tampa, FL. Prof. Giesy's group made 22 platform and poster presentations, the most of any group attending the meeting. Presentations
Prof Giesy was on the organizing committee of the 35 th Annual Aquatic Toxicity Workshop held October 5-8, 2008 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. In addition to helping organize the meeting, he and his students and post docs presented 7 papers at the meeting. Presentations
Prof. Giesy group is working for a five-year wildlife study throughout the Tittabawassee River floodplain since the fall of 2003 to assess the possible effects of dioxin and furan exposure from the environment. A web-site is newly designed to provide residents, landowners, and stakeholders with information regarding our research, which is made possible by the cooperation of numerous landowners throughout the floodplain, to whom we are very grateful. Link to Web-Site
Prof. Giesy attended the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) 5th World Congress that was held August 3-7, 2008 in Sydney, Australia . He presented one invited abstract and was an author on three others. Presentations
Prof. Giesy, research team presented four papers to Dioxin 2008: 28 th International Symposium on Halogenated Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs), which was held. August 17-22, in Birmingham, UK. Presentations
Prof. Giesy continues to impact public policy through providing information to government agencies. He continues to serve on the Executive Committee of the Board of Scientific Councilors for the Office of Research and Development of the US Environmental Protection Agency. This past year he provided testimony to two US EPA Science Advisory Panels. The titles of his presentations were: 1) “Assessment of Potential Effects of the Herbicide Atrizine to Amphibians.” With K.S. Solomon, J.A. Carr, L.H. DuPreez, R.J. Kendall, E.E. Smith, and G.J. van der Kraak, October 9, 2007, Washington, D.C. and 2) “Tier II Scientific Assessment of Toxicity and Risks of Flowable Formulations of Carbofuran to Birds” With Lou Best, Larry Brewer, Dwayne Moore, and Keith Solomon. February 5, 2008, Washington, D.C.
* Highly Cited Paper 2008: Solomon, K. R., D. B. Baker, R. P. Richards, K. R. Dixon, S. J. Klaine, T. W. LaPoint, R. J. Kendall, J. M. Giddings, J. P. Giesy, L. W. Hall, Jr., C. P. Weisskopf and W. M. Williams. 1996. Ecological Risk Assessment of Atrazine in North American Surface Waters. Environ. Toxicol. Chem. 15:31 -76. http://www.setacjournals.org/perlserv/?request=index-html
Prof. Giesy was made a Guest Professor at Xiamen University in Xiamen China . He will assist colleagues and their students in designing and conducting studies. He will join the “111” Project on Environmental Toxicology. This is the third professorship that he holds in China . He is also Chair Professor at Large in the Department of Biology and Chemistry at City University of Hong Kong and a Concurrent Professor I the School of Environment at Nanjing University, Nanjing China.
Prof Giesy was the primary lecturer in a two week summer course entitled Ecotoxicology that was taught in at Xiamen University June 30 th through July 11 th 2008 . The course was taught by faculty from Xiamen University 's State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science and from City University of Hong Kong and attended by 50 students from across China . The course included lectures, exercises and a field trip to learn about studies being conducted in Xiamen Harbor. Photos
Professor Giesy's group presented 7 abstracts at the 18th Annual Meeting of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC)-European Section, which was held May 25-29, 2008, in Warsaw, Poland. List of presentation
Dr. Jong Seong Khim and Mr. Jonathan Naile of the ETL-U of S conducted an international field sampling along the west coast of Korea and the north-easty coast of China during the period of 6 weeks in April and May, 2008. The survey aimed to collect environmental samples such as sediment, soil, water, and biological samples from the Yellow Sea coastal areas to understand environmental distribution, sources, and fate of POPs and EDCs including perfluorinated compounds. Twelve people participated, three in Korea and nine in China and made a trip over 1,500 km in Korea (3 days) and 7,000 km in China (2 weeks), respectively. A total of 15 and 37 locations along the coastal areas in Korea and China , respectively, were selected to cover random sampling and point sources. More than 50 and 150 samples have been collected in each country that included soil, sediment, water, and various species of coastal and riverine organisms. It was a long, huge and comprehensive field trip across two countries the likes of which none of us had never experienced before and we made good team-work and partnership throughout the filed period between the groups participated from China (Prof. Lu, RCEES), Canada (Prof. Giesy, U of S), and Korea (Prof. Koh, SNU). A field report and photos
In January, Prof. Giesy traveled to Nanjing and Beijing to work with colleagues and students at those universities. He presented lectures and worked individually with students for whom he serves as an advisor on their various projects. List of presentations
2007
Prof Giesy has spent 6 weeks in Hong Kong and on the mainland in China working with colleagues and his students there. More Info
Article by Prof. Giesy, "Global Distribution of Perfluorooctane Sulfonate in Wildlife", published in Environmental Science & Technology is being featured on the ACS Publications website as a "Highly Cited Paper" as defined by Thomson Scientific (ISI) Essential Science Indicators. Highly Cited Papers are Highly Cited articles in the top 1% of the most-cited papers during the last 10 years. Citations are counted from all sources, and are cumulated from the year of publication through the current year. More Info
* Highly Cited Paper 2007: Giesy, J. P. and K. Kannan. 2001. Global Distribution of Perfluorooctane Sulfonate and Related Perfluorinated Compounds in Wildlife. Env. Sci. Technol. 35:1339-1342. Link to ES&T Highly Cited 2007
Article by Prof. Giesy, "Perfluorooctanesulfonate and Related Fluorochemicals in Human Blood Samples from China ", published in Environmental Science & Technology is being featured on the ACS Publications website as a "Top 3 Most-Cited ES&T Articles from 2006" as defined by Thomson Scientific (ISI) Essential Science Indicators. More Info
* Top 3 Most-Cited ES&T Articles from 2006: Yeung, L.W.Y., I.M.K. So, G. Jiang, S. Taniyasu, N. Yamashita, M. Song, Y. Wu, J. Li, J.P. Giesy and P.K.S. Lam. 2006. Perfluorooctanesulfonate and Related Fluorochemicals in Human Blood Samples from China. Environ. Sci. Technol. 40:715-720. Link to ES&T Most Cited 2006
2006
2004 - 2005
*** SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT ***
Prof. Giesy was invited to present a keynote address entitled “Bioanalytical Techniques for Screening for AhR agonist Activities in Environmental Samples”. To: 3rd Annual Meeting of the Chinese Toxicology Association. June 13, 2004, Nanjing, China. Prof. Giesy’s presentation can be downloaded PRESENTATION.