Person Details
Superfund Research Program
Celia Y. Chen
Dartmouth CollegeDepartment of Biological Sciences
Class of 78 Life Sciences Center, Room 126
Hanover, NH 03755-3576
Phone: 603-646-2376
Fax: 603-646-1347
Email:
Projects
- Dartmouth College: Bioaccumulation and Trophic Transfer of Hg in Aquatic Food Webs (2000-2013)
- Dartmouth College: Research Translation Core (2005-2013)
- Dartmouth College: Trace Elements Analysis Core (2008-2013)
- Dartmouth College: Trophic Transfer of Toxic Metals in Aquatic Food Webs (2000-2013)
Research Briefs
- 144 - A Comparative Toxicology Study of Metal Mixtures
- 176 - A New Analytical Method to Support Studies of Mercury Bioavailability/Bioaccumulation in Aquatic Ecosystems
- 218 - Marine Mercury: From Sources to Seafood
- 128 - Identifying Predictors of Mercury Burdens in Fish
Superfund Sites
Berry's Creek
- Dartmouth College: Bioaccumulation and Trophic Transfer of Hg in Aquatic Food Webs
Callahan Mine
- Dartmouth College: Bioaccumulation and Trophic Transfer of Hg in Aquatic Food Webs
- Dartmouth College: Research Translation Core
Chlor-Alkali Facility (Former)
- Dartmouth College: Bioaccumulation and Trophic Transfer of Hg in Aquatic Food Webs
Elizabeth Mine
- Dartmouth College: Bioaccumulation and Trophic Transfer of Hg in Aquatic Food Webs
Former Jo Whiten Co.
- Dartmouth College: Variation in Bioaccumulation and Biomagnification of Metals in Lakes throughout the Northeastern Region of the U.S.A.
George Lay Property
- Dartmouth College: Variation in Bioaccumulation and Biomagnification of Metals in Lakes throughout the Northeastern Region of the U.S.A.
Publications
2012
- Brooks, RT, SL Eggert, K.H. Nislow, RK Kolka, Celia Y. Chen, and D.M. Ward. 2012. Preliminary Assessment of Mercury Accumulation in Massachusetts and Minnesota Seasonal Forest Pools. Wetlands. 32:653-663. doi:10.1007/s13157-012-0298-4
- Chen, Celia Y., C.T. Driscoll, Kathleen Fallon Lambert, R.P. Mason, Laurie R. Rardin, Nancy Serrell, and EM Sunderland. 2012. Marine mercury fate: From sources to seafood consumers. Environmental Research. 119:1-2. doi:10.1016/j.envres.2012.10.001
- Chen, Celia Y., Neil C. Kamman, Jason J. Williams, D. Bugge, Vivien F. Taylor, B.P. Jackson, and Eric Miller. 2012. Spatial and temporal variation in mercury bioaccumulation by zooplankton in Lake Champlain. Environmental Pollution. 161:343-349. doi:10.1016/j.envpol.2011.08.048
- Jackson, B.P., D. Bugge, James Ranville, and Celia Y. Chen. 2012. Bioavailability, toxicity, and bioaccumulation of quantum dot nanoparticles to the amphipod Leptocheirus plumulosus. Environmental Science & Technology. 46(10):5550–5556. doi:10.1021/es202864r
- Miller, E.K., Celia Y. Chen, Neil C. Kamman, J. Shanley, A. Chalmers, B.P. Jackson, Vivien F. Taylor, E. Smeltzer, P. Stangel, and A. Shambaugh. 2012. Mercury in the pelagic food web of Lake Champlain. Ecotoxicology. 21(3):705-718. doi:10.1007/s10646-011-0829-4
2011
- Fisher, Nicholas S. and Celia Y. Chen. 2011. Interdisciplinary approaches for addressing marine contamination issues. Environmental Conservation. 38:187-198. doi:10.1017/s0376892911000269
- Fisher, Nicholas S. and Celia Y. Chen. 2011. Interdisciplinary approaches for addressing marine contamination issues. Environmental Conservation. 38:187-198. doi:10.1017/S0376892911000269
2010
- Ward, D.M., K.H. Nislow, Celia Y. Chen, and Carol L. Folt. 2010. Reduced trace element concentrations in fast-growing juvenile Atlantic salmon in natural streams. Environmental Science & Technology. 44:3245-51. doi:10.1021/es902639a
- Ward, Darren M., Keith H. Nislow, Celia Y. Chen, and Carol L. Folt. 2010. Rapid, efficient growth reduces mercury concentrations in stream-dwelling Atlantic salmon. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society. 139:1-10. doi:10.1577/T09-032.1
- Williams, Jason J., Jessica Dutton, Celia Y. Chen, and Nicholas S. Fisher. 2010. Metal (As, Cd, Hg, and CH3Hg) bioaccumulation from water and food by the benthic amphipod Leptocheirus plumulosus. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 29(8):1755-1761. doi:10.1002/etc.207 (Completed with ARRA Funds)
2009
- Chen, Celia Y. 2009. China's mercury problem: A sleeping giant?. China Environment Series 10 (2008/2009). 57-62.
- Chen, Celia Y. and Bruce A. Wilcox. 2009. Ecotoxicology of methylmercury: A transdisciplinary challenge. EcoHealth. 5(4):393-395. doi:10.1007/s10393-009-0214-4
- Chen, Celia Y., Michele Dionne, Brandon M. Mayes, D.M. Ward, Stefan Sturup, and Brian Jackson. 2009. Mercury bioavailability and bioaccumulation in estuarine food webs in the Gulf of Maine. Environmental Science & Technology. 43(6):1804-1810. doi:10.1021/es8017122
2008
- Chen, Celia Y., Nancy Serrell, David C. Evers, Bethany Fleishman, Kathleen Fallon Lambert, Jeri Weiss, R. Mason, and Michael Bank. 2008. Meeting report: methylmercury in marine ecosystems-from sources to seafood consumers. Environmental Health Perspectives. 116:1706-1712. doi:10.1289/ehp.11211
- Taylor, Vivien F., Brian Jackson, and Celia Y. Chen. 2008. Mercury speciation and total trace element determination of low-biomass biological samples. Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry. 392:1283-1290. doi:10.1007/s00216-008-2403-3
2007
- Driscoll, C.T., Young-Ji Han, Celia Y. Chen, David C. Evers, Kathleen Fallon Lambert, Thomas M. Holsen, Neil C. Kamman, and Ronald K. Munson. 2007. Mercury Contamination in Forest and Freshwater Ecosystems in the Northeastern United States. Bioscience. 57:17-28.
- Evers, David C., Young-Ji Han, C.T. Driscoll, Neil C. Kamman, M. Wing Goodale, Kathleen Fallon Lambert, Thomas M. Holsen, Celia Y. Chen, Thomas A. Clair, and Thomas Butler. 2007. Biological Mercury Hotspots in the Northeastern United States ans Southeastern Canada. Bioscience. 57:29-43.
- Karimi, Roxanne, Celia Y. Chen, Paul C. Pickhardt, N.S. Fisher, and Carol L. Folt. 2007. Stoichiometric controls of mercury dilution by growth. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS). 104(18):7477-82.
2006
- Renshaw, Carl E., Benjamin C. Bostick, Xiahong Feng, Christine K. Wong, Elizabeth S. Winston, Roxanne Karimi, Carol L. Folt, and Celia Y. Chen. 2006. Impact of Land Disturbance on the Fate of Arsenical Pesticides. Journal of Environmental Quality. 35(1):61-67. doi:10.2134/jeq2005.0096
- Shaw, Joseph R., Thomas D. Dempsey, Celia Y. Chen, Joshua W. Hamilton, and Carol L. Folt. 2006. Comparative toxicity of cadmium, zinc, and mixtures of cadmium and zinc to daphnids. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 25(1):182-189. doi:10.1897/05-243R.1
2005
- Chen, Celia Y. and Carol L. Folt. 2005. High plankton abundance reduces trophic transfer of mercury. SETAC News.
- Chen, Celia Y. and Carol L. Folt. 2005. High plankton densities reduce mercury biomagnification. Environmental Science & Technology. 39(1):115-121. doi:10.1021/es0403007
- Chen, Celia Y., Richard S. Stemberger, Neil C. Kamman, Brandon M. Mayes, and Carol L. Folt. 2005. Patterns of Hg bioaccumulation and transfer in aquatic food webs across multi-lake studies in the northeast US. Ecotoxicology. 14(1-2):135-147. doi:10.1007/s10646-004-6265-y
- Pickhardt, Paul C., Carol L. Folt, Celia Y. Chen, Bjoern Klaue, and Joel D. Blum. 2005. Impacts of zooplankton composition and algal enrichment on the accumulation of mercury in an experimental freshwater food web. Science of the Total Environment. 339(1-3):89-101. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2004.07.025
- Sturup, Stefan, Celia Y. Chen, James Jukosky, and Carol L. Folt. 2005. Isotope dilution quantification of 200Hg2+ and CH3 201Hg+ enriched species-specific tracers in aquatic systems by cold vapor ICPMS and algebraic de-convoluting. Journal of Mass Spectrometry. 242(2-3):225-231.
2004
- Chen, Celia Y., K.M. Hathaway, and Carol L. Folt. 2004. Multiple stress effects of Vision herbicide, pH and food on zooplankton an larval amphibian species from forest wetlands. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 23(4):823-831.
2002
- Chen, Celia Y. and Carol L. Folt. 2002. Ecophysiological Responses to warming events by two sympatric zooplankton species. Journal of Plankton Research. 24(6):579-589.
- Folt, Carol L., Celia Y. Chen, and Paul C. Pickhardt. 2002. Using plankton food web variables as indicators for the accumulation of toxic metals in fish. In: Technology-Driven Biomarkers And Their Application To Environmentally Associated Disease. CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL.
- Pickhardt, Paul C., Carol L. Folt, Celia Y. Chen, Bjoern Klaue, and Joel D. Blum. 2002. Algal blooms reduce the uptake of toxic methylmercury in freshwater food webs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS). 99(7):4419-4423.
2001
- Korrick, Susan A., Celia Y. Chen, A.I. Damokosh, J. Ni, Xia Liu, B H Simon Cho, Larisa M. Altshul, Louise M. Ryan, and Xi-Ping Xu. 2001. Association of DDT with spontaneous abortion: a case-control study. Annals of Epidemiology. 11(7):491-496.
- Sillett, K.S., Celia Y. Chen, Carol L. Folt, and Joshua W. Hamilton. 2001. Using differential display RT-PCR to identify cadmium responsive genes in Daphnia pulex. In: Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC), November 11-15, 2001. Baltimore, MD.
2000
- Chen, Celia Y. and Carol L. Folt. 2000. Bioaccumulation and diminution of arsenic and lead in a freshwater food web. Environmental Science & Technology. 34(18):3878-3884.
- Chen, Celia Y., Richard S. Stemberger, Bjoern Klaue, Joel D. Blum, Paul C. Pickhardt, and Carol L. Folt. 2000. Accumulation of heavy metals in food web components across a gradient of lakes. Limnology and Oceanography. 45(7):1525-1536.
- Korrick, Susan A., A.I. Damokosh, Celia Y. Chen, B H Simon Cho, Larisa M. Altshul, and Xi-Ping Xu. 2000. Serum DDT and DDE levels and spontaneous abortion. Epidemiology. 151:S24.
1999
- Chen, Celia Y., Bhasker S. Ballapragada, Jaakko A. Puhakka, Stuart E. Strand, and John Ferguson. 1999. Anaerobic transformation of 1,1,1-trichloroethane by municipal digester sludge. Biodegradation. 10(4):297-305.
- Chen, Celia Y., K.S. Sillett, Carol L. Folt, S. Whittemore, and Aaron Barchowsky. 1999. Molecular and demographic measures of arsenic stress in D. pulex. Hydrobiologia. 410:229-238.
- Folt, Carol L., Celia Y. Chen, M.V. Moore, and J. Burnaford. 1999. Synergism and Antagonism Among Multiple Stressors. Limnology and Oceanography. 44(3):864-877.
1998
- Stemberger, Richard S. and Celia Y. Chen. 1998. Fish tissue metals and zooplankton assemblages of northeastern U.S. lakes. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 55:339-352.
1997
- Chen, Celia Y. and Carol L. Folt. 1997. The potential for hybridization in freshwater copepods. Oecologia. 111:557-564.
- Moore, M.V., M.L. Pace, J.R. Mather, P.S. Murdoch, R.W. Howarth, Carol L. Folt, Celia Y. Chen, Harold F. Hemond, P.A. Flebbe, and C.T. Driscoll. 1997. Potential effects of climate change on freshwater ecosystems of the New England/Mid-Atlantic region. Hydrological Processes. 11:925-947.
1996
- Chen, Celia Y., Jaakko A. Puhakka, and John Ferguson. 1996. Transformations of 1,1,2,2-tetrachloroethane under methanogenic conditions. Environmental Science & Technology. 30(2):542-547.

