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Carol Lynn Folt, Phd Chancellor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Carol Lynn Folt, PhD Chancellor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ADDRESS Office of the Chancellor 103 South Building, Campus Box 9100 Chapel Hill, NC 27599-9100 [email protected] t. 919-962-1365 PERSONAL Married: David R. Peart, Professor of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth Two children: Noah V. Peart (b. 1985) and Tessa S. Peart (b. 1987) EDUCATION University of California at Davis, PhD in Ecology 1982 University of California at Santa Barbara, MA in Biology 1978 University of California at Santa Barbara, BA in Aquatic Biology 1976 ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE Current 2013 Chancellor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Previous 2012 Interim President, Dartmouth 2010 Provost, Dartmouth 2010 Associate Director, Center for Children’s Environmental Health at Dartmouth 1997 Professor of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth 2009 Acting Provost, Dartmouth 2004 Dean of Faculty, Dartmouth 2001 Dean of Graduate Studies, Dartmouth 2001 Associate Dean of the Faculty for Interdisciplinary Programs 2000 Associate Director, Dartmouth Center for Environmental Health Sciences 1998 Associate Director, Dartmouth Toxic Metals Research Program 1991 Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth 1984 Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth 1983 Research Instructor, Department of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth 1982 Postdoctoral Fellow at W.K. Kellogg Biological Station, Michigan State 1981 Lecturer at University of California, Davis SELECTED HONORS, AWARDS & ELECTED OFFICES 2010 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Biological Sciences 2010 Member Board of Trustees, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies 2008 Member of Board of Directors, Sherman Fairchild Foundation 2007 Endowed Professorship – The Dartmouth Professor of Biological Sciences 2002 Elected Officer American Society of Limnology & Oceanography Member-at-Large (3 year term) 1996 Member Board of Trustees, Montshire Museum of Science. VT (6 year term) 1991 J. Kenneth Huntington Memorial Prize for Excellence in Teaching and Research 1991 Elected Officer Ecological Society of America: Chair & Vice-Chair, Aquatic Section (4 year term) SPONSORED RESEARCH GRANTS 2000 – Present 2014 NIEHS (P010 and USPEP (RD) – “The Children’s Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research Center at Dartmouth” Margaret Karagas (PI); Carol Folt (Associate Director) 2012 NIEHS and USPEP (xxx) – Project Center grant: "Water and Dietary Arsenic Exposure Related to Early Growth and Neurodevelopment,"Kathy Cottingham (PI), Susan Korrick, Diane Gilbert-Diamond, 2010 NIEHS (P20) – “Center for Children’s Environmental Health at Dartmouth” Margaret Karagas (PI); Carol Folt (Associate Director) 2010 NIEHS – “Food borne exposure to arsenic during the first year of life” Kathy Cottingham (PI), Tracy Punshon (Co-PI), Carol Folt (Co-PI), Margaret Karagas (Co-PI) (individual project in program) 2008-10 NIEHS – "Toxic Metals in the Northeast: From Biological to Environmental Implications" Bruce Stanton (PI), Carol Folt (Associate Director), Margaret Karagas (Associate Director) (FYI – Folt stepped down in 2010 as Associate Director, but the grant and program continue until 2013) 2008-13 NIEHS – "Bioaccumulation and Trophic Transfer of Toxic Hg in Aquatic Food Webs" Celia Chen (PI), Carol Folt (Co-PI), Robert Mason (Co-PI) 2009-10 USDA – “Effects of Landscape and Climate Change on Mercury Accumulation in Aquatic Ecosystems of the Northern Forest Region" Carol Folt (PI), Darren Ward (Co- PI) 2005-08 NIEHS – "Toxic Metals in the Northeast: From Biological to Environmental Implications" Joshua Hamilton (PI), Carol Folt (Associate Director), Bruce Stanton (Associate Director) 2005-08 NIEHS – "Trophic Transfer of Toxic Metals in Aquatic Food Webs" Carol Folt (PI), Celia Chen (Co-PI) (individual project in program) 2005-08 NIEHS – "Training Core" Carol Folt (Project Leader) (individual project in program) 2002-07 NSF – “Development of Methods LinKing Genomic and Ecological Responses in a Freshwater Sentinel Species” Joshua Hamilton (PI), Celia Chen (Co-PI), Carol Folt (Co- PI), Joseph Shaw (Co-PI), Michael Lynch (Co-PI) Folt, CL/September 17, 2015 2 2002 NSF – “Acquisition of a Gas Chromatography Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry System for Interdisciplinary Environmental and Health Science Research at Dartmouth College” Xiahong Feng (PI), Carol Folt (Co-PI), Stefan Stürup (Co-PI) 2000-05 NIEHS – "Toxic Metals in the Northeast: From Biological to Environmental Implications" Joshua Hamilton (PI), Carol Folt (Associate Director) 2000-05 NIEHS – "Trophic Transfer of Toxic Metals in Aquatic Food Webs" Carol Folt (PI), Celia Chen (Co-PI) (individual project in program) 2000-05 NIEHS – "Outreach Core: Collaborative Initiative in Middle School Science Education with the Montshire Museum of Science" Carol Folt (PI), David Goudy (Co-PI) (individual project in program) 2002 NSF – “Fate and Transfer of Metals and PCB’s in Baiyangdian LaKe” Celia Chen (PI), Meixun Zhao, Carol Folt (Co-PI) 2000 TSRI (Canada) – "Multiple Stressors - Effects on Native Amphibian Species of Forested Environments" Celia Chen (PI), Carol Folt (Co-PI) 2001 United States Forest Service (USFS) – "Restoration of Atlantic Salmon to New England Streams" Carol Folt (PI) 2000 Department of Education – “Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need" Mary Lou Guerinot (PI), Carol Folt (Co-PI) Past grants (partial list) 1995 NIEHS – "Variation in Bioaccumulation and Biomagnification of Metals in LaKes Throughout the Northeastern Region of the U.S.A." Carol Folt (PI), Celia Chen (Co-PI), Richard Stemberger (Co-PI) 1995 NIEHS – “Dartmouth Superfund Basic Research Grant: Toxic Metals” Joshua Hamilton (PI), Carol Folt (Associate Director) NOAA/NMFS – “Atlantic Salmon Restoration in New England: Assessing Habitat Viability by Combining Stable Isotope Technology, Genetic MarKers and Field Evaluation” Carol Folt (PI) United States Forest Service – “A Collaborative Approach to the Restoration Ecology and Management of Juvenile Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) in Forested Ecosystems. Part I: Food and Energetics” Carol Folt (PI) United States Forest Service – “Atlantic Salmon as a Model for Ecosystem Research and Management: Current Status and Future Directions for Research” Martha E. Mather (PI), Donna Parrish (Co-PI), Carol Folt (Co-PI) Environmental Protection Agency – “Potential Effects of Global Warming on Aquatic Zooplankton” Marianne Moore (PI), Carol Folt (Co-PI) N.E. Consortium for Undergraduate Science Education – “Mentoring Program for Women and Minorities in Science” Carol Folt (PI) Folt, CL/September 17, 2015 3 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service – “Food, Flow and Habitat Structure: Proposal for the Analysis of Habitat Quality and Potential Recruitment of Atlantic Salmon Fry” Carol Folt (PI) NSF – “Experimental Field Tests of the Effect of Biotic Neighborhoods on ZooplanKton Dispersal” Carol Folt (PI) NSF – “An Experimental Analysis of Neighborhood Interactions among ZooplanKton” Carol Folt (PI) NSF – “An Analysis of Neighborhood Effects in Size-Structured Zooplankton Communities” Carol Folt (PI) TEN PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES OF PARTICULAR NOTE 1. Gilbert-Diamond, D, Cottingham, KL, Gruber, JF, Punshon, T, Sayarath, V, Gandolfi, AJ, BaKer, ER, JacKson, B, Folt, CL, and Karagas, MR. 2011. Rice consumption contributes to arsenic exposure in U.S. women. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108(51):20656-20660. 2. Karimi, R, Fisher, NS, and Folt, CL. 2010. Multi-element stoichiometry in aquatic invertebrates: when growth dilution matters. American Naturalist 176(6):699-709. 3. Karimi, R, Chen, CY, PicKhardt, PC, Fisher, NS, and Folt, CL. 2007. Stoichiometric controls of mercury dilution by growth. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104:7477–7482. 4. PicKhardt, PC, Folt, CL, Chen, CY, Klaue, B, and Blum, JD. 2002. Algal blooms reduce the uptaKe of toxic methylmercury in freshwater food webs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 99(7):4419-4423. 5. Chen, CY, Stemberger, RS, Klaue, B, Blum, JD, PicKhardt, PC and Folt, CL. 2000. Accumulation of heavy metals in food web components across a gradient of laKes. Limnology and Oceanography 45(7):1525-1536. 6. Folt, CL, Chen, CY, Moore, MV and Burnaford, J. 1999. Synergism and antagonism among multiple stressors. Limnology and Oceanography 44(3):865-877. 7. Folt, CL and Burns, CW. 1999. Biological drivers of planKton patchiness. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 14(8):300-305. 8. Kennedy, BP, Folt, CL, Blum, JD, and Chamberlain, CP. 1997. Natural isotope marKers in salmon. Nature 387(6635):766-767. 9. Moore, M, and Folt, C. 1993. ZooplanKton body size and community structure: effects of thermal and toxicant stress. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 8(5):178-183. 10. Folt, C and Goldman, CR. 1981. Allelopathy between zooplanKton: a mechanism for interference competition. Science 213(4512):1133-1135. Folt, CL/September 17, 2015 4 PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES Carnigan, CC, Cottingham, KL, Jackson, BP, Farzan FF, Gandolfi, AJ, Punshon, T, Folt, CL, and Karagas, MR. 2014. Breastfed infants have lower exposure to arsenic compared to formula-fed infants in a United States cohort. (Submitted) Cottingham, KL, Karimi, R, Gruber, JF, Zens, MS, Sayarath, V, Folt, CL, Punshon, T, Morris, JS, and Karagas, MR. 2012. Diet and toenail arsenic concentrations in a New Hampshire population with arsenic-containing water. 2013. Nutrition Journal 12 (149). Ward, DW, Nislow, KH, and Folt, CL. 2012. Do low-mercury terrestrial resources subsidize low-mercury
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