prof. Bryan W. Brooks

Dr. Brooks’ interdisciplinary research interests broadly include understanding how anthropogenic activities and stressors influence various levels of biological organization, particularly in rapidly urbanizing regions. Students and postdoctoral fellows working in his group are engaged in interdisciplinary projects that often incorporate laboratory and field studies in aquatic, environmental and comparative toxicology, environmental risk assessment, and water resources research. Because of the complex nature of the environmental and ecological sciences, environmental public health and biomedical studies, students receive an interdisciplinary training that balances formational coursework and theoretical preparation with applied problem solving experiences.

Dr. Brooks and his students focus current research on water quality and water reuse, comparative toxicology and pharmacology, applied ecology, sustainable molecular design, developing approaches to define risks of contaminants of historical and emerging concern, natural resource extraction and the ecology and toxicology of harmful algae blooms. This research contributes to developing science-based approaches to define and manage complex environmental and health issues.

Dr. Brooks routinely works internationally on water quality, environmental contaminants and sustainability issues, particularly related to rapidly urbanizing regions on five continents. The author of over 140 manuscripts in scholarly journals and book chapters, Dr. Brooks published (with DB Huggett) Human Pharmaceuticals in the Environment: Current and Future Perspectives (Springer: ISBN 978-1-4614-3419-1). He has given over 150 invited presentations and plenary or keynote lectures in the United States, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Korea, Mexico, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, the United Kingdom, Vietnam and Zambia.