Dr. French McCay specializes in quantitative assessments and modeling of aquatic ecosystems and populations, pollutant transport and fates, and biological response to pollutants. Her population modeling work includes models for plankton, benthic invertebrates, fisheries, birds and mammals. She has developed water quality, food web and ecosystem models for freshwater, marine and wetland ecosystems. She is also an expert in modeling oil and chemical fates and effects, toxicity, exposure and the bioaccumulation of pollutants by biota, along with the effects of this contamination. These models have been used for impact, risk, and natural resource damage assessments, as well as for studies of the biological systems. She has been principal investigator and primary author of more than one hundred technical reports and papers, and is an internationally recognized expert in oil spill fate and effects modeling. She has provided expert testimony in hearings regarding environmental risk and impact assessments.
