NC State University / College of Veterinary Medicine

Chris Eads Chris Eads

919-513-6655
Freshwater Mussel Specialist
Raleigh, NC
Interest Aquatic Biology, Freshwater Mussels
Website
Email chris_eads@ncsu.edu
Extra Info

Bio:

Education

 

 

  

Professional Experience

2000:  Tennessee Tech University - MS, Biology

1996:  Virginia Tech - BS, Fisheries Science

 
 

2001 - Present:  Freshwater Mussel Research Coordinator, NCSU-CVM, AECL

1998-2000: Graduate Research Assistant, Tennessee Coop Fishery Research Unit

1996-1998: Aquatic Biologist, Biological Monitoring Inc.

 

Publications

 

Bringolf, RB, WG Cope, CB Eads, PR Lazaro, MC Barnhart, D Shea. 2007. Assessing contaminant sensitivity of early life stages of freshwater mussels (Unionidae): Toxicity of technical grade pesticides. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 26(10): 2086-2093.

Eads, CB, AE Bogan, and JF Levine. 2006. Status and life history aspects of the notched rainbow (Villosa constricta) in the Upper Neuse River Basin. Southeastern Naturalist. 5(4):649-660.

Gustafson LL, MK Stoskopf, W Showers, WG Cope, CB Eads, R Linnehan, TJ Kwak, E Andersen, JF Levine. 2005. Reference ranges for hemolymph chemistries from Elliptio complanata of North Carolina. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms. 65:167-176.

Eads, CB, and JB Layzer. 2002. How to pick your mussels out of a crowd: using fluorescence to mark juvenile freshwater mussels. Journal of the North American Benthological Society. 21(3): 476-486. 

 

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