Bruce Duncan is Senior Ecologist with EPA Region 10's Office of
Environmental Assessment. He provides ecological risk assessment support
to the Region (Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, Washington), evaluating risk from
releases of hazardous waste in all media as well as risks from proposed
or permitted wastewater discharges. This involves both exposure and
toxicity assessments from fish food to charismatic species. He has been
supported the NIEHS Superfund Research conducted by Texas A&M
University, where he is adjunct faculty member with the School of Rural
Public Health in the Health Science Center. Dr. Duncan also serves as
the current chair of the Science Panel that provides advice to the State
of Washington Dept of Ecology under their Model Toxics Control Act. He
recently completed a four month detail at EPA HQ in DC assisting with
EPA's new Urban Waters Initiative that seeks to revitalize distressed
communities and connect them to nearby water bodies. Additional national
interests include guidance for using population growth rate and other
population metrics in ecological risk assessments. Aside from a range of
Superfund Site risk assessments, he has taken on the role to provide
Science Support for Climate Change Adaptation in Region 10.