Brendan Hickie

Dr. Hickie teaches in a range of courses including Natural Science Statistics, Environmental Toxicology and Pollution Ecology. His research involves study of fate of contaminants in aquatic ecosystems, their bioaccumulation through food webs and particularly accumulation by wildlife such as marine mammals, mink and river otter. Through this research he has developed expertise in modelling the multi-media fate of organic chemicals using fugacity-based models and their bioaccumulation by individual species and through food webs. Dr. Hickie has developed a number of novel bioaccumulation models for six species marine mammals (including beluga, ringed seals, orcas and bottlenose dolphins), and a mercury accumulation model for mink.