Research Impact Statement Endocrine Disrupting Compounds

McElroy, Anne

The first project teamed Drs. Anne McElroy, Bruce Brownawell & Charles Iden of Stony Brook University with Dr. Adria Elskus from the University of Kentucky and Dr. Daniel Schlenk from the University of Mississippi. This team of researchers examined three New York City STPs looking at estrogenic effects on striped bass and the concentrations of compounds known to be estrogenic in sewage effluent providing for the first time chemical and toxicological data from NYC area STPs to managers and environmental groups. The second project paired Dr. Anne McElroy from Stony Brook University with Dr. Martin Schreibman from Brooklyn College - CUNY and expanded on the previous projects to study the effects of chronic exposure to environmental estrogen mimics using a resident benthic fish, winter flounder, as a model species of exposure in the field. Specifically, they looked to see if winter flounder were being feminized, impaired reproductively and to see if the metabolite nonylphenol could be implicated in any adverse effects observed in winter flounder in Jamaica Bay, NY.