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John Brock - Environmental Studies and Chemistry

Phone: 828-771-3904
E-Mail: jbrock@warren-wilson.edu
Office : Witherspoon 204
Address : CPO# 6066
Warren Wilson College Box 9000
Asheville, NC 28815-9000

Arrival Year: 2001

Education: Ph.D. Analytical Chemistry from Emory University

Publications:
Over 56 peer-reviewed publications in environmental health with collaborators from Harvard, Emory, Copenhagen University, University of Missouri, National Cancer Institute, and EPA.

A few of those papers:

Longnecker MP, Hoffman HJ, Klebanoff MA, Brock JW, Zhou H, Needham L, Adera T, Guo X, Gray KA. In utero exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls and sensorineural hearing loss in 8-year-old children. Neurotoxicol Teratol (2004) 26:629-37.

Gray KA, Klebanoff MA, Brock JW, Zhou H, Darden R, Needham L, Longnecker MP. In Utero Exposure to Background Levels of Polychlorinated Biphenyls and Cognitive Functioning among School-age Children. Am J Epidemiol (2005) 162:17-26.

Duty SM, Singh NP, Silva MJ, Barr DB, Brock JW, Ryan L, Herrick RF, Christiani DC, Hauser R. The relationship between environmental exposures to phthalates and DNA damage in human sperm using the neutral comet assay. Environ Health Perspect (2003) 111:1164-9.

Brock JW, Caudill SP, Silva MJ, Needham LL, Hilborn ED. Phthalate monoesters levels in the urine of young children. Bull Environ Contam Toxicol (2002) 68:309-14.

Brock JW,Yoshimura Y, Barr J, Nakasawa H, Maggio V, Graiser S, Needham LL. Measurement of urinary bisphenol in humans. J Expo Anal Environ Epidemiol (2001) 11:323-8.

Research:
Industrial chemicals and human birth defects (Denmark)

Alligator reproductive health and pollution (Florida)

PCBs in eggs from terns in Maine

Lead migration from target shooting ranges (NC)

Heavy metals in local food

Projects:

Trapping Florida Alligators and Sampling their Blood for Hormonally-active Chemicals

Greenhouse Gas and Energy Use Inventory for the College

Bi-annual Survey of Sexual Behavior and STIs on Campus

Personal:
Adjunct Professor at University of Florida

Serves on several scientific advisory boards for research centers at University of Wisconsin, University of Illinois, and the Royal Hospital-Copenhagen Denmark

Serves on WWC-Asheville Task Force on Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Amateur volleyball player, cyclist, wine buff, foster parent