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John Hunt focuses increasingly on ecotoxicology at landscape scales, particularly the interactions between land use and water quality in California watersheds.  He is involved in the design and implementation of a number of large-scale monitoring programs that characterize conditions and trends in the occurrence, transport, and biological effects of water pollution.  This has led to investigations of spatial aspects of land use activity, such as pesticide application, urbanization, and installation of conservation practices, and their relationships to the contaminant concentrations and toxicity observed in streams and estuaries. 
 
Current projects include the evaluation of hybrid monitoring designs to address multiple management objectives, ranging from site-specific cause and source identifications, to impaired water body listings, to statewide assessments of water quality status and trends.  These projects include focused studies that evaluate the watershed-wide cumulative effects of agricultural conservation practice implementation programs, and their potential to improve water quality conditions in critical downstream habitats.
 
Education
 
1979        B.A.,  Geography, UC Berkeley
 
1987        M.S.,  Marine Science, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories
 
2009        Ph.D., Environmental Studies,  UC Santa Cruz
 
Selected Publications
 
Hunt JW, Anderson BS, Phillips BM, Tjeerdema RS, Largay B, Hanson E, Beretti M, Bern A.  2008.  Use of toxicity identification evaluations in determining the pesticide mitigation effectiveness of on-farm vegetated treatment systems.  Environ Poll. 156: 348-358.
 
Hunt, JW, Anderson, BS, Phillips, BM, Tjeerdema, RS, Richard, N, Connor, N,  Worcester, K, Angelo, M,  Bern, A, Fulfrost, B,  Mulvaney, D.  2006.  Spatial relationships between water quality and pesticide applications in agricultural watersheds.  Environ Monit Assess. 121:245-262.
 
Hunt, JW, Anderson BS, Phillips BM.  2005.  Agricultural drain water toxicity mitigated by pH adjustment.  Chapter 6.28.  In: Norberg-King T, Ausley L, Burton D, Goodfellow W, Miller J, Waller WT (eds.)  Toxicity Reduction Evaluations and Toxicity Identification Evaluation (TIE) for Effluent, Ambient Waters and Other Aqueous Media.  SETAC Press, Pensacola, FL.
 
Hunt, JW, Anderson, BS, Phillips, BM, Nicely, PA, Tjeerdema, Puckett, HM, Stephenson, M, Worcester, K, deVlaming, V.  2003.  Ambient toxicity due to chlorpyrifos and diazinon in a Central California Watershed. Environ Monit Assess. 82: 83-112.
 
Hunt, JW, Anderson, BS, Phillips, BM, Tjeerdema, RS, Puckett, HM, Stephenson, M, Tucker, DW, Watson, D.  2002.  Acute and chronic toxicity of nickel to marine organisms: implications for water quality criteria. Environ Toxicol Chem. 21(11): 2423-2430.
 
Hunt, J.W., B.S. Anderson, B.M. Phillips, J. Newman, R. Tjeerdema, R. Fairey, H.M. Puckett, M.Stephenson, R.W. Smith, C.J. Wilson, and K.M. Taberski. 2001. Evaluation and use of sediment toxicity reference sites for statistical comparisons in regional assessments.  Environ Toxicol Chem 20: 1266-1275.
 
Hunt, J.W., B.S. Anderson, B.M. Phillips, R. Tjeerdema, K.M. Taberski, C. J. Wilson,  H. M. Puckett, M. Stephenson, R. Fairey, J. Oakden .  2001.  A large-scale categorization of sites in San Francisco Bay, USA, based on the sediment quality triad, toxicity identification evaluations, and gradient studies.  Environ Toxicol Chem 20: 1252-1265.
 
Hunt, J.W., Anderson, B.S., Phillips, B.M., Tjeerdema, R.S., Puckett, H.M., and deVlaming, V. 1999.  Patterns of aquatic toxicity in an agriculturally dominated coastal watershed in California.  Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Environment 75: 75-91.
 
Hunt, J.W.,  Anderson, B.S.,  Turpen, S.L., Englund,  M.A., and Piekarski, W.J.  1997.  Precision and sensitivity of a seven-day growth and survival toxicity test using the west coast marine mysid crustacean Holmesimysis costata. Environ Toxicol Chem 16: 824-834.
 
Hunt, J.W., Foster, M.S., Nybakken, J., Larson, R., and Ebert, E.E.  1995.   Interactive effects of polyculture, feeding rate, and stocking density on growth of juvenile shellfish.  J Shellfish Res  14: 191 - 197.
 
Hunt, J.W. and Anderson, B.S. 1989.  Sublethal effects of zinc and municipal sewage effluents on larvae of the red abalone Haliotis rufescens.  Mar Biol 101: 545 - 552.