RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
UC Davis, Graduate Student, 1998-present. Ph.D. Dissertation: Determining medaka embryonic energy demand under vital conditions and locating critical sites for energy demand during development by assessing targets of toxicants with oxidative dephosphorylation mechanisms.

ToxScan Inc., Aquatic Toxicologist II, 1996-1998. Performed standardized EPA and ASTM Whole Effluent Toxicity and sediment bioassays, organism culture maintenance, and researched the effect of centrifuge speed on the ammonia concentration of pore waters extracted from San Francisco Bay sediments.

Santa Cruz Chapter of the Surfrider Foundation, Director of the Blue Water Task Force, 1995-1997. Volunteer Lab Director managed laboratory conducting weekly fecal coliform analysis of waters from local surf spots, trained and supervised water samplers and laboratory assistants, and implemented more advanced, membrane filtration testing method.

UC Santa Cruz, Undergraduate Student, 1992-1996. Site fidelity and homing behavior of the intertidal woolly sculpin, Clinicottus analis.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Program Director, Aquatic Toxicology Outreach Program, Department of Environmental Toxicology, UC Davis, 1999-present. Teach UC Davis undergraduate students aquatic toxicology principles and test methods and teach high school science students aquatic toxicology principles and test methods. (http://.outreach.ucdavis.edu/programs/aquatox.htm)

Instructor, Basic Aquatic Toxicity Testing Methods for the Educator and Layperson, November 2002. Professional development course presented at the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry Annual Meeting.

Instructor, The Aquatic Toxicology Outreach Program, July 2002. Two-day professional development course presented to California high school teachers at the UC Davis Summer Science Institute.

Instructor, Basic Aquatic Toxicity Testing Methods for the Educator and Layperson, May 2002. Professional development course presented at the Northern California Chapter of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry Annual Meeting.

Instructor, Basic Aquatic Toxicity Testing Methods for the Educator and Layperson, November 2001. Professional development course presented at the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry Annual Meeting.

Instructor, Whole-Effluent Toxicity Training Course, April 2000. Two-day professional development course presented by the Northern California chapter of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry.

Laboratory Teaching Assistant, Spring Quarter, 2000. Instructed ETX 114B, Advance Toxicology Laboratory, Department of Environmental Toxicology, UC Davis.

Instructor, Fun for All: a Teachers and Layperson's Guide to Toxicity Testing Methods, 2000. Half-day professional development course presented at the Northern California chapter of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry Annual Meeting.

PUBLICATIONS
Viant, M. R., C. A. Pincetich, J. H. Walton, R. S. Tjeerdema and D. E. Hinton. Utilizing in vivo nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy to study sublethal stress in aquatic organisms. Marine Environmental Research, Volume 54, Issues 3-5, September-December 2002, Pages 553-557

Pincetich C. A., Reaugh K. A., Bernardi G. Site fidelity and homing behavior of the intertidal woolly sculpin, Clinicottus analis (in preparation).

PLATFORM PRESENTATIONS OF RESEARCH
Pincetich, C. A., M. R. Viant, R. S. Tjeerdema, and D. E. Hinton. A comparison of sublethal responses in developing medaka and salmon embryos to pesticides. Platform presentation given at the Annual meeting of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, November 2002.

Pincetich, C. A., M. R. Viant, R. S. Tjeerdema, and D. E. Hinton. Sublethal biochemical changes during medaka embryogenesis detected by 31P in vivo NMR spectroscopy. Platform presentation at the12th Annual meeting of the Northern California chapter of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, May 2002.

POSTER PRESENTATIONS OF RESEARCH
Pincetich, C. A., M. R. Viant, R. S. Tjeerdema, and D. E. Hinton. Sublethal biochemical changes during medaka embryogenesis detected by 31P in vivo NMR spectroscopy. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 2001.

Pincetich, C. A., M. R. Viant, R. S. Tjeerdema, and D. E. Hinton. Biochemical changes during medaka embryogenesis detected by 31P in vivo NMR spectroscopy. Poster presented at the UC Davis Center for Environmental Health Sciences Conference, August 2001.

Pincetich, C. A., M. R. Viant, R. S. Tjeerdema, and D. E. Hinton. A novel perfusion system for detecting biochemical changes in developing medaka embryos via in vivo 31P NMR spectroscopy. Interactive Poster presented at the Annual meeting of the Society of Toxicology, March 2001.

Pincetich, C. A., M. R. Viant, R. S. Tjeerdema, and D. E. Hinton. The use of in vivo 31P NMR spectroscopy to detect biochemical changes during medaka embryogenesis. Poster presentation at UC Toxic Substance Research and Training Program Research Symposium, 2000.

Pincetich, C. A., D. E. Hinton. Identification of Toxicity to Ceriodaphnia dubia by Junior and Senior High School Students in the UC Davis Aquatic Toxicology Outreach Program. Poster presented at the UC Davis Center for Environmental Health Sciences Conference, August 2000.

Pincetich C. A., C. Choi, S. Murray, R. Sharp, S. van Bergen, and P. Dressendorfer. Identification of Toxicity to Ceriodaphnia dubia from a Point Source Discharge by Students at Ralph Waldo Emerson Junior High, Davis, California. Poster presented at the Northern California chapter of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry Annual Meeting, April 2000.

Pincetich C. A., C. E. Wheelock, M. B. H. Derbel, D. E. Hinton, B. D. Hammock. Identification of carboxylesterases as new biomarkers associated with piscine exposure to multiple classes of California agricultural chemicals. Poster presentation at UC Toxic Substance Research and Training Program Research Symposium, 1999.

Wheelock, C. E., C. A Pincetich., M. B. H. Derbel, D. E. Hinton, B. D. Hammock. Identification of carboxylesterases as new biomarkers associated with piscine exposure to multiple classes of California agricultural chemicals. Poster presentation at UC Davis Center for Ecological Health Research Symposium, 1999.

Pincetich, C. A. and J. Crowley. Effect of Centrifuge Speed on the Ammonia Content of Pore Water Isolated from San Francisco Bay Mud. Poster presentation at the Northern California chapter of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry meeting, Reno NV, 1998, for ToxScan Inc.

Pincetich, C. A. Summary of Fecal Coliform Testing by the Surfrider Foundation Blue Water Task Force in the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary. Poster presentation at the Monterey Bay Sanctuary Symposium, 1997.

GRANTS
· UC Marine Council Coastal Environmental Quality Graduate Fellowship, 2002
· UC Davis NMR Facility Research Grant, 2002
· UC Davis NMR Facility Research Grant, 2001
· UC Davis Public Service Research Group Grant, 2001
· UC Davis Toxic Substance Research & Training Program Ecotoxicology Fellowship, 2000
· UC Davis Toxic Substance Research & Training Program Ecotoxicology Fellowship, 1999
· UC Davis Center for Environmental Health Sciences Fellowship, 1998

HONORS AND AWARDS
· Best student platform presentation at the Northern California chapter of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry Annual Meeting, 2002.
· Outstanding Poster Award, CEHS Conference, 2001.
· Honorable Mention for a Student Presentation at the Northern California chapter of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry Annual Meeting, 2000.
· Received Best Poster Award by non-profit group at the Monterey Bay Sanctuary Research Symposium, 1997.
· Awarded Honors in Marine Biology from UC Santa Cruz for Senior Thesis, "Site fidelity and homing behavior of the intertidal woolly sculpin, Clinicottus analis", 1996.

SERVICE
· Member, Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 1998-2002
· Member, Northern California Chapter of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 1997-2002
· Member, Society of Toxicology, 2001
· Pharmacology and Toxicology Graduate Group Committee on Educational Policy, student member, 2001
· Vice-President of the Student Chapter of the Northern California chapter of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 2001
· Volunteer Director of the Blue Water Task Force, Santa Cruz Chapter of the Surfrider Foundation, 1995-1997

CURRENT CERTIFICATIONS
· Research Scuba Diver, NAUI
· Master Diver, NAUI
· Rescue Diver, NAUI
· Small Boat Handling, UCSC
· CPR and First Aide, Red Cross
· Oxygen Administration, Red Cross