Education:
B.S. Geology, Florida State University 1963; M.S. Marine Geochemistry, University of California, San Diego 1965; Ph.D. Marine Geochemistry, University of California, San Diego 1968
Research Interests:
Riverine, estuarine and continental shelf and slope geochemical processes. Land-sea transport. Trace metal biogeochemistry, marine, estuarine and coastal environmental quality. Estuarine and coastal marine pollution.
Recent Publications:
Chen, Yung-Chi, H.L. Windom. 1997. Sediment manganese and biogenic silica as geochemical indicators in estuarine salt marshes of coastal Georgia, USA. Environmental Geochemistry and Health, 19: 29-38.
Chapman, Peter M., Brian Anderson, Scott Carr, Virginia Engles, Roger Green, Jawed Hameedi, Michelle Harmon, Pamela Haverland, Jeff Hyland, Chris Ingersoll, Edward Long, John Rodgers, Jr., Michael Salazar, Paul K. Sibley, Paul J. Smith, Richard C. Swartz, Bruce Thompson and Herbert Windom. 1997. General Guidelines for using the Sediment Quality Triad. Marine Pollution Bulletin, Vol. 34, No. 6, pp. 368-372.
Kannan, K., R.G. Smith, Jr., R.F. Lee, H.L. Windom, P.T. Heitmuller, J.M. Macauley, J.K. Summers. 1997. Distribution of Total Mercury and Methyl Mercury in Water, Sediment and Fish from South Florida Estuaries. Environ.Contam.Toxicol 34: 109-118.
Windom, Herbert L. and Gary Cranmer. 1998. Lack of Observed Impacts of Gas Production of Bongkot Field, Thailand on Marine Biota. Mar. Poll. Bul., Vol. 36, No. 10, pp. 799-807.
C. Alexander, R. Smith, B. Loganathan, J. Ertel, H.L. Windom and R.F. Lee. 1999. Pollution History of the Savannah River Estuary and Comparisons with Baltic Sea Pollution History. Limnologica 29: 267-273.
Alexander Clark R., Herbert L. Windom. Quantification of Natural Backgrounds and Anthropogenic Contaminants in a Pristine Arctic Environment: the Anadyr River Basin, Chukotka Peninsula, Russia. 1999. Mar. Poll. Bul. Vol. 38, No. 4, pp 276-284.
Niencheski, Luis Felipe, Maria da Graca Baumgarten, Gilberto Fillmann and Herbert L. Windom. Nutrients and Suspended Matter Behaviour in the Patos Lagoon Estuary (Brazil) IN: Gerardo M.E. Perillo, M. Cintia Piccolo and Mario Pino-Quivira (eds.). 1999. Estuaries of South America, Springer-Verlag, New York.
Books:
Editor (with R.A. Duce) Marine Pollutant Transfer Lexington Books, Lexington, Mass., Toronto, 1976, 391 p.
Memberships & Activities:
The American Society of Limnology and Oceanography
The American Geophysical Union
The Oceanography Society
Editorial Board for book series, “Current Topics in Ecotoxicology and Environmental Chemistry”
Member, International Council for the Exploration of the Seas (ICES) Working Group on Marine Chemistry, 1979 - present
Member, Group of Experts on Methods, Standards, and Intercalibration (GEMSI) of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO, 1982 - present
Member US Envirionmental Protection Agency, Science Advisory Board Subcommittee of Sediment Quality Criteria, 1994 - present
Member, Editorial Board for Book Series “Current Topics in Ecotoxicology and Environmental Chemistry”, 1995
Member, NSF Advisory Panel on Biogeochemistry and Environmental Chemistry, 1995
Chairman, GEMS/Water Expert Consultation on the Assessment of Land-Based Sources of Pollution, Koblenz, Germany, 1995
Consultant, UNEP GEMS/WATER GEF Proposal Development (Rapid Assessment of Freshwater Resources in International River Basins as a Framework for the Promotion of Environmentally Sound River Basin Management), 1995 - 1997