Anne McElroy and Bruce Brownawell receive their awards from two LIU students

Dr's. Anne McElroy and Bruce Brownawell, Associate Professors on MSRC's faculty, have been chosen to receive the prestigious 2003 Long Island Environmental Leadership Award in the award program's research category. Sponsored by Southampton College of Long Island University, Newsday, and other commercial and civic organizations on Long Island, the award recognizes, "environmental leaders whose work benefits the Long Island environment." Brownawell's research deals with biogeochemical processes that affect the movement and ultimate fate of organic contaminants in marine ecosystems, while McElroy's interests lie in the impact of these contaminants on aquatic organisms. Their award announcement reads, in part: "Your studies of the health effects of pesticides and estrogenic chemicals on marine organisms, and the capacity for toxins to accumulate in sediments and be transferred throughout the food web, are providing new understandings that are critical for the advancement of biochemistry and the preservation of our marine resources." The award was presented on October 23, 2003 at a banquet in Riverhead, keynoted by Francine Cousteau, President of the Cousteau Society.

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