Dr. John Kucklick is the leader of the Biochemical and Exposure Science Group of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and has been with NIST since 1997. His group is located at the multi-institution Hollings Marine Laboratory in Charleston, South Carolina and is part of the Chemical Sciences Division located both in Charleston and in Gaithersburg, MD. Dr. Kucklick has expertise in environmental measurement particularly in the area of contaminants of emerging concern, environmental chemistry, and assessing the bioaccumulation of organic pollutants in aquatic organisms. Current research includes the screening of environmental samples for new contaminants using comprehensive gas chromatography mass spectrometry, assessing exposure of people to plasticizers and assessing time trends of pollutants in Arctic animals. His lab supports NOAA's efforts in gauging pollution effects on marine mammals by providing exposure data on pollutant levels in marine mammal blood, milk and blubber. His group is actively engaged in developing reference materials and methods for the analysis of environmental samples for multiple classes of contaminants including polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, plasticizers, perfluorinated chemicals, legacy organochlorine compounds, current-use flame retardants, trace elements, speciated trace elements, hormones, lipidomics and metalomics. He has authored about 90 peer-reviewed papers, 42 peer-reviewed reports or book chapters and is associate editor of Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology.
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