Hunt Valley, Maryland (16 September 2024)—EA is pleased to welcome David Lee Haskins, PhD, as a Senior Scientist expanding the firm’s growing research and development (R&D) capabilities. In this position, he is responsible for supporting and overseeing a variety of natural resource-related studies.
“Our R&D practice has expanded more than 300 percent to projects under contract valued at more than $7 million,” said Jamie Suski, EA’s Program Manager for R&D. “David Lee is a terrific addition to our expanding team, bringing a wealth of knowledge in environmental science and a proven track record as a co-principal investigator.”
In joining EA, David Lee brings to the firm an existing project for the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program to assess anthropogenic and climate-induced stressors in coastal and inland populations of spotted turtle populations at Department of Defense installations (link opens in a new tab). The goal is to promote resilience by assessing abundance/distribution; determining exposure to anthropogenic/climate stressors; evaluating potential impacts of stressors on demography, behavior, and physiology; predicting how exposure may impact turtles under future scenarios; and identifying potential significant stressors and work with installations to identify the most effective site-specific best management practices.
David Lee has more than a decade of experience as a research assistant and principal investigator at Maryville College, the University of Georgia, Purdue University, and the U.S. Geological Survey Eastern Ecological Science Center. His work, primarily focused on ecotoxicity in reptiles, has been published in an array of peer-reviewed journals, including Ecotoxicology, the Journal of Thermal Biology, and the Journal of Applied Toxicology. He was recognized by the Louisiana Association of Professionals with a Best Paper Award in General Conservation for “Tissue Distribution of Mercury in the Bodies of Wild American Alligators (Alligator mississippiensis) from a Coastal Marsh in Louisiana” and received the Chris Lee Award for Metals Research from the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. David Lee holds a Bachelor of Science in Biology from Maryville College, and a Master of Science in Forestry and Natural Resources and a PhD in Ecological Toxicology from the University of Georgia.
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