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Beth Polidoro
PeerJ Editor, Author & Reviewer
115 Points

Contributions by role

Reviewer 15
Editor 100

Contributions by subject area

Biodiversity
Conservation Biology
Marine Biology
Environmental Impacts
Biological Oceanography
Natural Resource Management
Population Biology

Beth Polidoro

PeerJ Editor, Author & Reviewer

Summary

Beth Polidoro is an Associate Professor of Environmental Chemistry and Marine Conservation, as well as serving as the Deputy Director for the Center for Biodiversity Outcomes at Arizona State University. Her primary research interests are in risk assessment and applied toxicology within the context of marine and freshwater biodiversity conservation, human health, and sustainable development. Dr. Polidoro has a broad background in the marine, chemical and environmental sciences. Before to coming to Arizona State University, she was a senior research associate with the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), where she worked with scientists around the globe to quantify the impacts of anthropogenic threats on more than 20,000 marine species, for inclusion on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. She currently works on various marine and freshwater conservation initiatives and both ecological and human health risk assessments in the United States, Latin America, Africa and Oceania.

Conservation Biology Ecotoxicology Environmental Contamination & Remediation Marine Biology Natural Resource Management

Editorial Board Member

PeerJ - the Journal of Life & Environmental Sciences

Past or current institution affiliations

Arizona State University

Work details

Associate Professor

Arizona State University
August 2012
Mathematics and Natural Scienes

Websites

  • Polidoro SWAT LAB
  • Google Scholar

PeerJ Contributions

  • Edited 1

Academic Editor on

January 24, 2020
Viability and management of the Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) population in the Endau Rompin landscape, Peninsular Malaysia
Salman Saaban, Mohd Nawayai Yasak, Melvin Gumal, Aris Oziar, Francis Cheong, Zaleha Shaari, Martin Tyson, Simon Hedges
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8209 PubMed 32002318