Dr. Wayne G. Landis - Professor & Director
Institute of Environmental Toxicology, Huxley College of the Environment ,Western Washington Univeristy.
Email:wayne.landis@wwu.edu
Phone: 360-650-6136
Education
B. A. (biology), Wake Forest University 1974: M. A. (biology), Indiana University, 1978; Ph. D. (zoology), Indiana University, 1979.
Research and Accomplishments
Dr. Landis’ current area of research is ecological risk assessment at large spatial and temporal scales. Dr. Landis' research contributions also include: creation of the Action at a Distance Hypothesis for landscape toxicology, the application of complex systems theory to risk assessment, and development of the Relative Risk Model for multiple stressor and regional-scale risk assessment and specialized methods for calculating risk due to invasive species and emergent diseases. He also has patents and papers on the use of enzymes and organisms for the degradation of chemical weapons. Dr. Landis has authored over 130 peer-reviewed publications and government technical reports, made over 300 scientific presentations, edited four books, and wrote the textbook, Introduction to Environmental Toxicology, now in its fourth edition. He has consulted for industry; non-governmental organizations as well as federal (U.S. and Canada), state, provincial, and local governments. Dr. Landis serves on the editorial boards of the journals Human and Ecological Risk Assessment and Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management, and is the ecological risk area editor for Risk Analysis. He is a member of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) and served on the SETAC Board of Directors from 2000-2003. In 2007 he was named a Fellow of the Society for Risk Analysis. He was recently named to the Science Panel for the Puget Sound Partnership, a state agency that focuses on the restoration of Puget Sound.
Publications 2001-2012
Landis WG, Durda JL, Brooks ML, Chapman PM, Menzie CA, Stahl RG, Stauber JL. Accepted. Ecological risk assessment in the context of global climate change. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry.
Stahl R, Hooper MJ, Balbus J, Clements W, Fritz A, Helm R, Hickey C, Landis WG, Moe, SL. Accepted. The influence of global climate change on the scientific foundations and applications of environmental toxicology and chemistry: Introduction to and summary from a SETAC, International Workshop, July 16-21, 2011, Wingspread Conference Center, Racine, Wisconsin, USA. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry.
Landis WG. 2012 in press. Commends on Fox et al (2012): What to do with NOECs/NOELs. Integr Environ Assess Manag
Ayre KK, Landis WG. In press October 2012. A Bayesian approach to landscape ecological risk assessment applied to the Upper Grande Ronde watershed, Oregon. Human and Ecological Risk Assessment.
Anderson SA and Landis WG. 2012. A pilot application of regional scale risk assessment to the forestry management of the Upper Grande Ronde watershed, Oregon. Human and Ecological Risk Assessment. 18:705-732.
Landis WG, Chapman PM. 2012. Author’s reply. Integr Environ Assess Manag 8:5.
Landis WG, Chapman PM. 2011. Well past time to stop using NOELS and LOELs. Integr Environ Assess Manag 7:vi-viii. Peer reviewed editorial.
Landis, WG, Sofield RM, Yu M-H. 2011. Introduction to Environmental Toxicology: Molecular Substructures To Ecological Landscapes, 4th Edition. Lewis Publishers, CRC Press. Boca Raton.
Miller TK, Allen CR, Landis WG, Merchant JW. 2010. Risk assessment: Simultaneously prioritizing the control of invasive plant species and the conservation of rate plant species. Biological Conservation 143:2070-2079.
Warren-Hicks WJ, Qian S. Toll J, Fischer DL, Fite E, Landis WG, Hamer M, Smith EP. 2010. Monte Carlo, Bayesian Monte Carlo, and First Order Error Analysis. In Warren-Hicks WJ and Hart. A. Application of Uncertainty Analysis to Ecological Risks of Pesticides.Kapustka, LA. and Landis WG. 2010. Environmental Risk Assessment and Management from a Landscape Perspective. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. New York
Kapustka, LA and Landis WG. 2010. Chapter 1. Introduction. In Kapustka, LA. and Landis WG. Eds. Environmental Risk Assessment and Management from a Landscape Perspective. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. New York pp 1-9
Landis WG, Chen VC, Colnar, AM, Kaminski L., Kushima G., Seebach, A. 2010. Chapter 12: Landscape non-indigenous Species Risk Assessment: Asian Oyster and Nun Moth Case Studies. In Kapustka LA. and Landis WG. Environmental Risk Assessment and Management from a Landscape Perspective. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. New York pp 245-278.
Seebach, A., Colnar AM, Landis WG. 2010. Chapter 13: Ecological Risk Assessment of the Invasive Sargassum muticum for the Cherry Point Reach, Washington USA. In Kapustka, LA. and Landis WG. Eds. . Environmental Risk Assessment and Management from a Landscape Perspective. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. New York pp 279-301.
Landis WG and Bryant PT. 2010. Using weight of evidence characterization and modeling to Investigate the cause of the changes in Pacific Herring (Clupea pallasi) Population Dynamics in Puget Sound and at Cherry Point, Washington. Risk Analysis. 30:183-202
Landis WG. 2009. Why Has Ecological Risk Assessment Found Such Limited Application? Human and Ecological Risk Assessment 15:849-857
Gala W, Lipton J, Cernera P, Ginn T, Haddad R, Henning M, Jahn K, Landis WG, Mancini E, Nicoll J, Peters V, Peterson J. 2009. Ecological Risk Assessment (ERA) and Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA): Synthesis Of Assessment Procedures. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management. 5:515-522
Stahl, RG Jr., Gouget R, Charters D, Clements W, Gala W, Haddad R, Helm R, Landis WG, Maki A, Munns WR, Young D. 2009. The Nexus Between Ecological Risk Assessment and Natural Resource Damage Assessment Under CERCLA: Introduction to a Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry Technical Workshop. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management. 5:496-499.
Landis WG. 2009. Context, Toxicity Reference Values and Risk. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management. Learned Discourse 5:719-720
Hall, TJ, Landis WG. 2009. Measurement and Analysis of the Potential Long Term Impact of Pulp and Paper Mill Effluent on Receiving Waters. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management. 5: 186–188
Landis WG, Thomas JF. 2009. Regional Risk Assessment as a Part of the Long Term Receiving Water Study. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management. 5: 234–247
Hall TJ, Fisher RP, Rodgers Jr, JH, Minshall GW, Landis WG, Kovacs TG, Firth BK, Dubé MG, Deardorff TL, Dennis L Borton DL. 2009. A long-term multi-trophic level study to assess pulp and paper mill effluent effects on aquatic communities in four United States receiving waters: background and status. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management 5: 189–198
Hall TJ, Fisher RP, Rodgers Jr, JH, Minshall GW, Landis WG, Kovacs TG, Firth BK, Dubé MG, Deardorff TL, Dennis L Borton DL.. 2009. A long-term multi-trophic level study to assess pulp and paper mill effluent discharges on aquatic communities in four United States receiving waters: lessons learned. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management. 5: 283–290
Dale VH, Biddinger GR, Newman MC, Oris JT, Suter GW, Thompson T, Armitage TM, Meyer JL Allen-King RM, Burton GA, Chapman PM Conquest LL, Fernandez IJ, Landis WG, Master LL, Mitsch WJ, Mueller TC, Rabeni CF, Rodewald AD, Sanders JG, and van Heerden. 2008. Enhancing the Ecological Risk Assessment Process. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management 4: 306–313.
Landis WG. 2008. Article title: Assimilative Capacity, Jorgensen, S. E. (ed) Encyclopedia of Ecology, Oxford: Elsevier Ltd. pp 264-268. Landis WG. 2008.
Chapter 14. Application of population modeling using RAMAS® to a causal analysis of the decline the Cherry Point Pacific herring (Clupea pallasi) stock. In Demographic Toxicity: Methods in Ecological Risk Assessment. edited by Akçakaya, Stark & Bridges. Oxford University Press. Oxford pp 213- 228.
Landis WG and Deines AM. 2007. Chapter 6 The Spatial Structure of Populations and Ecological Risk Assessment, In Population-Level Ecological Risk Assessment. L Barnthouse et al Eds. Taylor and Francis. Boca Raton FL pp 113-127.
Carlsen, TM, Moe SJ, Brasfield S, Chapman PF, Hoffman A. Landis WG, Nacci DE, Noel H, Spromberg JA. 2007. Approaches to population level ecological risk assessment. In Population-Level Ecological Risk Assessment. L Barnthouse et al Eds. Taylor and Francis. Boca Raton FL pp 151-177.
Landis WG. 2007. The Exxon Valdez oil spill revisited and the dangers of normative science. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management. 3:439-441
Landis WG and Kaminski LA. 2007. Population scale assessment endpoints in ecological risk assessment part 2: selection of assessment endpoint attributes. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management 3: 450-457.
Landis WG and Wiegers JK.2007. Ten years of the relative risk model and regional scale ecological risk assessment. Human and Ecological Risk Assessment.13:25-38.
Colnar, AM and Landis WG.2007. Conceptual model development for invasive species and a regional risk assessment case study: the European Green Crab, Carcinus maenas, at Cherry Point, Washington USA, Human and Ecological Risk Assessment. 13:120-155. Selected best Ecorisk paper for HERA 2007.
Barnthouse, LB, Harman C, Landis WG, Tannenbaum. 2006. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management’s commitment to scientific discourse. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management 2:201.
Landis, W. G.2006. Population scale assessment endpoints in ecological risk assessment part 1: Reflections of stakeholders’ values. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management 2:86-91
Deines, A.M., Chen, V, Landis WG. 2005. Modeling the risks of non-indigenous species introductions using a patch-dynamics approach incorporating contaminant effects as a disturbance. Risk Analysis 6: 1637-1651
Landis, W. G. 2005. Regional Scale Ecological Risk Assessment Using the Relative Risk Model. CRC Press Boca Raton pp 286. Edited Book.
Landis W. G., Wiegers, J. K. 2005. Chapter 2: Introduction to the regional risk assessment using the relative risk model. In W. G. Landis editor Regional Scale Ecological Risk Assessment Using the Relative Risk Model. CRC Press Boca Raton pp 11-36.
Wiegers, J. K., Landis W. G. 2005. Chapter 4 Application of the Relative Risk Model to the Fjord of Port Valdez, Alaska. In W. G. Landis editor Regional Scale Ecological Risk Assessment Using the Relative Risk Model. CRC Press Boca Raton pp 53-90.
Luxon, M., Landis W. G. 2005. Chapter 5 Application of the Relative Risk Model to the Upper Willamette River and Lower McKenzie River, Oregon. In W. G. Landis editor Regional Scale Ecological Risk Assessment Using the Relative Risk Model. CRC Press Boca Raton pp 91-118.
Obery, A. M., Thomas, J. F., Landis W. G.2005. Chapter 6 Codorus Creek Watershed: A Regional Ecological Risk Assessment with Field Confirmation of the Risk Patterns. In W. G. Landis editor Regional Scale Ecological Risk Assessment Using the Relative Risk Model. CRC Press Boca Raton pp 119-142.
Walker, R. Landis, W G. Brown, P. 2005. Chapter 8 Developing a Regional Ecological Risk Assessment: A Case Study of a Tasmanian Agricultural Catchment. In W. G. Landis editor Regional Scale Ecological Risk Assessment Using the Relative Risk Model. CRC Press Boca Raton pp 159-178.
Moraes, R., Landis, W. G., and Molander, S. 2005. Chapter 9 Establishing Conservation Priorities in a Rain Forest Reserve in Brazil: An Application of the Regional Risk Assessment Method. In W. G. Landis editor Regional Scale Ecological Risk Assessment Using the Relative Risk Model. CRC Press Boca Raton pp 179-194.
Chen, J. C., Landis W. G. 2005. Chapter 10 Using the Relative Risk Model for a Regional-Scale Ecological Risk Assessment of the Squalicum Creek Watershed. In W. G. Landis editor Regional Scale Ecological Risk Assessment Using the Relative Risk Model. CRC Press Boca Raton pp 195-230
Landis W. G., Hart Hayes, E., Markiewicz, A. M. 2005. Chapter 12. Retrospective Regional Risk Assessment Predictions and the Application of a Monte Carlo Analysis for the Decline of the Cherry Point Herring Stock. In W. G. Landis editor Regional Scale Ecological Risk Assessment Using the Relative Risk Model. CRC Press Boca Raton pp 245-256.
Hart Hayes, E., Landis W. G. 2005. Chapter 13. The Ecological Risk Assessment Using the Relative Risk Model and Incorporating a Monte Carlo Uncertainty Analysis. In W. G. Landis editor Regional Scale Ecological Risk Assessment Using the Relative Risk Model. CRC Press Boca Raton pp 257-290
Landis WG. 2004. Ecological risk assessment conceptual model formulation for nonindigenous species. Risk Analysis 24:847-858
Landis W. G. 2004. Individuals are not lost in a proper landscape risk assessment and a note about values. SETAC Globe 5:45-46.
Landis W. G, Bodensteiner LR, Obery AM and Thomas JF 2004.Ecological risk assessment as the framework for the prediction, confirmation and management of the Codorus Creek watershed. Pulp and Paper Mill Effluent Environmental Fate and Effects Conference Proceedings 2003 pp 232-245.
Hart Hayes, E. and Landis W. G.. 2004. Regional ecological risk assessment of a nearshore marine environment: Cherry Point, WA. Human and Ecological Risk Assessment. 10: 299-325.
Landis, W. G, P. B. Duncan, E. Hart Hayes, A. J. Markiewicz, J. F. Thomas. 2004 . A regional assessment of the potential stressors causing the decline of the Cherry Point Pacific herring run and alternative management endpoints for the Cherry Point Reserve (Washington, USA). Human and Ecological Risk Assessment 10: 271-297
Landis, W. G. and Yu, M-H 2004. Introduction to Environmental Toxicology. Lewis Press, Boca Raton FL.
Landis, W. G., E. Hart Hayes and A. M. Markiewicz. 2003. Weight of Evidence and Path Analysis Applied to the Identification of Causes of the Cherry Point Pacific Herring Decline.. Droscher, Toni and David A. Fraser (eds.) 2003 Georgia Basin/Puget Sound Research Conference, March 31-April 3, 2003, Vancouver, British Columbia -Proceedings (December 2003).http://www.psat.wa.gov/Publications/03_proceedings/PAPERS/ORAL/10f_landis.pdf
Landis W. G. 2003. The frontiers in ecological risk assessment at expanding spatial and temporal scales. Human and Ecological risk assessment. 9: 1415-1424
Landis W. G 2003. Twenty years before and hence; ecological risk assessment at multiple scales with multiple stressors and multiple endpoints. Human and Ecological Risk Assessment.9:1317-1326
Landis, W.G. 2003. Taxonomic identification, the question and the required resolution. SETAC Globe (Learned Discourse) 4:2 28-30
Landis, W. G. and J. F. McLaughlin. 2003. Establishing Specifications of Ecological Indicators for the Prediction of Sustainability. Managing for Healthy Ecosystems, Rapport DJ, WL Lasley, DE Rolston, NO Nielsen, CO Qualset, and AB Damania [Editors]. Lewis Press Boca Raton pp 243-254.
Moraes, R., W. G. Landis, and S Molander. 2002. Regional Risk Assessment of a Brazilian Rain Forest Reserve. Human and Ecological Risk Assessment. 8:1779-1803.
Landis, W. G. 2002. Population is the appropriate unit of interest for a species-specific risk assessment. SETAC Globe 3:31-32. (Learned Discourse)
Munns, Wayne R., Jr., W. Nelson Beyer, W. G. Landis, C. Menzie. 2002. What is a population? SETAC Globe 3:29-31 (Learned Discourse).
Obery, A. M. and W. G. Landis. 2002. A regional multiple stressor risk assessment of the Codorus Creek watershed applying the relative risk model. Human and Ecological Risk Assessment. 8:405-428
Landis WG, Markiewicz, AJ, Thomas JF, Hart Hayes E. 2002. Regional risk assessment predictions for the decline and future management of the Cherry Point Herring Stock and region. Conference Proceedings of the 2001 Puget Sound Research Conference.
Landis, W. G. 2002. Uncertainty in the extrapolation from individual effects to impacts upon landscapes. Human and Ecological Risk Assessment. 8:193-204.
Landis, W. G. and McLaughlin, J. F., 2001. "If Not Recovery, Then What?" Environmental Toxicology and Risk Assessment: Science, Policy and Standardization-Implications for Environmental Decisions: Tenth Volume, ASTM STP 1403. B. M. Greenburg, R. N. Hull, M. H. Roberts Jr. and R. W. Gensemer, Eds., American Society for Testing and Materials, West Conshohocken, PA. pp. 283-292
Sandberg, R. and W. G. Landis. 2001. Persistence and the effects of jet-A in a sediment microcosm. Environ. Toxicol. Chem 9:1942-1950
Walker, R., W. G. Landis and P. Brown. 2001. Developing a regional ecological risk assessment: A case study of a Tasmanian agricultural catchment. Human and Ecological Risk Assessment 7:417-439.