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EXAMPLE:
Presentation Preference: Platform
Student presentation: No
Consideration me for student travel award: N/A
Presenter Name: Winkelman, Dana
Presentation Title: Waste water effluent, estrogenic exposure, and the future of eastern plains native fishes
Authors, Affiliations, and Contact Information: Dana L. Winkelman, U.S. Geological Survey, Colorado Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Department of Fish, Wildlife and Conservation Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523, Dana.Winkelman@colostate.edu, Kristen Keteles, EPA Region 8, Denver CO 80202, Keteles.Kristen@epa.gov; Jordan Anderson, Colorado Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Department of Fish, Wildlife and Conservation Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523, jrdn86@gmail.com
Abstract (250 Words or fewer):
Many freshwater streams and rivers are dominated by urban waste water effluent (WWE). For example, flow in the South Platte River downstream of the Denver, Colorado ranges from 69-100% WWE. WWE’s typically contain compounds associated with human use and many of these may disrupt vertebrate reproduction. Although Great Plains fishes downstream of WWE’s exhibit physiological evidence of reproductive disruption, it is difficult to predict how fish populations are responding. I will summarize three projects undertaken to understand how exogenous estrogens may be influencing Great Plains fish populations. The first two projects were designed to understand if estrogenic compounds influence reproduction and result in measurable population-level effects in two native eastern plains fish, the red shiner (Cyrinella lutrensis) and the fathead minnow (Pimephales promelas). Ongoing research consists of fish caging experiments in the vicinity of WWE’s on the eastern slope of Colorado. The first two projects indicate that exposure to environmentally relevant concentrations of estrogen can result in complete reproductive failure and this may have population consequences. Field caging experiments show that fish are being exposed to exogenous estrogens at levels that could indicate risk for reproductive failure.