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Dr. Nicholas W. Gard is a Managing Scientist in Exponent’s EcoSciences practice. He is an ecotoxicologist specializing in ecological risk assessment and natural resource damage assessment with an emphasis on the evaluation of effects of chemicals on terrestrial wetland and estuarine ecosystems. He has 17 years of experience in toxicology ecology and wildlife biology. Dr. Gard has directed or participated in numerous ecological risk assessments at sites nationwide contaminated with PCBs dioxins mercury organochlorine pesticides PAHs and metals. He has conducted natural resource damage assessments to quantify injuries to fish birds and mammals from exposure to PCBs and mercury and to analyze habitat restoration requirements needed to appropriately compensate for damages resulting from these injuries. Currently Dr. Gard is managing an investigation of avian mortality at a wetland restoration site in Florida where organochlorine pesticides have been implicated as the cause of mortality. Dr. Gard has a Ph.D. in environmental toxicology from Clemson University. | 