Adam Simpson, Ph.D.

Adam Simpson, Ph.D.
Undergraduate Coordinator and Associate Teaching Professor, Biology
Faculty Affiliate, The Public Policy Initiative at Penn State Behrend
(On Leave of Absence, Fall 2025)
161 Nick
Mailing Address:
SCHOOL OF SCIENCE
PENN STATE BEHREND
1 PRISCHAK BUILDING
ERIE PA 16563

Environmental Physiology, Ecotoxicology, Evolutionary Biology

Avoidance behavior of Hyalella azteca in response to three common-use insecticides, Chemosphere - October, 2023
Collaborators: Miranda Johns, Student Author; Kyle Deloe, Student Author; Lynne Beaty; Sam Nutile

Evaluating the tropic transfer of PCBs from fish to humans; insights from environmental monitoring and physiologically-based pharmacokinetic modeling, Environmental Pollution - August, 2023
Collaborators: Sam Nutile; Olivia Hodgson, Co-Author; Cody Wood; Ashley Russell; Jeremiah Keyes; R Buckanovich

A comparison of activated carbon remediation success in floodplain soils contaminated with DDT and its metabolites using ex situ and in situ experimentation, Environmental Pollution - February, 2022
Collaborators: Amanda Harwood, Co-Author; Samuel Nutile, Co-Author

Sampling for Invasive Mysterysnails: Unraveling the Mystery of These Aquatic Invaders - October, 2021
Collaborators: Lynne Beaty, Co-Author; Samuel Nutile, Co-Author

Field Evaluation and Modeling Approaches Used to Understand the Transport of Pyrethroid Insecticides out of Pennsylvania Vineyards, Research Journal of Environmental Toxicology - May, 2020
Collaborator: Samuel Nutile, Co-Author

Bridging the information gap between science and society: a solution to non-point source pollution?, Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management - March, 2020
Collaborators: Samuel Nutile, Co-Author; Megan Solan, Student Author

Bioenergetics‐adverse outcome pathway: Linking organismal and suborganismal energetic endpoints to adverse outcomes, Environmental Toxicology & Chemistry - September 26, 2018
Collaborators: Christopher Goodchild, Primary Author; Matteo Minghetti, Co-Author; Sarah DuRant, Co-Author

Resurrection ecology and its utility in ecotoxicology, Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management - 2017
Collaborators: Puni Jeyasingh, Co-Author; Jason Belden, Co-Author

Assessment of biochemical mechanisms of tolerance to chlorpyrifos in ancient and contemporary Daphnia pulicaria genotypes, Aquatic Toxicology - October 17, 2017
Collaborators: Puni Jeyasingh, Co-Author; Jason Belden, Co-Author

Variation in toxicity of a current-use insecticide leaching from potted nursery stock and aquatic health benefits of bioretention cells receiving nursery runoff, Ecotoxicology - 2015

Investigation of insecticide leaching from potted nursery stock and aquatic health benefits of bioretention cells receiving nursery runoff, Environmental Science and Pollution Research - 2014

Ph D, Integrative Biology, Oklahoma State University

CERT, Interdisciplinary Toxicology, Oklahoma State University

BS, Zoology, Oklahoma State University