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Martin Shafer, Ph.D.

Contact Information

Titles

• Associate Scientist, Environmental Health Division, Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene
• Associate Scientist, Environmental Chemistry and Technology Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Other UW-Madison affiliations: College of Engineering

Education

• Ph.D. Environmental Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison: 1988
• Post-Doctoral Fellowship Environmental Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison: 1988-1990
• B.S. Chemistry, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY,: 1978

Fields of Interests

• Analytical chemistry and speciation of metals at ultra-trace levels
• Plasma mass spectrometry
• Chemistry of atmospheric aerosols
• Trace element biogeochemistry of rivers and associated watersheds
• Biological trace metal cycling and toxicology
• Colloid mediated processes in surface and groundwaters
• Nutrient and trace element cycles in inland and Great Lakes
• Biogeochemistry of aquatic particulates

Selected Awards, Honors and Societies

• American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists, 1979-present
• Best Project of the Year, Strategic Environmental Research & Development Program, 2003
• Keynote Speaker, American Association of Aerosol Research Annual Meeting, 2006
• Reviewer, Environmental Science and Technology (http://pubs.acs.org/journals/esthag/)
• Reviewer, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/212/description#description)
• Reviewer, Science of the Total Environment (http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/503360/description#description)
• Reviewer, Ground Water (http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/aims.asp?ref=0017-467x)
• Reviewer, Chemical Geology (http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/503324/description#description)
• Reviewer, Marine Chemistry (http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/503349/description#description)
• American Association for Aerosol Research
• American Chemical Society
• American Society of Limnology and Oceanography
• American Society of Mass Spectrometry
• Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Select Publications

• Shafer, M.M., M. Siker, J.T. Overdier, P.C. Ramsl, M. Teschler-Nicola, P.M. Farrell. 2008. Enhanced methods for assessment of the trace element composition of Iron Age bone.  Science of the Total Environment. Doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2008.02.063.
• Zhang, Y., J.J. Schauer, M.M. Shafer, M.P. Hannigan, S.J. Dutton. 2008. Source apportionment of in Vitro reactive oxygen species bioassay activity from atmospheric particulate matter.  In-Press Environmental Science & Technology.
• Creswell, J.E., S.C. Kerr, M.H. Meyer, C.L. Babiarz, M.M. Shafer, D.E. Armstrong, E.E. Roden.  2008. Factors controlling temporal and spatial distribution of total mercury and methylmercury in hyporheic sediments of the Allequash Creek wetland, Northern WI.  In-Press Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences.
• Duvall, R.M., B.J. Majestic, M.M. Shafer, P.Y. Chuang, B.R.T. Simoneit, J,J. Schauer. 2008. The water-soluble fraction of carbon, sulfur, and crustal elements in Asian aerosols and Asian soils. Atmospheric Environment 42:5872-5884.
• Prash-Landreman, A., M. Shafer, J. Hemming, M. Hannigan, J. Schauer. 2008. A macrophage-based method for the assessment of the oxidative stress activity of atmospheric particulate matter (PM) and application to routine (daily-24 hr) aerosol monitoring studies. Accepted to: Aerosol Science & Technology.
• Hansen K.E., A.E. Jones, M.J. Lindstrom, L.A. Davis, J.A. Engelke, M.M. Shafer. 2008. Vitamin D Insufficiency: Disease or No Disease? J Bone Miner Res 23:1052-1060.
• Majestic B.J., J.J. Schauer, M.M. Shafer, P.M. Fine, M. Singh, and C. Sioutas. 2008. Trace metal analysis of atmospheric particulate matter: A comparison of personal and ambient samplers. In Press: Journal of Environmental Engineering & Science (02/06/2008).
• Kerr S.C., M.M. Shafer, J. Overdier, and D.E. Armstrong. 2008. Hydrologic and biogeochemical controls on trace element export from Northern Wisconsin wetlands. Accepted for publication in Biogeochemistry (01/19/2008).
• McElroy, J.A., M.M. Shafer, and A. Trentham-Dietz. 2007. Urinary cadmium levels and tobacco smoke exposure in women age 20-69 years in the United States. J. Tox. Environ. Health A-Current Issues 70(20):1779-1782.
• McElroy, J.A., M.M. Shafer, and P. Newcomb. 2007. Urinary lead levels and breast cancer risk in a population-based case-control study of Wisconsin women. Epidemiology 18(5):S67-S76.
• Hoffmann, S.R., M.M. Shafer, and D.E. Armstrong. 2007. Strong colloidal and dissolved organic ligands binding copper and zinc in rivers.  Environ. Sci. Technol. 41(20):6996-7002.
• Majestic, B.J., J.J. Schauer, and M.M. Shafer.  2007. Development of a manganese speciation method for atmospheric aerosols in biologically and environmentally relevant fluids. Aerosol Sci. Technol.  41(10):925-933.
• Majestic, B.J., J.J. Schauer, and M.M. Shafer.  2007. Application of synchrotron radiation for measurement of iron red-ox speciation in atmospherically processed aerosols.  Atmos. Chem. Physics 7(10):2475-2487.
• Stoiber, T., M.M. Shafer, D.A. Karner, J.C. Hemming, and D.E. Armstrong. 2007. Analysis of glutathione endpoints for measuring Cu stress in Chlamydomonas reinhardti.  Environ. Toxicol. Chem. 26(8):1563-1571
• Dillner, A.M., M.M. Shafer, and J. J. Schauer. 2007.   A novel method using polyurethane foam (PUF) to determine trace element concentrations in size-segregated atmospheric particulate matter on short time scales.  Aerosol Science & Technology 41(1):75-85.
• McElroy, J.A, M.M. Shafer, J.M. Hampton, and P.A. Newcomb. 2007. Predictors of urinary cadmium levels in adult females. Science of the Total Environment, 382(2-3):214-223.
• Dillner, A., M.M. Shafer, and J.J. Schauer.  2007. A novel method using polyurethane foam (PUF) substrates to determine trace element concentrations in size-segregated atmospheric particulate matter on short time scales. Aerosol Science & Technology 41(1):75-85.
• Shafer, M.M., J.J. Schauer, W. Copan, J. Peter-Hoblyn, B. Sprague, and J. Valentine.  2006. Investigation of platinum and cerium from use of a fuel-based catalyst.  SAE 2006 Transactions – Journal of Fuels and Lubricants – 2006-01-1517:491-503.
• Majestic, B.J., J.J. Schauer, M.M. Shafer, J. Turner, P.M. Fine, M. Singh, and C. Sioutas.  2006. Development of a wet chemical method for the speciation of iron in atmospheric aerosols.  Environ. Sci.Technol. 40(7):2346-2351.
• McElroy, J.A., M.M. Shafer, A. Trentham-Dietz, J.M. Hampton, and P.A. Newcomb.  2006.  Cadmium exposure and breast cancer risk.  Journal of the National Cancer Institute.  98(12):869-873.
• Karner, D., M.M. Shafer, J. Overdier, J. Hemming, W. Sonzogni.  2006. An algal probe for copper speciation in marine waters: Lab method development.  Environ. Toxicol. Chem. 25(4): 1106-1113.
• Gorski, P., D. Armstrong, J. Hurley, and M.M. Shafer. 2006. Speciation of aqueous methylmercury influences uptake by a freshwater alga S. capricornutum.  Environ. Toxicol. Chem. 25(2): 534-540.
• Lough, G.C., J.J. Schauer, J-S. Park, M.M. Shafer, J.T. Deminter, and J.P. Weinstein. 2005. Emissions of metals associated with motor vehicle roadways. Environ. Sci. Technol., 39:826-836.
• Chuang, P.Y., R.M. Duvall, M.M. Shafer, and J.J. Schauer. 2005. The origin of water soluble particulate iron in the Asian atmospheric outflow.  Geophys. Res. Lett. 32:L07813.
• Tang, D., M.M. Shafer, D.A. Karner, and D.E. Armstrong. 2005. Response of nonprotein thiols to copper stress and extracellular release of glutathione in the diatom Thalassiosira weissflogii. Limnol. Oceanogr., 50(2):516-525.

Contact Information

Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene
Environmental Health Division
2601 Agriculture Drive
Madison, WI 53718

Phone: 608-262-0140
Fax: 608-224-6213
E-mail: shafermm@mail.slh.wisc.edu 

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