Dr. Charles Eason
Science Manager, Urban Environmental Management
Landcare Research NZ Ltd.

Biography
Dr Eason has twenty years post-doctorate experience initially in pharmaceutical drug safety evaluation and latterly in environmental toxicology. His areas of specific expertise include: mechanistic toxicology and toxicokinetics as applied to risk assessment and he is an Internationally recognised expert in vertebrate pesticide toxicology. He has been responsible for the leadership and establishment of an extremely strong multi-disciplinary team of Environmental Toxicologists at CENTOX, and has acted as a Consultant to private companies, agrochemical manufactures, with regard to hazardous substances and improved safety evaluations. In 2001, he received a New Zealand Science and Technology Silver Medal, awarded by the Royal Society of New Zealand to recognize his outstanding scientific and technological research achievements.

Recent projects include: extensive studies on the fate and effects of a cholecalciferol, brodifacoum and 1080 when used for pest control leading to greater than 80 papers and safer use patterns; leading the research team which designed and co-developed (with private industry) campaign (1995), Feratox® (1997), Feracoll® (1998), representing a new generation of products specifically designed with low welfare environmental and non-target impacts. He is currently leading a major NZ FRST programme "Reducing the Exposure of Humans and Wildlife to Contaminants". This programme is applying new integrated approaches, biomarkers and fate studies as a basis for an improved protection of the NZ environment, wildlife and humans from hazardous pollutants and providing the means for regional and terrestrial authorities to improve their guardianship of the land.

Dr Eason has published greater than 150 science papers and book chapters ranging from mechanistic studies characterising adverse drug reactions through to biomarkers in wildlife to improve environmental risk assessment of contaminant effects.

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