Porter, Warren

Posted July 2000

Professor and chair, Department of Zoology
College of Letters and Science, UW-Madison
250 N. Mills St., Room 207
Madison, WI 53706
Phone: (608) 262-1719; 262-0029
Fax: (608) 262-9083
wporter@mhub.zoology.wisc.edu
www.wisc.edu/zoology/faculty/fac/Por/Por.html

The first CIAS Faculty Associate with a home department outside of CALS, Warren’s interests include understanding how climate, disease, and low-level toxicant mixtures affect the potential for growth, reproduction, population dynamics, and community structure in reptiles and mammals. He and his interdisciplinary research colleagues have found that mixtures of aldicarb (the most common carbamate insecticide), atrazine (the most common herbicide), and nitrate fertilizer that reflect current Wisconsin groundwater concentrations are capable of suppressing immune parameters, changing hormone levels and altering aggression. Other herbicide and pesticide mixtures that they have studied have altered locomotion, learning abilities, and exploratory behavior in white mice and wild deer mice.

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On Thursday, November 12, CIAS hosted its annual meeting of apple growers engaged in its Eco-Apple pesticide reduction program. Notably, the group of 48 growers celebrated the successful completion of a six-year effort designed to reduce the use of pesticides on orchards throughout Wisconsin. During the course of the program, all reporting orchards demonstrated a reduced reliance on pesticides in favor of a diversity of IPM strategies, and some realized a near-total elimination of organophosphate applications. CIAS thanks its team of growers for their enthusiastic and committed participation. In particular, CIAS wishes to thank Dave Flannery, Wendy Schafer, Bill Stone and Anna Maenner for their fortitude in seeing this phase of the project through to a successful conclusion. UW rsearchers Dan Mahr, Patty McManus, Matt Stasiak and Teryl Roper have been critical to the project’s success. Thanks also to EPA-V and the USDA for their support and encouragement.

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