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.
