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KELLY, Barry C.
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Division of Environmental Science and Engineering
Faculty of Engineering
National University of Singapore
     
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(65)6516-3764
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(65)6774 4202 
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Environmental Science & Engineering
Faculty of Engineering
National University of Singapore 
9 Engineering Drive 1, EA-03-12
Singapore 117576
 
       
 
 
Biography

Dr. Barry Kelly is an environmental toxicologist with over 16 years experience, working with industry, universities, government agencies and environmental consulting firms. Dr. Kelly graduated from Trent University with a B.Sc. in 1993. He obtained a Master’s of Resource & Environmental Management (MRM) at Simon Fraser University (SFU) in 1999. He completed his Ph.D in 2005 at SFU, focusing on the fate and bioaccumulation behavior of organic contaminants in Canadian Arctic food webs and related dietary exposure to the northern indigenous Inuit population. Dr. Kelly is currently working in the Division of Environmental Science and Engineering as an Assistant Professor specializing in the field of environmental chemistry and toxicology.

Dr. Kelly's research interests generally encompass analytical chemistry, environmental toxicology, simulation modeling and risk assessment. His work has demonstrated that current methods utilizing chemical octanol-water partition coefficients (KOW'’s) for identifying bioaccumulative toxic substances, commonly used by domestic regulatory agencies and the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs), mis-categorizes chemicals with a bioaccumulation potential in terrestrial food chains. These findings have consequences for the regulation of many thousands of commercial chemicals. He has also conducted studies assessing the accumulation and biological impacts of endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) and heavy metals in farmed and wild Pacific salmon from the west coast of Canada. Dr. Kelly has experience in developing fugacity-based computer simulation models representing chemical fate and bioaccumulation in aquatic and terrestrial systems.

Dr. Kelly is currently conducting laboratory and field-based studies to assess the fate, bioaccumulation behaviour and biological effects of emerging contaminants of concern. His work will include (i) developing novel methods for trace contaminant analysis in environmental and biological samples (ii) controlled contaminant exposure experiments, (iii) field surveys of aquatic and terrestrial food ecosystems, (iv) toxicogenomics and molecular biology based effects assessments and (v) simulation modeling and ecological risk assessment.

Dr. Kelly’s work aims to decipher the key biological and chemical factors governing environmental distribution, bioaccumulation potential and toxic effects of emerging contaminants. This research will help regulatory authorities to better identify and evaluate risks associated with potentially hazardous substances as well as direct the chemical manufacturing sector to engineer more environmentally friendly chemicals.
 
Career History

  • Assistant Professor, Environmental Science & Engineering, National University of Singapore, (Oct. 2009 to present).

  • Postdoctoral Research Associate, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Institute of Ocean Sciences, Sidney, British Columbia, Canada, (2007-2009).

  • Postdoctoral Research Associate, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada, (2005-2007).

  • Graduate Research Associate, Simon Fraser University (1996-2005).

  • Biologist, Ecologistics Ltd. Environmental Engineers and Consultants, Waterloo, Canada (1995-1996).

  • Biologist, Canada Forest Service, National Forestry Institute, Petawawa, Canada (1993-1994).

  • Biologist, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (May-Aug, 1993).
 
Honours and Awards

  • Association of Canadian Universities for Northern Studies (ACUNS) Scholarship, 1996-1997

  • Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Postgraduate Scholarship, 2000-2002

  • Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN), Most important research advance of 2007 in environmental chemistry
 
Professional Activities

  • Member of the Society of Environmental Toxicologists and Chemists (SETAC)

  • Reviewer for Environmental Science and Technology, Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, Science of the Total Environment, Environmental Pollution

  • Regular participant at SETAC North America, International Symposium on Halogenated Environmental Organic Pollutants and POPs (DIOXIN), Brominated Flame Retardant (BFR) Workshop
 
Research Interests

  • Identification and quantification of organic chemicals in environmental and biological media using gas-chromatography ion-trap tandem mass spectrometry (GC/IT-MS/MS) and liquid chromatography electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry (LC/ESI-MS/MS).

  • Analysis of emerging contaminants of concern: endocrine disrupting compounds, brominated flame retardants, perfluoroalkyl chemicals, pharmaceuticals and personal care products and engineered nanoparticles

  • Phase-partitioning, bioaccumulation behaviour and toxic effects of organic contaminants in aquatic and terrestrial food webs

  • Fate and transport of contaminants in water and waste-water treatment processes

  • Contaminants and commercial aquaculture

  • Bioenergetics and pharmacokinetics in fish, birds and mammals

  • Genomic biomarkers

  • Development and application of novel sampling devices

  • Simulation modeling and risk assessment
 
Selected Publications

  1. Veldhoen, N.; Dubetz, C; Nancy MacPherson, N; Sampson, T; Ikonomou, M.G.; Kelly, B.C.; Helbing, C. 2009. Gene Expression Profiling and Environmental Contaminant Assessment of Migrating Pacific Salmon in the Fraser River Watershed of British Columbia. Aquatic Toxicology, In press.

  2. Kelly, B.C., Ikonomou, M.G., Blair, J.D., Surridge, B.; Hoover, D.; Grace, R.; Gobas, F.A.P.C. 2009. Perfluoroalkyl Contaminants in a Canadian Arctic Marine Food Web: trophic magnification and wildlife exposure. Environmental Science and Technology. 43:4037-4043.

  3. Blair, J.D; Kelly, B.C.; Ikonomou, M.G.; Gobas, F.AP.C. 2009. Ultra-Trace Determination of Phthalate Ester Metabolites in Seawater, Sediment and Biota in an Urbanized Marine Inlet. Environmental Science and Technology, 43:6262-6268.

  4. Kelly, B.C.; Ikonomou, M.G., Blair, J.D., Gobas, F.A.P.C. 2008. Hydroxylated and Methoxylated Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers in a Canadian Arctic Marine Food web. Environmental Science and Technology. 42:7069-7077.

  5. Kelly, B.C, Fernandez, M.P.; Ikonomou, Knapp, W. 2008. Persistent Organic Pollutants in Aquafeed and Pacific Salmon Smolts from Fish Hatcheries in British Columbia, Canada. Aquaculture. 285:224-233.

  6. Kelly, B.C; Ikonomou, M.G.; Higgs, D.A.; Oakes, J. Dubetz, C. 2008. Mercury and Other Trace Elements in Farmed and Wild Salmon from British Columbia, Canada, Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 27:1361-1370.

  7. Kelly, B.C.; Ikonomou, M.G; Blair, J.D; Morin, A.E.; Gobas, F.A.P.C. 2008. Bioaccumulation Behaviour of Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers in a Canadian Arctic Marine Food Web. Science of the Total Environment. 401:60-72

  8. Kelly, B.C.; Ikonomou, M.G; Blair, J.D; Morin, A.E.; Gobas, F.A.P.C. 2007. Food Web Specific Biomagnification of Persistent Organic Pollutants. Science. 317: 236-239.

  9. Kelly, B.C; Gray, S.L.; Ikonomou, M.G.; MacDonald, S.; Bandiera, S.M.; Hrycay, E.G. 2007. Lipid Reserve Dynamics and Magnification of Persistent Organic Pollutants in Spawning Sockeye Salmon (Oncorhnychus nerka) from the Fraser River, British Columbia, Environmental Science and Technology. 41: 3083-3089.

  10. Kelly, B.C.; Ikonomou, M.G; Gobas, F.A.P.C. 2005. Biomagnification of PBDEs in a Canadian Arctic Marine Food web. Organohalogen Compounds. 67: 945-949.

  11. Kelly, B.C.; Ikonomou, M.G. 2005. PBDEs and their Hydroxylated and Methoxylated Derivatives in Fish, Seabirds and Marine Mammals from the Canadian Arctic. Organohalogen Compounds. 67: 843-846.

  12. Ikonomou, M.G.; Kelly, B.C.; Stern, G.A. 2005. Temporal and Spatial Variation of PBDEs in Canadian Arctic Biota. Organohalogen Compounds. 67: 950-953.

  13. Ikonomou, M.G.; Kelly, B.C. 2005. Levels and Accumulation Patterns of PBDEs in Biota from Canada’s West Coast Marine Food web. Organohalogen Compounds. 67: 1240-1242.

  14. Kelly, B.C.; Gobas, F.A.P.C.; McLachlan, M.S. 2004. Intestinal Absorption and Biomagnification of Organic Contaminants in Fish, Wildlife and Humans. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 23:2356-2366.

  15. Gobas, F.A.P.C., Kelly, B.C., Arnot, J.A. 2003. Quantitative Structure Activity Relationships for Predicting the Bioaccumulation of POPs in Terrestrial Food-Webs. QSAR & Combinatorial Science 22:329-336.

  16. Kelly, B.C.; Gobas, F.A.P.C. 2003. An Arctic Terrestrial Food-chain Bioaccumulation Model for Persistent Organic Pollutants. Environmental Science and Technology. 33: 2155-2511.

  17. Kelly, B.C.; Gobas, F.A.P.C. 2001. Bioaccumulation of Persistent Organic Pollutants in Lichen-Caribou-Wolf Food-chains of Canada’s Central and Western Arctic. Environmental Science and Technology. 31: 2155-2511.
 
Teaching Areas

  • Applied Environmental Toxicology

  • Risk Assessment

  • Biogeochemistry

  • Environmental Biological Processes
 
Qualifications

  • Ph.D., Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada, 2005

  • M.R.M. Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada, 1999

  • B.Sc. Trent University, Peterborough, Canada, 1993
 
 

 

  
     
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