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Kim T. Fredricks

Position title: Biologist

Email: kfredricks@usgs.gov
Phone: 608.781.6283
Fax: 608.783.6066

Education:
1992 Ph.D. Physiology, Medical College of Wisconsin
1988 M.S. Biology, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
1984 B.A. Biology, Coe College

Primary Activities:
I provide research support to the Aquatic Ecosystem and Health Branch.  My primary area of responsibility is to work with student interns on projects that benefit the branch as well as provide quality research experience for students.

Research Interests:

• Effects of xenobiotic compounds on aquatic animal physiology
• Effects of pharmaceuticals and personal care products on aquatic organisms
• Effects of anesthetics on fish physiology

Active Projects:

• The Availability of Freshwater Fish to the Angling Public Following Electrical Immobilization and Sedation by Benzocaine or Eugenol

Select Publications:
Swink, William D. and Kim T. Fredricks.  Mortality of burbot from sea lamprey attack and initial analysis of burbot blood.  From:  BURBOT:  Biology, Ecology, and Management edited by Vaughn L. Paragamian and Dave W. Willis.  Publication Number 1:  Fisheries Management Section of the American Fisheries Society, 2000.

Fredricks, K.T. and W.M. Wegner.  Clinical relevance of anatomy and physiology:  a senior/freshmen mentoring experience.  Nurse Educator 28: 197-199, 2003.

Twohey, Michael B., John W. Heinrich, James G. Seelye, Kim T. Fredricks, Roger A. Bergstedt, Cheryl A. Kaye, Ron J. Scholefield, Rodney B. McDonald, Gavin C. Christie. 2003. The sterile-male-release technique in Great Lakes sea lamprey management. Journal of Great Lakes Research 29(Supplement 1): 410-423.

Waddell, Derek and Kim Fredricks.  2005.  Effects of glutamine supplement on the skeletal muscle contractile force of mice.  American Journal of Undergraduate Research 4:  11 -18.

Zelinski, Barbara S, Kim Fredricks, Rod McDonald, and Aliya Zaidi.  2006.  Morphological and electrophysiological examination of olfactory sensory neurons during early developmental prolarval stage of the sea lamprey Petryomyzon marinusL.  Journal of Neurocytology 34:  21-220.

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