Edward T Rankin

Edward T. Rankin has been an Aquatic Ecologist with MBI since 2012, having worked on MBI projects since 2003. He is currently involved in developing an Integrated Priority System for addressing multiple point and nonpoint source impacts for the Metropolitan Sewer District of Greater Cincinnati (MSDGC). Other current research includes: the effects of stressors on aquatic life in rivers, streams and watersheds; training on stream habitat assessment methods; development and application of biological criteria; and, derivation of biocriteria-based stressor targets and criteria for aquatic life. He was most recently a Senior Research Associate at the Voinovich School for Leadership and Public Affairs at Ohio University (OU). This followed 19 years as an Environmental Scientist at the Ohio EPA working on developing biological criteria, the Qualitative Habitat Evaluation Index, and other water assessment methods. Past projects include an EPA STAR grant on watershed classification and stressor identification and serving on the National Academy of Sciences and EPA Science Advisory Boards. While at OU he collaborated on numerous MBI projects including an examination of the sensitivity of Unionid mussels to ammonia and other stressors, studies on coal mining impaired watersheds in southeast Ohio and research on data from US EPA’s National Rivers and Stream surveys. He received a B.S. in Biology from St. Bonaventure University, and an M.S. in Zoology from The Ohio State University.