Dr. Robert Krieger
Dr. Bob Krieger is a Cooperative Extension Toxicologist in the Department of Entomology, UC Riverside, and a member of the Graduate Program in Environmental Toxicology. He holds a B.S. cum laude in Chemistry from Pacific Lutheran University (1967) and a Ph.D. from Cornell University (1970) where he was a student in the Department of Entomology and an NIEHS Trainee in Environmental Toxicology. Graduate study fields included toxicology, physiology, and biochemistry. He has held tenured academic appointments at U.C. Davis (1971-1980) and in the Washington-Oregon-Idaho Regional Veterinary Medical Education Program (1981-1986) where he was Professor of Veterinary and Comparative Toxicology. In 1986 he became a staff toxicologist and later Branch Chief, Worker Health and Safety, California Department of Food and Agriculture (now California EPA). Krieger served two major Washington D.C., consulting firms (1991-94) in exposure and risk assessment before returning to the University of California as an extension Toxicologist (1994-present) specializing in pesticide exposure assessment and worker health and safety. He has taught toxicology at both the undergraduate and graduate levels and received several teaching awards including the Society of Toxicology's Education Award in 1986. His research concerns the fate and effects of pesticides in humans, risk assessments, and risk communication. Current studies concern methods and techniques for determining the availability of chemical residues on surfaces, exposure biomonitoring of urban and agricultural populations that are exposed to pesticides and other chemicals.