Dr Azad Mohammed

Lecturer (Zoology)

Educational Background:

• Ph.D. Zoology, University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago (2000)
• B.Sc.(General) Chemistry and Zoology, UWI, Trinidad and Tobago (1994)

Courses Offered:

• Animal Physiology
• Pollution and Environmental Management
• Coastal Ecosystem Management

On-going Research Projects:

• Contaminant distribution and impacts on benthic diversity
• Ecotoxicology of tropical marine and freshwater species.

Selected Bibliography:

• Mohammed, A. and Agard J. 2006 Comparative Sensitivity of Three Tropical Cladoceran (Diaphanosoma brachyurum, Ceriodaphnia rigaudii and Moinodaphnia macleayi) Species to six Chemicals. J. Environ. Sci. Health, Part A. Vol.A41, No. 12, 2713 - 2720.

• Mohammed, A. and Agard, J. 2006 Comparative salinity tolerance of three tropical freshwater cladoceran; Moinodaphnia macleayi, Ceriodaphnia rigaudii and Diaphanosoma brachyurum (Online first – Environmental Monitoring and Assessment).

• Hailey, A., Sookoo, N., Mohammed, A., and Khan, A., 2006. Factors affecting tadpole growth: Development of a rearing system for the neotropical leptodactylid Physalaemus pustulosus for exotoxicological studies. Applied Herpetology (3): 111-128

• Mohammed A. 2005. Toxicity of Water-Soluble Fractions of Four Fuels for Metamysidopsis insularis, a tropical mysid species. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 37-44.

• Mohammed, A. 2004. New records of cladocera (Crustacea) for Trinidad, West Indies. Living World.

• Mohammed, A. and Agard, J. 2004. The occurrence of NADPH-ferrihemoprotein reductase in Corbula caribea, from a natural oil seep at La Brea, Trinidad. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 48: 784-789.

• Glasgow, D.M., Mohammed, A., Ramnath, K., Beckles, D. 2003. Bioremediation of basal sediments using land farming and slurry-phase bioreactor method. In Pellei, M. and Porta, A. (eds):  Remediation of contaminated soils.  Proceedings of the second international conference on remediation of contaminated soil.