Cope Voted President-Elect of Conservation Society
Dr. Gregory Cope, associate professor in the Department of Environmental & Molecular Toxicology at North Carolina State University, has been voted president-elect of the Freshwater Mollusk Conservation Society (FMCS) for 2007-08. He joined the FMCS Executive Committee in 2007 as president-elect and will assume leadership of the Society in 2009 for a two-year term.
Cope joined NC State as an assistant professor in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Department of Toxicology in 1997. Prior to his appointment at NC State, Cope was a research fisheries biologist and aquatic toxicologist with the U.S. Geological Survey's Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center in La Crosse, Wis. for six years.
Cope earned his bachelor's degree in environmental science from Lenoir-Rhyne College in Hickory, N.C., his master's degree in biology from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, and his doctorate in toxicology and fisheries biology from Iowa State University.
With about 375 members, the FMCS is dedicated to the conservation of freshwater mollusks through research, education and outreach.