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Rune Dietz. Born the 14. February 1954 in Markaryd, Sweden. Graduated from the University of Copenhagen (Cand. scient. biology) in 1981. Consultant work from 1979-83 on seals in Danish waters for the Ministry of Environment. Employed in Danbiu ApS from 1983-85: on Arctic environmental issues. Employed as scientist under the programme “Heavy metal in the Greenland Marine Environment” from 1985-88, financed by The Danish Nature Science Foundation, The Commission for Scientific Research in Greenland. 1988-2005: National Environmental Research Institute. Working field has been: Registration of living resources of in relation to oil exploitation and mining activity. Environmental responsible for seismic activity in Greenland. Publication of results on heavy metals and POPs in the Greenland marine environment. Satellite tracking of marine mammals from 1990 to 2005: e.g. harbour porpoise, narwhals, belugas, walrus, pilot whales, humpback whales, grey seals, harbour seals and sea turtles. Promoted as senior scientist under Department of Arctic Environment, National Environmental Research Institute in 1991. Editor on Special Issue of the journal Bioscience. Responsible for the conductance of the Danish contribution on underwater noise and reviewer of the Canadian contribution on OC to State of the Arctic Environment Report under the Finnish Initiative. Participated as Key National Expert and Lead Country Expert under the AMAP process. Responsible for the Danish Marine Programme and the National Assessment Report and as well as the International Heavy metal chapter of the Arctic Assessment Report under AMAP. Member of the Scientific and Organising Committee of Setac Conference in Copenhagen and AMAP International Symposium in Tromsø. Scientific reviewer of the Danish National Report under United Nation Climate Convention, OSPAR/ASMO Regional Task Team 1, Quality Status Report 2000 and Peer Reviewer of Proposals under the Canadian Northern Contaminants Program as well as numerous scientific papers in various journals. Reviewer and responsible for conclusions and recommendations of The AMAP Phase II Arctic Assessment Report 2003. Since 1999 also involved in investigations of the potential effects from wind farms in Danish waters. Since 1998 project leader for investigations of effects from persistent organic pollutants in polar bears and sledge dogs in Greenland sponsored by DANCEA.

Publikationer

Publications by senior scientist Rune Dietz, NERI

from 2000 to 2005

Publications in reviewed journals:

1) Dietz, R.; Riget, F.; Born, E.W. 2000. An assessment of selenium to mercury in Greenland marine animals. The Science of the Total Environment 245: 15 – 24.

2) Dietz, R. F. Riget and E.W. Born 2000. Geographical differences of zinc, cadmium, mercury and selenium in polar bears (Ursus maritimus) from Greenland. The Science of the Total Environment 245: 25-48.

3) Dietz, R.; Riget, F.; Cleemann, M.; Aarkrog, A.; Johansen, P.; & Hansen, J.C.  2000. Comparison of contaminants from different trophic levels and ecosystems. The Science of the Total Environment 245: 221 – 232.

4) Riget, F., R. Dietz, R, Johansen, P. & G. Asmund 2000. Lead, cadmium, mercury and selenium in Greenland marine biota and sediments during AMAP phase 1. The Science of the Total Environment 245: 3 – 14.

5) Riget, F., R. Dietz, & M. Cleemann 2000. Evaluation of the AMAP programme 1994-95, by use of power analysis. Illustrated by selected heavy metals and POPs. The Science of the Total Environment 245: 249-259.

6) Riget, F. & R. Dietz 2000.Temporal trends of cadmium and mercury in Greenland marine biota. The Science of the Total Environment 245: 29 – 60.

7) Cleemann, M., F. Riget, G.B. Poulsen, J. Klungsøyr & R. Dietz 2000. Organochlorines in Greenland marine fish, mussels and sediments. The Science of the Total Environment 245: 87-102.

8) Cleemann, M., F. Riget, G.B. Poulsen, J. de Boer & R. Dietz 2000. Organochlorines in Greenland ringed seals (Phoca hispida). The Science of the Total Environment 245: 103-116.

9) Cleemann, M., F. Riget, G.B. Poulsen & R. Dietz 2000. Organochlorines in Greenland Glaucous gulls (Larus hyperboreus) and Icelandic gulls (Larus glaucoides). The Science of the Total Environment 245: 117-130.

10) Aastrup, P., F. Riget, R. Dietz  & G. Asmund 2000.Lead, Zinc, cadmium, mercury, selenium and copper in Greenland caribou and reindeer (Rangifer tarandrus). The Science of the Total Environment 245: 149-160.

11) Riget, F., P. Johansen, H. Dahlgaard, A. Mosbech, R. Dietz & G. Asmund 2000. The seas around Greenland. In C.R.C. Sheppard (ed.). Seas at the Millenium: An environmental Evaluation. Vol I regional Chapters: Europe, The Americas and West Africa. Pergamon, Elsevier Science: 5-16.

12) Dietz, R.,H. Jensson, J. Klungsøyr, K. Stange & T. Sørgård 2000. Chapter 4: Chemistry. OSPAR Commission for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic. Quality Status Report 2000, Region 1 Arctic Waters: 102 pp: 36-57.

13) Muir, D.C.G., F. Riget, M. Cleemann, R. Dietz, L. Kleivelane, J. Skaare, H. Nakata, & S. Tanabe 2000. Circumpolar Trends of PCBs and Organochlorine Pesticides in Arctic Marine Environment Inferred from Levels in Ringed Seals. Environ Pollut or Arch Environ Contam & Toxicol 2000, 34: 2431-2438.

14) Heide-Jørgensen MP, N. Hammeken, R. Dietz, J. Orr &P. Richard 2001. Surfacing Times and Dive Rates for Narwhals (Monodon monoceros) and Belugas (Delphinapterus leucas). Arctic 54(3): 284-298.

15) Dietz, R., M.P. Heide-Jørgensen, P. Richard and M. Acquarone 2001. Summer and fall Movements of Narwhals (Monodon monoceros) from Northeastern Baffin Island towards Northern Davis Strait. Arctic 54(3): 246-263.

16) Richard, P.R., Heide-Jørgensen, M.P., Orr, J.R., Dietz R., and Smith, T.G. 2001. Summer and Autumn Movements and habitat use by belugas in the Canadian High Arctic and Adjacent areas. Arctic 54(3): 207-222.

17) Sonne-Hansen, C., Dietz, R., Leifsson, P.S., Hyldstrup, L. & Riget, F. (2002): Cadmium Toxicity to Ringed Seals (Phoca hispida): an Epidemiological Study of Possible Cadmium-Induced Nethropathy and Osteodystrophy in Ringed Seals (Phoca hispida) from Quaanaaq in Northwest Greenland. - The Science of the Total Environment 295:167-181.

18) Heide-Jørgensen, M.P., R. Dietz, K. Laidre, and P.R. Richard 2002. Autumn movements, home ranges and winter density of narwhals (Monodon monoceros) from Tremblay Sound, Baffin Island. Polar Biology 25: 331-341.

19) Born, E.W., H. Dahlgaard, & F.F.Riget, R. Dietz, N. Øien & T. Haug 2002. Regional variation of caesium-137 in minke whales Balaenoptera acutorostrata from West Greenland, the Northeast Atlantic and the North Sea. Polar Biology 25: 907-913.

20) Laidre, K.L., Heide-Jørgensen, M.P. & Dietz, R. 2002. Diving behaviour of narwhals (Monodon monoceros) at two coastal localities in the Canadian Arctic. Can. J. Zool. 80: 624-635.

21) Heide-Jørgensen, M.P., Bloch, D., Stefansson, E., Mikkelsen, B., Ofstad, L.H. & Dietz, R. 2002. Diving Behaviour of Long-Finned Pilot Whales Globicephala melas around the Faroe Islands. - Wildlife Biology 8: 307-313.

22) Innis, S, D.C.G. Muir, R.E.A. Stewart, M.P. Heide-Jørgensen & R. Dietz 2002. Stock identity of beluga (Delphinapterus leucas) in eastern Canada and West Greenland based on organochlorine contaminants found in their blubber. NAMMCO Working Group on belugas and narwhals. NAMMCO Scientific Publications 4: 51-68.

23) Hobbs, K.E., D.C.G. Muir, E.W. Born, R. Dietz, T. Haug, T. Metcalfe, C. Metcalfe and N. Øien 2003 .  Levels and patterns of persistent organochlorines in minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) from the North Atlantic and European Arctic. Environmental Pollution 121: 239-252.

24) Andersen, L.W., E.W.Born, R. Dietz, T. Haug^, N. Øien, C. Bendixen 2003. Genetic population structure of  minke whales Balaenoptera acutorostrata  from Greenland, the North East Atlantic and the North Sea probably reflects different ecological regions. Marine Ecology Progress Series 247: 263-280.

25) Bloch, D., Heide-Jørgensen, M.P.,., Stefansson, E., Mikkelsen, B., Ofstad, L.H., Dietz, R. & Andersen, L.W. 2003): Short term movements of  Pilot Whales Globicephala melas around the Faroe Islands . - Wildlife Biology 9: 47-58.

26) Heide-Jørgensen M.P., P. Richard, R. Dietz, K.L. Laidre, & J. Orr 2003. An estimate of the fraction of belugas (Delphinapterus leucas) in the Canadian High Arctic that winter in West Greenland. Polar Biology 26: 318-326

27) Heide-Jørgensen M.P., R. Dietz, K.L. Laidre, P. Richard, J. Orr & H.C. Schmidt 2003. The migratory behaviour of narwhals (Monodon monoceros). Can. J. Zool. 81: 1298-1305.

28) Born, E.W., P. Outridge, F.F. Riget, K. Hobson, R. Dietz, T. Haug and N. Øien 2003. Stock structure of North Atlantic minke whales (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) inferred from regional variation of elemental and stable isotopic signatures in tissues. Journal of Marine Systems 43:1-17

29) Møller, P., E. W. Born, R. Dietz, D. Ruzzante, T. Haug, & N. Øien 2003. Differences in fatty acid composition of blubber in minke whales (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) from Greenland and the NE Atlantic. Journal of Cetacean Research 5(2): 115-124.

30) Laidre, K. L., M. P. Heide-Jørgensen, R. Dietz, & R. C. Hobbs 2003. Deep-diving by narwhals, Monodon monoceros: differences in foraging behavior between wintering areas? Marine Ecology Progress Series 261: 269-281.

31) Laidre, K. L., M. P. Heide-Jørgensen, M. L. Logsdon, R. C. Hobbs, R. Dietz, G. R. Van Blaricom 2004. Fractal analysis of narwhal space use patterns. Zoology 107: 3-11

32) Riget, F., R. Dietz, K. Vorkamp, P. Johansen, D. Muir 2004. Spatial and temporal trends of contaminants in Greenland terrestrial, fresh water and marine biota: an update. The Science of the Total Environment  331(1-3): 29-52

33) Hobson, K.A., F.F. Riget, Outridge, P.M., R. Dietz and E. Born 2004. Baleen as a short- and long-term biomonitor of Hg and dietary trends in the North Atlantic minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata). The Science of the Total Environment 331(1-3): 69-82

34) Dietz, R., F. Riget, K. Hobson, M.P. Heide-Jørgensen, P. Møller, M. Cleemann , J. de Boer, M. Glacius  2004. Regional and inter annual patterns of heavy metals, organochlorines and stable isotopes in narwhals (Monodon monoceros) from West Greenland. The Science of the Total Environment 331(1-3): 83-105.

35) Dietz, R., F. F. Riget, C. Sonne, R. J. Letcher , E. W. Born and D. C. G. Muir 2004. Sea­sonal and temporal trends in Polychlorinated biphenyls and Organochlorine Pesticides in East Greenland polar bears (Ursus maritimus), 1990-2001. The Science of the Total Environment 331(1-3): 107-124

36) Sandala, G. M., C. Sonne, R. Dietz, D. C. G. Muir, K. Valters, E. R. Bennett, E. W. Born and R. J. Letcher 2004. Hydroxylated and Methyl Sulfone PCB Metabolites in Adipose and Whole Blood of Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus) From East Greenland. The Science of the Total Environment 331(1-3): 125-141

37) Laidre, K. L., M. P. Heide-Jørgensen, M. L. Logsdon, R. C. Hobbs, P. Heagerty, O.A. Jørgensen, R. Dietz, M.A. Tremble 2004. Seasonal narwhal habitat associations in the high Arctic. Marine Biology (2004)145: 821-831.

38) Sonne C, Dietz R, Born EW, Riget FF, Kirkegaard M, Hyld­strup L, et al. 2004. Is bone mineral composition disrupted by organo­chlorines in East Greenland polar bears (Ursus mari­timus)? Environ Health Perspect 112(17): 1711-1716.

39) Sonne, C., P. S. Leifsson, R. Dietz, E. W. Born, R. J. Letcher, M. Kirkegaard, D. C. G. Muir, L. W. Andersen, F. F. Riget and L. Hyldstrup 2004: Enlarged clitoris in wild polar bears (Ursus maritimus) can be misdiagnosed as pseudohermaphro­ditism. Sci Total Environ 337: 45-58.

40) Sandala, G. M., C. Sonne, R. Dietz, D. C. G. Muir, K. Valters, E. R. Bennett, E. W. Born and R. J. Letcher 2004: Hydroxylated and Methyl Sulfone PCB Metabolites in Adipose and Whole Blood of Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus) From East Greenland. Sci Total Environ 331: 125-141.

41) Kirkegaard, M, C. Sonne, P.S. Leifsson, R. Dietz, E.W. Born, R. J. Letcher and D.C.G. Muir 2005: Histology of selected immunological organs in polar bear (Ursus maritimus) from East Greenland in relation to levels of organohalogenes. Sci Total En­viron 341(205): 119-132.

42) Sonne C., F. F. Riget, R. Dietz, M. Kirkegaard, E. W. Born, R. J. Letcher and D. C. G. Muir 2005: Trends in fluctuating asymmetry in East Greenland polar bears (Ursus mariti­mus) from 1892 to 2002 in relation to organohalogen pollution. Sci Total En­viron 341(205): 81-96.

43) Bossi, R., K. Vorkamp, F. F. Riget, R. Dietz, C. Sonne and P. Fauser 2005: Preliminary screening of Per­flu­o­roctanate (PFOS) in fish, mammals and birds from Greenland and Faroe Islands. Environ Pollut 136(2005): 323-329.

44) Smithwick M., D.C.G. Muir, Scott A. Mabury, K. Solomon, J.W. Martin, C. Sonne, E.W. Born, R. Letcher, R. Dietz 2005: Perfluorinated acids in hepatic tissue from East Greenland polar bears (Ursus maritimus) 1999-2001. Environ Toxicol and Chem 24(4): 981-986

45) Riget, F., J. Vikelsøe, R. Dietz. Levels and Temporal Trends of Dioxins, Furans and non-ortho PCBs in Ringed seals from East Greenland. Marine Pollution Bulletin (in press)

46) Bossi, R., F.F. Riget, R. Dietz, 2005: Temporal and Spatial trends of Perflourinated Compounds in Ringed Seal (Phoca hispida) from Greenland. E S&T 39: 7416-7422.

In press:

47) Smithwick M., D.C.G. Muir, S. A. Mabury, K. Solomon, J.W. Martin, C. Sonne, , E.W. Born, R. Dietz, A.E. Derocher, Tom Evans, G.W. Gabrielsen, J. Nagy, I. Stirling and M.K. Taylor (Submitted): A Circumpolar Study of Perfluoroalkyl Contaminants in Polar Bear Hepatic Tissue (Ursus maritimus). Environ Sci Technol.

48) Heier, A., C. Sonne, A. Gröne, P. S. Leifsson, R. Dietz, E. W. Born and L. N. Baccia­rini (in press): Liver RBP immunohistochemistry in free-ranging polar bears. An im­mu­no­his­to­che­mi­cal study of retinol-binding protein (RBP) in livers of polar bears (Ursus maritimus) from East Greenland. Accepted by Zoo and Wild Med.

49) Härkönen, T., R. Dietz, P. Reijnders, J. Teilmann, P. Thompson, K. Harding, A. Hall, S. Brasseur, U. Siebert, S.J. Goodman, P.D. Jepson, T. Dau Rasmussen (submitted). Review of the seal epizootics in Europe. Diseases of Aquatic organisms (in press).

50) Härkönen T, S Brasseur, J Teilmann, C Vincent, R Dietz, K Abt, P Reijnders. Status of grey seals along mainland Europe, from the Kattegat-Skagerrak to France. NAMMCO special issue on Grey seals (in press).

51) Härkönen T., K Harding, P. Reijnders, R. Dietz, P. Thompson, A. Hall, J. Teilmann, S. Brasseur, P Jepson, U Siebert, C Duck, D Thompson, T Dau Rasmussen, J Gilleran. Epidemiology of the 1988 and 2002 harbour seal plagues in Europe. in press.

52) Sonne C., R. Dietz, P. S. Leifsson, E. W.  Born, M. Kirkegaard, F. F. Riget, R. Letcher, D. C. G. Muir and L. Hyldstrup (In prep.): Liver histology of free-ranging polar bears (Ursus maritimus) from East Greenland. In preparation. Environmental Health Perspectives (in press).

53) Born, E.W., F.F. Riget, M.C.S. Kingsley, R. Dietz, T. Haug, , P. Møller,D.C.G. Muir, P. Outridge, N. Øien, (in press) A multi-elemental approach to identification of sub-populations of North Atlantic minke whales (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) in the North Atlantic. Wildlife Biology  (in press).

54) Sonne, C, H.J.S. Larsen, R. Dietz, M. Kirkegaard, Klaus E. Loft, Robert J. Letcher , D.C.G. Muir (in press) Environmental Organohalogen Contaminants Impair Cellular Immunity in West Greenland Sledge Dogs (Canis familiaris). Environmental Health Perspektive (accepted).

55) Larsen SA, Mogensen L, Rune Dietz, Baagøe HJ, Andersen M, Werge T, Berg Rasmussen H (in press).Identification and characterization of tandem repeats in Exon III of Dopamine receptor D4 Genes from different Mammalian Species DNA Cell Biology (accepted).

Submitted:

56) Sonne, C., Dietz, R., Rune Dietz, Leifsson, P. S., Born, E. W., Kirkegaard, M., Letcher, R. J., Muir, D. C. G., Riget, F. F. and Hyldstrup, L (Submitted): Environmental Organohalogen Contaminants induce Renal Lesions in East Green­land Polar Bears (Ursus maritimus).

57) Sonne C., R. Dietz, P. S. Leifsson, E. W.  Born, M. Kirkegaard, F. F. Riget, R. J. Letcher, D. C. G. Muir and L. Hyldstrup (Submitted): Organohalogen Contaminants Exacerbate Liver Changes in Free-Ranging East Greenland Polar Bears (Ursus maritimus). Environmental Health Perspectives.

58) Teilmann, J , R. Dietz, F. Larsen, G. Desportes, B. Geertsen submitted.effects of satellite tagging on harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) in the North Sea and the  Baltic waters.

59) Verreault, J., D. C. G. Muir, R. J. Norstrom, I. Stirling, A. T. Fisk, G. W. Gabrielsen, A. E. De­rocher, T. Evans, R. Dietz, C. Sonne, G. M. Sandala, M. K. Taylor, J. Nagy and R. J. Letcher (Submitted): Chlorinated hydrocarbon contaminants and metabolites in polar bears (Ursus mariti­mus) from Svalbard, East Greenland, Alaska and the canadian arctic during 1999-2002. Sci Total Environ.

60) Härkönen T, T Dau Rasmussen, K Hårding, J Teilmann, K Johansson, R Dietz. (Submitted). Complete functional immunity in survivors of phocine distemper epidemic. Science.

61) Rew MB, Bérubé M, Dietz R, Palsbøll PJ. (Submitted). Micro-evolutionary effects of annual sea ice dynamics on connectivity and abundance in Arctic ringed seal (Phoca hispida) populations. Marine Ecology Progress Series.

62) Akamatsu T, Rune Dietz, L.A. Miller, Y. Naito, U. Siebert, J. Teilmann, J. Tougaard, D. Wang, K. Wang    (Submitted). Comparison of echolocation behavior between costal oceanic and riverine porpoises. Deep-Sea Research II.

63) Rune Dietz, Jesper Møller, Rikke Danø, Joäo Gonçalves & Ditte Louise Weldingh. First Transatlantic crossing by a loggerhead sea turtle monitored by satellite telemetry. Submitted to Marine Biology.