Dr. Christopher Ogden is a lecturer in Biology at WCMC-Q. He received his B. S. degree from Frostburg State University, Maryland, in Earth Science and Biology. He studied biological effects of rainstorm runoff at the Center for Energy and the Environment at Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, and the University of Maryland‘s Horn Point Ecology Laboratory on Chesapeake Bay, before earning his M. S. and Ph.D. in Environmental Toxicology at Cornell University. Before joining WCMC-Q in 2003, Dr. Ogden has taught Cornell‘s summer session Introductory Biology Laboratory course at the Ithaca campus.