Bruce Hope is a principal environmental toxicologist in CH2M HILL’s Portland,
Oregon, office where he works on projects involving environmental toxicology,
ecological and human health risk assessment, chemical bioaccumulation modeling,
development of air and water quality guidelines, and regulatory-science policy
strategies. From 1995 to 2011, he was a senior environmental toxicologist with
the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality where he was instrumental in
identifying persistent pollutants in Oregon’s municipal effluents, developing
ambient benchmark concentrations for air toxics, completing the Umatilla
chemical weapons incinerator post-trial burn risk assessments, and reviewing
human health and ecological risk assessments. Prior to joining DEQ, he was a
consultant in the private sector managing human health and ecological risk
assessment projects for commercial and government clients throughout the U.S.
and the Pacific Rim. In 2000-01, he was an American Association for the
Advancement of Science risk policy fellow in Washington DC, working on food
safety, microbial risk assessment and bioterrorism issues.
He has served on the North American Board of Directors for the Society of
Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, is on the editorial board of Human and
Ecological Risk Assessment, and was previously on the editorial boards of
Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, and Risk Analysis. He also served on
several U.S. EPA national advisory and review panels addressing cumulative risk,
wildlife, ecological, probabilistic, and environmental modeling issues, as well
as on two National Research Council committees: one evaluating human health risk
assessment practices and the other examining ecological risk assessment in the
context of The Federal Fungicide Insecticide and Rodenticide Act and the
Endangered Species Act. He holds M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in biology from the
University of Southern California and a B.A. degree from the University of
California at Santa Barbara.