Schafer, Edward W., 2015

Edward William Schafer was born on June 13th, 1941 in St. Paul, Minnesota. In 1946, the family moved to Denver, Colorado. In 1964 Schafer graduated from the University of Colorado with a Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry. In the same year, he got a position at the Denver Wildlife Research Center as a research chemist developing chemicals for use in controlling birds in agricultural settings. He would go on to test the effects of different chemicals on many different species. He eventually became head of the Analytical Chemistry Section. In 1979 he co-founded the The Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry with fellow DWRC scientist Richard Tucker. In the last 10 years of his career his work was focused on re-registering chemicals with the Environmental Protection Agency and the Food and Drug Administration. Another project Schafer worked on was saving records and entering data into what would become the Chemical Effects Database, which contains bioassay data records for chemicals evaluated for repellency, toxicity, reproductive inhibition,and immobilization of higher vertebrates, and phytotoxicity. Schafer retired from the NWRC in 1998.