This Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) under its Research and Data Collection program (CFDA 15.808), will fund a $228,000 study to determine the environmental fate and impacts of 6PPD-quinone (6PPDQ) and other tire-derived chemicals in water and fish. The University of Washington will perform fish exposure studies to assess the degradation, uptake, and detoxification of these chemicals by fish. This research aims to identify safer alternatives to 6PPD and...
This $1,000,000 federal Project Grant awarded by the Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (CFDA 11.469 - Congressionally Identified Awards and Projects) to the University of Washington-Tacoma Center of Urban Waters will fund research to evaluate the impacts of roadway runoff and tire rubber chemicals on salmon health. The researchers will acquire a new state-of-the-art scientific instrument to improve their ability to measure key chemicals in roadway runoff, and...
This Project Grant award from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) under the Water Resources Research Act Program (CFDA 15.805) provides $619,292 to Oregon State University (OSU) to investigate the sources, environmental pathways, and potential health risks of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in fish from the Columbia Slough and Columbia River in Oregon. The key activities include developing chemical fingerprints to identify PFAS sources, advancing analytical methods to improve PFAS...
This Cooperative Agreement award, valued at $200,000, was issued by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) under the USGS Research and Data Collection program (CFDA 15.808). The purpose of this 2-year award is to further optimize molecularly imprinted polymer-based electrochemical sensors for the detection and transport of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in complex environmental matrices. The research will focus on in-field deployment and evaluation of the sensor's performance in surface...
This $122,644 federal Cooperative Agreement award, granted by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) under the Cooperative Research Units (CFDA 15.812) program, supports research to identify environmental thresholds that influence the presence and composition of aquatic organisms, such as fish, crayfish, and mussels, in prairie stream ecosystems across the Great Plains. The project, led by researchers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, aims to provide critical data and modeling tools to help...
This is a Project Grant award from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) under the Assistance to State Water Resources Research Institutes program (CFDA 15.805). The $553,787 award to the University of Rhode Island (URI) Research Office Division is for a 3-year project to improve understanding of the fate and impact of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) transported through the atmosphere and their contribution to PFAS contamination in surface waters. Key project activities include: 1)...
This federal Project Grant award, provided by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) under the Assistance to State Water Resources Research Institutes program (CFDA 15.805), will fund a research project titled "Microbiome Interactions with PFAS: An Invisible Risk for Wild and Farmed Fish". The $689,106.64 award, effective from January 1, 2025 through December 31, 2026, will enable Purdue University to investigate the impact of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) on the microbial...
This Project Grant award of $620,001.00 was provided by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) under the Assistance to State Water Resources Research Institutes program (CFDA 15.805) to quantify the bioaccumulation of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in photosynthetic organisms. The research objectives are to: 1) evaluate the transport of PFAS in pure culture cyanobacteria during different growth stages, 2) assess the fate of bioaccumulated PFAS in mixed-community photosynthetic blooms...
This Project Grant award from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) under the Assistance to State Water Resources Research Institutes program (CFDA 15.805) provides $558,345.00 to Purdue University to investigate the distribution, fate, and impacts of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in the Lake Michigan ecosystem. The project will assess PFAS accumulation in tissues of various fish species through lab experiments and field sampling, as well as measure biochemical and transcriptomic...
This $558,005 Project Grant award from the U.S. Geological Survey under the Assistance to State Water Resources Research Institutes program (CFDA 15.805) will fund a 3-year study on the occurrence, bioaccumulation, and biomagnification of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in natural and constructed wetlands. The key objectives are to: 1) understand if PFAS concentrations increase through the wetland food chain and evaluate the ability of wetlands to remove these chemicals; 2)...