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Funding 13 projects for a total of $ 538,321.00
- Rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) have been used extensively as a toxicological model for assessing water quality due to low husbandry costs, sensitivity to pollutants and easily quantified physiological responses to contaminants. Due to ...
2017-05-08 to 2018-03-15In progress Project $ 24000 USD EstimatesRead More - The magnitude of the effects and potential threat to water quality due to antibiotics and hormones is, in part, determined by the compounds' persistence in aquatic systems. The principle goal of this proposed study is to ...
2017-05-10 to 2018-03-15In progress Project $ 0 USD EstimatesRead More - The study tests a strategy for gaining information about fecal- contamination sources to Fountain Creek, a stream on the Colorado Front Range. This project will be done as a partnership between the USGS and Colorado Springs-area ...
2017-05-11 to 2018-03-15In progress Project $ 100000 USD EstimatesRead More - An emerging concern in surface water quality is the presence of a novel suite of contaminants: pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs). Products used by humans such as painkillers, antibiotics, caffeine and ...
2017-05-11 to 2018-03-15In progress Project $ EstimatesRead More - The goal of this project is to develop a molecular detection method that is specific to these two species: (Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii and Pseudanabaena limnetica), is sensitive at low cell concentrations, is rapid, and ...
2017-05-11 to 2018-03-15In progress Project $ 0 USD EstimatesRead More - The goal of this research is to quantify the levels of various forms of estrogens and their activity in various types of swine waste facilities in Minnesota. This would provide a baseline data base on the extent of estrogen ...
2017-05-11 to 2018-03-15In progress Project $ 0 USD EstimatesRead More - Bacterial contamination of drinking/swimming water is a pandemic problem that accounts for a large percentage of the 1.8 million water-borne deaths and illness reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) annually. ...
2017-05-11 to 2018-03-15In progress Project $ 0 USD EstimatesRead More - This project is focused on establishing whether triclosan has been and continues to be a source of dioxins to the aquatic environment. It is hypothesized that triclosan, a widely used antimicrobial found in consumer products, is transformed into ...
2017-05-11 to 2018-03-15In progress Project $ 27187 USD EstimatesRead More - The presence of harmful organic chemicals produced by human activities and naturally occurring biological toxins released from microorganisms (including phenol) in our drinking water and domoic acid in ecosystems is a serious threat to human and ...
2017-05-11 to 2018-03-15In progress Project $ 27174 USD EstimatesRead More - The present research efforts under this task have three interrelated concentrations: chemical stressor identification and pathway elucidation of trophic transfer interference, chemical property estimation, and risk/hazard assessment. Quantitative
2017-05-12 to 2018-03-15In progress Project $ 0 CAD EstimatesRead More - Fecal coliform (FC) bacteria are the most prevalent contaminant in urbanized Alaskan surface waters. Currently, a significant amount of scientific and regulatory effort is underway to better monitor and understand the ...
2017-05-11 to 2018-03-15In progress Project $ 19960 USD EstimatesRead More - Expanding numbers of double-crested cormorants (Phalacrocorax auritus) nesting throughout the Great Lakes region have created considerable concern among state and federal fishery management agencies and sportsmen relative to ...
2017-05-12 to 2018-03-15In progress Project $ 50000 USD EstimatesRead More - Viral haemorrhagic septicaemia virus (VHSV) was isolated from muskellunge, Esox masquinongy (Mitchill), caught from the NW portion of Lake St Clair, Michigan, USA in 2 3. Affected fish exhibited congestion of internal ...
2017-05-12 to 2018-03-15In progress Project $ 290000 USD EstimatesRead More