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GSO student finds chemical contaminants in seabirds from Narragansett Bay, Massachusetts Bay, Cape Fear

Student Anna Robuck dissects a seabird in a lab.

GSO student Anna Robuck found high levels of the PFAS in seabirds from offshore Massachusetts and coastal Rhode Island and North Carolina.

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GSO Profiles – GSO Graduate Christine L. Gardiner

Shows Christine Gardiner collecting chlorophyll samples in Narragansett Bay, RI

GSO Profile of GSO Graduate Christine Gardiner whose research was on PFAS in Narragansett Bay.

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PFAS in Connecticut and Cape Cod

Rainer Lohmann speaking with a television reporter.

Two news reports featuring GSO professor Rainer Lohmann examine the threats posed by PFAS to the waters of Connecticut and Cape Cod.

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GSO student named a Switzer Environmental Fellow

Anna Robuck outside

Anna Robuck, a Ph.D. student at the University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography, was recently chosen as one of 20 environmental scholars to receive a Switzer Environmental Fellowship.

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URI Researchers Begin Testing Well-Water In Cape Cod For Toxic Man-Made Chemicals

GSO professor Rainer Lohmann and other URI researchers have started to test drinking water from private wells in Cape Cod for toxic man-made chemicals called per and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS.

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