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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After growing up barely a mile from URI’s Kingston campus, South Kingstown native Matthew Dunn is now a doctoral student at the URI’s Graduate School of Oceanography, which he calls “one of the best schools for oceanography.”
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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.
Continue reading "URI Researchers Begin Testing Well-Water In Cape Cod For Toxic Man-Made Chemicals"WCAI Radio – STEEP director and GSO professor Rainer Lohmann interviewed
Continue reading "URI Scientists to Study Cape Well Water for Possible Contaminants"Providence Journal– New STEEP Center to be led by GSO professor Rainer Lohmann Providence Business News Voice of America News
Continue reading "URI to receive $8 million federal grant to establish research center on chemical contamination of U.S. waters"Nonstick cookware and firefighting foam are miles apart in their purpose, but they have one disquieting characteristic in common. Both products are made with chemicals that could be contaminating drinking water and posing a human health hazard. Fluorinated pollutants, or poly- and perfluorinated alkyl substances, have been used for more than 60 years in a […]
Continue reading "URI receives $8 million federal grant to establish research center on chemical pollutants in drinking water"ecoRI News – GSO professor Rainer Lohmann quoted
Continue reading "From the Archives: Chemical cocktail brewing in region’s waters"ecoRI News – research by Prof. Rainer Lohmann profiled
Continue reading "Chemical Pollutants Found in Ocean State Waters"When a group of hazardous chemicals were detected in Narragansett Bay by Graduate School of Oceanography professor Rainer Lohmann and graduate student Victoria Sacks, the local media took notice. Lohmann was interviewed on Channel 12 and WPRO radio, and news stories appeared in the Providence Journal, Boston Globe, EcoRI, WBRU and elsewhere. The URI news release on the project can be found here.
Continue reading "Emerging Contaminants"GSO graduate student Victoria Paris Sacks was awarded 1st place by the Montgomery-Watson-Harza Consulting Engineers/Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors for her Master's Thesis "Validation of Polyethylene Passive Samplers for the Detection of Emerging Contaminants" in the Master's Thesis category. Her research, advised by Dr. Rainer Lohmann, focused on using a novel, low-tech method of measuring waterborne contaminants from personal care products, pharmaceutical, and industrial processes not previously known as pollutants (e.g. polybrominated diphenylethers, nonylphenols, and triclosan).
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