SLUDGE Project

• Fate and transport of heavy metals, nitrates, and organic carbon in wastewater treatment plant generated biosolids applied to agricultural fields as a soil amendment
• Mass balance determination of Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products in the wastewater treatment process from source to agricultural field runoff.
• Evaluation of historically applied field soils to determine longevity of heavy metal burden
• Heavy metal uptake into cultivated farm crops and the influence of natural plant metabolic processes.
• Earthworm and invertebrate responses to sludge applied contaminants

PHYTOREMEDIATION Project

• Fostoria Waste Water Treatment Plant:  Use of indigenous plants to immobilize heavy metals
• Evaluation of the sorption potential of soils from contaminated sites and the Toledo Harbor dredge material for their use in phytoremediation projects and wetlands.
• Use of the indigenous plants along Otter Creek to remediate organic contaminants

ENVIRONMENTAL FORENSICS project

• Polyaromatic hydrocarbon identification to determine contaminant sources in the Otter Creek Area of Concern (AOC)

GLOBE project

• Enhancement of current GLOBE K-12 educational science program protocols involving soil temperatures
• Calculation of Earth’s energy flux using GLOBE data

COSTA RICA SEDIMENT Project

•    Quantification of PCB compounds in sediments from estuaries
•    PCB burden in Sipunculan worms

CAFO project

• Fate and transport of hormones and antiobiotics in Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations

ACRYLAMIDE Project

• Environmental Degradation of acrylamide and non acrylamide hydrogel growing media used in greenhouse plant production
• Environmental release and potential groundwater contamination from acrylamide hydrogel use in greenhouses.