Guo, Tian Campbell-Arvai, Victoria Cardinale, Bradley J
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Journal of environmental management
This research examines public acceptability of regulations to reduce agricultural nutrient runoff and curb Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs). We tested the effects of two novel policy specific beliefs including support for farmers' autonomy and support for external accountability. We also simultaneously tested the direct and indirect effects of political...
Chomiak, Kristina Connell, David Cooley, Devin Saxena, Hannah Van Winkle, Sydney Stack Whitney, Kaitlin
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Water History
In a non-majors upper-level undergraduate environmental history course focused on the Laurentian Great Lakes, students researched and wrote micro-histories of the Rochester, NY area. Many were focused on water—quantity, quality, recreation, and pollution. This article briefly explains the approach and its potential applications to other interdiscip...
Grbić, Jelena Helm, Paul Athey, Samantha Rochman, Chelsea M
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Water research
The sources of microplastics and other anthropogenic particles in freshwater are not well understood. The Greater Toronto Area, Canada's most populous urban area, offers a great study area for understanding the sources and pathways for microplastics to enter freshwater ecosystems. Here, we quantified and characterized microplastics and other anthro...
Savadatti, Sanghamitra S Liu, Ming Caglayan, Cihan Reuther, Julie Lewis-Michl, Elizabeth L Aldous, Kenneth M Parsons, Patrick J Kannan, Kurunthachalam Rej, Robert Wang, Wei
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Environmental research
The New York State Department of Health conducted the Healthy Fishing Communities Program in collaboration with the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry to assess human exposure to contaminants common to Lake Ontario, Lake Erie and surrounding rivers and waterways among populations in western New York State who eat locally caught fish. ...
Wattigney, Wendy A Irvin-Barnwell, Elizabeth Li, Zheng Ragin-Wilson, Angela
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International journal of hygiene and environmental health
The 32-mile Detroit River and surrounding tributaries have been designated as a Great Lakes Area of Concern due to pollution from decades of municipal and industrial discharges, sewer overflows and urban development. Key pollutants in fish samples from the Detroit River include mercury, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), dichlorodiphenyldichloroethy...
Wattigney, Wendy A Irvin-Barnwell, Elizabeth Li, Zheng Davis, Stephanie I Manente, Susan Maqsood, Junaid Scher, Deanna Messing, Rita Schuldt, Nancy Hwang, Syni-An
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International journal of hygiene and environmental health
Over the past century, industrialization and urban practices have resulted in the contamination of the Great Lakes ecosystem-the world's largest surface freshwater system-that provides drinking water and recreation to more than 40 million residents. In 2010, the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative was launched to accelerate efforts to protect and re...
Marvin, Christopher H Burniston, Deborah A Shen, Li Helm, Paul A Reiner, Eric J
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Chemosphere
Sediment traps were deployed at seven sites in the western and central basins of Lake Ontario for calculation of concentrations and down fluxes for polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDDs) and dibenzofurans (PCDFs) to assess ongoing loadings to Lake Ontario from the Niagara River watershed. Traps were deployed at multiple depths (beginning at 20 m...
Custer, Christine M. Custer, Thomas W. Etterson, Matthew A. Dummer, Paul M. Goldberg, Diana Franson, J. Christian
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Ecotoxicology
During 2010-2014, tree swallow (Tachycineta bicolor) reproductive success was monitored at 68 sites across all 5 Great Lakes, including 58 sites located within Great Lakes Areas of Concern (AOCs) and 10 non-AOCs. Sample eggs were collected from tree swallow clutches and analyzed for contaminants including polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), dioxins a...
Alexson, Elizabeth E. Reavie, Euan D. Axler, Richard P. Yemets, Sergiy V. Krasutsky, Pavel A. Edlund, Mark B. Pillsbury, Robert W. Desotelle, Diane
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Journal of Paleolimnology
The St. Louis River Estuary (SLRE), a freshwater estuary bordering Duluth, Minnesota, Superior, Wisconsin, and the most western point of Lake Superior (46.74°, − 92.13°), has a long history of human development since Euro-American settlement ~ 200 years ago. Due to degradation from logging, hydrologic modification, industrial practices, and untreat...
Rous, Andrew M. Midwood, Jonathon D. Gutowsky, Lee F.G. Lapointe, Nicolas W.R. Portiss, Rick Sciscione, Thomas Wells, Mathew G. Doka, Susan E. Cooke, Steven J.
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Environmental Management
Widespread human development has led to impairment of freshwater coastal wetlands and embayments, which provide critical and unique habitat for many freshwater fish species. This is particularly evident in the Laurentian Great Lakes, where such habitats have been severely altered over the last century as a result of industrial activities, urbanizat...
