• RO1 proposal funded to conduct a 5 year study continuing our water quality work in Sri Lanka Funded with colleagues from Stanford University.

• New publication in Water Resources Management “Future Projections of Water Temperature and Thermal Stratification in Connecticut Reservoirs and Possible Implications for Cyanobacteria“ C. A. Mullin, C.J. Kirchhoff, G. Wang, P.Vlahos https://doi.org/10.1029/2020WR027185

New publication in the New England Journal of Medicine “Using GIS Mapping to Track Hot Spots of Kidney Disease in California” Shuchi Anand, M.D., Allison Staniec, B.A., Maria Montez-Rath, Ph.D., Penny Vlahos, Ph.D. a Stanford University School of Medicine and UCONN collaboration combines human health with environmental water quality.

DISCO participants (currently 25 per meeting) are selected from universities all over the world, with a majority of attendees from U.S. universities. The number of participants to date (DISCO I–XXVI) exceeds 640, and they were selected from an applicant pool that exceeded 80 eligible doctorates in recent years.

Our group was represented in a total of 7 presentations at the AGU Ocean Sciences meeting in San Diego Feb. 16-21, 2020.

Our newest member to the group Mary McGuinness has been awarded the prestigious Crandall Fellowship. Congratulations Mary!

Byrd et al., (2020) Tidally resolved observations of organic carbon exchange through Eastern Long Island Sound

Vlahos et al., (2020) Nitrogen budgets of the Long Island Sound estuary

Vlahos et al., (2019)  – A baseline atmospheric passive sampling network of legacy and emerging organic contaminants in Sri Lanka

Shipley et al., (2019)  –  Assessing agrochemical pollution in shallow well waters and chronic kidney disease in endemic Sri Lankan villages

Vlahos co-chairs session on passive sampling Session 6220 – Advances in Passive Sampling Across Environmental Compartments – Part 1 [Penny Vlahos]

Jorge will be working on Pesticide Use and Toxicity Biomarkers of Allium cepa L. Cultivated in Colombia