We have Just been awarded funds to study the carbonate system in the artic marginal ice zone and will be joining Prof. Rob Mason’s cruise in May-June 2021.

We have just been awarded a grant by the Long Island Sound Study to study alkalinity in coastal Long Island Sound  for two years.

Reducing Hypoxia in an Urban Estuary Despite Climate Warming (Whitney & Vlahos)

•  “Are litter, plastic and microplastic quantities increasing in the ocean?”  F. Galgani et et., this is a collaborative effort of the pool of experts from the World Ocean Assessment’s report.

• Effort across the Northeast and a great example of citizen science “Synoptic assessment of coastal total alkalinity through community science” Rheuban et al., https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abcb3

• Emma Shipley presents at NA SETAC 1.08.02 – Development and Testing of Two Polymers for In Situ Passive Sampling of Munitions Compounds

• 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.