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Your Environment. Your Health.

September 2018 Past Issues Superfund Research Program Science Digest

Superfund Research Program Science Digest
Balancing Scientific Excellence with Research Relevance

Welcome to the Superfund Basic Research and Training Program (SRP) Science Digest!

Below you'll find a compilation of SRP research, which provides practical, scientific solutions to protect health, the environment, and communities. For more information about the program, visit the SRP website.

You also can view past issues of the Science Digest.

Director's Letter

Dr Suk

An important part of the Superfund Research Program (SRP) is research translation, which includes putting research findings into the hands of the stakeholders who need them. Application of SRP research has led to significant economic and societal benefits over the years.

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Features

Steam-enhanced extraction

More than $100 million was saved through the adoption of remediation and detection tools supported by the Superfund Research Program (SRP), according to a recent commentary in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives.

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Science Leadership

CEECHE scientist group photo

NIEHS SRP staff and grantees focused on environmental health issues in changing economies at the Central and Eastern European Conference on Health and the Environment (CEECHE), June 10 - 14 in Krakow, Poland. The conference, sponsored in part by the SRP, provided a forum for scientists, engineers, and organizations to focus on Central and Eastern European environmental health concerns, which also will inform practices around the world.

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Hot Off the Press

UW SRP Center researchers collect water samples from Lake Killarney

Lake properties impact the amount of arsenic that transfers from sediments into the aquatic food web, according to a new study by the University of Washington SRP Center. Researchers discovered high concentrations of arsenic in the water and plankton of well-mixed shallow lakes.

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Technology Profile

Glycosurf, LLC

Researchers at Glycosurf, LLC are developing green surfactants for efficient and cost-effective removal of heavy metals and rare earth elements from wastewater.

Read More in Technology Profile...

Past Issues

2019

2018

2017