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Many low income residents rightfully fear that their water is poisoned. Involving them directly in testing goes a long way to easing their fears.
According to studies conducted by the University of Delaware, 78% of Southbridge residents were “concerned” about the quality of their water, and 51% were “very concerned” about the contaminants in the neighborhood.
Yet, at least for the past ten years, water quality reports for the city of Wilmington showed that the city’s water system is in compliance with the chemical requirements associated with the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) drinking water regulations.
Read the full article along with recommendations to ease fears at Delaware Online.
“What makes the Delaware Bay the Delaware Bay is the Atlantic white cedar,” Kauffman said. “They are sentinels. They are early warning systems of what’s occurring.”
Now Stotts, through a National Science Foundation-supported research initiative called Project WiCCED (Water in the Changing Coastal Environment of Delaware), is studying what those trees’ rings might have to say about what happened to them.
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UD undergraduate student, Zizhuo Xu, discusses his experience conducting research with Dr. Shanshan Ding over the summer in a new UDaily article. Their work together focused on machine learning and big data analytics, particularly as they relate to human decision making surrounding water issues.
To see what the Project WiCCED team members have been up to, click this link: Project WiCCED in Action May 22 2019
Graduating senior Lily Neff won a National American Chemical Society (ACS) Undergraduate Award in the Division of Environmental Chemistry for her work on the implementation of an online chemical inventory platform at Wesley College. Neff also received the Delaware ACS Section Award for her STEM outreach contributions.
Jeremy Wirick, another graduating senior at Wesley, won a National ACS Undergraduate Award in the Division of Organic Chemistry. This is the first time that a Wesley undergraduate earns this award. He received this award for completing three organic chemistry research projects, one of which was published as a peer-reviewed journal article.
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