EPA-STAR 1.2 M from 2021-2024
State of Florida/UM- Firefighter Cancer Initiative – $20,000 funding for 2022
Hinkley Center for Solid and Hazardous Waste Management – $70,000 for 2023 (co-PI)
NSF Award $60,000 from 2023-2026
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded $1.26 million to FIU chemist Professor Natalia Soares Quinete as part of a $9 million initiative to research children’s chemical exposures from soil and dust.
Toxic ‘forever chemicals’ found in tap water raise questions for scientists
https://phys.org/news/2021-10-toxic-chemicals-scientists.html
REU student studies Biscayne Bay oysters’ exposure to PFAS
Florida oysters found to have toxic “forever chemicals”
https://app.criticalmention.com/app/#/report/384e2eba-57c8-4d81-9de3-252cea1d4cc5
Chemicals taint Biscayne Bay oysters. What FIU study says about our drinking water safety
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/environment/article263227843.html#storylink=cpy
Forever Chemical accumulation in deer and fish
https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news/forever-chemicals-in-deer-fish-challenge-hunters-tourism/
Soil and Groundwater contaminated by PFAS
https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/earth-systems/blog/water-quality-and-quantity-2/
Check out this funded research to assess PFAS leaching from biosolids and e-waste in collaboration with College of Engineering
New NSF award for “Collaborative Research: Design of High Entropy Alloy Electrocatalysts for Mineralization of Total Organic Carbon in Municipal Wastewater“- collaboration between Jim Englehardt at UM and Natalia Quinete at FIU
Concerns over Coliforms in flooded areas in Miami Dade and Broward:
https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/high-bacteria-levels-detected-in-waters-near-flooded-areas-in-fort-lauderdale/
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