Potomac Environmental Research and Education Center
Potomac Environmental Research and Education Center Aquatic Chemistry Lab
R. Christian Jones, director of Mason's Potomac Environmental Research & Education Center (PEREC), has received a grant of $167,481 from Alexandria Renew Enterprises, a water resource recovery utility that works to improve local water quality. Jones and his co-PI’s have been tasked with studying water quality and aquatic biota and how they relate to discharges into the Potomac River. Jones is working with a number of graduate and undergraduate students as well as PEREC colleagues on the project, and they are looking at issues including excessive algae and aquatic plant growth and bacteria from sewer overflows. To do that, the researchers are collecting samples of water, sediments and animals in tidal areas of the Potomac and its tributaries. This study builds on previous work for this sponsor which began in 2013. Photo by Evan Cantwell/Creative Services/George Mason University
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Cindy Smith
on June 30, 2017Lisa McAnulty, summer PEREC OSCAR student and junior in Chemistry, Analytical and Environmental Chemistry, is diligently recording protocol steps and observations in the project’s laboratory notebook in Dr. Tom Huff's lab
Cindy Smith
on June 29, 2017Lisa McAnulty, summer PEREC OSCAR student and junior in Chemistry, Analytical and Environmental Chemistry, records data in Dr. Tom Huff's lab