Active Research Projects

  1. 3/2020 – 6/2021: Development of a linked PCB mass balance and food chain model to assess effectiveness of management options in the Anacostia River. DC Department of Energy and Environment/USFWS.
  2. 3/2020 – 3/2021: PCB monitoring and source tracking in the upper Roanoke River, City of Roanoke.
  3. 1/2020 – 12/2020: Development of novel functionalized polymeric thin films for equilibrium passive sampling of PFAS compounds in surface and groundwater. U. Ghosh and G. Foster. Department of Defense, SERDP.
  4. 6/2017 – 11/2020: Standardization of Polymeric Sampling for Measuring Freely Dissolved Organic Contaminant Concentrations in Sediment Porewater. M. Ward, U. Ghosh D. Reible, P.M. Gschwend. DoD ESTCP program.
  5. 9/2015 – 5/2021: Development of in-situ Hg remediation approaches based on methylmercury bioavailability. U. Ghosh, C. Gilmour, and D. Elias. National Institutes of Health, NIEHS Superfund Research Program R01 grant, 
  6. 2019 – 2020: Monitoring PCB levels in fish in MD. U. Ghosh. Maryland Dept. of the Environment. Long-term MOU.
  7. 7/2018 – 6/2021: Actively shaken in situ passive sampler platform for methylmercury and organics. (Continuation of earlier SEED project). U. Ghosh and C. Gilmour. Department of Defense, SERDP.
  8. 1/2019 – 2/2021: Refining Sources of PCBs in the Site Conceptual Site Model for the Back River watershed, Baltimore City, MD. U. Ghosh. City of Baltimore.