Chicago Clean Air, Clean Water Project: Environmental Monitoring for a Healthy, Sustainable Urban Future

none, none  Tuchman, Nancy¹ 

[1] Institute of Environmental Sustainability (IES), Chicago, IL (United States)

关键词: environmental analysis;    soil samples;    industrial pollutants;    agricultural toxins;    Chicago;    environmental;    toxicology;   

DOI  :  10.2172/1242816
RP-ID  :  DOE-LUC--SC0004990
PID  :  OSTI ID: 1242816

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来源: SciTech Connect

【 摘 要 】

The U.S. Department of Energy awarded Loyola University Chicago and the Institute of Environmental Sustainability (IES) $486,000.00 for the proposal entitled ???Chicago clean air, clean water project: Environmental monitoring for a healthy, sustainable urban future.??? The project supported the purchase of analytical instruments for the development of an environmental analytical laboratory. The analytical laboratory is designed to support the testing of field water and soil samples for nutrients, industrial pollutants, heavy metals, and agricultural toxins, with special emphasis on testing Chicago regional soils and water affected by coal-based industry. Since the award was made in 2010, the IES has been launched (fall 2013), and the IES acquired a new state-of-the-art research and education facility on Loyola University Chicago???s Lakeshore campus. Two labs were included in the research and education facility. The second floor lab is the Ecology Laboratory where lab experiments and analyses are conducted on soil, plant, and water samples. The third floor lab is the Environmental Toxicology Lab where lab experiments on environmental toxins are conducted, as well as analytical tests conducted on water, soil, and plants. On the south end of the Environmental Toxicology Lab is the analytical instrumentation collection purchased from the present DOE grant, which is overseen by a full time Analytical Chemist (hired January 2016), who maintains the instruments, conducts analyses on samples, and helps to train faculty and undergraduate and graduate student researchers.