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Category: Human Health

Hazards Human Health Human impacts Pollution technology

BAD BOYZ 2.0. Emerging environmental contaminants

Our generation is facing environmental challenges not only from commonly-known contaminants, but also emerging ones, which have been lurking in…
June 23, 2017 Prabarna Ganguly
Coastal Management Human Health Human impacts Pollution Toxicology

Tarballs invading our coastlines: Ghosts of oil spills past

We live in a world that is torn between reliance on fossil fuels and renewable energy. Although we have made…
May 4, 2017May 3, 2017 Katherine Barrett
Atmospheric Science Climate Change Human Health Pollution

MARPOL-ling in the Right Direction

Posted by Steven Koch Research article: Zetterdahl, M., Jana Moldanov, J., Xiangyu Pei, X., Pathak, R. K., Demirdjian, B. (2016).…
March 6, 2017 Steven Koch
Biological oceanography Fisheries Harmful Algal Bloom Human Health Physical oceanography

A toxic toasty blob: warm water in the Pacific provides a happy home for poisonous algae

A warm blob at the ocean surface, fishery closures, and unhappy marine mammals – what do all these things have…
December 8, 2016December 8, 2016 Nicole Couto
Biogeochemistry Book Review Coastal Management Human Health Human impacts Pollution

From Wastewater to Seahorses to the Medicine Cabinet

Pollution of metals could be getting into the tissue of seahorses--the very tissues that are used to make a special…
October 4, 2016October 4, 2016 Anne M. Hartwell

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