The 23-year-old 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Superfund Research and Training Program has received a $13.2 million, five-year competitive renewal grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.
In 1986, University of California, Davis, scientists became the first researchers in the nation to receive Superfund Research Program funding. Since the project鈥檚 inception, they have brought more than $42 million in federal support to the campus from the institute.
Through the project, entitled Biomarkers of Exposure to Hazardous Substances, investigators use chromatographic, biosensor and cell-based technologies to determine the fate and transport of hazardous materials from toxic waste sites in groundwater, surface water and air. They also develop biomarkers of human and environmental exposure to these materials.
The program has carried out a broad range of activities, including removal of the toxic gasoline additive MTBE from groundwater and retraining 400 engineers at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard in Vallejo, Calif., to do environmental engineering and cleanup activities, following the shipyard鈥檚 decommissioning as a nuclear submarine port.
The program also partnered with the 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Graduate School of Management in supporting an annual summertime Green Technology Entrepreneurship Academy, equipping researchers to commercialize their cutting-edge, sustainable and environmentally friendly discoveries.
鈥淚 am very proud of the impact that we have had,鈥 says Bruce Hammock, director of the 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Superfund Research Program and a professor of entomology. 鈥淭he unique concept of NIEHS was to train a new generation of scientists working at the interface of a number of disciplines to address the serious problem of safe disposal and remediation of hazardous chemical wastes.鈥
鈥淭he Superfund Program represents one of the strengths of 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis in fostering interdisciplinary science to address serious problems facing California and the nation,鈥 said Neal Van Alfen, dean of the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis. 鈥淭he cutting-edge research being conducted in this program will have positive long-term and large-scale impacts for people, animals and the environment.鈥
The program draws investigators from 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis鈥 College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, College of Engineering, School of Medicine and School of Veterinary Medicine. Participating researchers also are located at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Center for Health and the Environment.
More information about the 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Superfund Research Program is available online at: .
Media Resources
Pat Bailey, Research news (emphasis: agricultural and nutritional sciences, and veterinary medicine), 530-219-9640, pjbailey@ucdavis.edu
Bruce Hammock, Entomology, 530-752-7519, bdhammock@ucdavis.edu