UEBL Projects

Ongoing projects affiliated with UEBL include:

• Evaluation of trace element transport, bioavailability and accumulation associated with highway infrastructure.
• Influence of road salt on trace metal speciation and toxicity to aquatic organisms.
• Determination of the relative importance of contaminated sediment and contaminated diet in trace metal accumulation by grazing aquatic organisms.
• Role of suspended clay in nutrient dynamics of streams along an urban to rural gradient.

The Urban Environmental Biogeochemistry Laboratory (UEBL) has partnered with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to provide analytical (metals, major cations & anions, TSS) and logistical support for a project entitled “ Effects of salinity derived from road salt and suspended sediments on yellow perch (Perca flavescens) egg and larval survival in the Severn River, Mattawoman Creek, and Choptank Rivers, MD.” ISCO samplers and YSI conductivity and temperature loggers have been deployed in each watershed by UEBL members as part of the monitoring for this project.