BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded a $5,999,860 million grant to Indiana University to support long-term measurements of airborne pollutants near the Great Lakes.
The cooperative agreement will support the Integrated Atmospheric Deposition Network, in agreement with the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Action Plan. The award will be distributed incrementally over the next five years and will be overseen by Marta Venier and Amina Salamova, scientists in the O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs.
The Integrated Atmospheric Deposition Network, which has been managed at IU for the past 25 years under the leadership of Distinguished Professor Ronald Hites, is a joint venture between Environment and Climate Change Canada, the Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks and the EPA’s Great Lakes National Program Office.
Venier and Salamova expect the project to do several things in the Great Lakes region, including:
- Create a better understanding of the impact and trends of toxic airborne chemicals.
- Improve understanding of emerging chemical concerns.
- Allow environmental managers to make better decisions and deploy more effective strategies to reduce the presence of toxic chemicals in the air, water, sediment, fish and other wildlife.
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