Projects
Grant Number: 20170089
To support measuring mercury in fish from ponds spanning the Quinnipiac River's watershed to see where it exceeds safety thresholds.
Year Issued: 2017 | Amount: $19,000
Yale University
Contact Information
Dr. Gaboury Benoit
gabouryb@gmail.com
www.yale.edu
Grant Number: 20160127
To support the study of the risk of runoff from artificial turf fields into the Quinnipiac River's watershed.
Year Issued: 2016 | Amount: $16,700
Yale University
Contact Information
Dr. Gaboury Benoit
gabouryb@gmail.com
www.yale.edu
Grant Number: 20160132
To support the study of sediment accretion and elevation change in the Quinnipiac marshes, and for a wildlife-exclusion experiment to test the hypothesis that herbivory is preventing vegetation from recolonizing mudflat areas.
Year Issued: 2016 | Amount: $13,500
Yale University
Contact Information
Dr. Shimon Anisfeld
shimon.anisfeld@yale.edu
www.yale.edu
Grant Number: 20150148
to support continued monitoring of sediment accretion and elevation change in the Quinnipiac marshes, and to support a marsh organ experiment to assess whether soil toxicity is contributing to marsh submergence
Year Issued: 2015 | Amount: $12,300
Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
Contact Information
Dr. Shimon Anisfeld
shimon.anisfeld@yale.edu
http://environment.yale.edu/profile/anisfeld/multimedia
Grant Number: 20150153
to support the Be the Solution to Pollution project which raises awareness of how pollution threatens the health of humans, animals, and the environment along the Quinnipiac River.
Year Issued: 2015 | Amount: $13,000
Connecticut Coalition for Environmental Justice
Contact Information
Ms. Sharon Lewis
sharonelewis2001@aol.com
www.environmental-justice.org
Grant Number: 20140150
to support the study of pH variations and the resulting changes in copper's bioavailability and toxicity in the Quinnipiac River.
Year Issued: 2014 | Amount: $16,517
Yale University
Contact Information
Dr. Gaboury Benoit
gabouryb@gmail.com
www.yale.edu
Grant Number: 20140145
to support measurements of sediment accretion, elevation change, water level, salinity, and belowground production in the Quinnipiac marshes.
Year Issued: 2014 | Amount: $11,355
Yale University
Contact Information
Dr. Shimon Anisfeld
shimon.anisfeld@yale.edu
www.yale.edu
Grant Number: 20140143
to support a community education course to train 20 New Haven residents about ways to reduce water pollution in the Quinnipiac River and its human health impacts, who will in turn educate 1000 additional residents in the community.
Year Issued: 2014 | Amount: $15,000
Connecticut Coalition for Environmental Justice
Contact Information
Sharon Lewis
sharonelewis2001@aol.com
www.environmental-justice.org
Grant Number: 20130000
To support the reviewing of discharge monitoring report compliance histories of five publically owned treatment works discharging to the Quinnipiac River.
Year Issued: 2013 | Amount: $3,000
University of Connecticut’s Energy & Environmental Law Practice Clinic
Contact Information
Alan Kosloff
akosloff@kosloff.net
http://www.law.uconn.edu/academics/centers/center-energy-enviromental-law
Grant Number: 20130078
To support the measurement of hexavalent chromium concentrations and chemical behavior in stormwater within the Quinnipiac River watershed and in the Quinnipiac River itself with the condition to obtain studies about the Quinnipiac River from the Connecticut Department of Energy & Environmental Protection.
Year Issued: 2013 | Amount: $15,000
Yale University
Contact Information
Gaboury Benoit
gabouryb@gmail.com
www.yale.edu