Projects
Grant Number: 20070060
Funds are requested to conduct mercury contamination research at Wharton Brook in Quinnipiac River system. Research activities include measuring mercury in water, benthic macroinvertebrates, and fish along the length of thw Wharton Brook and its tributaries.
Year Issued: 2007 | Amount: $18,446
Yale University Grant and Contract Administration
Grant Number: 20070055
Funds are requested to support the offering of a short course in river processes to local members of conservation/inland wetland commissions and environmental activists. The course will cover the basic hydrologic, geomorphic, chemical, and biological processes that govern stream ecosystems, and how they are perturbed by human activities. Participants will recieve the scientific tools that they need in order to understand and critically evaluate environmental data on the Quinnipiac River.
Year Issued: 2007 | Amount: $8,064
Yale University Grant and Contract Administration
Grant Number: 20060119
To support the measurement of methyl mercury in the Quinnipiac River and the New Haven Harbor. The work will also provide direct information on safety of local finfish and shellfish.
Year Issued: 2006 | Amount: $14,000
Yale University Grant and Contract Administration
Grant Number: 20050336
To support the measurement of methyl mercury contamination in the Quinnipiac River and the Oysters in New Haven Harbor. The study will evaluate the extent of methylmercury pollution and help to identify sources and hotspots.
Year Issued: 2005 | Amount: $14,500
Yale University Grant and Contract Administration
Grant Number: 20040390
To measure contamination along the Quinnipiac River and in oysters of the New Haven Harbor and evaluate the extent of mercury pollution and identify sources and hotspots.
Year Issued: 2004 | Amount: $7,500
Yale University Grant and Contract Administration
Grant Number: 200000306
To support the project entitled Comparison of Sediment Contaminants in the Branford River and the Quinnipiac River and their effects on the Benthic community. This proposed research is an investigation of the sediment contaminant load of five sites in the Quinnipiac River and three sites within the Branford River.
Year Issued: 2000 | Amount: $14,842
Yale University Grant and Contract Administration
CATEGORY
GRANTEE
- quinnipiac university (17)
- university of new haven (13)
- yale university (13)
- university of new haven, dept. of biology and environmental science (8)
- yale school of forestry/environmental studies (7)
- (-) yale university grant and contract administration (6)
- river advocates of south central ct (5)
- quinnipiac river watershed association (4)
- connecticut coalition for environmental justice (3)
- north haven trail association (3)
- river advocates of south central connecticut (3)
- watershed partnership, inc (3)
- connecticut agricultural experiment station (2)
- connecticut northeast organic farmers organization (2)
- connecticut urban legal initiative, inc. (2)
- the watershed partnership, inc. (2)
- university of connecticut, dept. of chemistry (2)
- university of new haven, department of biology & environmental science (2)
- art25 (1)
- city of meriden (1)
- connstep (1)
- elm city parks conservancy (1)
- farmington river watershed association, inc. (1)
- friends of the linear trail, inc. (1)
- land use leadership alliance (1)
- land use leadership alliance (lula) (1)
- national marine fisheries service (1)
- new haven county soil & water conservation di (1)
- new haven land trust, inc (1)
- northeast organic farming association of connecticut, inc. (1)
- rex development (formerly known as south central ct regional econ. develop. corp) (1)
- river advocates of greater new haven, inc. (1)
- schooner, inc (1)
- south central ct regional econ. develop. corp (1)
- southern connecticut state university (1)
- southern connecticut state university foundation (1)
- southwest conservation district (1)
- the new haven land trust, inc. (1)
- uconn-department of marine science (1)
- university of connecticut (1)
- university of connecticut dept. of ecology (1)
- university of connecticut foundation (1)
- university of connecticut, college of agriculture and natural resources (1)
- university of connecticut, department of marine science (1)
- yale school of forestry (1)
- yale school of forestry & environmental studies (1)
- yale university - grant and contract administration (1)
