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: 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
CATEGORY
GRANTEE
- university of new haven, dept. of biology and environmental science (8)
- connecticut coalition for environmental justice (4)
- national marine fisheries service (4)
- quinnipiac river watershed association (4)
- (-) yale university grant and contract administration (4)
- north haven trail association (3)
- audubon connecticut (2)
- connecticut agricultural experiment station (2)
- connecticut northeast organic farmers organization (2)
- ct dept. of agriculture/aquaculture division (2)
- university of new haven, department of biology & environmental science (2)
- yale school of forestry/environmental studies (2)
- cold spring school (1)
- connecticut urban legal initiative, inc. (1)
- connstep (1)
- elm city parks conservancy (1)
- friends of the linear trail, inc. (1)
- land use leadership alliance (lula) (1)
- new haven land trust, inc (1)
- new haven land trust, inc. (1)
- northeast organic farming association of connecticut, inc. (1)
- quinnipiac university (1)
- rex development (formerly known as south central ct regional econ. develop. corp) (1)
- river advocates of south central ct (1)
- schooner, inc (1)
- south central ct regional econ. develop. corp (1)
- southern connecticut state university (1)
- southwest conservation district (1)
- the new haven land trust, inc. (1)
- trout unlimited: eastern water project (1)
- uconn-department of marine science (1)
- university of connecticut dept. of ecology (1)
- university of connecticut, college of agriculture and natural resources (1)
- university of connecticut, department of marine science (1)
- university of connecticut, dept. of chemistry (1)
- urban resources initiative (1)
- watershed partnership, inc (1)
- yale university (1)
