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Lake Ontario Researchers Finding Cleaner Waterway
from https://oswegocountytoday.com/lake-ontario-researchers-finding-cleaner-waterway/
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OSWEGO. Ongoing research by three New York colleges shows that Great Lakes
contaminants continue a welcome and dramatic downward drop, said project investigator James Pagano, director of SUNY Oswego's
Environmental Research Center.
SUNY Oswego and its Environmental Research Center, teaming up with Clarkson University
and SUNY Fredonia, are finding Great Lakes contaminant levels experiencing a welcome drop. The colleges collaborate under
the ongoing Great Lakes Fish Monitoring and Surveillance Program, funded by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Shown in
the Shineman Center lab, from left, are student researchers Brianne Comstock and Daria Savitskaia; James Pagano, director
of the Environmental Research Center; and Andrew Garner, the research associate who manages the lab. Oswego is a partner
with Clarkson University and SUNY Fredonia on a five-year $6.5 million Great Lakes Fish Monitoring and Surveillance Program:
Expanding the Boundaries project funded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The colleges have been collaborating
to monitor such persistent toxic chemicals as PCBs, dioxins, furans and other legacy pollutants since 2006.
"Using
data from the 1970s and early 1980s, and data we've collected in the current period, we've seen a decline of nearly 90 percent
of toxic equivalence in lake trout", Pagano said. The data in large part reflect federal and state programs, from 1970’s
Clean Air Act and 1972’s Clean Water Act to more stringent regulations to dredging to awareness-building campaigns
— a widespread effort to improve the Great Lakes.
The ecology of the Great Lakes is a far-ranging concern
as the largest group of freshwater lakes on Earth, nearly 94,000 square miles and supporting a population of nearly 38 million
people in the U.S. and Canada, the studies noted. The Great Lakes Fish Monitoring and Surveillance Program began in 1980 to
address concerns over the declining state of the lakes and how that impacts the health of those living throughout the region.
The
Clarkson-Oswego-Fredonia partnership started on smaller projects in the 1990s, and the current work — which includes
$1.5 million in support for Oswego — is the third round of five-year funding the three institutions have earned
from the EPA.
The most recent grant has allowed the team to expand its list of target chemicals and to try to identify
new threats before they become potential problems for fish, other lake inhabitants, wildlife and humans who might consume
those fish.
The EPA grant supports SUNY Oswego’s Environmental Research Center, equipped with high-tech instruments
on the fourth floor of the Shineman Center, which not only carries out work for this vital research project, but also provides
laboratory experiences for students.
Healthier results
The team’s research has most recently appeared
in multiple articles in Environmental Science & Technology, with an upcoming piece in the Journal of Great Lakes Research. “The
levels have come down quite a bit,” Pagano said. “The news is really good, for the most part.”
Research
associate Andrew Garner has been a member of the Oswego team since 2012, preparing many of the tissue samples, running the
ERC lab and serving as co-author of some work, including second author to Pagano on one article in Environmental Science &
Technology.
That piece, “Age-Corrected Trends and Toxic Equivalence of PCDD/F and CP-PCBs in Lake Trout and
Walleye from the Great Lakes: 2004-2014,” notes that the six contaminants of interest in Lake Ontario lake trout
decreased between 45.7 and 55.3 percent — and most by more than 50 percent — during the period studied.
But
the work comes with challenging parameters. The team learned it had to correct for one unexpected variable: Some fish in the
Great Lakes are living longer, and while this is a positive, it also means the average sample can have a higher level of toxins
because the animal’s longer lifespan means more time to absorb these compounds.
The EPA vessel Lake Guardian
will return to Lake Ontario this summer for a thorough sampling expedition. The ship rotates through the Great Lakes, most
recently doing this work on Lake Ontario in 2013.
Other biological sciences faculty at Oswego have key roles in the
ongoing project as well. Associate professor James MacKenzie performs toxicology research using liver assays of lake trout,
a top predator in Lake Ontario. Professor Richard Back leads a study on contaminants in plankton and other living organisms
in the lakebed.
Students on board
Pagano has been able to hire talented students over the years for paid work
in the lab, which allows them to benefit from the opportunity to learn and work on such an important project. Some graduates
have moved on to professional research positions and doctoral studies.
Senior biochemistry major Brianne Comstock,
who has worked in the lab since her junior year, incorporated her activities into her capstone project, “Detection
of Dioxin Photoproducts from Triclosan in Biota,” which won a Sigma Xi research award in April for Quest.
“I’m
really glad to have the experience of working in a lab environment, and to work with really high-tech instruments,”
said Comstock, who next will pursue graduate studies at St. John Fisher’s Wegmans School of Pharmacy. “And
the kind of work we do is so applicable and important. … People need to recognize that if they put something down
the drain, it does go somewhere.” Sophomore biochemistry major Daria Savitskaia, in her first semester at the
lab, is training to take Comstock’s place. “It’s really important to learn first how the lab
operates,” she said. “I’ve learned there are so many small details to keep in mind when you
conduct an experiment.” Even with regulations and higher awareness, and with the valuable work of teams across
institutions, the task of cleaning up the Great Lakes is an ongoing one. “There’s still more we can
do,” Pagano said. “Getting the last 10 percent out of the lake, out of the biota, is going to be hard
to do.” SUNY Oswego, its faculty and its students will look to do their part: The campus selected the global
issue of Fresh Water for All as its first cross-campus Grand Challenges project.
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