Here are some highlights of the vast media coverage it received this spring.  

• Silicone wristbands facilitate exposome study (NIEHS Environmental Factor, Anderson Lab)
• OSU Develops Wristband That Detects Pollutants (KLCC radio interview with Kim Anderson)
• A wristband for a different kind of cause - environmental health (Publication highlighted by the American Chemical Society)

  Kim Anderson

Dr. Anderson leads OSU SRP Project 4 that focuses on developing new technologies to understand exposure to PAHs and assessing the risk they pose for human health. She is also the director of the Food Safety and Environmental Stewardship Program (FSES) at OSU.  

FSES is developing a project to make the wristbands available to the public. Videos were produced to help explain about the wristbands. Visit the Citizen Science page for updates.

Citation: O'Connell SG, Kincl LD, Anderson KA.  2014. Silicone wristbands as personal passive samplers. Environ Sci Technol 48(6):3327-3335.   

Latest Anderson Lab Publication Highlighted 

Forsberg ND, Smith B, Sower GJ, Anderson K. Predicting polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon concentrations in resident aquatic organisms using passive samplers and partial least squares calibration. Environ. Sci. Technol., (Accepted Manuscript) DOI: 10.1021/es5000534  

>> Highlight in SpectroscopyNOW.com 

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A field trip for 28 local 5th graders was held at the Sinnhuber Aquatic Research Laboratory (SARL) on May 12, 2014.  SARL, directed by Dr. Robert Tanguay, is a large state-of-the-art zebrafish facility.    

Robert Tanguay and Carrie Barton present about zebrafish research to 5th graders.

The SARL personnel, along with SRP Trainees and other grad students and postdocs, wanted the students to get hands-on experience and have fun learning about science.  Specifically the students learned all the unique features of zebrafish and how they are used in scientific research.

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