Tag: water quality

UCI Receives $1 Million from CDC/ATSDR to Study PFAS Contaminated Drinking Water and Health

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September 30, 2019 – The University of California, Irvine was awarded $1 million by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) to participate in the first year of a major multi-site health study to investigate the relationship between drinking water contaminated with per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and health outcomes.  Under the agreement, UCI researchers will conduct an investigation in...

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On the Water Front

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Renowned hydrologist joins UCI to lead interdisciplinary research efforts Dec. 12, 2016 — Efi Foufoula-Georgiou, an expert in hydrology and water resources, recently joined the University of California, Irvine as a Distinguished Professor of civil & environmental engineering. After nearly three decades at the University of Minnesota, with her research laboratory perched atop a waterfall on the Mississippi River, she moved to a region suffering from a severe drought, but the native...

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Toxic tides

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Sunny Jiang, a UC Irvine researcher studying pollution in Orange County’s coastal waters, recently got a graphic look at how swimming and surfing in the ocean can make people sick. She and a team of graduate students charted incidents of poor water quality at Southern California beaches over a 10-year period and the number of ocean-related illnesses reported at the Surfrider Foundation website during the same timeframe. Each graph looked like a series of waves, and when the two were...

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Keeping the Mexican coast clear

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UCI’s Sharon Stern and colleagues are helping a Mexican coastal village preserve a coral reef by better managing its wastewater. Tom Vasich, University Communications The fishing village of Akumal sits on the Caribbean coast of Mexico an hour’s drive south of Cancun. Once considered a sleepy, out-of-the-way destination, Akumal — which means “place of the turtles” in Mayan — has become a scuba-diving mecca because of its clear ocean water and abundant coral reef. Sharon Stern, UC Irvine...

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