Superfund Research Program
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Hazardous Waste Sites with On-Going Research
No projects at this time.
Hazardous Waste Sites with Completed Research
18 SF sites in State of New Hampshire - New Hampshire
- Project: Dartmouth College: Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Exposure Assessment of Metals
Project Investigator: Margaret R Karagas
Research Types: Epidemiology study
Research/Outreach: Completed - Project: Dartmouth College: Sources, Transport and Fate of Arsenic in Groundwater
Project Investigator: Joel D Blum
Research Types: Fate and transport study
Research/Outreach: Completed
50 Tufts Street - Somerville, Massachusetts
- Project: Brown University: Toxicant Exposures in Rhode Island: Past, Present, and Future
Project Investigator: Eric M Suuberg, Kelly G Pennell
Research Types: Collection of samples for off-site analysis, Fate and transport study, Research Translation
Research/Outreach: Completed
Black Rock Harbor, Bridgeport, CT - Bridgeport, Connecticut
- Project: Boston University: Mechanisms and Impacts of PCB Resistance in Fish
Project Investigator: Mark E Hahn
Research Types: Collection of samples for off-site analysis
Research/Outreach: Completed
Callahan Mine - Brooksville, Maine
- Project: Dartmouth College: Arsenic and Innate Immunity in Human Lung
Project Investigator: Bruce A Stanton
Research Types: Collection of samples for off-site analysis, Communication Activities, Ecology study, Research Translation
Research/Outreach: Completed - Project: Dartmouth College: Methylmercury Production and Fate in Response to Multiple Environmental Factors
Project Investigator: Celia Y Chen
Research Types: Collection of samples for off-site analysis, Fate and transport study
Research/Outreach: Completed - Project: Dartmouth College: Research Translation Core
Project Investigator: Celia Y Chen
Research Types: Research Translation
Research/Outreach: Completed
Centredale Manor Restoration Project - North Providence, Rhode Island
- Project: Brown University: Community Engagement Core
Project Investigator: Marcella R. Thompson, Scott Frickel
Research Types: Communication Activities, Outreach or Community Engagement, Testing or application of new GIS tools
Research/Outreach: Completed - Project: Brown University: Research Translation Core
Project Investigator: Eric M Suuberg, Jennifer Guelfo
Research Types: Research Translation
Research/Outreach: Completed
Coakley Landfill - Greenland, New Hampshire
- Project: Dartmouth College: Sources, Transport and Fate of Arsenic in Groundwater
Project Investigator: Carl E. Renshaw
Research Types: Collection of samples for off-site analysis, Fate and transport study
Research/Outreach: Completed
Coal Tar Processing Facility (former) - Everett, Massachusetts
- Project: Boston University: Research Translation Core
Project Investigator: Wendy J Heiger-Bernays, Madeleine Kangsen Scammell
Research Types: Collection of samples for off-site analysis, Research Translation, Others
Research/Outreach: Completed
Dover Municipal Landfill - Dover, New Hampshire
- Project: Columbia University: Enhanced Remediation at Arsenic-Contaminated Sites in the U.S.
Project Investigator: Steven N Chillrud
Research Types: Field test of a new remediation
Research/Outreach: Completed
Elizabeth Mine - Strafford, Vermont
- Project: Dartmouth College: Arsenic as an Endocrine Disrupter
Project Investigator: Joshua W Hamilton
Research Types: Others
Research/Outreach: Completed - Project: Dartmouth College: Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Exposure Assessment of Metals
Project Investigator: Margaret R Karagas
Research Types: Others
Research/Outreach: Completed - Project: Dartmouth College: Methylmercury Production and Fate in Response to Multiple Environmental Factors
Project Investigator: Celia Y Chen, Carol L Folt
Research Types: Others
Research/Outreach: Completed - Project: Dartmouth College: Outreach Core
Project Investigator: Nancy Serrell
Research Types: Outreach or Community Engagement
Research/Outreach: Completed - Project: Dartmouth College: Research Translation Core
Project Investigator: Nancy Serrell
Research Types: Others
Research/Outreach: Completed
Fisherville Mill - Grafton, Massachusetts
- Project: Brown University: Analytic Core
Project Investigator: David W. Murray
Research Types: Collection of samples for off-site analysis
Research/Outreach: Completed - Project: Brown University: Community Engagement Core
Project Investigator: Scott Frickel
Research Types: Communication Activities, Outreach or Community Engagement, Research Translation, Training
Research/Outreach: Completed - Project: Brown University: Research Translation Core
Project Investigator: Eric M Suuberg, Jennifer Guelfo
Research Types: Application of a new remediation technology as part of the remediation strategy, Bench scale application of a new remediation technology, Others
Research/Outreach: Completed
Former Jo Whiten Co. - Winchester, Massachusetts
- Project: Dartmouth College: Variation in Bioaccumulation and Biomagnification of Metals in Lakes throughout the Northeastern Region of the U.S.A.
Project Investigator: Carol L Folt, Celia Y Chen
Research Types: Collection of samples for off-site analysis, Ecology study
Research/Outreach: Completed
General Chemical Corporation - Framingham, Massachusetts
- Project: Boston University: Research Translation Core
Project Investigator: Wendy J Heiger-Bernays
Research Types: Outreach or Community Engagement, Research Translation
Research/Outreach: Completed
George Lay Property - Merrimac, Massachusetts
- Project: Dartmouth College: Variation in Bioaccumulation and Biomagnification of Metals in Lakes throughout the Northeastern Region of the U.S.A.
Project Investigator: Carol L Folt, Celia Y Chen
Research Types: Collection of samples for off-site analysis, Ecology study
Research/Outreach: Completed
Gorham/Textron Site, Adelaide Avenue - Providence, Rhode Island
- Project: Brown University: Community Engagement Core
Project Investigator: Scott Frickel, Clara Sears
Research Types: Communication Activities, Outreach or Community Engagement, Training
Research/Outreach: Completed
Hocomonco Pond - Westborough, Massachusetts
- Project: Northeastern University: A Reactive Mat to Remediate Contaminated Sediments and Reduce Health Risks
Project Investigator: Thomas C. Sheahan
Research/Outreach: Completed
Industri-Plex - Woburn, Massachusetts
- Project: Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Community Engagement Core
Project Investigator: Kathleen M. Vandiver
Research Types: Outreach or Community Engagement
Research/Outreach: Completed - Project: Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Developing In Situ, Real-time Sensors for Toxicants at Superfund sites, to Protect Public Health and Optimize Cleanup
Project Investigator: Harold F Hemond
Research Types: Others
Research/Outreach: Completed
Industrial Lane Brownfields Site - Johnston, Rhode Island
- Project: Brown University: Community Engagement Core
Project Investigator: Scott Frickel
Research Types: Others, Outreach or Community Engagement
Research/Outreach: Completed
Loring Air Force Base - Limestone, Maine
- Project: Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Community Engagement Core
Project Investigator: Kathleen M. Vandiver
Research Types: Outreach or Community Engagement
Research/Outreach: Completed - Project: Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Developing In Situ, Real-time Sensors for Toxicants at Superfund sites, to Protect Public Health and Optimize Cleanup
Project Investigator: Harold F Hemond
Research Types: Collection of samples for off-site analysis, Communication Activities, Fate and transport study, Others, Outreach or Community Engagement, Research Translation, Training
Research/Outreach: Completed - Project: University of California-Berkeley: Thermally Enhanced Soil and Groundwater Remediation
Project Investigator: Kent S. Udell
Research Types: Field test of a new remediation
Research/Outreach: Completed
Mashapaug Pond - Providence, Rhode Island
- Project: Brown University: Community Engagement Core
Project Investigator: Scott Frickel, Clara Sears
Research Types: Others, Outreach or Community Engagement, Research Translation, Testing or application of new GIS tools, Training, Communication Activities
Research/Outreach: Completed - Project: Brown University: Training Core
Project Investigator: Agnes B Kane
Research Types: Others
Research/Outreach: Completed
Massachusetts Military Reservation (MMR) - Massachusetts
- Project: Columbia University: Enhanced Remediation at Arsenic-Contaminated Sites in the U.S.
Project Investigator: Steven N Chillrud
Research Types: Field test of a new remediation
Research/Outreach: Completed
Narragansett Tribal Lands/Waters - Charlestown, Rhode Island
- Project: Brown University: Community Engagement Core
Project Investigator: Elizabeth Hoover, Marcella R. Thompson
Research Types: Communication Activities, Outreach or Community Engagement, Training
Research/Outreach: Completed
Neponset River - Boston, Massachusetts
- Project: Northeastern University: A Reactive Mat to Remediate Contaminated Sediments and Reduce Health Risks
Project Investigator: Thomas C. Sheahan
Research/Outreach: Completed
New Bedford Estuary - New Bedford, Massachusetts
- Project: Harvard School of Public Health: In utero Exposure to Polychlorinated Biphenyls, Pesticides and Metals in Relation to Cognitive Function in Childhood
Project Investigator: Susan A Korrick
Research Types: Epidemiology study
Research/Outreach: Completed - Project: Harvard School of Public Health: Assessment of Contaminant Concentrations and Ecologic Implications
Project Investigator: Timothy Ford
Research Types: Collection of samples for off-site analysis, Ecology study, Fate and transport study
Research/Outreach: Completed
New Bedford Harbor - New Bedford, Massachusetts
- Project: Boston University: Analyzing Patterns in Epidemiologic and Toxicologic Data
Project Investigator: Thomas F Webster, Veronica M Vieira
Research Types: Epidemiology study, Testing or application of new GIS tools
Research/Outreach: Completed - Project: Boston University: Assessing the Relation of Chemical and Non-Chemical Stressors with Risk-Taking Behavior and Related Outcomes among Adolescents Living near the New Bedford Harbor Superfund Site
Research Types: Collection of samples for off-site analysis
Research/Outreach: Completed - Project: Boston University: Community Engagement Core
Project Investigator: Madeleine Kangsen Scammell
Research Types: Outreach or Community Engagement
Research/Outreach: Completed - Project: Boston University: Developmental Toxicity of non-Dioxin-like PCBs and Chemical Mixtures
Project Investigator: John J Stegeman
Research Types: Collection of samples for off-site analysis, Others
Research/Outreach: Completed - Project: Boston University: Environmental PPARγ Pathway Activators: Multifaceted Metabolic Disruptors Impacting Adipose and Bone Homeostatsis
Project Investigator: Jennifer J Schlezinger
Research Types: Collection of samples for off-site analysis, Others
Research/Outreach: Completed - Project: Boston University: Mechanisms and Impacts of PCB Resistance in Fish
Project Investigator: Mark E Hahn
Research Types: Collection of samples for off-site analysis, Others
Research/Outreach: Completed - Project: Boston University: Research Translation Core
Project Investigator: Wendy J Heiger-Bernays
Research Types: Others, Research Translation
Research/Outreach: Completed - Project: Harvard School of Public Health: Research Translation Core
Project Investigator: Susan A Korrick
Research Types: Communication Activities, Outreach or Community Engagement, Research Translation
Research/Outreach: Completed
Otis Air National Guard Base/Camp Edwards - Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts
- Project: Boston University: Analyzing Patterns in Epidemiologic and Toxicologic Data
Project Investigator: Thomas F Webster, Veronica M Vieira
Research Types: Epidemiology study, Testing or application of new GIS tools
Research/Outreach: Completed - Project: University of Rhode Island: Community Engagement Core
Research Types: Outreach or Community Engagement
Research/Outreach: Completed - Project: University of Rhode Island: Exposure Assessment and Chemometrics of PFASs
Research Types: Collection of samples for off-site analysis
Research/Outreach: Completed
Sites in Concord, New Hampshire - Concord, New Hampshire
- Project: Dartmouth College: Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Exposure Assessment of Metals
Project Investigator: Margaret R Karagas
Research Types: Epidemiology study
Research/Outreach: Completed
Sites in Lebanon, New Hampshire and Surrounding Communities - Lebanon, New Hampshire
- Project: Dartmouth College: Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Exposure Assessment of Metals
Project Investigator: Margaret R Karagas
Research Types: Epidemiology study
Research/Outreach: Completed
SRSNE, Hartford, CT - Hartford, Connecticut
- Project: University of California-Berkeley: Thermally Enhanced Soil and Groundwater Remediation
Project Investigator: Kent S. Udell
Research Types: Field test of a new remediation
Research/Outreach: Completed
Town of Eastham Landfill - Eastham, Massachusetts
- Project: Boston University: Research Translation Core
Project Investigator: Madeleine Kangsen Scammell, Wendy J Heiger-Bernays
Research Types: Communication Activities, Others
Research/Outreach: Completed
Wells G&H - Woburn, Massachusetts
- Project: Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Developing In Situ, Real-time Sensors for Toxicants at Superfund sites, to Protect Public Health and Optimize Cleanup
Project Investigator: Harold F Hemond
Research Types: Collection of samples for off-site analysis, Communication Activities, Fate and transport study, Others, Outreach or Community Engagement, Research Translation, Training
Research/Outreach: Completed
Winthrop Landfill - Winthrop, Maine
- Project: Columbia University: Enhanced Remediation at Arsenic-Contaminated Sites in the U.S.
Project Investigator: H. James Simpson
Research/Outreach: Completed
Woods Pond - Lenox, Massachusetts
- Project: Michigan State University: Molecular Insight into Polyaromatic Toxicant Degradation by Microbial Communities
Project Investigator: James M Tiedje
Research Types: Application of a new remediation technology as part of the remediation strategy
Research/Outreach: Completed