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NSF GRIP at the EPA

During the summer of 2019, I completed an internship at the EPA in Durham, North Carolina through NSF Graduate Research Internship Program (GRIP). My research  investigated the lethal, developmental, and behavioral consequences of 15 road salts to zebrafish embryos.

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Impacts of road salt

  • Ecological effects

    • Community effects of sodium, magnesium, and calcium chloride.

    • Mitigation of the effects

    • Interaction with other stressors

    • Effects on aquatic plants

  • Evolutionary effects

    • Evolution of salt tolerance

    • Cross tolerance

    • Possible mechanisms

    • Consequences to the circadian rhythm

    • Salt tolerance and other stressors

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Invasive species

  • Food web effects

  • Competition with native species

  • Changes in vital resources 

  • Tolerance to road salts

  • Mitigation of other stressors

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Assisting with field sampling

  • Lake water quality

  • Lake benthic invertebrate surveys

  • Lake fish surveys

  • Stream benthic invertebrate surveys

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Undergraduates

  • None of this would be possible without the help of amazing students

    • Ingrid Oprea - RPI

    • Josh Mincer - RPI

    • Kate Goodell - RPI (Right picture)

    • Patrick Roa - RPI

    • Tianrui Wang - RPI

    • Joseph Mruzek - John Carroll University (Left picture)

    • Emily GIff - RPI

    • Elizabeth Nelligan - Troy City High School

    • Bianca Bigot - RPI

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