Center for Metals in the Environment receives $1 million

The University of Delaware-led Center for Metals in the Environment has received federal funding of $1 million for Fiscal Year 2002.

The funding, provided through the Environmental Protection Agency, was announced by the center director, Herbert E. Allen, civil and environmental engineering.

The research center is aimed at developing an understanding of the processes affecting the fate of metals in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems and the biological effects of metals in such systems. It is a consortium of researchers from eight institutions of higher education in the U.S. and Canada. In addition to UD, the institutions represented are the Colorado School of Mines, Manhattan College, McMaster and Oklahoma state universities and the universities of Alaska, Missouri at Rolla and Wyoming.

With the fresh funding, the center’s scientists will undertake research in three broad areas: aquatic toxicity, terrestrial toxicity and risk assessment.

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