What does water mean to you? March 22nd, World Water Day, celebrates water and raises awareness of the global water crisis, and a core focus of the observance is to support the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6: water and sanitation for all by 2030. Register for the United Nations World Water Day online event here.
Director Celia Chen is an invited speaker for the MEMCARE 
Superfund Research Program Center Speaker Series. Her talk is on March 22 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm and is titled, Environmental drivers of mercury fate in aquatic food webs: from freshwater to marine ecosystems. For more information visit the MEMCARE-SRC site.
Chen CY, Buckman KL, Shaw A, Curtis A, Taylor M, Montesdeoca M, Driscoll C. The influence of nutrient loading on methylmercury availability in Long Island estuaries. Environ Pollut. 2021 Jan 1;268(Pt B):115510. doi: 10.1016/j.envpol.2020.115510. Epub 2020 Sep 2. PMID: 33221612.
Check out our newest fact sheet for private well users explaining the Arsenic Maximum contaminant level (MCL) reduction in New Hampshire(for public water systems) from 10 to 5 parts per billion and the reasons why private well owners should follow this rule as well!
A citizen science program that began over a decade ago has confirmed the use of dragonflies to measure mercury pollution, according to a study in Environmental Science & Technology. The original project was launched by Dr. Sarah Nelson at the University of Maine and the Schoodic Institute in 2007. Dartmouth’s Toxic Metals Superfund Research Program developed a regional effort in New Hampshire and Vermont in 2010. The project was expanded nationally by the National Park Service and the U.S. Geological Survey. More details on 10 years of citizen science mercury data using dragonfly larvae biosentinels!
MDI Biological Laboratory and Dartmouth College, in collaboration with multiple partners in Maine and New Hampshire, are leading an NIH Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA) project called: “Data to Action: A secondary school-based citizen science project to address arsenic contamination of well water.” SEPA Co-Leaders Jane Disney and Bruce Stanton will be interviewed by Voice of Maine News/Talk Radio about arsenic 
in well water, a significant problem for private wells in Maine and New Hampshire. Tune in Saturday 7/25 at 6:30 a.m. and 8 p.m on 103.9 FM (Bangor).
Director Celia Chen was quoted in a Science magazine article about mercury being transported up the food chain by ghost fleas in Prairie lakes. “It’s a cool food web story. This idea that mercury would migrate up–it’s novel,” the director of the Dartmouth Toxic Metals Superfund Research Program tells “Science” in a story about higher-than-normal levels of the element in lake fish.
USA Today reporter Mike Snider quoted the Dartmouth Toxic Metals Superfund Research Program in a story about arsenic in a brand of bottled water. Read the article.
Kevin S Hsu, Britton C Goodale, Kenneth H Ely, Thomas H Hampton, Bruce A Stanton, Richard I Enelow. 2020. Single cell RNA-seq analysis reveals that prenatal arsenic exposure results in long-term, adverse effects on immune gene expression in response to Influenza A infection. Toxicological Sciences. Toxicol Sci 2020 Jun 8;kfaa080. doi: 10.1093/toxsci/kfaa080. Online ahead of print. PMID: 32514536.
Dr. Margaret Karagas was featured in an NIEHS Story of Success for her many years of research examining health impacts from infancy to adulthood including her 25 years as part of the Dartmouth Superfund Research Program. The story discusses the New Hampshire Birth Cohort Study and work occurring as part of the Children’s Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research Center at Dartmouth.
What does water mean to you? March 22nd,