Funded Research Projects
(Since 2002)
13. Project Title: On
Developing Bioindicators for Assessing Mercury
Exposure Risk in the Great Rivers: Selenium and Mercury Accumulation in Red-Eared
Slider (Trachemys scripta elegans).
Funding
Agency: National Great Rivers Research and Education Center (NGRREC)
Project Period of Performance: 2012
Project Award Total: $6,000
Principle Investigator: Zhi-Qing Lin
12. Project Title: Use of Selenium-Contaminated Plant Waste
Materials from Phytoremediation in Central California for Production of
Selenium-Enriched Edible Mushrooms.
Funding Agency: US Environmental Protection Agency (SU836036)
Project Period of Performance: 8/2011 - 7/2012
Project Award Total: $14,539
Principle Investigator: Zhi-Qing Lin
11. Project Title: Interactive Effects of Selenium on Mercury
Accumulation and Distribution in Red-Eared Slider (Trachemys
scripta elegans) and Their
Eggs in the Lower Illinois River.
Funding
Agency: National Great Rivers Research and Education Center (NGRREC)
Project Period of Performance: 2011
Project Award Total: $6,000
Principle Investigator: Zhi-Qing Lin
10. Project Title: Agricultural Land Application of Biosolids and Water Treatment Residuals: Guidelines Development.
Funding Agency: U.S. - Egypt Joint Sciences & Technology Board (ENV10-001-004)
Project Period of Performance: 2006 - 2009
Project Award Total: $26,000
Principle Investigator: Zhi-Qing Lin
9. Project Title: Co-Application of Water Treatment Residuals and Biosolids on Agricultural Lands: Chemical Characterization of Phosphorous and Toxic Metals.
Funding Agency: U.S. National Science Foundation (BES-0553322)
Project Period of Performance: 2006 - 2008
Project Award Total: $76,351
Principle Investigator: Zhi-Qing Lin
8. Project Title: Lead Contamination in Urban Environments.
Funding Agency: Institute for Urban Research, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Project Period of Performance: 2006 - 2007
Project Award Total: $50,000
Principle Investigators: Venessa Brown (SIUE), Richard Brugam (SIUE), Shunfu Hu (SIUE), Luci Kohn (SIUE), Zhi-Qing Lin, William Retzlaff (SIUE), and Kim White (SIUE)
7. Project Title: PAH/Metal Exposure and Effects Assessment in South Chattanooga: Ecotoxicity and Chemical Speciation of Arsenic and Mercury.
Funding Agency: Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory (a DOE-funded National Lab)
Project Period of Performance: 2006
Project Award Total: 120 hours beamtime
Principle Investigator: Zhi-Qing Lin
6.
Project Title: Bioaccumulation of
Arsenic in Placenta from Residents in South Chattanooga.
Funding Agency: Regional Obstetrical Consultants
Project Period of Performance: 2005
Project Award Total: $6,816
Principle Investigator: Zhi-Qing Lin
5.
Project Title: Exposure and
Effects Assessment of Residential Exposure to PAHs and Heavy Metals in South Chattanooga,
TN.
Funding Agency: U.S. National Institutes of Health
Project Period of Performance: 2004 - 2007
Project Award Total: $189,608
Principle Investigators: Sean
Richards (UTC), Kevin Johnson (SIUE), Margaret Kovach (UTC), and Zhi-Qing Lin
4.
Project Title: Enhancement of Selenium Volatilization by Salicornia: Plant and Microbial Interactions
Funding Agency: U.S. Department of Energy
Project Period of Performance: 9/2003 – 8/2006
Project Award Total: $81,951
Principal Investigator: Zhi-Qing Lin
3.
Project Title: Chemical
Characterization and Environmental Evaluation of Phosphorus in Manure from
Transgenic Pigs by XANES
Funding Agency: The Synchrotron
Radiation Center (a national facility operated by the University of Wisconsin -
Madison with funding from U.S. National Science Foundation)
Project Period of Performance: 2003 - 2005
Project Award Total: 480 hours beamtime
Principal Investigators: Tiequan Zhang (Agriculture and Agri-food
Canada) and Zhi-Qing Lin
2. Project
Title: Identification of Volatile
Arsenical Compounds Produced during Phytoremediation Using a Novel GC-MS
Technique
Funding Agency: Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Project Period of Performance: 2004 - 2006
Project Award Total: $11,530
Principle Investigators: Kevin Johnson (SIUE) and Zhi-Qing
Lin
1.
Project Title: Ecotoxicity of Arsenic: Transformation of Toxic Chemical
Forms of Arsenic in Food Chains
Funding agency: Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Project Period of Performance: 2003 - 2004
Project Award Total: $6,000
Principal Investigator: Zhi-Qing
Lin