Timothy Schroeder
Bennington College, VT·Earth & Environmental Science
PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are often called "forever chemicals" because they break down very slowly in the environment. They can travel from the places they were released into water, soil, plants and animals, and they may affect human health.
- Fields
Earth & Environmental Science
Public Health & Epidemiology
Chemistry
- Topics
per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances
forever chemicals
environmental contamination
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through Aug 2030
What they work on
- Characterize how PFAS ("forever chemicals") spread from contamination sources through groundwater, surface water, soils, vegetation and wildlife at Vermont field research sites.
- Explore mechanisms by which PFAS exposure may influence human health, as part of an interdisciplinary Vermont research network.
- Identify how PFAS contamination affects Vermont communities, drawing on the social scientists in the network and its partnerships with community organizations.
- Build publicly available PFAS datasets and modeling tools that help residents and Vermont state agencies understand and manage contamination.
More about the research
How these chemicals spread through a landscape, and what that means for the people living there, is still poorly understood. This project tackles that question in Vermont.
Why it matters
PFAS contamination affects drinking water, farmland and wildlife in many communities. By mapping how these chemicals move from sources into water, soil, plants and animals, and how they affect residents, the network could give Vermont agencies and citizens public data and modeling tools. Agencies could use these to guide testing, cleanup and health protection, and the results may inform similar efforts nationally.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
Closest labs
Roger Tipton
University of North Carolina at Charlotte, NC·Earth & Environmental Science
Measure PFAS concentrations, including the newest generation of these compounds, in Arctic Ocean seawater from the surface to 3,000 meters, using samples collected on an icebreaker transect from Alaska to Norway.
Lin Li
Tennessee State University, TN·Earth & Environmental Science
Measure how the replacement PFAS F-53B and GenX sorb to, desorb from and degrade in soils, to understand their persistence and mobility.
Vaia Lida Chatzi
University of Southern California, CA·Public Health & Epidemiology
Examine associations of PFAS exposure with omics biomarkers and with obesity, type 2 diabetes, and MASLD (fatty liver disease) in more than 50,000 participants from 18 diverse cohorts.
The school
Bennington College: 1 labs on PI Pages.
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