Current Projects

Gagnon, V.S. (PI), Baird, M. (co-PI), Perlinger, J.A. (co-PI), Urban, N.R., (co-PI), “CNH2-S: Convergence Research: Bridging Knowledge Systems and Expertise for Understanding the Dynamics of a Contaminated Tribal Landscape System”, National Science Foundation, January 1, 2021 – June 30, 2024: $749,801. 

Urban, N.R. (PI), Perlinger, J.A. (co-PI), MacLennan, C. (co-PI), Torch Lake PAC Support Grant: Outreach and Measurement of PCBs in Torch Lake Fish and Water, Michigan Department of Energy, Great Lakes, and Environment, 05/2023 - 12/2025, $149,830 

Schelly, C. (PI), Apriesnig J. (co-PI), Dyreson, A. (co-PI), Green S. (co-PI), Guo, J. (co-PI), Perlinger, J. (co-PI), Wu, S. (co-PI), Drivers of energy service transitions and impacts on well-being in forest dependent rural communities, U.S. EPA, 07/2023 - 06/2027, $1,249,999 

Perlinger, J.A. (PI), Urban, N.R. (co-PI), Extent of PFAS Contamination in the Lake Superior Tribal Fishery, Subcontract to Keweenaw Bay Indian Community Award through the Bureau of Indian Affairs from the EPA Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, 10/2023 - 09/2025, $142,867 

 Perlinger, J.A. (PI), Brueshaber, S. (co-PI), AGS-FIRP Track 1: Lake-induced Inversion Trapping of Emissions on the Superior Coast, National Science Foundation, 7/15/24 - 6/30/25, $37,207

Completed Projects

Urban, N.R. (PI), Perlinger, J.A. (co-PI), Gagnon, V.S. (co-PI), “Assessment of Risk to the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community from Cumulative Toxicity of Chemical Contaminants in Lake Superior, Torch Lake, and Portage Lake Fish“, Subcontract to Keweenaw Bay Indian Community Award through the Bureau of Indian Affairs from the EPA Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Contract A21AV00944, September 15, 2021 – June 30, 2023: $107,534.

Urban, N.R. (PI), Perlinger, J.A., (co-PI), “Data Gap on Responses of Fish PCB Content to Remedial Actions“, Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy Area of Concern Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, July 1, 2021 – February 28, 2022: $35,522.

Development of Methods to Analyze Persistent, Bioaccumulative, Toxics in Fish (Principal Investigator), Portage Health Foundation, 2018–20.

Can Reductions in Great Lakes Fish PCB Concentrations be Achieved by Management of PCBs in Atmospheric Deposition? (Principal Investigator) 2017-18 Indiana Department of Environmental Management

ASEP Project (Principal Investigator) 2013-18 National Science Foundation #ICER-1313755

Torch Lake AOC: History, Status, and Prognosis (Co-Principal Investigator) 2012-15 NOAA SeaGrant

Graduate Student Scholarships to Advance an Outlook of Economic and Social Prosperity that Protects the Environment (Principal Investigator) National Science Foundation 2008-12

Measurement and Modeling of PBT Transport in Lake Superior (Principal Investigator) Great Lakes Commission 2006-09

Michigan BioSentinel Herring Gull Cooperative Agreement (Principal Investigator) Clemson University, 2006-08

Measurement of Polybrominated Diphenyl Ether Atmospheric Concentrations and Fluxes in Lake Superior using MCCDs (Principal Investigator) Great Lakes Commission 2004-06

Comparison of Technologies for PBT Flux Determination (Principal Investigator) U.S. EPA Great Lakes National Protection Office 2004-06

Analytical PTV-GC-MS System to Measure Vapor and Particle Concentrations of (Semi)-Volatile Organic Chemicals (Principal Investigator) U.S. Department of Agriculture 2003-05

Micrometeorological Measurement of Air-water Exchange Rates of PBTs in Lake Superior (Principal Investigator) Michigan Great Lakes Protection Fund 2000-03

National Science Foundation, Research Planning Grant (Principal Investigator) Reductive Dehalogenation in the Environment: Verification of Model Systems 1997-99