Phosphorus Cycling in Stream Biofilms

2017-05-31

Phosphorus Cycling in Stream Biofilms

2017-05-31

Collaborators

PJ Sullivan (Cornell University), JM Regan (Penn State), HJ Carrick (Central Michigan University), AR Buda (USDA-ARS), NA Locke (Penn State), MT Walter (Cornell University)

Timeline

2014-2015

Project Goal

The goal of this project was to test (1) the impact of alternating anaerobic/aerobic conditions on phosphorus cycling in stream biofilms and (2) whether observed patterns mimicked those of polyphosphate accumulating organisms (PAOs) in specialized waste-water treatment plants.

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Acknowledgements

Special thanks to the Mianus River Gorge Preserve Research Award Program and the EPA STAR Program for supporting this work.

modeling water-quality phosphorus

sheila m. saia, PhD

Associate Director

Publications

SM Saia, HJ Carrick, AR Buda, JM Regan, MT Walter. Critical Review of Polyphosphate and Polyphosphate Accumulating Organisms for Agricultural Water Quality Management. ES&T (and preprint via EarthArxiv), 2021.

Preprint PDF Dataset Project

SM Saia, PJ Sullivan, JM Regan, HJ Carrick, AR Buda, NA Locke, MT Walter. Evidence for polyphosphate accumulating organism (PAO)-mediated phosphorus cycling in stream biofilms under alternating aerobic/anaerobic conditions. Freshwater Science, 2017.

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