Richard Honour

Richard Honour

Mar 11, 2015

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Polyethylene plastic strips passively sample volatile chemical emissions from land-applied sludge

There is too much going on at once. What we need is a lab operations manager. These bottles are different from the other bottles, with regard to what they sample from the sewage sludge. The volatiles coming off the forest-disposed sewage sludge are likely much more dangerous to wildlife and human and environmental health than had been anticipated. The sludge-tolerant forest soil fungi of our interest are contributing to these toxic volatiles - Hmmm!

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The Precautionary Group

We've discovered a few new mushrooms thriving in this harsh environment of land-disposed sewage sludge in Snoqualmie, Washington. We're testing these mushrooms for new antimicrobial properties. Microbes that survive exposure to toxic sewage sludge engage adaptive mechanisms that transform toxins into secondary metabolites.

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