microbial bioremediation of toxic heavy metals
j sinopoli
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looking for examples of in situ microbial bioremediation of legacy heavy metals on the shoreline of Newtown Creek, so far using portable metals testing XRF + genetics labs. since 2021 we are taking soil microbiology samples along the multi THM contaminated shoreline, plus some cleaner sites (restored brownfields, urban farms, community gardens, native wildflower nurseries, old growth forests, restored river grasses) for reference
we're a growing team of volunteer microbiologists + geochemists which welcomes assistance from coders to help us find or create tools to make data visualizations of our local data. csv + raw files available upon request
keywords metagenomics, metallomics, bioavailability, bioremediation, bioimmobilization, biomineralization, biotransformation, biogeochemistry, geomicrobiology, geomycology, heavy metal toxicology, metal uptake
Danny Thu 1 Sep 2022 2:33PM
I choose Tuesdays but if that's a not good then please let me know and I can edit the poll accordingly
Patrick Ferner Wed 30 Nov 2022 3:43PM
Hello! I'm a software engineer looking to help out and I think I could be of use with data processing and data visualization. @j sinopoli are you looking help at this time?
j sinopoli Wed 30 Nov 2022 6:43PM
hi Patrick yes thanks that would be great, are you here in NYC? let's talk sometime
j sinopoli Sat 3 Dec 2022 5:40PM
we'd be grateful for any help
we have 3 separate csv/ods spreadsheets of soil 16S archaea/bacteria + ITS fungi + XRF heavy metals ppm data, so now we're looking for clear visual ways to overlay, correlate or otherwise to decipherably visualize our taxa abundance + ppm csv data. we've also been fantasizing about finding better advanced search spreadsheet lookup tools (ie by phyla genus or species while filtering out low abundances etc)
Danny Fri 5 May 2023 1:53PM
@j sinopoli Was talking to a friend yesterday and I learned that Pumping Station 1 in Chicago has a working NMR which potentially could be used to ID pyromorphite (at least there is enough NMR sensitive Pb in the world for it to theoretically be visible). I'd be curious as to what our AI faerie oracle has to say about how to approach the method.
j sinopoli Mon 26 Jun 2023 9:30PM
there's a state of the art DEP pumping station getting built next to the Dutch Kills site pictured above, maybe they'll have an NMR too. those sound very expensive. maybe we can apply for a DEC technical assistance grant to buy some equipment. the most affordable metals testing tech I've seen is the Sci Aps XRF / LIBS kit, built on Android https://wwwsciaps.com/products/onebox which runs about $80K
Danny Tue 27 Jun 2023 2:34PM
@j sinopoli Well the difference between the DEP and PS1 (Pumping Station 1) is that PS1 is a hackerspace and I know the operator of the NMR so we can potentially send samples if we know how we will use the info.
j sinopoli Mon 26 Jun 2023 9:36PM
which isn't cheap, at that point might as well also buy a shallow water Gibson lab boat to take shoreline soil samples https://www.yachtworld.com/boats-for-sale/make-gibson/ but let's not get carried away
Danny · Tue 13 Sep 2022 3:23PM
@Guillermo L.C. We have a shared zotero library concerning this project. It can be accessed here. I will approve your request to join it so you can share papers with us and see what we have collected on the subject.
Others who are interested in working on this project too are welcome to request to join