EAGER: PPER Citizen Science-Based Monitoring Framework for Contaminants of Emerging Concern in New York State Lakes

在药品和个人护理产品中发现的一些化学物质进入废物流，并正在成为日益引起关注的污染物。这个公民科学研究项目的目的是制定一个以教育和培训为基础的框架，以便利公民监测员调查水生环境中新出现的令人关切的污染物的流行情况。该项目的研究人员正在与纽约州的全州湖泊评估项目合作，招募和培训市民参与对污染物清单上一类化学物质的现场监测。该团队还在探索公民科学项目的参与如何提高公民对当地水质问题的理解和参与，该项目为公民、本科生和研究生提供跨学科的培训和教育，以及其他形式的推广活动。该研究项目将公民科学纳入新兴关注的污染物研究，以便收集纽约湖泊中这些污染物发生的必要数据。这项研究为公民科学研究提供了两个重要的见解：1)回答了如何扩大已建立的公民科学水监测项目的规模，以整合更具挑战性的数据收集和分析形式，例如在新出现的污染物的情况下；2)一个可扩展的基于公民的污染物监测框架，可以被其他水质监测项目采用。总体而言，该项目不仅收集了有关新出现的污染物的重要信息，而且还创建了一种监测方法，可广泛用于改善湖泊和流域管理。正在及时向公民监督员和项目合作伙伴通报新出现的问题污染物监测和风险评估的结果，以促进有效参与和实现知识共享。

A number of chemicals found in pharmaceuticals and personal care products find their way into waste streams and are becoming contaminants of emerging concern. This Citizen Science research project aims to develop an educational and training-based framework to facilitate citizen monitors to investigate the prevalence of contaminants of emerging concerns in aquatic environments. The project researchers are working collaboratively with the Statewide Lake Assessment Program in New York to recruit and train citizens to participate in on-site monitoring a class of chemicals found on the list of contaminants. The team is also exploring how participation in the citizen science project enhances citizen understanding and engagement with local water quality problems, and the project provides interdisciplinary training and education for citizens and undergraduate and graduate students as well as with other forms of outreach activitiesThis research project integrates citizen science into contaminants of emerging concern research in order to collect needed data on the occurrence of these contaminants in New York lakes. This research offers two important insights into citizen science research: 1) answering how established citizen science water-monitoring programs can be scaled up to integrate more challenging forms of data collection and analysis, as in the case of contaminants of emerging concerns, and, 2) a scalable framework for citizen-based contaminant monitoring that can be adopted by other water quality monitoring programs. Overall, this project not only collects vital information on contaminants of emerging concerns but also creates a monitoring methodology that can be used widely to improve lake and watershed management. Results of contaminants of emerging concerns monitoring and risk assessment are being communicated to citizen monitors and project partners in a timely manner to promote effective participation and enable knowledge sharing.