Assessing contaminant distributions and sources in Castaic Lake, a mercury-impacted reservoir in Los Angeles County, CA

Castaic Lake, located ~65 km from Los Angeles, is the third-largest water storage facility associated with the California (CA) State Water Project and is regularly utilized for fishing and recreation. It is also one of 71 CA reservoirs listed as impaired due to mercury (Hg) concentrations in fish. Despite the existing fish consumption advisory, no studies investigating water qua...

Development of a CSUN GeoAnalytical Center for Research, Teaching, and Outreach in Earth Systems Science

This project will create a “GeoAnalytical Center” within the Department of Geological Sciences (DGS) at California State University, Northridge (CSUN) with the goal of expanding STEM research and educational opportunities in laboratory and computational settings. The GeoAnalytical Center will consolidate existing CSUN DGS research facilities with the requested instrumentation to create an exce...