Ken Burkhart wins the Mary Cline Undergraduate Research Award

Ken Burhart holds the low-cost sampling device that he designed to sample periphyton from lakes contaminated with arsenic

Ken Burkhart holds up the low-cost sampling device that he designed to sample periphyton from lakes contaminated with arsenic. 

Ken Burkhart was recently awarded the Mary Cline undergraduate Research Award which will provide $1000 for him to continue the research he does with UW SRP co-principal investigator, Jim Gawel. Burkhart and Gawel are researchers on Project 4 which tracks arsenic in the water column and food chain of shallow lakes near Tacoma Washington that were contaminated by the now-defunct ASARCO smelter. More information on their project is available here.