{"id":294,"date":"2025-04-21T18:31:37","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T18:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/hoskins\/?page_id=294"},"modified":"2025-07-01T16:17:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T16:17:27","slug":"294-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/hoskins\/294-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Agricultural Biosolids-Associated PFAS Contamination in Constructed Farm Ponds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div  class=\"section has-padding-bottom-small  page-layout-wide\">\n    <div class=\"container\">\n                \n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Agricultural Biosolids-Associated PFAS Contamination in Constructed Farm Ponds<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column extra-padding-right is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:70%\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Agricultural biosolids applications, where solid wastes from wastewater are reconstituted into land-applied fertilizers, are common in the United States. Because biosolids contain per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), runoff into ponds can expose pond biota to PFAS. Our preliminary data suggests that biosolids-impacted ponds leads to exposure and bioaccumulation of a diverse suite of PFAS, including transformable PFAS precursors. Our studies are aimed at quantifying if and how biosolids-associated PFAS enter ponds, how they bioaccumulate and move through food webs, if and how precursor PFAS are transformed, and whether these exposures lead to adverse effects on individuals or communities. We are pursuing these questions through a combination of field sampling and experiments, both in the laboratory and in mesocosms with simulated pond communities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"377\" src=\"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/hoskins\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Research-Agricultural-Biosolids-1024x377.png\" alt=\"Different sea creatures graphic\" class=\"wp-image-268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/hoskins\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Research-Agricultural-Biosolids-1024x377.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/hoskins\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Research-Agricultural-Biosolids-300x110.png 300w, https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/hoskins\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Research-Agricultural-Biosolids-768x283.png 768w, https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/hoskins\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Research-Agricultural-Biosolids-1536x565.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/hoskins\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Research-Agricultural-Biosolids.png 1755w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-294","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/hoskins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/hoskins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/hoskins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/hoskins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/hoskins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/hoskins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":520,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/hoskins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/294\/revisions\/520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/hoskins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}