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2016 Spring | Agriculture and Food Systems, Arts & Humanities, Education & Outreach, Environmental Justice

How to improve fish advisories to communicate risks and benefits to protect public health

Student(s):

John Gabat

Program or Department(s):

  • Program on the Environment
  • University of Washington

Site supervisor(s):

Dr. Rhonda Kaetzel and Dr. Arthur Wendel

Partner(s):

  • Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, Region 10

Faculty advisor(s):

Marilyn Ostergren, Information Science at the University of Washington

I created a data table to identify fish advisories in ATSDR region 10 that are superfund site related. I was interested in this project because I have experience fishing freshwater water bodies like Lake Washington and really noticed a lack of information regarding safe consumption of fish. Identifying fish advisories that are site related helps focus on the most potentially degraded water bodies that can have major impacts to human health via ingestion of contaminated fish species.