My groundwater analysis will continue over the next few weeks. My sampling sites are located around The Living Filter, both the Gamelands and Astronomy sites (See below). The wells where I collect samples are monitoring wells that are used to determine the potential impacts of The Living Filter on the groundwater system. Over the next few weeks, I will extract the four antibiotics of interest from the groundwater samples and then analyze them via liquid chromatography and tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS).

The Living Filter sites at Penn State’s University Park campus.

Satellite image of one sampling location southeast of the Astronomy Site.

Groundwater samples ready to be analyzed.