Major
Environmental Science
Anticipated Graduation Year
2020
Access Type
Open Access
Abstract
This study was conducted to gauge if the nesting location in the city of Chicago is negatively impacting the health of the Black Crowned Nigh Heron. This was executed by using inductively coupled plasma- mass spectrometry to analyze the concentration of 7 heavy metals (As, Cd, Cr, Cu, Ni, Pb, Zn) in 90 samples of eggshells collected at LPZ. Concentrations were blocked by year and comparisons between the start of nesting season (May) and the end (July) were drawn.
Community Partners
Lincoln Park Zoo Urban Wildlife Institute
Faculty Mentors & Instructors
Dr. Laura Brentner, Faculty Mentor, IES
Supported By
Dr. Maureen Murray, Wildlife Disease Ecologist, Davee Center for Epidemiology and Endocrinology and Urban Wildlife Institute
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.
Temporal Analysis of Heavy Metal Content in Black-Crowned Night Heron Eggshells Collected at the Lincoln Park Zoo
This study was conducted to gauge if the nesting location in the city of Chicago is negatively impacting the health of the Black Crowned Nigh Heron. This was executed by using inductively coupled plasma- mass spectrometry to analyze the concentration of 7 heavy metals (As, Cd, Cr, Cu, Ni, Pb, Zn) in 90 samples of eggshells collected at LPZ. Concentrations were blocked by year and comparisons between the start of nesting season (May) and the end (July) were drawn.