{"id":137,"date":"2025-08-22T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/?p=137"},"modified":"2025-09-02T17:09:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T17:09:54","slug":"one-year-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/?p=137","title":{"rendered":"One Year On"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bpEfROHSc7A?si=XDZ9G7WXFCPWkg9t\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Compared to forever, 12 months may not seem like a very long time. But a lot has happened since PFAS \u201cforever chemicals\u201d spilled in Brunswick a year ago this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On August 19, 2024, an accidental release of approximately 1,450 gallons of PFAS-based firefighting foam concentrate mixed with 50,000 gallons of water occurred in Hangar 4 on the former Brunswick Naval Air Station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Post spill, Bigelow Laboratory researchers continue to conduct regular monitoring of PFAS in Harpswell Cove, as well as across Casco Bay. Along with Senior Research Scientist <strong>Christoph Aeppli<\/strong>, Research Technician <strong>Hannah Sterling<\/strong> has played an active role in collecting and analyzing samples.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hannah shared details about the event in a recent Caf\u00e9 Sci talk titled \u201c<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bpEfROHSc7A\">PFAS in Casco Bay: Tracking the Fate of Forever Chemicals on Maine\u2019s Coast<\/a><\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-a89b3969 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width-50\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-base-color has-custom-blos-light-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bigelow.org\/services\/pfas\/brunswick\/index.html\">Learn More about Post-Spill Monitoring<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Compared to forever, 12 months may not seem like a very long time. But a lot has happened since PFAS \u201cforever chemicals\u201d spilled in Brunswick a year ago this week. On August 19, 2024, an accidental release of approximately 1,450 gallons of PFAS-based firefighting foam concentrate mixed with 50,000 gallons of water occurred in Hangar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","css_class_manager_body_classes":"","css_class_manager_use_in_post_loop":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-maine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":765,"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions\/765"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}