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NHEERL Scientist Visits Kazakhstan To Review Collaborative Research Project
The EPA Office of International Activities manages a U.S. State Department-funded program to redirect the activities of former Soviet Union biological weapons scientists toward peaceful ends. Richard Devereux, a research microbiologist at NHEERL’s Gulf Ecology Division, along with scientists from NRMRL-Cincinnati conducted site visits to evaluate progress, facilities, and methods for a project that is investigating microbiological approaches to mitigate mercury-contaminated groundwater. Scientists in Kazakhstan are beginning bench-scale pilot tests to examine the performance of bacteria they isolated that sequester or precipitate mercury from solution. The ORD team will visit the Institute of Microbiology and Virology in Almaty and the chemical manufacturing complex near Pavlodar where the contamination occurs.