Details are Available on Some of Our Projects

39 projects have been funded for a total of $20,525,143 over the past 5 years (2008-2013).  See CV section on "funded projects" for a complete listing of projects .

• "High Tier Foreign Expert Program” Minister of Education, China, To J.P. Giesy through Nanjing University. 2012-2013. (¥ 120,000 RMB), $18,682.


• “Marine Biogeochemistry and Ecotoxicology Program of Introducing Talents of Discipline to Universities ("111" Program). Ministry of Education and the State Administration of Foreign Experts, China to State Key Lab of Marine Environmental Science, Xiamen University. 2012-2016, (¥ 4,500,000 RMB), $710,900


• “Sino-Canadian cooperation on microbial and phytoremediation technologies for clean-up of PAHs and heavy metals contaminated soils in Shanxi industrial regions”. Shanxi Science and Technology Department. (No. 2012081010), 2012.01-2013.12, (350,000¥) $55,074.


• “Expansion and commercialization of in vitro screening assays for the detection and assessment of endocrine disrupting potentials of chemicals, waste- and drinking-water. Networks of Centres of Excellence – Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems (NCE-MITC), Inc., 2011-2012, ”$15,000.


• “Expansion and commercialization of in vitro screening assays for the detection and assessment of endocrine disrupting potentials of chemicals, waste- and drinking-water.” Communities of Tomorrow, 2011-2012, $30,000


• Canada Excellence Research Chair in Water Security. "Exotic Chemical Contaminants in the South Saskatchewan River Basin". 2011-2014, $590,000.


• Canada Excellence Research Chair in Water Security. "A Paleolimnological Investigation of Lake Diefenbaker". 2011-2014, $375,117.


• Syncrude, Inc and NCERC CRD Program. “The Base Mine Lake Toxicity Identification and Evaluation Study; Advancing knowledge for water reclamation and return.”, 2012-2015, $1,000,000


• National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). “Novel Natural and Synthetic Brominated Compounds in the Environment” Discovery Grants Program, 2012-2017, $200,000.


• State Key Laboratory for Marine Pollution, Hong Kong, Seed Grant. “Health Risk Assessments of Residents in the Pearl River Delta Exposed to Brominated Flame Retardants” $114,213, 2010-2011.


• State Key Laboratory for Marine Pollution, City University of Hong Kong. Hong Kong. “Understanding the Estrogen Dynamics and Longevity Gender Gap in Medaka”. $25,380, 2010-2011.


• State Key Laboratory for Marine Pollution, City University of Hong Kong. Hong Kong. “Unraveling Tissue-Specific Mechanisms for In Vivo Regulation of Estrogen Target Genes in Medaka”. $45,685, 2010-2011.


• State Key Laboratory for Marine Pollution, City University of Hong Kong. Hong Kong. “Development of Novel Technology for Early Diagnosis and Monitoring of Immunotoxic Pollutants in the Marine Environment”. $12,690, 2010-2011.


• Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada. “Analysis of Fish Collected from the Slave River NWT in Fall and Winter 2011-2012”. $125,000, 2011-2012.


• National First Nations Environmental Contaminants Programme Health Canada. “In Land and Life: Cadmium and Health Implications for Indigenous Communities in Central Alberta”. $264,960, 2011-2013.


• State Key Laboratory for Marine Pollution, City University, Hong Kong. “Health risk assessments of residents in the Pearl River Delta exposed to brominated flame retardants (BFRs)” $115,696 ($900,000 HKD), 2012-2014


• Hong Kong Research Grants Council. “Uncovering the Molecular Links Between Hypoxia and Endocrine Disruption: A Functional Study of Zebrafish Leptin” $125,407 ($977,500 HKD, 2011-2014


• King Saud University Vice Rector for Research. “Global Research Network for Environmental Science”. $520,000 Saudi Rials ($138,653), 2011-2012


• King Saud University, Visiting Professor Program. “Beneficial Uses of Natural Brominated Chemicals in the Marine Environment”. 2011-2013, $130,000


• National Plan for Science and Technology of Saudi Arabia. .“Effects of Polybrominated Flame Retardants from Electronic Waste on the Cellular DNA and Carcinogenesis.” 2011-2013, 1,996,000 Saudi Rials ($532,218)


• Western Economic Diversification of Canada and Enterprise Saskatchewan. "Development of Technology to Extract Petroleum Hydrocarbons and Waste Products from Oil Sands". 2010-2013, $2,035,700.


• Teckcominko, Inc. "Toxicological Assessment of White Sturgeon (Acipenser transmontana) in the Upper Columbia River - Water Related Issues" 2008, $1,227,645.


• Mid Saskatchewan Regional Economic and Co-operative Development. “Investigation of Nutrient Sources and Causes of Algal Blooms in Lake Diefenbaker, Saskatchewan.” 2008-2009, $100,000.


• Oak Foundation. "Contaminants and Fish Health in the Athabasca River". 2010-2011, $250,000.


• National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), and Canada Institute for Health Research, Canada Health Research Program, Institute of Infection and Immunity (III). “Impact of Common Environmental Chemicals on the Allergy and Asthma Epidemic”. 2009-2012, $616,591.


• Teck American Inc. “Sediment Toxicity Testing on Early Life-Stages of White Sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus)”. 2010-2011, $554,162.


• U.S. EPA Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, Toxic Substances and Areas of Concern, Program: I-A-6 Great Lakes Sediment Core Surveillance Program.  2010-2015, $2,575,518.
• National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).  “CREATE Training Program in Human and Ecological Risk Assessment (HERA)”.  2010-2015, $1,634,292.


• Chinese Ministry of Education.  "Study on marine environmental physiology and toxicology" , 2010-2014, (3,000,000 RMB) $439,303.


• Hong Kong General Research Fund (GRF).  “Understanding the relationship between gender, estrogen and telomere biology in fish: Towards developing an alternative vertebrate model for aging studies” No: 9041468, 2009-2012 (HK$730,000).  $93,590.


• Hong Kong Research Grants Council, Group Research Program Centre for Marine “Environmental Research and Innovative Technology (MERIT)”.  2009-2012 ($66,600,000 HKD) $8,538,461.


• Hong Kong Research Grants Council, Group Research Program.  “Environmental Screening, Computational and Biological Characterization of Endocrine Disruptors in Respect to Receptor Binding, Embryo and Gonad Physiology.  2009-2012, (45,000,000 HKD) $ 641,026.


• Alberta Water Research Institute. “Safe, Secure Water Supplies in Alberta”. 2008-2010, $3,300,000.


• Teck American Inc. “Pilot Study to Develop Methods for Studying the Potential Effects of Metals in Sediments on White Sturgeon (Acipenser transmontana) Larvae”. 2010, $101,046.


• Royal University Hospital Foundation. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. “Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals: Potential Effects on Female ReproductiveHealth in Saskatchewan”. 2011-2013, $24,956.00.


• Dow Chemical Co. “Dynamics of Polychlorinated Dibenzo Furans in Tissues of Japaese Quail, Chickens and Turkeys”. 2008-2009, $658,000.


• Teckcominko, Inc. “Assessment of Surface Water Toxicity to White Sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus) in the Upper Columbia River. 2009-2010. $966,299


• Hong Kong General Research Fund (GRF). “Understanding the relationship between gender, estrogen and telomere biology in fish: Towards developing an alternative vertebrate model for aging studies” No: 9041468, 2009-2012 (HK$730,000). $93,590.


• Western Economic Diversification Foundation (Canada).  “Establishment of a Novel Toxicology Research, Development and Chemical Testing Industry in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.  2009-2011.  $1,770,000.