{"id":31320,"date":"2024-05-07T16:43:15","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T20:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/?p=31320"},"modified":"2024-05-07T16:43:15","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T20:43:15","slug":"dianne-kopec-quoted-in-portland-press-herald-article-on-pfas-in-birds-and-wildlife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/2024\/05\/07\/dianne-kopec-quoted-in-portland-press-herald-article-on-pfas-in-birds-and-wildlife\/","title":{"rendered":"Dianne Kopec quoted in Portland Press Herald article on PFAS in birds and wildlife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2072 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2013\/11\/iStock_000027801545XSmall1-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"White tailed deer\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2013\/11\/iStock_000027801545XSmall1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2013\/11\/iStock_000027801545XSmall1-105x70.jpg 105w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2013\/11\/iStock_000027801545XSmall1.jpg 425w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2013\/11\/iStock_000027801545XSmall1-317x210.jpg 317w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2013\/11\/iStock_000027801545XSmall1-423x281.jpg 423w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 85vw, (max-width: 768px) 67vw, (max-width: 1024px) 62vw,300px\" \/>Mitchell Center Faculty Fellow <a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/people\/dianne-kopec\/\">Dianne Kopec<\/a> was quoted in a Portland Press Herald article on PFAS in birds and wildlife. The article, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/2024\/05\/06\/high-levels-of-forever-chemicals-in-maine-birds-add-to-concern-about-food-chain\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">High levels of forever chemicals in Maine birds add to concern about food chain<\/a>&#8221; discusses the work researchers in Maine are conducting to try to understand how perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, are affecting fish, birds and mammals. Kopec is working on projects with 91¸£Àû&#8217;s Chatfield Lab on PFAS build up in wood turtles, and with the Wildlife Disease Genetics Lab at 91¸£Àû on a study of forever chemical exposure in wild game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can\u2019t forget that we share this planet,\u201d Kopec said in the article. \u201cHumans made PFAS, and if we can make it, we can clean it up. It won\u2019t be easy, but it\u2019s a problem that we must fix.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mitchell Center Faculty Fellow Dianne Kopec was quoted in a Portland Press Herald article on PFAS in birds and wildlife. The article, &#8220;High levels of forever chemicals in Maine birds add to concern about food chain&#8221; discusses the work researchers in Maine are conducting to try to understand how perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":957,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","spc_primary_category":-1},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":3,"label":"News"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"mitchellcenter","author_link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/author\/mitchellcenter\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":3,"name":"News","slug":"news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":609,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":609,"category_description":"","cat_name":"News","category_nicename":"news","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/957"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31323,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31320\/revisions\/31323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}