Fish tissue selenium body burden study on Bull Creek for the CHS Refinery (McPherson, KS).


Start Date: 2017

End Date: 2018

Full Citation:

CHS Refinery, 2017-2018, $23,000. “Fish tissue selenium body burden study on Bull Creek for the CHS Refinery (McPherson, Kan.).” PI: D. Baker, Co-PI D. Huggins.

Category:

  • Aquatic

Associated with the KU Field Station: No

Research Summary:

In 2017 we collected sediment, water, and fish from Bull Creek in McPherson KS to determine background levels of selenium and potential impacts by the CHS Refinery.

Images:

Two reserachers seine fish in Bull Creek in McPherson Kansas.

A researcher uses a probe to measure water chemistry in Bull Creek, McPherson, Kansas