JoRee WClay LaFrance

Research

"Contaminant Behavior in the Indige-FEWSS nexus: Addressing the concentration- discharge relationship in the Little Bighorn River watershed, Crow Reservation, Montana"

My project seeks to characterize the connection between the behaviors of pollutants and seasonal river flows happening throughout the hydrologic year in the Little Bighorn River on the Crow Reservation. I hope to configure the concentration-discharge relationship by coalescing in situ multiparameter EXO2 sonde devices, high frequency sample collection, and chemical analyses in the Arizona Laboratory for Emerging Contaminants. Resolving the impacts of hydrologic controls over contaminant concentrations as a function of discharge in the Little Bighorn River watershed is important in understanding exposure pathways and risks to Apsáalooke people.

(Headshot credit to B. Yellowtail)