UM graduate and undergraduate students collected water, sand, and seaweed samples for lab analysis, as the study will also determine the distribution of bacteria concentrations at beaches. The children, who were required to have no abrasions, open wounds or scabs that would allow potentially harmful bacteria to invade their bodies, also underwent a battery of other tests, including having their hands pressed in sand and later rinsed to determine how much of it adheres to their skin after a typical play period.

We’ll be looking at everything,” said Ferguson. When combined with behavioral-tracking software and an algorithm, the footage will help Alesia Ferguson, associate professor at Arkansas’s College of Public Health, build a predictive model of activity patterns to establish a health-risk assessment. So far, video footage of 25 children at Crandon Park and 25 more at Haulover Beach has been taken. Funded by the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI), which was created through a $500 million commitment from BP to examine the long-term environmental impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, BEACHES is a collaborative study involving UM, the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. Using video footage, special software and data, the Beach Exposure and Child Health Study, or BEACHES, will document in detail the behavioral play patterns of 100 children ages 1 to 6 at two beaches in metropolitan Miami-Crandon Park and Haulover-and two in Galveston, Texas, with the ultimate goal of understanding “the risks to recreational beach use at oil-contaminated beaches,” said Solo-Gabriele. Now we’re actually quantifying it,” said Helena Solo-Gabriele, a University of Miami professor of environmental engineering who is the lead investigator on a new study examining children’s play behavior at beaches in Florida and Texas.

“We’ve always known that when children play at the beach they engage in certain behaviors that put their health at risk, especially if they’re at a contaminated beach.

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