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2023
Assessing Polysubstance Overdoses An Expanded Biosurveillance Strategy for Public Health Practice
(PUBLISHED REPORT) [Published : Oct 31, 2023]
Assessing Polysubstance Overdose: An Expanded Biosurveillance Strategy for Public Health Practice serves as guidance for public health agencies interested in developing and implementing an effective and impactful non-fatal polysubstance overdose biosurveillance program in their j...
2022
Overview of the WHO and Canadian Water Network Guidelines on Ethical Issues Related to Public Health and Wastewater Surveillance
(PRESENTATION) [Presented : Mar 24, 2022]
The presentation will summarize 2 formally published documents. The first one is the World Health Organization the report broadly addresses  public health surveillance.  The second is a statement from the Canadian Water Network, Canadian Coalition on Wastewater-rel...
2021
Human Wastewater Surveillance: A New Opportunity for Microbial Source Tracking
(PRESENTATION) [Presented : Dec 03, 2021]
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought unprecedented challenges and innovations in public health surveillance in the United States and across the world.  The ability to characterize trends in community infection via the study of local wastewater has reminded the public that sewer...
2019
Acute Eucalyptus Smoke Inhalation Sensitizes Rats to the Postprandial Effects of a High Carbohydrate Oral Load
(PRESENTATION) [Presented : Mar 12, 2019]
Previous studies have shown that air pollution exposure primes body systems to heightened responses to everyday activities that stress the cardiovascular (CV) system. The goal of this study was to investigate the impacts of a one-time exposure to eucalyptus smoke (ES) on the post...
2017
Human health effects and remotely sensed cyanobacteria
(PRESENTATION) [Presented : Nov 13, 2017]
Cyanobacteria blooms (HAB) pose a potential health risk to beachgoers, including HAB-associated gastrointestinal, respiratory and dermal illness. We conducted a prospective study of beachgoers at a Great Lakes beach during July – September, 2003. We recorded each participan...
2016
Resilience
(BOOK CHAPTER) [Published : Feb 25, 2016]
Resilience is an important framework for understanding and managing complex systems of people and nature that are subject to abrupt and nonlinear change. The idea of ecological resilience was slow to gain acceptance in the scientific community, taking thirty years to become widel...
Validation of the WRF-CMAQ Two-Way Model with Aircraft Data and High Resolution MODIS Data in the CA 2008 Wildfire Case
(BOOK CHAPTER) [Published : Feb 11, 2016]
A new WRF-CMAQ two-way coupled model was developed to provide a pathway for chemical feedbacks from the air quality model to the meteorological model. The essence of this interaction is focused on the direct radiative effects of scattering and absorbing aerosols in the tropospher...
2015
Critical insights for a sustainability framework to address integrated community water services: Technical metrics and approaches
(JOURNAL) [Published : Jun 15, 2015]
Planning for sustainable community water systems requires a comprehensive understanding and assessment of the integrated source-drinking-wastewater systems over their life-cycles. Although traditional life cycle assessment and similar tools (e.g. footprints and emergy) have been ...
2013
2012
Lakes Ecosystem Services Online
(DATA/SOFTWARE) [Published : Sep 19, 2012]
Northeastern lakes provide valuable ecosystem services that benefit residents and visitors and are increasingly important for provisioning of recreational opportunities and amenities. Concurrently, however, population growth threatens lakes by, for instance, increasing nutrient ...
Optimal Expansion of a Drinking Water Infrastructure System with Respect to Carbon Footprint, Cost Effectiveness and Water Demand
(JOURNAL) [Published : Nov 15, 2012]
Urban water infrastructure requires careful long-term expansion planning to reduce the risk from climate change during both the periods of economic boom and recession. As part of the adaptation management strategies, capacity expansion in concert with other management alternativ...
2010
Essentiality, Toxicity and Uncertainty in the Risk Assessment of Manganese
(JOURNAL) [Published : Jan 01, 2010]
Risk assessments of manganese by inhalation or oral routes of exposure typically acknowledge the duality of manganese as an essential element at low doses and a toxic metal at high doses. Previously, however, risk assessors were unable to describe manganese pharmacokinetics quant...
Microwave-Assisted Synthesis of Bio-Active Heterocycles and Fine Chemicals in Aqueous Media
(BOOK CHAPTER) [Published : Nov 01, 2010]
Human health, especially in the aging population, mostly depends on various medicines, and researchers are combating against emerging diseases by new drug discovery. Heterocyclic compounds hold a special place among pharmaceutically active natural products as well as synthetic co...
2009
Developing Predictive Toxicity Signatures Using In Vitro Data from the EPA ToxCast Program
(PRESENTATION) [Presented : Mar 18, 2009]
A major focus in toxicology research is the development of in vitro methods to predict in vivo chemical toxicity. Numerous studies have evaluated the use of targeted biochemical, cell-based and genomic assay approaches. Each of these techniques is potentially helpful, but provide...
2008
DRINKING WATER SECURITY AND PUBLIC HEALTH DISEASE OUTBREAK SURVEILLANCE
(JOURNAL) [Published : Mar 21, 2008]
Journal Article
2006
DEVELOPING AND ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF A SOCIO-TECHNOLOGICAL RESOURCE-USE FEEDBACK SYSTEM FOR IMPROVING THE ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE OF BUILDINGS AND INSTITUTIONS
[Published : Aug 31, 2006]
<p>The built environment is responsible for two-thirds of U.S. electricity consumption and over 15 trillion gallons of water used annually. On college campuses, a significant percentage of total energy and water consumption takes place within dormitories. Personal choices can s...
PUBLIC HEALTH AIR SURVEILLANCE EVALUATION ( PHASE ): WHAT IS IT? WHERE HAS IT BEEN? WHERE IS IT GOING?
(PRESENTATION) [Presented : Feb 06, 2006]
NERL's Human Exposure and Atmospheric Sciences Division and other participants in the Public Health Air Surveillance Evaluation (PHASE) project will be discussing their results at the EPA Air Quality Conference in San Antonio, Texas on February 6, 2006. The PHASE project is a co...
PUBLIC HEALTH AIR SURVEILLANCE EVALUATION (PHASE) - A SUMMARY
(PRESENTATION) [Presented : Jan 25, 2006]
NERL's Human Exposure and Atmospheric Sciences Division and other participants in the Public Health Air Surveillance Evaluation (PHASE) project will be discussing their results with European Commission, Directorate General Environment, and <br><br>French Agency for Environment an...
TOXCAST, A TOOL FOR CATEGORIZATION AND PRIORITIZATION OF CHEMICAL HAZARD BASED ON MULTI-DIMENSIONAL INFORMATION DOMAINS
[Published : Feb 13, 2006]
Across several EPA Program Offices (e.g., OPPTS, OW, OAR), there is a clear need to develop strategies and methods to screen large numbers of chemicals for potential toxicity, and to use the resulting information to prioritize the use of testing resources towards those entities a...
2005
CHARACTERIZING AIR QUALITY FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PUBLIC HEALTH
(PRESENTATION) [Presented : Oct 25, 2005]
NERL's Human Exposure and Atmospheric Sciences Division and other participants in the Public Health Air Surveillance Evaluation (PHASE) project will be presenting their results to the Environmnetal Public Health Tracking (EPHT) workshop in Tampa FL. The PHASE project is a collab...
PUBLIC HEALTH AIR SURVEILLANCE EVALUATION (PHASE): BACKGROUND AND AIR QUALITY ASPECT
(PRESENTATION) [Presented : Dec 07, 2005]
NERL's Human Exposure and Atmospheric Sciences Division and other participants in the Public Health Air Surveillance Evaluation (PHASE) project will be discussing their results with the New York State Departments of Health and Environmental Conservation. The PHASE project is a ...
RELATING AIR QUALITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL PUBLIC HEALTH TRACKING DATA
(PRESENTATION) [Presented : Oct 06, 2005]
Initiated in February 2004, the Public Health Air Surveillance Evaluation (PHASE) Project is a multi-disciplinary collaboration between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the U.S Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and three Environmental Public Health Track...
TECHNICAL GUIDANCE FOR THE APPLICATION OF CAFO MANURE TO LAND IN THE WINTER
[Published : May 30, 2005]
The purpose of the paper is to present technical guidance to which EPA Region 5 will refer as we work together with those states that intend to allow concentrated animal feeding operations to apply manure to land in the winter. For this purpose, Region 5 assumes that the risk of...