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Evaluating sustainability stewardship at higher educational institutions is essential to working towards improving our environment. Many institutions have used environmental footprint indicators as a way to evaluate, track, and improve their impact on the environment. In this art...

Changes in nitrogen (N) availably affects the ability for forest ecosystems to store carbon (C). Here we undertake an analysis of the growth and survival of 94 tree species and 1.2 million trees, to estimate the incremental effects of N deposition on changes in above ground carbo...

Critical loads (CLs) and target loads (TLs) of atmospheric deposition of sulfur (S) and nitrogen (N) specify the thresholds of air pollution above which damage to ecosystems is expected to occur and are used to inform environmental regulation and natural resource management. Mode...

Major ion concentrations in freshwaters are increasing in many world regions due to diverse causes such as:&nbsp; land use change, resource extraction, climate change, saltwater intrusion, and accelerated weathering.&nbsp; Freshwater Salinization Syndrome (FSS) refers to the inte...

The intrinsic metabolic clearance rate (Clint) and the fraction of the chemical unbound in plasma (fup) serve as important parameters for high-throughput toxicokinetic (TK) models, but experimental data are limited for many chemicals. Open-source quantitative structure–activity r...

Certain species within the genus Pseudo-nitzschia are able to produce the neurotoxin domoic acid (DA), which can cause illness in humans, mass-mortality of marine animals, and closure of commercial and recreational shellfisheries during toxic events. Understanding and forecasting...

Water resources are critically important but also pose risks of exposure to toxic and pathogenic microbes. Increasingly a concern are toxic cyanobacteria, which have been linked to the death and disease of humans, domesticated animals, and wildlife in freshwater systems worldwide...

We used a data-driven approach in which all-possible combinations of 2-7 metrics were compared for three measures of performance. After ranking the best-performing MMIs, we selected the final MMIs by evaluating stress-response relations in independent regional datasets of diatom ...

The degree of water mixing in the critical zone is under intense debate. Field measurements of isotope ratios indicate varying degrees of separation between pools of water that supply streams and vegetation. The exact physical mechanisms behind ecohydrologic separation are unknow...

Abstract: As the climate warms, wildfires are increasing in size and intensity, posing a risk to human health and sensitive ecosystems. Studies have reported on particulate matter (PM) in wildfire smoke; however, the chemicals associated with PM, including toxic metals, have rece...

We used a dynamic soil-vegetation model (ForSAFE-Veg) to simulate responses to future scenarios of atmospheric deposition and climate change across 23 Northeastern hardwood stands. Specifically, we simulated soil percent base saturation, acid neutralizing capacity (ANC), nitrate ...

Ocean acidification and eutrophication have direct, positive effects on the growth of many marine macroalgae, potentially resulting in macroalgal blooms and shifts in ecosystem structure and function. Enhanced growth of macroalgae, however, may be controlled by the presence of gr...

Forest understory plant communities in the United States are diverse and often sensitive to changes in climate and atmospheric inputs of nitrogen (N) caused by air pollution. Recently, understory vegetation response functions (expressed as Probability of Occurrence of Plant Speci...

Watershed modeling in 20 large, United States (U.S.) watersheds addresses gaps in our knowledge of streamflow, nutrient (nitrogen and phosphorus), and sediment loading sensitivity to mid-21st Century climate change and urban/residential development scenarios. Use of a consistent ...

Direct monitoring of chemical concentrations in different environmental and biological media is critical to understanding the mechanisms by which human and ecological receptors are exposed to exogenous chemicals. Monitoring data provides evidence of chemical occurrence in differe...

&nbsp; Air pollution has been associated with metabolic diseases and hepatic steatosis-like changes. We have shown that ozone alters liver gene expression for metabolic processes through neuroendocrine activation. This study aimed to further characterize ozone-induced changes and...

Nitrogen oxides (NOx=NO2NO2) play a crucial role in the formation of ozone and secondary inorganic and organic aerosols, thus affecting human health, global radiation budget, and climate. The diurnal and spatial variations in NO2 are functions of emissions, advection, deposition,...

Climate change threatens biodiversity through global alteration of habitats, but efficient conservation responses are often hindered by imprecise downscaling of impacts. Besides thermal effects, warming also drives important ancillary environmental changes, such as when river hyd...

Social network analysis (SNA) tools and concepts are essential for addressing many environmental management and sustainability issues. One method to gather SNA data is to scrape them from environmental organizations&rsquo; websites. Web-based research can provide important opport...

Lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush), collected from 13 remote lakes located in southwestern Alaska, were analyzed for carbon, nitrogen, and mercury (Hg) stable isotope values to assess the importance of migrating oceanic salmon, volcanic activity, and atmospheric deposition to fish...

Eutrophication&nbsp;and excessive algal growth pose a threat on aquatic organisms and the health of the public, environment, and the economy. Understanding what drives excessive algal growth can inform&nbsp;mitigation measures&nbsp;and aid in advance planning to minimize impacts....

Nutrient enrichment is a major issue to many inland and coastal waterbodies worldwide, including Chesapeake Bay. River water quality integrates the spatial and temporal changes of watersheds, thus monitoring forms the foundation for disentangling the effects of anthropogenic inpu...

Nitrophenols (NPs) are&nbsp;hazardous pollutants&nbsp;found in various environmental matrices, including ambient fine&nbsp;particulate matter&nbsp;(PM2.5), agricultural residues, rainwater, wildfires, and&nbsp;industrial wastes. This study showed for the first time the effect of ...

Airborne particulate matter (PM) is a pollutant of concern not only because of its adverse effects on human health but also on visibility and the radiative budget of the atmosphere. PM can be considered as a sum of solid/liquid species covering a wide range of particle sizes with...

Beginning in 2015, the U.S. EPA&rsquo;s National Estuary Program (NEP) started a collaboration with partners in seven estuaries along the East Coast (Barnegat Bay; Casco Bay), West Coast (Santa Monica Bay; San Francisco Bay; Tillamook Bay), and the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) Coast (Tam...