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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
Metal-based nanoparticle interactions with the nervous system: The challenge of brain entry and the risk of retention in the organism
(JOURNAL) [Published : Jun 30, 2013]
This review of metal and metal-oxide based nanoparticles focuses on factors that influence their distribution into the nervous system, evidence that they enter brain parenchyma, and nervous system responses. Emphasis is placed on gold as a model metal-based nanoparticle and for r...
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...
2011
Microwave-Assisted Green Synthesis of Silver Nanostructures
(JOURNAL) [Published : Apr 28, 2011]
This account summarizes a microwave (MW)-assisted synthetic approach for producing silver nanostructures. The rapid and in-core MW heating has received considerable attention as a promising new method for the one-pot synthesis of metallic nanostructures in solutions. Conceptually...
Use of Computed Tomography Imaging for Qualifying Coarse Roots, Rhizomes, Peat, and Particle Densities in Marsh Soils
(JOURNAL) [Published : Sep 01, 2011]
Computed tomography (CT) imaging has been used to describe and quantify subtidal, benthic animals such as polychaetes, amphipods, and shrimp. Here, for the first time, CT imaging is used to successfully quantify wet mass of coarse roots, rhizomes, and peat in cores collected from...
Use of Computer-Aided Tomography (CT) Imaging for Quantifying Coarse Roots, Rhizomes, Peat, and Particle Densities in Marsh Soils
(PRESENTATION) [Presented : Nov 06, 2011]
Computer-aided Tomography (CT) imaging was utilized to quantify wet mass of coarse roots, rhizomes, and peat in cores collected from organic-rich (Jamaica Bay, NY) and mineral (North Inlet, SC) Spartina alterniflora soils. Calibration rods composed of materials with standard dens...
2010
Application of Time Domain Reflectometers in Urban Settings
(JOURNAL) [Published : Mar 25, 2010]
Time domain reflectometers (TDRs) are sensors that measure the volumetric water content of soils and porous media. The sensors consist of stainless steel rods connected to a circuit board in an epoxy housing. An electromagnetic pulse is propagated along the rods. The time, or per...
Assessment of Roots, Rhizomes, and Soil Respiration in Disturbed Wetlands
(PRESENTATION) [Presented : Aug 01, 2010]
Accelerated sea level rise and cultural eutrophication are anthropogenic stressors known to alter the structure and function of salt marsh ecosystems. Many salt marshes in Jamaica Bay (NY) are reported to be disappearing at an alarming rate, approximately 35 - 40 acres per year....
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...
Mass Flux Measurements of Arsenic in Groundwater (Battelle Conference)
(PRESENTATION) [Presented : May 27, 2010]
Concentration trends of arsenic are typically used to evaluate the performance of remediation efforts designed to mitigate arsenic contamination in groundwater. A complementary approach would be to track changes in mass flux of the contaminant through the subsurface, for exampl...
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...
Microwave-Assisted Synthesis of Nano-materials in Aqueous
(BOOK CHAPTER) [Published : Nov 01, 2010]
Whether it is termed a revolution or simply a continuous evolution, clearly development of new materials and their understanding on smaller and smaller length scale is at the root of progress in many areas of materials science.1 This is true in developing existing bulk materials...
Understanding and Controlling iron Release in Distribution Systems
(PRESENTATION) [Presented : Aug 11, 2010]
Generation of red-water resulting from the release of iron from drinking water distribution system materials is a major consumer complaint of drinking water systems. The objective of this presentation is to provide a fundamental basis for iron release from drinking water distrib...
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...
Effect of Phosphate Inhibitors on the Formation of Lead Phosphate/Carbonate Nanorods, Microrods and Dendritic Structures
(JOURNAL) [Published : Feb 20, 2009]
There are several factors which influence the corrosion rate of lead, which in turn morphs into different crystal shapes and sizes. Some of the important factors are: alkalinity, pH, calcium, orthophosphate and silica. Low to moderate alkalinity decreases corrosion rates, while ...