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Coral reef resilience is eroding at multiple spatial scales globally, with broad implications for coastal communities, and is thus a critical challenge for managing marine social-ecological systems (SESs). Many researchers believe that external stressors will cause key coral reef...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to review exposure assessment issues that need to be addressed in designing and interpreting epidemiology studies of phthalates, a class of chemicals commonly used in consumer and personal care products. Specific issues include population tre...

Living conditions are an important modifier of individual health outcomes and may lead to higher allostatic load (AL). However, housing-induced cardiovascular and immune effects contributing to altered environmental responsiveness remain understudied. This investigation was condu...

Secondary organic aerosol (SOA) from acid-driven reactive uptake of isoprene epoxydiols (IEPOX) contributes up to 40% of organic aerosol (OA) mass in fine particulate matter. Previous work showed substantial conversions of particulate inorganic sulfates to surface-active organosu...

Objectives:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Harmful blue-green algae (HBGA) exposure can cause illness or death in humans and animals. We characterized 13 years of American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) Animal Poison Control Center (APPCC) HBGA call data; com...

Abstract Pattern-focused environmental equity research has been underpinned by high-resolution remotely sensed data to uncover spatial relationships between environmental amenities (e.g., urban tree cover) and socio-economic status (SES). A constraint imposed by reliance on high...

Extensive research in recent years has reported higher per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance (PFAS) concentrations in municipal solid waste (MSW) landfill leachate than other municipal wastewaters, including multiple studies of leachate from MSW landfills in the United States. Becau...

Climate change could add a variety of uncertainties to hydrological processes and water resources. Very limited efforts have been devoted to applying the US-EPA (Environmental Protection Agency)&rsquo;s Hydrologic and Water Quality System (HAWQS) model for predicting climate chan...

Air pollution monitoring using mobile ground-based measurement platforms can provide high-quality spatiotemporal air pollution information. As mobile air quality monitoring campaigns extend to entire fleets of vehicles and integrate smaller-scale air quality sensors, it is import...

To address our climate emergency, &ldquo;we must rapidly, radically reshape society&rdquo;&mdash;Johnson &amp; Wilkinson, All We Can Save. In science, reshaping requires formidable technical (cloud, coding, reproducibility) and cultural shifts (mindsets, hybrid collaboration, inc...

Relationships between toxicity and chemical hydrophobicity have been known for nearly 100&nbsp;years in mammals and fish, typically using the log of the octanol:water partition coefficient (Kow). The current study reassessed the influence of mode of action (MOA) on acute aquatic ...

Hypoxia, or low dissolved oxygen (DO) is a common outcome of excess nitrogen and phosphorus delivered to coastal waterbodies. Shallow and highly productive estuaries are particularly susceptible to diel-cycling hypoxia, which can exhibit DO excursions between anoxia (DO &le;1&nbs...

The increasing environmental and human health concerns about lead in the environment have stimulated scientists to search for microbial processes as innovative bioremediation strategies for a suite of different contaminated media. In this paper, we provide a compressive synthesis...

Rationale In stable isotope mass spectrometry, isotope delta values are normalized to internationally recognized reference scales using a combination of certified and in-house isotope reference materials. Numerous techniques exist for performing this normalization, but these meth...

The usage of multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) has increased exponentially in the past years, but, potential toxicity mechanisms are not clear. We studied the transcriptomic alterations induced by one multiwalled carbon nanotube (MWCNT) and its &ndash;OH and &ndash;COOH func...

A goal of coral reef management is to provide habitat and nursery areas for fish populations. This requires simple and reliable methods for characterizing biological and physical reef features that contribute to fish habitat. Most attempts to establish this relationship have been...

Ball milling was used to fabricate a nanocomposite of 20% hickory-biochar (600&deg;C) and 80% expanded vermiculite (20%-BC/VE). This novel adsorbent had much higher removal of As(V) from aqueous solution than ball-milled biochar and expanded vermiculite. Characterization of these...

Smooth cordgrass&nbsp;Spartina alterniflora&nbsp;and Atlantic ribbed mussels&nbsp;Geukensia demissa&nbsp;have a mutualism whereby&nbsp;S. alterniflora&nbsp;provides substrate and shade for&nbsp;G. demissa&nbsp;while&nbsp;G. demissa&nbsp;enhances&nbsp;S. alterniflora&nbsp;growth a...

Many coastal states throughout the USA have observed negative effects in marine and estuarine environments caused by cyanotoxins produced in inland waterbodies that were transported downstream or produced in the estuaries. Estuaries and other downstream receiving waters now face ...

Development of effective pollution mitigation strategies require an understanding of the pollution sources and factors influencing fecal pollution loading. Fecal contamination of Turkey Creek in Gulfport, Mississippi, one of the nation's most endangered creeks, was studied throug...

The first phase of a national scale Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) model calibration effort at the HUC12 (Hydrologic Unit Code 12) watershed scale was demonstrated over the Mid-Atlantic Region (R02), consisting of 3036 HUC12 subbasins. An R-programming based tool was devel...

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) have been detected in an array of environmental media due to their ubiquitous use in industrial and consumer products as well as potential release from fluorochemical manufacturing facilities. During their manufacture, many fluorotelome...

The aquatic environment has been recognized as a source of antibiotic resistance (AR) that factors into the One Health approach to combat AR. To provide much needed data on AR in the environment, a comprehensive survey of antibiotic-resistant bacteria (ARB), antibiotic resistance...

Concerns about the safety of manufacturing and using engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) have been increasing as the technology continues to expand. Efforts have been underway to investigate the potentially harmful effects of ENMs without carrying out the challenging empirical studie...

Shallow continental shelves support productive pelagic and benthic communities. This study examined primary productivity at a shallow shelf region in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico focusing on the effect of light on water column and benthic productivity at water depths between 1...