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This is a presentation on the effects of wildfire on air and water quality for the ACE webinar series

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New approach methodologies (NAMs) are being evaluated for their utility to inform developmental neurotoxicity (DNT) hazard instead of using animals. This work compares predictive models for DNT using DNT NAMs data. The dataset comprised 200 chemicals screened in 17 DNT assays wit...

As the risks of climate change impacts become more apparent and more severe, communities need ways to plan, adapt, and transform in order to increase resilience. Disasters cause widely disparate impacts on communities and populations with differential vulnerability, making necess...

This poster, &ldquo;Building Factors Influencing Indoor Air Quality During Wildfire Smoke Events,&rdquo; provides an overview of the results and significance of a field study conducted in Missoula County, MT examining indoor air quality in public and commercial buildings during a...

Communities across the world are experiencing a myriad of impacts from intensifying extreme heat, flood, drought, and wildfire events due to climate change. Further impacts can be experienced due to nearby contaminated sites and waste management facilities that are either activel...

Read-across is a data-gap filling technique utilised to predict the toxicity of a target chemical using data from similar analogues. Read-across is predominantly performed as part of an expert-driven assessment which can impeded broad acceptance. Data-driven approaches such as Ge...

Background and Purpose: Health effects of inhaled smoke from military burn pits include increased incidences of cardiopulmonary diseases, sinonasal disease, and cancers of the nervous system. Burn pit smoke is a complex mixture of particulate matter (PM), volatile organic compoun...

Combustion of mixed materials during open air burning of refuse and housefires produces emissions that worsen air and water quality and cause adverse health effects. The purpose of this study was to assess the irritant potential of extractable organic material of smoke condensate...

Burn pits are a method of open-air waste management that was common during military operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other regions in Southwest Asia. Veterans returning from deployment have reported respiratory symptoms, potentially from exposure to burn pit smoke, yet compre...

Combustion of mixed materials during open air burning of refuse or structural fires in the wildland urban interface produces emissions that worsen air quality, contaminate rivers and streams, and cause poor health outcomes including developmental effects. The zebrafish, a freshwa...

Journal article submitted to EcoHealth - (Abstract) - Lyme disease (LD) is the most common vector-borne disease in the United States (U.S.). This paper assesses how climate change may influence LD incidence in the eastern and upper midwestern U.S., and the associated economic bur...

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...

Permafrost soils store &sim;50% of terrestrial C, with Yedoma permafrost containing &sim;25% of the total C. Permafrost is undergoing degradation due to thawing, with potentially hazardous effects on landscape stability and water resources. Complicating ongoing efforts to project...

Career Day at East Cary Magnet Middle School

Brief overview of Earth Observation science and water quality for middle to high school age children.

Concern over exposure to and potential health effects of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) continues to increase as more is learned about their environmental persistence and human bioaccumulative potential. With PFAS estimates ranging to over 10,000, the limited exposure...

Agricultural soils are increasingly undergoing inadvertent and purposeful exposures to engineered CeO2&nbsp;nanoparticles (NPs), which can impact crops and root-associated microbial communities. However, interactions between NP concentration and exposure duration on plant-mediate...

Climate change presents cascading and compounding threats to low-income and underrepresented communities, increasing the need for equitable resilience planning. However, many local governments face challenges incorporating community voices with resilience and vulnerability data i...

Before the era of fossil fuel use, water provided power for industrial processes in the USA through a ubiquitous network of dams and mills. This infrastructure was constructed concurrently with widespread deforestation and sedimentation during the 18th through 20th centuries caus...

The increasing trend in the frequency and intensity of extreme precipitation events and associate flooding has been well documented within the Southeastern U.S. using the historical climate records. Studies also describe dramatic ecosystem responses to extreme events with a plaus...

Adverse outcome pathways (AOPs) are a framework for organizing scientific information concerning the linkage between biological perturbations measured at low levels of biological organization (e.g., molecular, biochemical, cellular) and adverse effects of concern for risk assessm...

This book chapter addresses the topic of chemical toxicokinetics in fish. Introductory sections provide an overview of chemical absorption, distribution, and excretion, and highlight how adaptations of fish to their aquatic environment shape these processes. An extended section o...

Enhanced Aquifer Recharge (EAR) is the process of enhancing the natural conveyance of water into the subsurface to augment water supplies. Karst geology offers a natural mechanism for recharge and covers 20% of the U.S. land surface. The potential impacts to groundwater flow foll...

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...