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While dry-bulb temperature remains a familiar method for communicating heat hazards, metrics tailored to human health concerns &ndash; such as heat index and wet bulb globe temperature &ndash; are more holistic assessments of extreme temperature events&rsquo; potential for heat-r...

This repository contains data for the manuscript &ldquo;Three centuries of biogeochemical change in a temperate embayment as revealed by sediment cores stable isotopes and historical ecology&rdquo;, by Sawyer J. Balint, Morgan Schwartz, Andrew Gray, Tim Cranston, Robinson W. Fulw...

The dataset contains &sim;1.1 million records of total green- house gases directly emitted annually by economic sectors and households in the US from 2012-2020. Data are given for 16 unique greenhouse gases by 118 aggregate sectors for each state, and as totals by these aggregate...

INTRODUCTION: Coccidioidomycosis is an emerging fungal infection caused by inhalation of airborne spores of the Coccidioides genus. While Coccidioides immitis has been detected in soils across California, successful recovery of C. immitis from air samples has so far been limited ...

Impoverished and under-served communities are often exposed to the worst environmental and climate hazards. Identifying these communities and building their resilience capacity to withstand such hazards is a vital justice aspect of environmental management. Building community res...

EPA Wildfire Research: Impacts on Air and Water Quality WESTAR-WRAP Spring Business Meeting 2024, Riverside, California Wildland fire smoke impacts millions of people in the United States every year. The EPA&rsquo;s Office of Research and Development is addressing our increasingl...

Protein processing operations utilize large volumes of water for hair/hide/feather removal, carcass washing, chilling, trimming and cutting, cooking, cleaning and sanitation, etc. The generated wastewater is typically treated onsite and discharged to municipal wastewater treatmen...

Basal increases in ambient temperature and regional temperature spikes are associated with changes in weather patterns, increases in wildfires and other natural disasters. This pattern of climate change directly or indirectly impacts human health and lifestyle, especially in vuln...

The threat of cascading and compounding disasters in low-income and underrepresented communities with hazardous and polluting sites makes urgent the need to build resilience. The Equitable Resilience Builder (ERB) is a new tool designed for situations where capacity and resources...

In this poster for the National Adaptation Forum 2024, we will identify and categorize literature published in the last 20 years that addresses observed health benefits and burdens of NbS with respect to vulnerable communities experiencing climate change. Using a visual approach ...

Regional climate models can be leveraged to dynamically downscale global climate models (GCMs) to limited area domains to increase spatial and temporal resolution of future climate projections to better inform local stakeholders and community resilience decisions.&nbsp; Recently,...

Presentation to Climate and Health Symposium at University of Miami

Climate change is a result of human behavior and has differentiated effects on communities and peoples around the United States and the globe. It is inextricably tied to a history of human development and decision-making—from individuals to organizations to entire societies. For ...

Forest composition and ecosystem services are sensitive to anthropogenic pressures like climate change and atmospheric deposition of nitrogen (N) and sulfur (S). Here we extend recent forest projections for the current cohort of trees in the contiguous US, characterizing potentia...

Seagrass meadows and oyster beds are important coastal systems that provide many benefits. When these habitats are located near each other, benefits may include improved water quality and increased carbon storage. In two RI salt ponds, habitat zones sampled included eelgrass beds...

For many coastal areas around the Puget Sound, the interplay between weather, surface water, soils, evapotranspiration and groundwater flows is critical to modeling stream flow and predicting quantity and timing of flows under climate change. In this presentation, we introduce an...

Climate change is associated with increased ambient temperatures, more frequent and longer-lasting heatwaves, and increased air pollution from widespread wildfires, all of which are likely to exacerbate stress-related disorders. We hypothesized that stress caused by subchronic hi...

  Effective governance of social-ecological systems (SES) is an enduring challenge, especially in coastal environments where accelerating impacts of climate change are increasing pressure on already stressed systems. While resilience is often proposed as a suitable f...

Anthropogenic disturbances have increased the frequency, area, and intensity of eutrophic events in coastal ecosystems, harming seagrass and macrofauna. The Pawcatuck River and Little Narragansett Bay (CT/RI) is a small, shallow estuary with zones of hypoxia due to algal growth. ...

The Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) convened a Pellston workshop in 2022 to examine how information on climate change could be better incorporated into the ecological risk assessment (ERA) process for chemicals as well as other environmental stressors. A...

Shellfish harvesters have been reporting decadal declines in the landings of quahogs (Mercenaria mercenaria) from Narragansett Bay, but the roles of local, oceanic and climate-related factors is unclear.&nbsp;&nbsp;Ocean and coastal acidification are one piece of this complex puz...

This is a lecture to the Colorado Produced Water Consortium to review methods that are used by EPA to evaluate chemicals and mixtures.

Climate change has created the need for innovate methods for the management of groundwater and the augmentation of groundwater supplies in areas that are susceptible to drought as well as other climate related problems such as saltwater intrusion. This will create an enhanced dep...

Pelagic-benthic coupling provides essential ecosystem functions, including energy transfer in surface and deep ocean food webs, regulation of biogeochemical cycling, and climate feed-back mechanisms. Despite its importance, access to long-term data sets of export production throu...

This is a set of slides to be used in &quot;scrolling slide&quot; fashion during an EPA Networking Session at the National Adaptation Forum (NAF) in St. Paul, Minnesota on Wednesday, May 15th. The session will feature art from the Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5) as part ...