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The Clean Air Act requires the Environmental Protection Agency to set National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) to protect the public health and welfare against exposures to the “criteria” air pollutants. EPA has identified six criteria pollutants, including ozone...

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...

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...

Time is an important, but underappreciated component in chemical safety decisions. An estimated 15% of the chemicals in domestic commerce have traditional repeated dose toxicity testing data and even fewer have human health assessments that can be used to inform regulatory action...

Presentation at the MPS World Summit conference 2024, Track 2.7: Modeling diversity and population health with MPS. 

International Workshop Presentations and Materials: Environmental exposures and public health.  John will be presenting on the broad topic of Environmental priorities and intervention strategies.  The attached presentations will be provided to the international audience...

Seagrasses are often touted for their ability to remove CO2 from the water and sequester it in the sediments as “Blue Carbon”.  Further, seagrasses have been hypothesized to be refugia for calcifying organisms that are sensitive to coastal acidification.  Ho...

With increasing concerns about freshwater cyanobacteria blooms, there is a need to identify which waterbodies are at risk for developing these blooms, especially those that produce cyanotoxins. To address this concern, we developed spatial statistical models using the US National...

In-situ measurements of optically active indicators of water quality are used to develop and validate spatiotemporally robust and cost-effective satellite remote sensing algorithms. Outputs from water quality algorithms routinely inform policymaker decisions that impact environme...

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...

Develop genus level, trait based multimetric diatom index (MMI) to assess ecological condition of rivers/streams across U.S. Compliment NRSA Macroinvertebrate/Fish MMIs.

Introduction: Acrolein is a significant component of anthropogenic and wildfire emissions, as well as cigarette smoke. Although acrolein primarily deposits in the upper respiratory tract upon inhalation, patterns of site-specific injury in nasal versus pulmonary tissues are not w...

Background: Prescribed fires often have ecological benefits, but their environmental health risks have been infrequently studied. We investigated associations between residing near a prescribed fire, wildfire smoke exposure, and heart failure (HF) patients' hospital utilizat...

Identification of potential pathogens that present risks to human health in recreational waters is necessary to advance in-depth water quality assessments. Despite the application of PCR techniques for environmental pathogen detection, only limited information is usually availabl...

The San Juan Bay Estuary (SJBE) is an interconnected system of streams, bays, lagoons, and canals located in a highly urbanized area in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Due to the rapid rate of urbanization, some communities across the SJBE have limited access to or are impacted by failure...

The ability to identify human sewage in environmental, municipal storm system drains, and other waste flows is important to protect public health and natural water resources.  A recent study reports the complete genome sequence of ΦB124-14, a bacteriophage capable of inf...

Microplastics (MPs) in aquatic environments accumulate a biofilm known as the plastisphere, a microbial community unique from that of the surrounding water and from biofilms that form on natural substrates. The plastisphere is known to accumulate pathogens and bacteria with antib...

Storm sewer system outfall discharges can be a source of human sewage potentially harboring clinically relevant antibiotic resistance (AR) bacteria and their genes.  These drainage networks primarily collect and discharge untreated stormwater from rain events (‘wet&rsq...

Background: The U.S. Federal Government has supported the generation of extensive amounts of nanomaterials and related nano Environmental Health and Safety (nanoEHS) data, there is a need to make these data available to stakeholders. With recent efforts, a need for improved inter...

Eutrophication of inland lakes poses various societal and ecological threats, making water quality monitoring crucial. Satellites provide a comprehensive and cost-effective supplement to traditional in situ sampling. The Sentinel-2 MultiSpectral Instrument (S2 MSI) offers unique ...

Aims: This study aimed to provide operationally relevant SARS-CoV-2 surface disinfection efficacy information. Methods and Results: Disinfectants were evaluated against SARS-CoV-2 on material coupons and were tested using Spray (no-touch with contact time) and Spray & Wipe (wipe...

Urban areas are built environments containing substantial amounts of impervious surfaces (e.g., streets, sidewalks, roof tops). These areas often include elaborately engineered drainage networks designed to collect, transport, and discharge untreated stormwater into local surface...

Climate impacts increasingly unfold in interlinked systems of people, nature, and infrastructure. The cascading consequences are revealing sometimes surprising connections across sectors and regions, and prospects for climate responses also depend on complex, difficult-to-underst...

Wild pigs are an invasive species found globally that pose significant economic impact and a serious risk to local ecosystems, agriculture, and public health. Fecal contamination of water is one of these public health concerns as wild pigs have been shown to carry pathogenic ente...

Uranium, a naturally occurring element used in military and industrial applications, accumulates in the skeletal system of animals and humans. Evidence from animal and in-vitro studies demonstrates that uranium exposure is associated with alterations in normal bone functions. The...