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Communities across the United States are enduring, often unexpectedly, the effects of extreme events, such as excessive heat, prolonged droughts, extreme floods, and wildfires. In places where contaminated sites and waste management facilities are also present, communities must c...

Increasing water shortages and aging infrastructure have broadened interest in using alternative source waters for a range of end uses. Developing fit-for-purpose treatment approaches requires consideration of both the proximal risks of reuse-related exposures and the more distal...

The Bayesian network (BN) session at the SETAC North America 44th Annual Meeting was conducted for the sixth consecutive year. Since its inception in 2018 during the SETAC North America annual meeting in Sacramento, the BN session has grown into a multi-faceted platform for the p...

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...

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...

Permafrost soils store ∼50% of terrestrial C, with Yedoma permafrost containing ∼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...

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...

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...

In urban systems, a wide variety of processes, including increasing impervious surface cover, road salt application, sewage leaks, and weathering of the built environment, contribute to novel chemical cocktails that are comprised of metals, salts, nutrients, and organic matter. D...

Climate change is projected to impact river, lake, and wetland hydrology, with global implications for the condition and productivity of aquatic ecosystems. We integrated Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 based algorithms to track monthly surface water extent (2017–2021) for 32 sit...

Environmental managers responsible for the oversight and management of aboveground storage tanks (ASTs) can benefit from increased awareness of vulnerabilities, risks, and increased environmental impacts associated with climate change.  In this context, we are focused on the...

Climate change and it's impact on watersheds and water quality is an primary concern of resource managers at the regional, state, and federal level. This presentation provides a high-level overview of EPA water quality modeling projects and tools in the context of climate change....

Federal agencies are increasing efforts to provide support to local communities for climate adaptation and hazard resilience. This involves engaging communities using approaches to understand and address problems holistically, particularly where equity and environmental justice a...

Increasing and inequitable impacts from climate change and other hazards are a growing concern for communities and a focus of planning efforts. This research, conducted through case studies with several U.S. communities, explores and develops ways to center equity in resilience p...

This is the public informational webinar presentation for the request for applications (RFA) EPA-G2024-STAR-C1 titled "Coastal Ecosystems Climate Resilience".

At this regular project meeting with the NEWMOA Materials and Climate group, we provide a quick overview of the original consumption-based emissions inventory approach and plan, and then provide some interim results for four states: CT, ME, NY, and VT.

An overview of the consumption-based emission inventory being performed for Maine and other northeast states, with some preliminary results for Maine.  Many U.S. states are seeking quantitative information to inform the development of policies and plans to manage their green...

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

The dataset contains ∼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...

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...

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...

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.  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 ...