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In-situ burning (ISB) is the controlled burning of oil spilled from a vessel or pipeline. There were multiple ISB events after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on April 20, 2010, including 410 ISBs conducted by the Coast Guard [1]. Proponents of ISB suggest that it offers a rapid ...

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...

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 made up of metals, salts, nutrients, and organic matter. Due...

Seagrass beds play a critical role in biodiversity maintenance, serving as nursery habitats for fisheries, and aiding in carbon and sediment sequestration in the ecosystem. These habitats receive dissolved and particulate material inputs, like nutrients and heavy metals, aff...

Computational fluid dynamics simulations are used to model the velocity field and the transport of a passive scalar within a micro-scale chamber used to measure diffusional transport through various building materials.  Comparisons of solutions obtained using a steady, lamin...

The economic and methodological efficiencies of environmental DNA (eDNA) based survey approaches provide an unprecedented opportunity to assess and monitor aquatic environments. However, instances of inadequate communication from the scientific community about confidence levels, ...

Wastewater is a source for many contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) and surface waters receiving wastewater discharge often serve as source water for downstream drinking water treatment plants. Non-targeted analysis and suspect screening methods were used to characterize chem...

Under the best of circumstances, achieving or sustaining optimum ecological conditions in estuaries is challenging. Persistent information gaps in estuarine data make it difficult to differentiate natural variability from potential regime shifts. Long-term monitoring is key for t...

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are used in various industrial products; however, they pose serious health risks. In this study, soil, soil gas, and groundwater samples were collected at a PFAS manufacturing facility in New Jersey, USA, to determine the presence and di...

It is estimated there are more than 500,000 abandoned mines in the United States, and many of the highly toxic and dangerous mines are listed on the Superfund National Priority List (NPL). In EPA Region 8; mines, smelters, and mills make up more than 50% of the NPL sites, and EPA...

This single slide provides a brief overview of the macroalgae sampling that we have done at ACESD. It will be presented in a 5 minute overview during a workshop to look at macroalgae monitoring in Narragansett Bay and the Rhode Island coastal area.

The Northeast Lakes Sediment Diatom Collaborative (NLSDC) is committed to improving the management of northeastern U.S. lakes by assessing their current and past ecological integrity using sediment diatoms (i.e., microscopic siliceous algae). Through a Regional Applied Research E...

This forecasting approach may be useful for water managers and associated public health managers to predict near-term future high-risk cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms (cyanoHAB) occurrence. Freshwater cyanoHABs may grow to excessive concentrations and cause human, animal, and...

Few field methods are available for characterizing source zones impacted with aqueous film forming foam (AFFF). Non-invasive geophysical characterization of AFFF source zone contamination in situ could assist with the delineation and characterization of these sites, allowing for ...

Impervious surface cover increases peak flows and degrades stream health, contributing to a variety of hydrologic, water quality, and ecological symptoms, collectively known as the urban stream syndrome. Strategies to combat the urban stream syndrome often employ engineering appr...

This presentation will be given at Air & Waste Management Association's The Science of PFAS Conference. It provides a general overview of Other Test Method 50, a recently released method for analyzing volatile fluorinated compounds from sources. The method's applicability, sa...

Benthic harmful cyanobacteria blooms (HCBs) pose a significant threat to domestic animals, wildlife, and humans. They are a growing concern especially in the west. State, tribal, and local agencies need greater understanding of the risk posed by benthic HCBs. While The Interstate...

U.S. states, tribes, and local agencies need consistent approaches to characterize the relative risk posed by harmful benthic cyanobacteria proliferations and to inform mitigation practices. USEPA is addressing this need with multi-year, multi-site field research and controlled e...

This presentation will be given at the 45th Conference for Stationary Source Sampling and Analysis for Air Pollutants. It will be included in the "EPA Highlights" session where EPA staff will provide a summary of the past year's key developments in air emissions measure...

The analysis of contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) has been an ongoing priority due to their potential for adverse effects on environmental and human health. Wastewater is a source for many CECs, and surface waters that receive wastewater discharge often serve as source wate...

This subproduct contains text and pictures for an update/extension of the EPA Emergency Response Research's Analysis for Coastal Operational Resiliency (AnCOR) webpage (https://www.epa.gov/emergency-response-research/analysis-coastal-operational-resiliency). It describes the wide...

Background/Objectives: Contaminated sediments are present at 36% of active National Priority List sites in the United States, and remediation of these sediments to reduce human health or ecological risk can be costly and complex. Over the last few decades, passive sampling device...

Hester-Dendy (HD) multi-plate samplers have been widely used by state and federal government agencies for bioassessment of water quality through use of macroinvertebrate community data. To help guide remediation and restoration efforts at the Niagara River Great Lakes Area of Con...

Bench top and pilot lead corrosion studies are gaining more interest, considering revisions and upcoming improvements to the Lead and Copper Rule. This literature review identified studies ranging from simpler month(s)-long bench top dump-and-fill stagnant water tests (coupon tes...

Lead corrosion assessment tools (i.e., desktop studies, bench top studies, pilot studies, diagnostic drinking water sampling for metals and pipe scale analysis) are used for fundamental or applied research by academic groups, as well as for voluntary operational improvements or f...