UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20460
OFFICE OF THE ADMINISTRATOR
SCIENCE ADVISORY BOARD
February 15,2006
EPA-SAB-06-004
The Honorable Stephen L. Johnson
Administrator
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20460
Subject: SAB Report of FY2005 Recommended Scientific and Technological
Achievement Awards (STAA)
Dear Administrator Johnson:
We are pleased to recommend papers published in the peer-reviewed literature for the
2005 Scientific and Technological Achievement Awards. Of 110 nominations, the Panel found
39 worthy of awards and another 31 deserving honorable mention. Of the papers recommended
for awards, three were recommended for the highest award — Level I, six for Level II awards,
and thirty for Level III awards.
The SAB recommends the Agency evaluate the current administrative procedure for the
STAA program to: a) encourage increased numbers of nominated papers from EPA regional and
program offices ; and b) publicly acknowledge the contribution of non-EPA scientists who co-
author the nominated papers.
Thank you for providing us with the opportunity to assist the Agency with this important
program over the last 25 years.
Sincerely,
/signed/ /signed/
Dr. Granger Morgan, Chair Dr. Deborah Cory-Slechta, Chair
EPA Science Advisory Board Scientific and Technological Achievement
Awards Panel (FY2003-2005)
EPA Science Advisory Board
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NOTICE
This report has been written as part of the activities of the EPA Science Advisory Board,
a public advisory group providing extramural scientific information and advice to the
Administrator and other officials of the Environmental Protection Agency. The Board is
structured to provide balanced, expert assessment of scientific matters related to the problems
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contents of this report do not necessarily represent the views and policies of the Environmental
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does mention of trade names or commercial products constitute a recommendation for use.
Reports of the EPA Science Advisory Board are posted on the EPA website at
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ABSTRACT
This report represents the conclusions and recommendations of the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency's Science Advisory Board regarding the FY2005 EPA Scientific and
Technological Achievement Awards (STAA) Program. The STAA Program is an Agency-wide
competition to promote and recognize scientific and technological achievements by EPA
employees, fostering a greater exposure of EPA research to the public. The Program was
initiated in 1980 and is managed by the Office of Research and Development (ORD).
The Agency submitted 110 nominations in eleven categories for review this year. The
categories are: Control Systems & Technology (CS), Ecology, Ecosystem Risk Assessment &
Protection (ER), Environmental Statistics (ES), Health Effects Research and Human Health Risk
Assessment (HE), Integrated Risk Assessment (IR), Monitoring & Measurement Methods
(MM), Review Articles (RA), Risk Management and Ecosystem Restoration (RM), Social
Sciences (SS), Transport and Fate (TF), and Environmental Futures. The Panel recommended
39 nominations (35 percent of the nominations) for awards, and also identified an additional 31
nominations worthy of Honorable Mention. The authors of papers recommended for awards
this year represent the Offices of Air and Radiation; Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic
Substances; Research and Development; Solid Waste and Emergency Response; Water; and
Regions 1, 7 and 9.
The Panel encouraged the Agency to continue support for the STAA program as a
mechanism for recognizing and promoting high quality research in support of the Agency's
mission. The Panel also strongly encouraged that EPA broadly acknowledge and disseminate
the results of the award competition.
KEY WORDS: Awards, Technology, Scientific Achievements, Peer-Review
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Science Advisory Board
Scientific and Technological Achievement Awards Review Panel
FY2003-2005
CHAIR
Dr. Deborah Cory-Slecta, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and Rutgers
State University, Piscataway, NJ
MEMBERS
Dr. Timothy Buckley, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Dr. Calvin Chien, E. I. DuPont Company, Wilmington, DE
Dr. Richard O. Gilbert, Battelle Memorial Institute, Rockville, MD
Dr. Stanley B. Grant, University of California - Irvine, Irvine, C A
Dr. Joseph Landolph, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Dr. Guy Lanza, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
Dr. John P. Maney, Environmental Measurements Assessment, Gloucester, MA
Dr. Michael C. Newman, College of William & Mary, Gloucester Point, VA
Dr. Gary Toranzos, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
SCIENCE ADVISORY BOARD STAFF
Ms. Kathleen White, Designated Federal Officer, Science Advisory Board Staff Office,
Washington, D.C.
IV
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 1
2. PROCEDURE 2
3. RECOMMENDATIONS 4
3.1 General Comments 5
3.2 Administrative Recommendations 6
Appendix A - Nominations Recommended for Awards
A-l
Appendix B - Biosketches B-l
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1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
EPA's Scientific and Technological Achievement Awards was established in 1980 to
recognize Agency scientists and engineers who published their technical work in the peer-
reviewed literature. The STAA program is administered and managed by EPA's Office of
Research and Development (ORD). Each year the EPA Science Advisory Board has been asked
to review EPA's nominated scientific papers and make recommendations to the Administrator
for awards.
At a closed meeting July 19-21, 2005, the SAB Scientific and Technological
Achievement Awards (STAA) Panel reviewed and evaluated the 110 nominations for the
FY2004. The Panel recommended 39 for awards and an additional 31 nominations for honorable
mention. These recommendations appear in Appendix A.
In 2003 and 2004, the Agency honored those EPA authors receiving the highest level of
awards at the annual EPA Science Forum. The SAB supports the Agency's public recognition of
the STAA program to encourage employees to participate, add luster to the awards, and make
the general public more aware of the quality and depth of EPA science. Publication of Agency
science in the peer reviewed literature improves the credibility of Agency decisions on
important scientific issues of specific importance to EPA.
The SAB identifies two issues that warrant a careful review of the current administrative
procedure to ensure the scientific integrity and equity of the award process. Many nominated
papers are also co-authored by non-EPA scientists. The SAB recognizes that the Agency cannot
provide monetary awards to non-EPA employees. However, the SAB believes that any non-
monetary recognition would strengthen partnerships between EPA and external scientific
organizations. In addition, the Agency needs to have full documentation of the relative
contribution of individual authors of each nominated paper.
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2. PROCEDURE
In 2003, the EPA Science Advisory Board convened a Panel to review and evaluate
scientific and technological papers published in peer-reviewed journals by EPA authors and
nominated for the FY2003-2005 Scientific and Technological Achievement Awards (STAA)
program. The panel was formed in accordance with the principles set out in the 2002
commentary of the Science Advisory Board, Panel Formation Process: Immediate Steps to
Improve Policies and Procedures (EPA-SAB-EC-COM-02-003).
In 2005, the Office of Research and Development (ORD) provided 111 nominations, one
of which was subsequently withdrawn (because it had won an award the previous year and had
been forwarded in error). ORD grouped the papers into eleven science and technology
categories and screened the papers for conformance with the nomination guidelines. The Panel
used the 2005 STAA Nomination Procedures and Guidelines, which describes the award levels,
eligibility criteria (including the minimum EPA contribution and employer status of the principal
author), and the criteria the SAB should use to evaluate the nominations. ORD requested the
SAB consider whether the nominations qualified for each level of award. As defined by the
Agency, these are:
a) Level I awards - are for nominees who have accomplished an exceptionally
high-quality research or technological effort. The nomination should recognize
the creation or general revision of scientific or technological principle or
procedure, or a highly significant improvement in the value of a device, activity,
program, or service to the public. It must be at least of national significance or
have high impact on a broad area of science/technology. The nomination must be
of far reaching consequences and recognizable as a major scientific/technological
achievement within its discipline or field of study.
b) Level II awards - are for nominees who have accomplished a notably excellent
research or technological effort that has qualities and values similar to, but to a
lesser degree, than those described under Level I. It must have timely
consequences and contribute as an important scientific/technological achievement
within its discipline or field of study.
c) Level III awards - are for nominees who have accomplished an unusually notable
research or technological effort. The nomination can be for a substantial revision
or modification of a scientific/technological principle or procedure, or an
important improvement to the value of a device, activity, program, or service to
the public. It must relate to a mission or organizational component of the EPA, or
significantly affect a relevant area of science/technology.
d) Honorable Mention - The Panel has also added a fourth non-cash level award for
nominations which are noteworthy but which do not warrant a Level I, II or III
award. Honorable Mention applies to nominations that: (1) may not quite reach
the level described for a Level III award; (2) show a promising area of research
that the Panel wants to encourage; or (3) show an area of research that the Panels
feels is too preliminary to warrant an award recommendation at this time.
Copies of all nominations, the award program guidelines, and nomination evaluation
criteria were provided to the Panel in advance of the review meeting.
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The Panel met on July 19-21, 2005, in Washington, DC. This meeting was closed to the
public to protect the personal privacy of the authors. All panelists were present at the meeting.
Each panelist was asked to review a set of papers suited to his or her expertise. Before the
meeting, the panelists provided their individual initial ratings of the papers which were
subsequently organized onto a summary table and distributed to the Panel. At least two
reviewers considered each nomination.
The Panel discussed the individual rankings and nominations to develop a preliminary
consensus rating for each nomination. The Panel first discussed the rankings on a nomination-
by-nomination basis. In some cases, additional readers reviewed the papers to provide further
insights in their evaluation.
After the panelists achieving consensus on each individual nomination, the Panel
considered whether the papers were correctly rated in comparison with one another. The Panel
compared various rankings and made adjustments, where warranted, until it was comfortable that
the nominations were rated consistently in relationship to one another. Papers being
recommended for awards received particular attention. Nominations that were not initially
recommended for an award were reconsidered to determine whether they might merit either an
Honorable Mention or an award.
The final ranking agreed to at that meeting is a consensus ranking. All nominations
receiving a recommendation for a Level I, II or III award or an Honorable Mention are listed in
Appendix A.
When the Board considered the Panel's report for approval prior to transmittal to the
Agency, it reviewed the Panel report without Appendix A which identifies the award
recommendations.
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3. RECOMMENDATIONS
Table I summarizes the Level I and Level II awards by year since 1996. The smaller
number of awards this year reflects, to some degree, the smaller number of nominations. The
awards criteria remained the same as the previous year.
TABLE I
Comparison of Number of Level I & II Award Recommendations over Time
Award Level
Level I
Level II
Total Level I & H
FY
1997
4
16
20
FY
1998
3
11
14
FY
1999
1
7
8
FY
2000
0
5
5
FY
2001
2
11
13
FY
2002
4
7
11
FY
2003
7
18
25
FY
2004
6
13
19
FY
2005
3
6
9
Table II summarizes the distribution of award recommendations among categories. Of
110 nominations, the Panel recommended 39 for an award and 31 for honorable mention.
TABLE II
Summary Number of Award Recommendations By Category For FY2005
Nomination Categories
Control Systems & Technology (CS)
Ecology, Ecosystem Risk Assessment & Protection
(ER)
Environmental Statistics (ES)
Health Effects Research and Human Health Risk
Assessment (HE)
Integrated Risk Assessment (IR)
Monitoring and Measurement Methods (MM)
Review Articles (RA)
Risk Management & Ecosystem Restoration (RM)
Social Sciences (SS)
Transport and Fate (TF)
Environmental Futures (EF)
TOTALS:
Total
Nom.
5
26
1
6*
2
22
17
6
4
15
6
110*
Award Levels
I
0
1
0
0
0
0
1
0
1
0
0
3
II
0
2
0
0
0
2
0
0
0
2
0
6
III
2
5
1
2
I**
4
8
1
0
5
1
30
Tot
2
8
1
2
1
6
9
1
1
7
1
39
Award
%
40
31
100
33
50
27
53
17
25
47
17
35
Hon.
Men.
1
9
0
2
0
12
0
0
0
4
3
31
* S5 HE 0037 was withdrawn, reducing the number of HE papers from 7 to 6.
**The Panel recommended a Level III award for a nomination in this category together with a nomination of two
related papers in category ER.
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The full list of award recommendations is contained in Appendix A.
Those nominations which were not recommended for awards also contain useful and
important information. The Panel notes that while S5ER0020, Geomorphic andHydrologic
Controls on Surface and Subsurface Flow Regimes in Riparian Meadow Ecosystems, did not
meet the criteria for the STAA Program and could not be rated, it was, nonetheless, very
informative.
3.1 General Comments
Only ten of 110 nominations came from the regional and program offices. Although the
program has been open to scientists and engineers in the regional and program offices for almost
two decades - during which there has been significant outreach — relatively few papers from
these offices are nominated. The Panel is perplexed by the paucity of nominations from the
regions and program offices. Good science is being done there, but little of it finds its way into
the STAA nominations.
The numbers and quality of papers varies from year to year. For example, in FY03 there
were 11 nominations in the health effects, but 25 in FY04 and 6 in FY05. It is hard to tell
whether these changes relate to the quantity and quality of research overall or to some other
organizational issue. The Panel would like to know the annual number of EPA funded peer
reviewed published papers, the subset to which EPA authors contributed, and the pool of papers
from which the STAA nominations were drawn for several years to see if there was a
relationship to the number and quality of STAA nominations.
Many of the nominated papers were published in papers with a low impact factor.
Although the Panel recognizes that there may be logistical reasons for publishing in a particular
journal, the Panel discussed at length the benefits of publishing data generated by the EPA in
high profile, high impact-factor journals. The Panel would like to encourage authors to publish
in more widely recognized journals so that the Agency's work receives even more recognition
and is communicated more widely.
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3.2 Administrative Recommendations
The Panel has seven recommendations regarding the nomination process.
1. Many nominations were authored by researchers from multiple institutions.
These collaborations are healthy and valuable and should be continued.
However, they present a practical problem because the administration of the
STAA program requires that the relative contributions of each author to the
nominated papers be determined. This requirement can be seen in the following
criteria for eligibility for the STAA competition: (a) to be an eligible author, a
person must have been an EPA employees or Public Health Service employee
when the relevant research was conducted, (b) the eligible authors must have
contributed collectively a minimum of 50% toward the publication, and (c) that
the principal author must have been "eligible" when the research was conducted.
Although the nominators approve the percentage attributions sent to the SAB, the
Panel observes that some attributions seem implausible.
Because the authors are in the best position to understand their respective
contributions, those authors are best suited to provide evidence of agreement that
the reported relative contributions are correctly characterized by the percentages
reported. Therefore, the Panel repeats its request that each nomination be
accompanied by a record of agreement among the co-authors that credit has been
correctly assigned. The Panel would not need to see signatures. An email from
each author agreeing to the assignment would suffice. There would be no need of
such documentation, of course, for single authored papers, papers where the
authors share equally in the credit, or from an author who was deceased. The
Panel has determined that it will not review any nomination in 2006 which lacks
such documentation.
2. The Panel was pleased to see ten nominations from the regional and program
offices. Yet the Panel is aware of papers published by these offices that are
worthy of consideration but were not nominated. The Panel can only speculate on
the reasons for this. The Panel encourages the Agency to further outreach
efforts to encourage participation of scientists and engineers from across the
Agency.
3. The Panel is not overly concerned with the categories to which nominations are
assigned and would not wish to exclude any papers because they did not fit into a
disciplinary category.
4. While the Panel encourages increased participation in the STAA program, as a
practical matter, the Panel can only review 150 papers per year. Therefore the
Agency may wish to consider limiting nominations to no more than three papers
each.
5. It would be convenient for the Panel if the nomination materials included the
impact factor, citation index, and citation half-life of the journal in which the
material(s) were published.
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7. The Panel requests that the review process be moved to an electronic as well as
paper form. Having both media will be more convenient for the Panel. In time,
the Panel hopes to move to a "paperless" review.
The Panel has two recommendations regarding the post-award process.
1. While the Panel understands that the Agency cannot give monetary awards to
non-EPA authors, it believes the Agency can recognize non-EPA authors with a
letter informing them that the paper they contributed to has received a STAA
award. Anecdotal evidence indicates that at least some non-EPA authors of
award winning papers have not been notified that the paper to which they
contributed had been judged worthy of an STAA award.
The Panel urges the Agency to publicize the names of the award winning
scientists and engineers and their papers both within the Agency and outside the
Agency in a variety of ways. The Panel hopes that the valuable attention given the
last two years to the Level I awardees can be continued. Perhaps STAA could
also have a booth at the Science Forum where it could communicate more broadly
and directly with scientists and engineers in the Agency. Perhaps the authors of
Level I papers could present a talk on these papers at the EPA Science Forum or
an at EPA retreat. Perhaps even more visibility can be attained through the good
offices of the public relations office, the use of the EPA and other Front Pages at
the EPA web-site. Possibly the Level I awardees could be named "EPA Scholars
of 2005" and provided with some additional non-monetary recognition associated
with that status.
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Appendix A - Nominations Recommended for Awards
FY2005 Scientific and Technological Achievement Awards (STAA)
Nominations Recommended for Awards
Nominations Recommended for a Level I Award ~ Total of Three
Nom.
S5ER
0031
S5RA
0069
S5SS
0106
Titles and Citations of Submitted
Papers
Evidence for Landscape-Level,
Pollen-Mediated Gene Flow from
Genetically Modified Creeping
Bentgrass with CP4 EPSPS as a
Marker.
Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences,
101 (40): 14533-1 453 (2004)
The Genotoxocity of Ambient
Outdoor Air, a Review: Salmonella
Mutagenicity.
Mutation Research - Reviews,
567(2-3):347-399 (2004)
Health-Related Benefits of
Attaining the 8-Hr Ozone Standard.
Environmental Health
Perspectives, 113(1):73-82 (2005)
Eligible Authors* and
Nominating Organization
Lidia S. Watrud (30%)
Constance A. Burdick (15%)
Jay R. Reichman (15%)
E.Henry Lee (10%)
Anne Fairbrother (10%)
NHEERL, Corvallis, OR
Larry D. Claxton (70%)
Sarah H. Warren (15%)
Peggy P. Matthews (15%)
NHEERL, Research Triangle
Park, NC
Bryan J. Hubbell (60%)
OAQPS, Research Triangle
Park, NC
Suggested Citation from
Nominating Organization
Exceptional Research That
Changed the Paradigm
About the Potential for
Gene Flow GM Crops to
Natural Environments
Providing a Scholarly
Review and Analysis of
Airborne Compounds,
Mixtures, and Products
That are Mutagenic
Innovative Work in
Developing and Applying
the BenMAP Model To
Demonstrate the Benefits
of Attaining the Ozone
NAAQS
*Note: The percentages given after name represent the current percent of the total level of effort as
dnc.um.e.nte.d in the. F.PA nomination
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Nominations Recommended for a Level II Award — Total of Six
Nom.
S5ER
0019
S5ER
0025
S5MM
0051
S5MM
0063
S5TF
0090
S5TF
0097
Titles and Citations of Submitted
Papers
Removal of Ammonia Toxicity in
Marine Sediment TIEs: A
Comparison of "Ulva lactuca,"
Zeolite and Aeration Methods.
Marine Pollution Bulletin,
46:607-618 (2003)
a) A Physiologically Based
Toxicokinetic Model for Dietary
Uptake of Hydrophobic Organic
Compounds by Fish. I. Feeding
Studies with
2,2',5,5'-Tetrachlorobiphenyl.
Toxicological Sciences,
77(2):206-218 (2004)
b) A Physiologically Based
Toxicokinetic Model for Dietary
Uptake of Hydrophobic Organic
Compounds by Fish. II. Simulation
of Chronic Exposure Scenarios.
Toxicological Sciences,
77(2):219-229 (2004)
Importance of Groundwater Sulfate
to Acidification in the Goose River
Watershed, Maine.
Water Resources Research,
40(W09402):1-10 (2004)
a) Characterization of the Fugitive
Mercury Emissions at a Chlor-Alkali
Plant: Overall Study Design.
Atmospheric Environment,
38(4) :633-641 (2004)
b) Characterization of Fugitive
Mercury Emissions from the Cell
Building at a US Chlor-Alkali Plant.
Atmospheric Environment,
38(4) :623-631 (2004)
Kinetic Control of Oxidation State
at Thermodynamically Buffered
Potentials in Subsurface Waters.
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta,
68(23):4831-4842 (2004)
Divalent Inorganic Reactive
Gaseous Mercury Emissions from
a Mercury Cell Chlor-Alkali Plant
and Its Impact on Near-Field
Atmospheric Dry Deposition.
Atmospheric Environment,
38(4):613-622 (2004)
Eligible Authors* and
Nominating Organization
Robert Burgess (30%)
Marguerite Pelletier (30%)
KayT. Ho (10%)
Jonathan Serbst (1 0%)
Stephen Ryba (5%)
Mark Cantwell (5%)
Anne Kuhn (5%)
NHEERL, Narragansett, Rl
John W. Nichols (45%)
Patrick N. Fitzsimmons (20%)
Frank W. Whiteman (20%)
NHEERL, Duluth, MN
William C. Sidle (90%)
Derrick Allen (10%)
NRMRL, Cincinnati, OH
John S. Kinsey (70%)
Frank R. Anscombe (10%)
NRMRL, Research Triangle
Park, NC
John W. Washington (90%)
NERL, Athens, GA
Matthew S. Landis (70%)
NERL, Research Triangle
Park, NC
Suggested Citation from
Nominating Organization
A Comparative Study of
Approaches for Diagnosing
Ammonia Toxicity in Marine
Sediments
The Development and
Application of a
Physiologically Based
Dietary-Uptake Model for
Fish
Source-Water Detection
Methods for Acidification of
Surface Waters
The First Directly Measured
Fugitive-Mercury Emission
Factors From a
Chlor-Alkali-Cell Building
Elucidating Fundamental
Controls on, and Developing
a Quantitative Modeling
Approach for, the Redox
State of Environmental
Systems
Contributions to the State of
Science in
Atmospheric-Mercury-Speci
ation Measurement and
Source-Emission
Characterization
*Note: The percentages given after name represent the current percent of the total level of effort as
documented in the EPA nomination
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Nominations Recommended for a Level III Award ~ Total of Thirty-One
Nom.
Titles and Citations of Submitted
Papers
Eligible Authors* and
Nominating Organization
Suggested Citation from
Nominating Organization
S5CS
0002
Simulation and Evaluation of
Elemental Mercury Concentration
Increase in Flue Gas Across a Wet
Scrubber.
Environmental Science &
Technology, 37(24):5763-5766
(2003)
John Chang (80%)
NRMRL, Research Triangle
Park, NC
Making Wet Scrubbers an
Efficient and Cost-Effective
Mercury-Emission Control
Technology
S5CS
0004
A Permeable Barrier for Treatment
of Heavy Metals.
Ground Water, 40(1):59-66 (2002)
Ralph Ludwig (65%)
NRMRL, Ada, OK
Advancing the Acceptance
and Deployment of
Organic-Based Permeable
Reactive Barriers for the
Treatment of Metals in
Contaminated Groundwater
S5EF
0010
a) Alternative Futures for the
Willamette River Basin, Oregon.
Ecological Applications,
14(2):313-324 (2004)
b) Projecting the Biological
Condition of Streams Under
Alternative Scenarios of Human
Land Use.
Ecological Applications,
14(2):368-380 (2004)
c) Projecting Wildlife Responses to
Alternative Future Landscapes in
Oregon's Willamette Basin.
Ecological Applications,
14(2):381-400 (2004)
d) Alternative-Futures Analysis for
the Willamette River Basin,
Oregon.
Ecological Applications,
14(2):311-312(2004)
Joan P. Baker (25%)
John Van Sickle (20%)
Nathan H. Schumaker (20%)
Denis White (10%)
Dixon Landers (5%)
Innovative Research
Addressing Complex, Large
Environmental Problems -
Willamette Basin Alternative
Futures Analysis
NHEERL, Corvallis, OR
S5ER
0024
Relative Role of Lake and Tributary
in Hydrology of Lake Superior
Coastal Wetlands.
Journal of Great Lakes Research,
28(2):212-227 (2002)
Anett S. Trebitz (60%)
John A. Morrice (30%)
AnneM. Cotter (10%)
NHEERL, Duluth, MN
Research Defining the Role
of Hydrology in Mediating
Potential Ecological
Responses of Great Lakes
Coastal Wetlands
S5ER
0026
Hypoxia in Chesapeake Bay,
1950-2001: Long-Term Change in
Relation to Nutrient Loading and
River Flow.
Estuaries, 27(4):634-658 (2004)
James Hagy (75%)
NHEERL, Gulf Breeze, FL
Scientific Clarity and Insight
to Support Management of
Nutrient Loading,
Eutrophication and Hypoxia
in the Chesapeake Bay
S5ER
0027
Growth of the Marsh Elder "Iva
frutescens" in Relation to Duration
of Tidal Flooding.
Estuaries, 27(2):217-224 (2004)
Glen B. Thursby (50%)
Mohamed A. Abdelrhman
(50%)
NHEERL, Narragansett, Rl
Quantifying Flooding Effects
on a Marsh Plant ("Iva
frutescens") as a First Step
To Identify Anthropogenic
Effects
A-3
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Nom.
S5ER
0029
S5ER
0112
S5ES
0034
S5HE
0035
S5HE
0041
Titles and Citations of Submitted
Papers
Relation of Environmental
Characteristics to Fish
Assemblages in the Upper French
Broad River Basin, North Carolina.
Environmenteal Monitoring and
Assessment, 93(1 -3):1 39-1 56
(2004)
Whole Seedling Biomass
Allocation, Leaf Area and Tissue
Chemistry for Douglas-Fir Exposed
to Elevated CO2 and Temperature
for Four Years. Canadian J. of
Forest Research, 33:269-278
(2003)
Regional Trends in Rural Sulfer
Concentrations.
Atmospheric Environment,
38(66): 1673-1 684 (2004)
Smoking as a Confounder in
Ecologic Correlations of Cancer
Mortality Rates with Average
County Radon Levels.
Health Physics, 84(4):526-532
(2003)
a) Bioassay-Directed Fractionation
and "Salmonella" Mutagenicity of
Automobile and Forklift Diesel
Exhaust Particles.
Environmental Health
Perspectives, 11 2(8) :81 4-81 9
(2004)
b) Sample Characterization of
Automobile and Forklift Diesel
Exhaust Particles and Comparative
Pulmonary Toxicity in Mice.
Environmental Health
Perspectives, 112(8):820-825
Eligible Authors* and
Nominating Organization
Brenda Rashleigh (100%)
NERL, Athens, GA
David M. Olszyk (20%)
Mark G. Johnson (15%)
David T. Tingey (1 5%)
Paul T. Rygiewicz (15%)
Claudia Wise (15%)
NHEERL, Corvallis, OR
David M. Holland (50%)
NERL, Research Triangle
Park, NC
Jerome S. Puskin (100%)
ORIA, Washington, DC
Pramila Singh (25%)
David M. DeMarini (20%)
Matthew I. Gilmour (15%)
William P. Linak (10%)
Lance R. Brooks (1 0%)
Dennis G. Tabor (8%)
Sarah H. Warren (7%)
Jeff V. Ryan (1%)
NHEERL, Research Triangle
Park, NC
Suggested Citation from
Nominating Organization
Developing an Innovative
and Practical Research
Approach to Diagnose
Causes of Impairment in
Stream Ecosystems
A Unique Study on the
Ecological Effects of
Climate Change on Trees
Estimation of
Emission-Related Regional
Trends in Air Quality Data
An Outstanding Paper
Elucidating a Negative
Correlation Between Lung
Cancer Mortality and Radon
Levels in Homes
Setting Standards for
Conducting Multidisciplinary
Environmental-Effects
Studies of Complex
Particulate Mixtures
A-4
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Nom.
S5IR
0042
S5ER
0032
S5MM
0044
S5MM
0045
Titles and Citations of Submitted
Papers
a) Cloning and in vitro Expression
and Characterization of the
Androgen Receptor and Isolation of
Estrogen Receptor from the
Fathead Minnow ("Pimephales
promelas").
Environmental Science &
Technology, 38(23): 631 4-6321
(2004)
b) Evaluation of the Model
Anti-Androgen Flutamide for
Assessing the Mechanistic Basis of
Responses to an Androgen in the
Fathead Minnow ("Pimephales
promelas").
This award is shared with:
Environmental Science &
Technology, 38(23) -.6322-6327
(2004)
Modeling Impacts on Populations:
Fathead Minnow ("Pimephales
promelas") Exposure to the
Endocrine Disrupter 17
B-Trenbolone as a Case Study.
Ecotoxicology and Environmental
Safety, 59(1): 1-9 (2004)
A LC/MS Method for the
Determination of Cyanobacteria
Toxins in Water.
Analytical Chemistry,
76(5): 1342-1 351 (2004)
A Quantitative Assessment of a
Combined Spectral and CIS
Rule-Based Land-Cover
Classification in the Neuse River
Basin of North Carolina.
Photogrammetric Engineering and
Remote Sensing (PERS),
69(3):299-310 (2003)
Eligible Authors* and
Nominating Organization
Gerald T.Ankley (15%)
Vickie Wilson (15%)
L. Earl Gray (10%)
Phillip Hartig (10%)
Ann L. Miracle (10%)
Mary Cardon (5%)
Jeff Welch (5%)
Kathleen M. Jensen (5%)
Elizabeth Makynen (5%)
Michael Kahl (5%)
Joseph J. Korte (5%)
David L. DeFoe (5%)
NHEERL, Duluth, MN
David H. Miller (75%)
Gerald T. Ankley (25%)
NHEERL, Duluth, MN
William L. Budde (60%)
NERL, Cincinnati, OH
Ross S. Lunetta (30%)
John S. Names (15%)
Andrew N. Pilant(15%)
JohnG. Lyon (10%)
NERL, Research Triangle
Park, NC
Suggested Citation from
Nominating Organization
Androgen
Receptor-Mediated
Processes in the Fathead
Minnow: A Basis for
Species Extrapolation and
Individual Population Level
Projections
Formulation of a Modeling
Framework To Link
Laboratory Toxicity Tests on
the Individual to
Population-Level
Projections
Research Demonstrating
EPA Leadership in
Developing More Accurate
and Precise, Faster, and
Less Expensive Analytical
Methods for Unregulated
Cyanobacteria Toxins in
Water
Original Research in the
Area of Land-Cover
Characterization
A-5
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Nom.
Titles and Citations of Submitted
Papers
Eligible Authors* and
Nominating Organization
Suggested Citation from
Nominating Organization
S5MM
0056
a) Formation of Nitro Musk Adducts
of Rainbow Trout Hemoglobin for
Potential Use as Biomarkers of
Exposure.
Aquat. Toxicol., 67:315-324 (2004)
b) Determination of a Bound Musk
Xylene Metabolite in Carp
Hemoglobin as a Biomarkerof
Exposure by Gas
Chromatography-Mass
Spectrometry Using Selected Ion
Monitoring.
Journal of Analytical Toxicology,
28(7):581-586 (2004)
c) Nitro Musk Met Abolities Bound
to Carp Hemoglobin:
Determination by GC with Two MS
Detection Modes: EIMS Versus
Electron Capture Negative Ion MS.
Intern. J. Environ. Anal. Chem.,
84(15): 1069-1078 (2004)
G. Wayne Sovocool (30%)
William C. Brumley (20%)
Steven M. Pyle(10%)
Seminal Work in the
Determination of
Biomarkers of Exposure
(Fish Hemoglobin Adducts)
for a Sentinel Species
NERL, Las Vegas, NV
S5MM
0058
a) An Investigation of the Chemical
Stability of Arsenosugars in
Simulated Gastric Juice and Acidic
Environments Using IC-ICP-MS
and IC-ESI-MS/MS.
The Analyst, 127:781-785 (2002)
b) An Investigation of the Chemical
Stability of Arsenosugars in Basic
Environments Using IC-ICP-MS
and IC-ESI-MS/MS.
The Analyst, 128:1458-1461(2003)
c) Extraction and Detection of a
New Arsine Sulfide Containing
Arsenosugar in Molluscs by
IC-ICP-MS and IC-ESI-MS/MS.
Journal of Analytical Atomic
Spectrometry, 19:1454-1459
(2004)
John T. Creed (21%)
Patricia A. Gallagher-Creed
(21%)
Carol A. Schwegel (21%)
Jody A. Shoemaker (10%)
An Investigation of
Arsenosugars as an Arsenic
Dietary-Exposure Source
With an Emphasis on
Chemical Stability
NERL, Cincinnati, OH
S5RA
0066
Advances in Encapsulation
Technologies for the Management
of Mercury-Contaminated
Hazardous Wastes.
Journal of Hazardous Materials,
114(1-3):211-223 (2004)
Paul Randall (80%)
NRMRL, Cincinnati, OH
Advances in
Mercury-Encapsulation
Technologies
S5RA
0067
Brominated Flame Retardants:
Cause for Concern?
Environmental Health
Perspectives, 112(1):9-17 (2004)
Linda S. Birnbaum (90%)
NHEERL, Research Triangle
Park, NC
Concern About Brominated
Flame Retardants
A-6
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Nom.
Titles and Citations of Submitted
Papers
Eligible Authors* and
Nominating Organization
Suggested Citation from
Nominating Organization
S5RA
0073
a) Antimicrobial Activity of Copper
and Zinc Accumulated in Eastern
Oyster Amebocytes.
Journal of Shellfish Research,
23(2):321-351 (2004)
b) Relationship of Amebocytes and
Terrestrial Elements to Adult Shell
Deposition in Eastern Oysters.
Journal of Shellfish Research,
23(2):353-367 (2004)
Williams. Fisher(100%)
Demonstrating the
Significance of Terrestrial
Elements in Freshwater
Inflow to Estuarine Habitat
NHEERL, Gulf Breeze, FL
S5RA
0074
a) Overview of Phytotransformation
and Control of Wastes.
Phytoremediation: Transformation
and Control of Contaminants edited
by S.C. McCutcheon and J. L.
Schnoor, Wiley Interscience, pp:
1-58 (2003)
b) Proof of Phytoremediation for
Explosives in Water and Soil.
Phytoremediation: Transformation
and Control of Contaminants edited
by S.C. McCutcheon and J. L.
Schnoor, Wiley Interscience, pp:
429-480 (2003)
c) Five-Year Pilot Study: Aberdeen
Proving Ground, Maryland.
Phytoremediation: Transformation
and Control of Contaminants edited
by S.C. McCutcheon and J. L.
Schnoor, Wiley Interscience, pp:
635-659 (2003)
d) Hydrologic Feasibility
Assessment and Design in
Phytoremediation.
Phytoremediation:Transformation
and Control of Contaminants edited
by S.C. McCutcheon and J. L.
Schnoor, Wiley Interscience, pp:
695-716 (2003)
e) Field Evaluations of
Phytotechnologies.
Phytoremediation: Transformation
and Control of Contaminants edited
by S.C. McCutcheon and J. L.
Schnoor, Wiley Interscience, pp:
905-924 (2003)
Steven C. McCutcheon (55%)
Steve Rock (10%)
James Weaver (5%)
Steven Hirsh (4%)
Harry R. Compton (3%)
Dale Haroski Matey (2%)
Stacy L. Hutchinson (1%)
Reviews of the New Field
and Pioneering the Practice
of Phytoremediation To
Clean Up Hazardous Waste
Sites Using Green Plants
NERL, Athens, GA
A-7
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Nom.
Titles and Citations of Submitted
Papers
Eligible Authors* and
Nominating Organization
Suggested Citation from
Nominating Organization
S5RA
0075
a) Distributed Structure-Searchable
Toxicity (DSSTox) Database
Network: A Proposal.
Mutation Research, 499:27-52
(2002)
b) Public Sources of Mutagenicity
and Carcinogenicity Data: Use in
Structure-Activity Relationship
Models.
Quantitative Structure-Activity
Relationship (QSAR) Models of
Mutagens and Carcinogens, Ed. R.
Benigni, CRC Press, pp: 145-173
(2003)
c) DSSTox Web Site Launch:
Improving Public Access to
Databases for Building
Structure-Toxcity Prediction
Models.
Preclinica, 2(2):103-108 (2004)
Ann M. Richard (80%)
ClarLynda R. Williams (20%)
Distributed
Structure-Searchable
Toxicity Database Network
(DSSTox) Website and
Related Publications
NHEERL, Research Triangle
Park, NC
S5RA
0077
a) Geochemistry of PAHs in
Aquatic Environments: A Synthesis
of Source, Distribution and
Persistence.
PAHs: An Ecotoxicological
Perspective, P.E.T. Douben (Ed.),
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., London,
pp:35-45 (2003)
b) An Overview of the Partitioning
and Bioavailability of PAHs in
Sediments and Soils.
PAHs: An Ecotoxicological
Perspective, P.E.T. Douben (Ed.),
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., London,
pp:99-126 (2003)
Robert Burgess (59%)
Preparation of Review
Articles Discussing the
Geochemistry and
Bioavailability of PAHs in
Aquatic Environments
NHEERL, Narragansett, Rl
S5RA
0078
Rising Atmospheric CO2 and
Carbon Sequestration in Forests.
Frontiers in Ecology and
Environment, 2(6):315-322 (2004)
Peter A. Beedlow (35%)
David T. Tingey (30%)
William E. Hogsett(15%)
Donald L. Phillips (10%)
David M.OIszyk (10%)
NHEERL, Corvallis, OR
Synthesizing Research on
the Ability of Forests To
Absorb Anthropogenic
Carbon and Proposing
Land-Management
Approaches
S5RA
0113
Recent Advances in Transgenic
Arthropod Technology.
Bulletin of Entomological Research,
94:95-110(2004)
Melissa Kramer (100%)
OSCP, Washington, DC
Work in Understanding
Environmental Risks that
may be Associated with
Deployment of Transgenic
Arthropods in Nature
S5RM
0082
Industrial Surface Impoundments:
Environmental Settings, Release
and Exposure Potential and Risk
Characterization.
The Science of the Total
Environment, 317(1-3): 1-22 (2003)
W. Barnes Johnson (20%)
Becky Cuthbertson (18%)
Jan Young (14%)
Paul Balserak (8%)
OSW, Washington, DC
Important Contributions to
Knowledge of
Waste-Management
Practices and Their Human
Health and Environmental
Impacts
A-8
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Nom.
Titles and Citations of Submitted
Papers
Eligible Authors* and
Nominating Organization
Suggested Citation from
Nominating Organization
S5RM
0083
a) Advances in Biotreatment of
Acid Mine Drainage and
Biorecpvery of Metals: 1. Metal
Precipitation for Recovery and
Recycle.
Biodegradation, 14(6):423-436
(2003)
b) Advances in Biotreatment of
Acid Mine Drainage and
Biorecovery of Metals: 2.
Membrane Bioreactor System for
Sulfate Reduction.
Biodegradation, 14(6):437-453
(2003)
Henry H. Tabak (50%)
Richard Scharp (10%)
Fred K. Kawahara (10%)
NRMRL, Cincinnati, OH
Advance in Biorecovery of
Metals and Biotreatment of
Sulfate in Acid-Mine
Drainage Wastes
S5TF
0095
Influence of pH and
Oxidation-Reduction Potential(Eh)
on the Dissolution of
Mercury-Containing Mine Wastes
from the Sulphur Bank Mercury
Mine.
Minerals & Metallurgical
Processing, 21(2):93-98 (2004)
Paul Randall (80%)
NRMRL, Cincinnati, OH
The Study on the Effect of
pH and Redox Conditions
on Leaching of
Mercury-Containing Mine
Wastes
S5TF
0098
a) Ambient Ammonia and
Ammonium Across a Region of
Variable Ammonia Emission
Density.
Atmospheric Environment,
38(9): 1235-1246 (2004)
b) Atmospheric Concentrations of
Ammonia and Ammonium at an
Agricultural Site in the Southeast
United States.
Atmospheric Environment,
36(10): 1661-1674 (2002)
John T. Walker (70%)
NRMRL, Research Triangle
Park, NC
Assessing the Influence of
Agricultural Ammonia
Emissions on Ambient
Concentrations of Ammonia
and Inorganic PM2.5
S5TF
0099
a) Screening Model for Volatile
Pollutants in Dual Porosity Soils.
Hydrology, 260:58-74 (2002)
b) Theoretical Development and
Analytical Solutions for Transport of
Volatile Organic Compounds in
Dual-Porosity Soils.
Hydrology, 279:18-42 (2003)
Mohamed M. Hantush (75%)
NRMRL, Cincinnati, OH
Developing Models for Soil,
Air, and
Groundwater-Vulnerability
Assessment and
Management of the Use and
Disposal of Organic
Chemicals
A-9
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Nom.
S5TF
0102
S5TF
0103
Titles and Citations of Submitted
Papers
a) Effects of Aging and pH on
Dissolution Kinetics and Stability of
Chloropyromorphite.
Environmental Science and
Technology, 36(10):2198-2204
(2002)
b) In-vitro Formation of
Pyromorphite via Reaction of Pb
Sources with Soft-Drink Phosphoric
Acid.
Science of the Total Environment,
302(1-3):253-265 (2003)
c) Assessment of a Sequential
Extraction Procedure for Perturbed
Lead Contaminated Samples With
and Without Phosphorus
Amendments.
Environmental Science and
Technology, 37(9): 1892-1 998
(2003)
d) Spectroscopic Speciation and
Quantification on Chemical
Alterations of Pb in Phosphate
Amended Soils.
Journal of Environment Quality,
33(4): 1288-1 295 (2004)
Modeling Leaching of Viruses by
the Monte Carlo Method.
Water Research, 37(19):4719-4729
(2003)
Eligible Authors* and
Nominating Organization
Kirk G. Scheckel (54%)
James A. Ryan (40%)
Christopher A. Impellitteri
(5%)
NRMRL, Cincinnati, OH
Barton R. Faulkner (55%)
Faruque A. Khan (10%)
NRMRL, Ada, OK
Suggested Citation from
Nominating Organization
Thermodynamic and
Spectroscopic
Understanding of In-Situ Pb
Remediation
Development of a Method to
Predict Risk of
Contamination by Viruses
for Drinking-Water-Supply
Aquifers
*Note: The percentages given after name represent the current percent of the total level of effort as
dnr.um.p.ntp.d in thp FPA nomination
A- 10
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Nominations Recommended for Honorable Mention (No Monetary Award) ~ Total of
Thirty-Two
Nom.
Titles and Citations of Submitted
Papers
Eligible Authors* and
Nominating Organization
Suggested Citation from
Nominating Organization
S5CS
0003
a) Sorption of Arsenate and Arsenite
on RuO2-xH2O: A Spectroscopic and
Macroscopic Study.
Environmental Science and
Technology, 37(13):2936-2940
(2003)
b) Lead Sorption on Ruthenium
Oxide: A Macroscopic and
Spectroscopic Study.
Environmental Science and
Technology, 38(10):2836-2842
(2004)
Christopher A. Impellitteri
(40%)
KirkG. Scheckel (40%)
James A. Ryan (20%)
NRMRL, Cincinnati, OH
Leading-Edge Research on
the Sorption of Inorganic
Contaminants by Ruthenium
Oxide Compounds
S5EF
0005
Regulating the Ultimate Sink:
Managing the Risks of Geologic C02
Storage.
Environmental Science and
Technology, 37(16):3476-3483
(2003)
Elizabeth J. Wilson (75%)
Timothy L. Johnson (20%)
NRMRL, Research Triangle
Park, NC
Analysis of Future Research
and Regulatory
Considerations for Geologic
Carbon Sequestration
S5EF
0006
a) Selective Oxidation of Alcohols by
Molecular Oxygen Over a Pd/MgO
Catalyst in the Absence of Any
Additives.
Green Chemistry, 6:161-165 (2004)
b) Mesoporous Iron Phosphate as an
Active, Selective and Recyclable
Catalyst for the Synthesis of Nopol by
Prins Condensation.
Chemical Communication, 7:826-827
(2004)
c) Phenanthroline-Stabilized
Palladium Nanoparticles in
Polyethylene Glycol - An Active and
Recyclable Catalyst System for the
Selective Hydrogenation of Olefins
Using Molecular Hydrogen.
J. Molecular Catalysis, 222(1 -
2):153-158 (2004)
d) Selective Oxidation of Alcohols
Over Vanadium Phosphorus Oxide
Catalyst Using Hydrogen Peroxide.
Applied Catalysis A: General, 276:
139-144 (2004)
E. Sahle-Demessie (83%)
Developing Novel Catalyst
Systems That Help the
Competitiveness of the
Chemical Industry, the
Natural Environment and
Our Quality of Life
NRMRL, Cincinnati, OH
S5EF
0008
In vivo Synchrotron Study of Thallium
Speciation and Compartmentation in
Iberis Intermedia.
Environmental Science and
Technology, 38(19):5095-5100
(2004)
KirkG. Scheckel (50%)
Steve A. Rock (5%)
NRMRL, Cincinnati, OH
Innovative Synchrotron
Methods to Determine Metal
Speciation in Biological
Systems
A-ll
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Nom.
Titles and Citations of Submitted
Papers
Eligible Authors* and
Nominating Organization
Suggested Citation from
Nominating Organization
S5ER
0012
Exposure and Effects of 2,3,7,8 -
Tetrachlorodibenzene-p-Dioxin in
Tree Swallows ("Tachycineta
bicolor") Nesting Along the
Woonasquatucket River, Rhode
Island, USA.
Environmental Toxicology and
Chemistry, 24(1):93-109 (2005)
Cornell J. Rosiu (54%)
Region 1, Boston, MA
Significant Contributions to
the Use and Development
of Sound Science in Agency
Decisions and
Population-Level Ecological
Risk Assessment
S5ER
0015
Acute Sensitivity of Juvenile
Shortnose Sturgeon ("Acipenser
brevirostrum") to Low Dissolved
Oxygen Concentrations.
Transactions of the American
Fisheries Society, 133(3):772-776
(2004)
Jed G. Campbell (50%)
Larry R. Goodman (50%)
NHEERL, Gulf Breeze, FL
Research in Support of
Derivation of Ambient Water
Quality Criteria for Saltwater
S5ER
0016
Phytoplankton and Zooplankton
Seasonal Dynamics in a Subtropical
Estuary: Importance of
Cyanobacteria.
Journal of Plankton Research,
26(3):371-382 (2004)
Michael C. Murrell (80%)
Emile M. Lores (20%)
NHEERL, Gulf Breeze, FL
Advancement of
Understanding of Critical
Processes in Estuaries
Subject to Eutrophication
S5ER
0017
Bank Stabilization, Riparian Land
Use and the Distribution of Large
Woody Debris in a Regulated Reach
of the Upper Missouri River, North
Dakota, USA.
River Research and Applications,
20:829-846 (2004)
Theodore R. Angradi (75%)
E. William Schweiger (10%)
David W. Bolgrien (5%)
Peter C. Ismert (5%)
Anthony R. Selle (5%)
NHEERL, Duluth, MN
Research on River Ecology
in Support of EPA's
Commitment to the
Protection and Restoration
of Our Nation's Great River
Ecosystems
S5ER
0018
Effects of Agricultural Activities and
Best Management Practices on
Water Quality of Seasonal Prairie
Pothole Wetlands.
Wetlands Ecology and Management,
10(4):335-54 (2002)
Naomi Detenbeck (50%)
Frank Puglisi (15%)
William Sanville (15%)
NHEERL, Duluth, MN
Experimental Validation of
Effects of
Land-Management and
Restoration Practices on
Isolated Prairie Wetlands
S5ER
0021
Developing and Applying an Index of
Environmental Integrity for the US
Mid-Atlantic Region.
Journal of Environmental
Management, 67(2):175-185 (2003)
John F. Paul (100%)
NHEERL, Research
Triangle Park, NC
Innovative Methodology for
Multiresource Assessments
S5ER
0022
Landscape Metrics and Estuarine
Sediment Contamination in the
Mid-Atlantic and Southern New
England Regions.
Journal of Environmental Quality,
31(3):836-845 (2002)
John F. Paul (50%)
NHEERL, Research
Triangle Park, NC
Demonstrating Quantitative
Linkage Between
Watershed Land Use and
Estuarine Condition
S5ER
0104
Photooxidation and its Effects on the
Carboxyl Content of Dissolved
Organic Matter in Two Coastal Rivers
in the Southeastern United States.
Environmental Science and
Technology, 38:4113-4119 (2004)
Richard G. Zepp (50%)
NERL, Athens, GA
Contributing to the
Development of New
Modeling and Experimental
Techniques for Assessing
the UV-lnfluenced
Photooxidation of Organic
Matter in Coastal and
Estuarine Environments
A-12
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Nom.
Titles and Citations of Submitted
Papers
Eligible Authors* and
Nominating Organization
Suggested Citation from
Nominating Organization
S5ER
0109
Estuarine and Scalar Patterns of
Invasion in the Soft-Bottom Benthic
Communities of the San Francisco
Estuary.
Biological Invasions, 5(1-2):85-102
(2003)
Henry Lee, II (60%)
NHEERL, Corvallis, OR
Research Into the Spatial
Patterns of Estuarine
Invasive Species and
Invasive Species Indices
S5HE
0038
a) Developing Meaningful Cohorts for
Human Exposure Models.
J Expos Anal Environ Epidemiol,
14(1):23-43 (2004)
b) Understanding Variability in Time
Spent in Select Locations for
7-12-Year Old Children.
J Expos Anal Environ Epidemiol,
14(3):222-233 (2004)
c) Using Human Activity Data in
Exposure Models: Analysis of
Discriminating Factors.
J Expos Anal Environ Epidemiol,
13(4):294-317(2003)
Stephen E. Graham (32%)
Jianping Xue (32%)
Thomas R. McCurdy (32%)
Haluk Ozkaynak (2%)
Providing Practical
Solutions to Complex
Science Issues Faced by
Exposure and Risk
Assessors
NERL, Research Triangle
Park, NC
S5HE
0040
Differential Plumonary Inflammation
and in vitro Cytotoxicity of
Size-Fractionated Fly Ash Particles
from Pulverized Coal Combustion.
Journal of the Air & Waste
Management Association,
54(3):286-295 (2004)
M. Ian Gilmour (35%)
William P. Linak (30%)
C.Andrew Miller (10%)
NHEERL, Research
Triangle Park, NC
Demonstrating the
Size-Dependent Pulmonary
Toxicity of the Ultrafine
Fraction of
Coal-Combustion Particles
S5MM
0046
17-alpha-Ethynylestradiol-lnduced
Vitellogenin Gene Transcription
Quantified in Livers of Adult Males,
Larvae, and Gills of Fathead
Minnows ("Pimephales promelas").
Environmental Toxicology and
Chemistry, 21(11)-.2385-2393 (2002)
David Lattier (30%)
Tirumuru Reddy (30%)
Denise A. Gordon (25%)
James Lazorchak (9%)
Robert W. Flick (3%)
Ann L. Miracle (3%)
NERL, Cincinnati, OH
Development of a Unique,
Cost-Effective, and Highly
Sensitive Molecular
Technique for Detecting
EDCs in Various Tissues at
Low Concentrations
S5MM
0047
Multiresidue Method for N-Methyl
Carbamates and Metabolite Pesticide
Residues at the Parts-per-Billion
Level in Selected Representative
Commodities of Fruit and Vegetable
Crop Groups.
Journal ofAOAC International,
87(5):1237-1251 (2004)
Lynda V. Podhorniak (90%)
Alexander Krynitsky (4%)
Francis D. Griffith (1%)
OPP, Fort Meade, MD
The Development of a New
Sensitive Multiresidue
Carbamate-Pesticide
Method to Protect the
Environment and Human
Health
S5MM
0048
The Baffled Flask Test for Dispersant
Effectiveness: A Round Robin
Evaluation of Reproducibility and
Repeatability.
Sp;7/ Science and Technology
Bulletin, 7(5-6):299-308 (2002)
Albert D. Venosa (80%)
NRMRL, Cincinnati, OH
Development of an
Improved, Reproducible
Protocol for Testing the
Effectiveness of Dispersants
as an Oil-Spill
Countermeasure
A-13
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Nom.
Titles and Citations of Submitted
Papers
Eligible Authors* and
Nominating Organization
Suggested Citation from
Nominating Organization
S5MM
0049
Preservation of As (III) and As (V) in
Drinking Water Supply Samples from
Across the United States Using
EDTA and Acetic Acid as a Means of
Minimizing Iron-Arsenic
Coprecipitation.
Environmental Science and
Technology, 38(10):2919-2927
(2004)
John T. Creed (27%)
Patricia A. Gallagher-Creed
(27%)
Carol A. Schwegel (27%)
Larry Wymer (10%)
NERL, Cincinnati, OH
Developing and
Documenting the
Application of EDTA as an
Arsenic-Preservation
Reagent for Drinking Waters
Across the U.S.
S5MM
0050
Biodegradation of Crude Oil
Contaminating Marine Shorelines
and Freshwater Wetlands.
Sp;7/ Science and Technology
Bulletin, 8(2): 163-178 (2003)
Albert D. Venosa (80%)
NRMRL, Cincinnati, OH
Review Article on
Biodegradation of Crude-Oil
Contaminating Marine
Shorelines and Freshwater
Wetlands
S5MM
0052
Effects of pH and Competing Anions
on the Speciation of Arsenic in Fixed
Ionic Strength Solutions by Solid
Phase Extraction Cartridges.
Water Research, 38(5):1207-1214
(2004)
Christopher A. Impellitteri
(100%)
NRMRL, Cincinnati, OH
Research on a Simple and
Affordable
Arsenic-Speciation
Methodology
S5MM
0053
Contamination of Fish in Streams of
the Mid-Atlantic Region: An Approach
to Regional Indicator Selection and
Wildlife Assessment.
Environmental Toxicology and
Chemistry, 22(3):545-553 (2003)
James M. Lazorchak (30%)
Tala R. Henry (30%)
Frank H. McCormick (30%)
NERL, Cincinnati, OH
Contributions To
Understanding the Spatial
Extent of Fish-Tissue
Contamination in the
Mid-Atlantic and a New
Approach for Deriving
Wildlife Risk Values
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Watershed Landscape Indicators of
Estuarine Benthic Condition.
Estuaries, 27(2):283-295 (2004)
Stephen S. Hale (90%)
John F. Paul (5%)
NHEERL, Narragansett, Rl
Research on Relationships
Between Watersheds and
Estuarine Benthic
Communities, Useful in
Sampling Estuaries at Risk
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0057
Evaluation of an Alternative IMS
Dissociation Procedure for Use with
Method 1622: Detection of
"Cryptosporidium" in Water.
Journal of Microbiological Methods,
55(3):575-583 (2003)
Michael W. Ware (50%)
H.D. Alan Lindquist (20%)
Frank W. Schaefer, III
(20%)
Larry J. Wymer (10%)
NERL, Cincinnati, OH
Improving EPA Methods
1622 and 1623 in Order To
Allow for Better Estimation
of the "Cryptosporidium"
Concentration
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Pplycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon
Size Distributions in Aerosols from
Appliances of Residential Wood
Combustion as Determined by Direct
Thermal Desorption-GC/MS.
Journal of Aerosol Science,
34(8):1061-1084 (2003)
Michael D. Hays (55%)
John Kinsey (25%)
N. Dean Smith (10%)
NRMRL, Research Triangle
Park, NC
Development of a Clean
Extraction Method for
Determining the Organic
Chemical-Based Size
Distributions of Fine PM
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Nom.
Titles and Citations of Submitted
Papers
Eligible Authors* and
Nominating Organization
Suggested Citation from
Nominating Organization
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a) Effects of Hydrogeomorphic
Region, Watershed Storage and
Mature Forest on Baseflow and
Snowmelt Stream Water Quality in
Second-Order Lake Superior Basin
Tributaries.
Freshwater Biology, 48(5):911-27
(2003)
b) Region, Landscape, and Scale
Effects on Lake Superior Tributary
Water Quality.
Journal of the American Water
Resources Association, 40(3):705-20
(2004)
Naomi Detenbeck (25%)
Colleen Elonen (15%)
Debra Taylor (15%)
Leroy Anderson (15%)
TerriJicha(15%)
Sharon Batterman (15%)
NHEERL, Duluth, MN
Evaluation of a
Watershed-Classification
Monitoring Framework To
Assess Landscape
Thresholds
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0064
Determination of the Vapor
Pressures of Select Polychlorinated
Dibenzo-p-Dioxins and
Dibenzofurans at 75-275C.
Chemical Engineering Science,
60(3):787-796 (2004)
Shawn P. Ryan (60%)
Brian K. Gullett (20%)
Dennis Tabor (10%)
NRMRL, Research Triangle
Park, NC
Determination of Vapor
Pressures of PCDDs/Fs at
Temperatures Consistent
With Their Formation and
Control
S5RM
0081
a) PM2.5 Episodes as Observed in
the Speciation Trends Network.
Atmospheric Environment,
38(31):5237-5246 (2004)
b) PM Data Analysis - A Comparison
of Two Urban Areas: Fresno and
Atlanta.
Atmospheric Environment,
Shao-Hang Chu (88%)
OAQPS, Research Triangle
Park, NC
Providing a Critical Linkage
Between Research and
Cost-Effective Multipollutant
Control-Strategy
Development
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0089
a) Prediction of the Solubility, Activity
Coefficient and Liquid/Liquid Partition
Coefficient of Organic Compounds.
QSAR and Combinatorial Science,
23(9):709-720 (2004)
b) Estimation of Carboxylic Acid
Ester Hydrolysis Rate Constants.
QSAR and Combinatorial Science,
22(10):917-925 (2004)
Said Hilal (70%)
Samuel W. Karickhoff (10%)
Development and
Application of Mathematical
Models for Predicting
Environmental Fate of
Chemicals Using SPARC
NERL, Athens, GA
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0092
Lake Michigan 1994 -1996 Surficial
Sediment Mercury.
Journal Great Lakes Research,
28(1):65-76 (2002)
Ronald Rossmann (100%)
NHEERL, Duluth, MN
Describing the Distribution
of Mercury in Lake Michigan
Surficial Sediments and for
Defining the Relative
Importance of Mercury
Sources to the Bay
S5TF
0094
Estimation of Microbial Reductive
Transformation Rates for Chlorinated
Benzenes and Phenols Using a
Quantitative Structure-Activity
Relationship Approach.
Environmental Toxicology and
Chemistry, 23(7): 1600-1609 (2004)
Caroline T. Stevens (80%)
W. Jack Jones (20%)
NERL, Athens, GA
Advancing the Development
of Predictive Tools for
Microbial Reductive
Transformation Rates
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Nom.
S5TF
0096
Titles and Citations of Submitted
Papers
a) Significance of Iron (II, III)
Hydroxycarbonate Green Rust in
Arsenic Remediation Using
Zerovalent Iron in Laboratory Column
Tests.
Environmental Science and
Technology, 38(1 9): 5224-5231
(2004)
b) Nitrate Reduction by Zerovalent
Iron: Effects of Formate, Oxalate,
Citrate, Chloride, Sulfate, Borate, and
Phosphate.
Environmental Science and
Technology, 38(9): 27 15-27 20 (2004)
Eligible Authors* and
Nominating Organization
Chunming Su (75%)
Robert W. Puls (25%)
NRMRL, Ada, OK
Suggested Citation from
Nominating Organization
Leading-Edge Science on
the Mechanisms of Removal
of Arsenic and Nitrate From
Groundwater Using
Zerovalent Iron in
Permeable Reactive
Barriers
*Note: The percentages given after name represent the current percent of the total level of effort as
documented in the. F.PA nomination
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Key to Acronyms used in the above Table
NERL National Exposure Research Laboratory
NHEERL National Health and Environmental Effects Laboratory
NRMRL National Risk Management Research Laboratory
OAQPS Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards
OPP Office of Pesticide Programs
ORIA Office of Radiation and Indoor Air
OSCP Office of Science Coordination and Policy
OSW Office of Solid Waste
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Appendix B - Biosketches
(in alphabetical order)
Dr. Timothy J. Buckley is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Health Sciences and
Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Buckley joined the
Hopkins faculty in 1996 after five years with the U.S. EPA's National Exposure Research Lab.
His research has focused on assessing total human environmental exposure through
measurements in multiple environmental media and biomarkers. Over his research career, Dr.
Buckley has been responsible for the concept, design, implementation, and management of
several major studies involving human exposure to PAHs, metals, VOCs, pesticides, and PCBs
through multiple environmental media. These large-scale projects complement laboratory-based
studies where controlled exposures are used to more fully investigate relationships between
exposure, body burden, and effects.
Dr. Buckley's current research includes community-based exposure assessment, evaluation of
chemical treatment to reduce lead bioavailability, the role of exposure to indoor air pollution and
allergens in asthma among inner-city children, exposure and effects from mobile source related
air pollution, improving methods to assess dermal exposure, and the development and evaluation
of exposure biomarkers. While with the U.S. EPA, Dr. Buckley received awards for his role and
efforts in the National Human Exposure Assessment Survey (NHEXAS) and the Lower Rio
Grande Environmental Exposure Study. His published research was recognized in 1996 with a
U.S. EPA Scientific and Technology Achievement Award and again in 1999 by the Walter G.
Berl Award given the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory. Dr. Buckley is a certified
industrial hygienist and has been elected to leadership positions among his professional
associations including chair of the American Industrial Hygiene Association's Biological
Monitoring Committee and Academic Counselor of the International Society of Exposure
Analysis. Dr. Buckley received his Ph.D. in Environmental Science from Rutgers University
and a Masters of Health Science in Industrial Hygiene from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg
School of Public Health.
Dr. Calvin C. Chien is currently a Senior Environmental Fellow with DuPont Company, the
highest ranking technical environmental professional with the company. He has been the leader
of DuPont's Environmental Remediation Technology Development team focused on
Environmental Modeling and Subsurface Containment/Treatment Barrier Technologies. Besides
the work in the technology area, he also has the responsibility for technical environmental
support and oversight for DuPont's operations in the Asia-Pacific Region. Since 1987, Dr, Chien
has been collaborating with a number of universities in the U.S. and Canada on the research in
the area of environmental remediation. He is currently working with seven universities, four in
the U.S/Canada and three in China.
Dr. Chien served as technical reviewer for papers submitted to Hydraulic Journal of ASCE (Am.
Soc. of Civil Engrs.) in late 1970s and early 1980s. He is currently serving a 3-year term on the
Science Advisory Committee for EPA Rocky Mountain Regional Hazardous Substance Research
Center. The responsibilities, among others, include the review of research proposals submitted
to the center for funding.
Among many awards and honors Dr. Chien has received in his career, he was the recipient of
SUNY's 1997 Engineering Achievement Award, university's highest honor for engineering. He
was the first winner who was an Asian and also an alumnus in the Award's 20 years of history.
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Dr. Chi en also has received several Awards from DuPont, including three Major Contribution
Awards, with significant amount of cash and an Invention Award from Westinghouse Company.
Dr. Chien served on the ASCE Groundwater Management Committee as secretary, then vice
president, between 1996 and 1999. He served on the Groundwater Modeling Group of the
Chemical Manufacturing Association (CMA, now American Chemistry Council) as a member
from 1986 to 1989 and chaired the group from 1989 to 1992. In 1994, Dr. Chien was appointed
a member with the Environmental Engineering Committee (EEC) of the Science Advisory Board
(SAB). He served three terms and left the board in 2000. In 1994, he served on a U.S.
Department of Energy's (DOE) Outside Technical Peer Review Panel to review the department's
modeling strategy and development. He was invited twice by the National Science Foundation to
serve on the technical review panel for the research proposals submitted to the foundation for
funding in the area of environmental science and technology. He has published several technical
articles in the leading peer-reviewed journals and authored many DuPont internal technical
research reports. He holds a U.S. patent on well field design technology.
Dr. Chien has served as chair, co-chair, section chair, invited speaker in many conferences and
panels dealing with the issues that fall in his area of expertise, mainly, groundwater hydrology,
contaminant fate and transport, environmental modeling, soil and groundwater remediation
technology, and in-situ solution mining. He has organized and chaired/co-chaired a number of
international technical expert workshop and conferences, including the first International
Containment Expert Workshop (1995) and Conference (1997), the International Environmental
Modeling Expert Workshop (2000) and a Containment Expert Workshop (2002) focusing on the
Long-term Performance Prediction and Verification for Containment/treatment Barriers. Dr.
Chien was the planner for the well-known book prepared from the 1995 Containment Workshop
and the principal editor of book for the 2000 Modeling Workshop. He was the lead editor for the
2002 Containment book, scheduled for publication this
summer.
Dr. Chien earned an M.S. E. and a Ph.D. in hydrology and environmental modeling from the
State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo in 1970 and 1974, respectively. He received
his B.S.E. in Hydraulic Engineering from the National Cheng-Kung University in Taiwan.
Dr. Deborah Cory-Slechta received her Ph.D. degree from the University of Minnesota in 1977
and worked as a junior staff fellow of the National Center for Toxicological Research beginning
in 1979. She was appointed to the faculty of the University of Rochester Medical School in
1982 and rose through the ranks. In 1998, she was appointed Chair of the Department of
Environmental Medicine and Director of the NIEHS Environmental Health Sciences Center at
the University of Rochester. From July 2000- July 2002, she was the Dean for Research and
Director of the AAB Institute for Biomedical Sciences, a newly established post at the
University and as such, became the first female dean in the history of the Medical School. Dr.
Cory-Slechta has served on numerous national research review and advisory panels, including
committees of the National Institutes of Health, the National Institute of Environmental Health
Sciences, the Food and Drug Administration, the National Center for Toxicological Research,
the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of
Medicine, and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, Centers for Disease
Control. In addition, Dr. Cory-Slechta has served on the editorial boards of several journals
including Neurotoxicology, Toxicology, Toxicological Sciences, Fundamental and Applied
Toxicology, Neurotoxicology and Teratology, and American Journal of Mental Retardation. She
has held the elected positions of President of the Neurotoxicology Specialty Section of the
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Society of Toxicology, President of the Behavioral Toxicology Society, and been named a
Fellow of the American Psychological Association. Her research has focused largely on
environmental neurotoxicants as risk factors for behavioral disorders and neurodegenerative
disease. Specifically this has included work on the impact of lead on learning and attention and
associated neurochemical mechanisms, and, more recently on the role of pesticides as risk
factors for Parkinson's Disease. Currently she has also begun to examine mixtures of neurotoxic
chemicals and risk modifiers for effects of neurotoxicants as well. These research efforts have
resulted in over 100 papers and book chapters to date.
Dr. Richard O. Gilbert received his Ph.D in Biomathematics from the University of
Washington, Seattle, Washington. He is a Staff Scientist in the Statistical and Quantitative
Sciences Group at Battelle, Pacific Northwest Division in Richland, Washington. Dr. Gilbert is
currently located at the Battelle Washington Office in Washington D.C. He has 32 years
experience at Battelle in the statistical design and analysis of environmental studies to assess
radionuclide and chemical contamination and cleanup in environmental media, with emphasis on
the Nevada Test Site and other Department of Energy sites. He is perhaps most well known for
his often-cited reference book Statistical Methods for Environmental Pollution Monitoring
published in 1987. Dr. Gilbert's recent activities include contributing to the development of
EPA guidance documents and teaching short courses on the Data Quality Objectives planning
process and environmental statistical design and analysis methods, developing statistical designs
for the detection of unexploded ordnance at Department of Defense sites, and assisting with the
development of the Visual Sample Plan software that helps environmental professionals
determine the right number and location of environmental samples. Dr. Gilbert has also
managed and conducted Monte Carlo uncertainty and sensitivity analyses of environmental
models, with particular emphasis on reconstructing doses received by the public from Iodine-131
emissions from the Hanford Site in Washington State in the 1945-1963 time period. Dr. Gilbert
has served as a consultant to the EPA Science Advisory Board (SAB) on the Drinking Water
Committee, the Statistical Consultation Subcommittee of the Environmental Engineering
Committee, and Surface Impoundments Subcommittee of the Environmental Engineering
Committee. He has also served as a member of the Health Physics Society's N13.31 Working
Group that is writing the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Standard Assessment of
Radiation Doses Resulting from Plutonium and Americium from Soil. Dr. Gilbert is a Fellow of
the American Statistical Association (ASA) and an elected member of the International Statistics
Institute. He was also elected Chair of the Environmental Statistics Section of the ASA in 1995
and was awarded the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Section.
Dr. Stanley Grant is currently a Professor of Environmental Engineering, and Chairman of the
Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of California - Irvine
(UCI). Dr. Grant received his B.S. with distinction, in Geology from Stanford University in
1985; and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering and Science in 1990 and 1992,
respectively, from California Institute of Technology. Dr. Grant was Assistant Professor of
Environmental Engineering at UCI from 1991-96, Associate Professor of Environmental
Engineering at UCI from 1996-2001, Professor of Environmental Engineering at UCI from 2001
to present, and Department Chairman from 2002 to present. His professional interests include
environmental engineering, coastal water quality, coagulation and filtration of colloidal
contaminants and environmental microbiology. Dr. Grant professional service has included 1)
membership on the National Water Research Institute Blue Ribbon Review Panel (2000), 2) US
EPA Drinking Water Proposal Review Panel (2000), 3) UC Water Resources Center Advisory
Board (1999 to 2002), 4) Orange County Coast Watch Board of Directors (2000), 5) Water
Environment Research Foundation Proposal Review Panel (1999-2000) and 6) NSF-EPA Water
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and Watersheds Proposal Review Panel (1996). He is a member of the American Chemical
Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Society of
Civil Engineers. Research funds for Dr. Grant's research come from federal (National Science
Foundation, Environmental Protection Agency), private (National Water Research Institute),
State (State Water Resources Control Board), and local (Orange County and the cities of
Huntington Beach, Fountain Valley, Costa Mesa and Santa Ana) sources.
Dr. Joseph R. Landolph is currently Associate Professor of Molecular Microbiology and
Immunology and Pathology and a Member of the USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, in
the Keck School of Medicine and Associate Professor of Molecular Pharmacology and
Toxicology, in the School of Pharmacy, with tenure, at the University of Southern California
(USC) in Los Angeles, California. Dr. Landolph received a B. S. degree in Chemistry from
Drexel University in 1971 and a Ph. D. in Chemistry from the University of California at
Berkeley in 1976, under the guidance of the late Professor Melvin Calvin, where he studied the
metabolism of the chemical carcinogen, benzo(a)pyrene, and its ability to induce cytotoxicity in
cultured mouse liver epithelial cells and morphological transformation in Balb/c 3T3 mouse
fibroblasts. Dr. Landolph performed postdoctoral study in chemical carcinogenesis and
chemically induced morphological and neoplastic cell transformation and mutagenesis at the
USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Southern California under the
late Professor Charles Heidelberger from 1977-1980. Dr. Landolph was appointed Assistant
Professor of Pathology in 1980, and Associate Professor of Microbiology, Pathology, and
Toxicology at USC in 1987. Dr. Landolph has served as a grant reviewer for the U. S. EPA.
Health Effects Panel, for special RFAs for the NIEHS, and as an ad hoc member for the
Chemical Pathology Study Section and the Al-Tox-4 Study Section of the NIH. Dr. Landolph
has also been a member of the Carcinogen Identification Committee reporting to the Scientific
Advisory Committee of the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment of the California
Environmental Protection Agency from 1994-2002. He is the recipient of numerous awards,
including the Merck Award in Chemistry and the Superior Cadet Award in ROTC from Drexel
University in 1971, the Edmundson Teaching Award in the Dept. of Pathology at USC in 1985, a
Traveling Lectureship Award from the U. S. Society of Toxicology in 1990, and a competitive
American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellowship from 1977-1979. Dr. Landolph's research
interests and activities include studies of the genetic toxicology and carcinogenicity of
carcinogenic insoluble nickel compounds, carcinogenic chromium compounds, carcinogenic
arsenic compounds, and carcinogenic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. His laboratory is
focused on studying the ability of these carcinogens to induce morphological and neoplastic
transformation of C3H/10T1/2 mouse embryo cells and the cellular and molecular biology of the
transformation process. His laboratory is currently studying the ability of carcinogenic nickel
compounds to induce activation of expression of oncogenes and inactivation of expression of
tumor suppressor genes in cells transformed by insoluble carcinogenic nickel compounds, such
as nickel subsulfide, crystalline nickel monosulfide, and green (high temperature) and black (low
temperature) nickel oxides. His laboratory is also studying the molecular biology of chromium
compound-induced cell transformation and the role of valence in cell transformation by various
chromium-containing compounds. Dr. Landolph is an expert in chemically induced
morphological and neoplastic transformation and chemically induced mutation in murine and
human fibroblasts. He is the author of 32 peer-reviewed scientific publications, 21 book
chapters/review articles, and has held peer-reviewed research grant support from the U. S. EPA,
the U. S. National Cancer Institute, and the U. S. Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.
Dr. Guy R. Lanza has been involved in research, teaching, curriculum development, and
consulting in several areas of the environmental sciences including ecotoxicology,
environmental impact assessment, applied and environmental microbiology, aquatic ecology,
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and water quality for more than 35 years. At the Merck Institute for Therapeutic research, Dr.
Lanza developed several new microbial screening assays to help characterize and test
antimicrobial and antiparasitic drugs including Cambenzadole and Ivermectin. Later, he
completed research on the ecology of waterborne diseases in the Mekong River ecosystem in
Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam with the Smithsonian Institution.
At New York University, the University of Texas at Dallas, and the University of Massachusetts
at Amherst, Dr. Lanza developed novel methods for measuring and monitoring the
ecotoxicological effects of contaminants and thermal stress in soil, water, and sediments. He
designed and directed several research projects on bioremediation and phytoremediation
strategies suitable for treating hazardous waste sites. Dr. Lanza also serves as a technical advisor
to the International Rivers Network (Berkeley) where he actively participates in several
environmental impact assessments of major hydroelectric dam projects in Asia and Africa.
Dr. Lanza has a B.S. in Biology from Fairleigh Dickinson University, an M.S. in Zoology from
the University of Kentucky, and a Ph.D. in Biology (Environmental Microbiology) from Virginia
Polytechnic Institute and State University. He has served as a consultant and expert witness to
industry, international agencies, various government organizations, and is active on several
editorial peer review boards and committees in microbiology and the environmental sciences.
Dr. Lanza served as the Rapporteur for the Expert Group on Air, Water, and Land Pollution for
OECD from 1980-82, and as an expert witness for the US Department of Justice for the
remediation of the Everglades National Park and the Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge from
1990-95.
Dr. Lanza has been involved in several initiatives to develop innovative curricula in the
environmental sciences. He served on the Advanced Placement Environmental Sciences
Committee for the College Board, and helped to develop new curriculum in environmental
biology for Mahidol University and Burapha University in Thailand, and the Hanoi School of
Public Health in Vietnam. He also served as Founding Editor/Editor-in-Chief/ Senior Science
Editor for the International Journal of Phytoremediation published by Taylor Francis/ CRC
Press, and is currently an Editor with Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics.
Dr. Lanza has served as a consultant to the Environmental Engineering Committee and on the
review panel of the Scientific and Technical Achievements Awards Committee of the E.P.A.
Science Advisory Board. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology in
2000. Dr. Lanza is currently Professor of Microbiology, Director of the Environmental
Sciences Program, and Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Environmental Toxicology and
Risk Assessment at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Dr. John P. Maney received his Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from the University of Rhode
Island, Kingston, Rhode Island. Dr. Maney has over 30 years experience in analytical chemistry
and over 20 years experience in environmental sampling, environmental analysis and data
quality issues. He has directed and founded environmental testing laboratories, managed
numerous government contracts and subcontracts, which have addressed among other issues,
analytical method development, analytical method validation, hazardous waste sampling, and
authoring of guidance. Dr. Maney has chaired and participated in the consensus standard process
for USEPA/ASTM accelerated standards regarding sampling, subsampling and data quality. For
the last 11 years he has been president of Environmental Measurements Assessment (EMA), a
consulting company that focuses on sampling, analytical and quality issues.
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Dr. Michael C. Newman received degrees in zoology from the University of Connecticut (B.A.,
M.S.) and environmental sciences from Rutgers University (M.S., Ph.D.). After his postdoctoral
studies, he was a research ecologist at the University of Georgia's Savannah River Ecology
laboratory. He now holds a Professor of Marine Science position at the College of William and
Mary's School of Marine Science after ending a three-year term as Dean of Graduate Studies of
the School of Marine Science. His research emphasizes quantitative methods in ecotoxicology
with topics of interest ranging from chemical measurement statistics to QSAR-like models for
predicting metal ion effects to contaminant effects on population genetics to methods of
predicting community level effects. He has authored approximately 100 publications on these
topics including four books, Quantitative Methods in Aquatic Ecotoxicology, Fundamentals of
Ecotoxicology, Population Ecotoxicology and Community Ecotoxicology. He also edited
several books, Metal Ecotoxicology, Hierarchical Ecotoxicology, Risk Assessment: Logic and
Measurement, Coastal and Estuarine Risk Assessment, and Risk Assessment with Time-to-Event
Models. Dr. Newman is active in advisory service. He served on OECD, EPA, DOE, NAS, and
state environmental regulatory and risk assessment committees and panels. He was one of two
U.S. members of an OECD team charged with assessing statistical methods for analyzing
toxicity data. Work with DOE involved complex-wide consideration of data quality objectives
for risk assessment activities, and various site-specific advisory services to the Savannah River
and Hanford sites. He has been a member of numerous EPA teams including the FIFRA
ECOFRAM working group, two FIFRA science advisory panels, the Chesapeake Bay Office
science advisory board, a FQPA scientific review board, and a joint U.S. EPA-Israeli Water
Agency working group. He has reviewed numerous risk assessment documents for EPA and was
a consultant to the NAS (Everglades Ecosystem Assessment). He continues to work actively
with various Virginia Department of Environmental Quality teams and panels.
Dr. Gary A. Toranzos is a professor of microbiology at the Department of Biology, University
of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Arizona in
1985. He is best known for his work on the microbiological quality of waters, the ecology of
waterborne pathogens and the development of indicators of risk. He has worked on the
development and implementation of molecular methods in environmental microbiology with a
strong emphasis on quality control. He worked as a Program Director for the National Science
Foundation, Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences. He is an elected member of the
American Academy of Microbiology, A fellow of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science and is currently a Research Council member of the Water Environment
Research Foundation. Dr. Toranzos has published extensively on the microbiology of drinking
and recreational waters. He also served as a member of the EPA Science Advisory Board,
Drinking Water Committee from 1997 through 2003.
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