Environmental Monitoring

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • 1-Hydroxypyrene concentrations in first morning voids and 24-h composite urine: intra- and inter-individual comparisons. 
  • 20th Pollutant Responses in Marine Organisms (PRIMO 20): Global issues and fundamental mechanisms caused by pollutant stress in marine and freshwater organisms. 
  • A Community-Driven Intervention in Tuftonboro, New Hampshire, Succeeds in Altering Water Testing Behavior. 
  • A functional assay-based strategy for nanomaterial risk forecasting. 
  • A gas nanosensor unaffected by humidity. 
  • A mechanistic-bioclimatic modeling analysis of the potential impact of climate change on biomes of the Tibetan Plateau. 
  • A preliminary investigation of the parallelogram concept in genetic monitoring and risk estimation. 
  • A review of maternal prenatal exposures to environmental chemicals and psychosocial stressors-implications for research on perinatal outcomes in the ECHO program. 
  • A spatially explicit investigation of phosphorus sorption and related soil properties in two riparian wetlands. 
  • Accelerated epigenetic age as a biomarker of cardiovascular sensitivity to traffic-related air pollution. 
  • Accumulation of PBDEs in stranded harp (Pagophilus groenlandicus) and hooded seals (Cystophora cristata) from the Northeastern United States. 
  • Accumulation of environmental contaminants in wood duck (Aix sponsa) eggs, with emphasis on polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and polychlorinated dibenzofurans. 
  • Adapting environmental surveillance for polio to the need to track antimicrobial resistance. 
  • Adverse outcome pathways during early fish development: a conceptual framework for identification of chemical screening and prioritization strategies. 
  • Agreement between two methods for retrospective assessment of occupational exposure intensity to six chlorinated solvents: Data from The National Birth Defects Prevention Study. 
  • Air concentrations of VOCs in portable and traditional classrooms: results of a pilot study in Los Angeles County. 
  • Air pollution and mortality in São Paulo, Brazil: Effects of multiple pollutants and analysis of susceptible populations. 
  • Air quality impacts and health-benefit valuation of a low-emission technology for rail yard locomotives in Atlanta Georgia. 
  • Airborne fiber size characterization in exposure estimation: Evaluation of a modified transmission electron microcopy protocol for asbestos and potential use for carbon nanotubes and nanofibers. 
  • Amazon forests capture high levels of atmospheric mercury pollution from artisanal gold mining. 
  • An assessment of fecal indicator bacteria-based water quality standards. 
  • An assessment of occupational safety and health hazards in selected small businesses manufacturing wood pallets--part 1. Noise and physical hazards. 
  • An ecological perspective on nanomaterial impacts in the environment. 
  • An ecosystem-based deep-ocean strategy. 
  • An observation-based model for analyzing ozone precursor relationships in the urban atmosphere. 
  • Analysis of engineered nanomaterials in complex matrices (environment and biota): general considerations and conceptual case studies. 
  • Application of ecosystem services in natural resource management decision making. 
  • Application of strontium isotopes for tracing landfill leachate plumes in groundwater. 
  • Applying comprehensive environmental assessment to research planning for multiwalled carbon nanotubes: Refinements to inform future stakeholder engagement. 
  • Aquatic models, genomics and chemical risk management. 
  • Aquatic risk assessment of a polycarboxylate dispersant polymer used in laundry detergents. 
  • Arachidonic acid metabolism and inflammatory biomarkers associated with exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. 
  • Artificial lake expansion amplifies mercury pollution from gold mining. 
  • Asbestos standards: Impact of currently uncounted chrysotile asbestos fibers on lifetime lung cancer risk. 
  • Assessing TMDL effectiveness using flow-adjusted concentrations: a case study of the Neuse River, North Carolina. 
  • Assessing different mechanisms of toxicity in mountaintop removal/valley fill coal mining-affected watershed samples using Caenorhabditis elegans. 
  • Assessing exposure metrics for PM and birth weight models. 
  • Assessment of emerging polar organic pollutants linked to contaminant pathways within an urban estuary using non-targeted analysis. 
  • Assessment of human exposure to ambient particulate matter. 
  • Assessment of inorganic contamination of private wells and demonstration of effective filter-based reduction: A pilot-study in Stokes County, North Carolina. 
  • Assessment of metals in cosmetics commonly used in Saudi Arabia. 
  • Assessment of water quality management with a systematic qualitative uncertainty analysis. 
  • Association Between Bedroom Particulate Matter Filtration and Changes in Airway Pathophysiology in Children With Asthma. 
  • Association between changes in air pollution levels during the Beijing Olympics and biomarkers of inflammation and thrombosis in healthy young adults. 
  • Association of air pollution sources and aldehydes with biomarkers of blood coagulation, pulmonary inflammation, and systemic oxidative stress. 
  • Associations between PBDEs in office air, dust, and surface wipes. 
  • Associations between flame retardant applications in furniture foam, house dust levels, and residents' serum levels. 
  • Associations of neighborhood concentrated poverty, neighborhood racial/ethnic composition, and indoor allergen exposures: a cross-sectional analysis of los angeles households, 2006-2008. 
  • Bacterial community responses to a gradient of alkaline mountaintop mine drainage in Central Appalachian streams. 
  • Bacterial contamination associated with estuarine shoreline development 
  • Beyond Cholinesterase Inhibition: Developmental Neurotoxicity of Organophosphate Ester Flame Retardants and Plasticizers. 
  • Beyond Selenium: Coal Combustion Residuals Lead to Multielement Enrichment in Receiving Lake Food Webs. 
  • Bioaerosol emissions associated with pit latrine emptying operations. 
  • Biogeochemical transformations of mercury in solid waste landfills and pathways for release. 
  • Biogeochemistry of nonylphenol ethoxylates in urban estuarine sediments 
  • Biological monitoring for occupational cadmium exposure: the urinary metallothionein. 
  • Biomonitoring recycled water in the Santa Ana River Basin in southern California. 
  • Biotransformation of HBCD in biological systems can confound temporal-trend studies. 
  • Boiler Briquette Coal versus Raw Coal: Part II-Energy, Greenhouse Gas, and Air Quality Implications. 
  • Boiler briquette coal versus raw coal: Part I--Stack gas emissions. 
  • Boron and strontium isotopic characterization of coal combustion residuals: validation of new environmental tracers. 
  • Bottlenose dolphins as indicators of persistent organic pollutants in the western North Atlantic Ocean and northern Gulf of Mexico. 
  • Bringing molecular tools into environmental resource management: untangling the molecules to policy pathway. 
  • Brominated flame retardants in breast milk and behavioural and cognitive development at 36 months. 
  • Building Statistical Models to Analyze Species Distributions 
  • Calibrating and validating bacterial water quality models: a Bayesian approach. 
  • Canopy nitrogen, carbon assimilation, and albedo in temperate and boreal forests: Functional relations and potential climate feedbacks 
  • Carbon dioxide and water vapor exchange in a warm temperate grassland. 
  • Cardiorespiratory biomarker responses in healthy young adults to drastic air quality changes surrounding the 2008 Beijing Olympics. 
  • Certification of SRM 1589a PCBs, pesticides, PBDEs, and dioxins/furans in human serum. 
  • Challenges and opportunities for managing aquatic mercury pollution in altered landscapes. 
  • Changes in blood lead levels associated with use of chloramines in water treatment systems. 
  • Changes in hydrology and salinity accompanying a century of agricultural conversion in Argentina. 
  • Changes of plasma vWF level in response to the improvement of air quality: an observation of 114 healthy young adults. 
  • Chapter two: methodologies for characterisation of combustion sources and for quantification of their emissions. 
  • Characterization of Spatial Air Pollution Patterns Near a Large Railyard Area in Atlanta, Georgia. 
  • Characterization of infectious aerosols in health care facilities: an aid to effective engineering controls and preventive strategies. 
  • Characterization of non-methane hydrocarbons emitted from various cookstoves used in China. 
  • Characterization of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in vegetables near industrial areas of Shanghai, China: Sources, exposure, and cancer risk. 
  • Characterizing fishing effort and spatial extent of coastal fisheries 
  • Chemical contaminant exposures assessed using silicone wristbands among occupants in office buildings in the USA, UK, China, and India. 
  • Chemistry of surface water, precipitation, throughfall, leaves, sediment, soil, and air near a gold mining region in Peru. 
  • Children's microenvironmental exposure to PM_2.5 and ozone and the impact of indoor air filtration. 
  • Chlorpyrifos accumulation patterns for child-accessible surfaces and objects and urinary metabolite excretion by children for 2 weeks after crack-and-crevice application. 
  • Clinical findings for residents near a polyurethane foam manufacturing plant. 
  • Combining model results and monitoring data for water quality assessment. 
  • Combustion sources of particles. 1. Health relevance and source signatures. 
  • Combustion sources of particles: 2. Emission factors and measurement methods. 
  • Comment on "Atmospheric particulate matter pollution during the 2008 Beijing Olympics". 
  • Community occupancy responses of small mammals to restoration treatments in ponderosa pine forests, northern Arizona, USA. 
  • Comparative Assessment of Pesticide Exposures in Domestic Dogs and Their Owners Using Silicone Passive Samplers and Biomonitoring. 
  • Comparative Exposure Assessment Using Silicone Passive Samplers Indicates That Domestic Dogs Are Sentinels To Support Human Health Research. 
  • Comparing polybrominated diphenyl ether and polychlorinated biphenyl bioaccumulation in a food web in Grand Traverse Bay, Lake Michigan. 
  • Comparing serologic response against enteric pathogens with reported diarrhea to assess the impact of improved household drinking water quality. 
  • Comparing the Use of Silicone Wristbands, Hand Wipes, And Dust to Evaluate Children's Exposure to Flame Retardants and Plasticizers. 
  • Comparison of exposure estimation methods for air pollutants: ambient monitoring data and regional air quality simulation. 
  • Comparison of manufactured and black carbon nanoparticle concentrations in aquatic sediments. 
  • Comparison of the Revised Air Quality Index with the PSI and AQI indices. 
  • Comprehensive environmental assessment: a meta-assessment approach. 
  • Concentrations and source characteristics of airborne carbonyl compounds measured outside urban residences. 
  • Concentrations of urinary 8-hydroxy-2'-deoxyguanosine and 8-isoprostane in women exposed to woodsmoke in a cookstove intervention study in San Marcos, Peru. 
  • Concerted changes in tropical forest structure and dynamics: evidence from 50 South American long-term plots. 
  • Concurrent aggregation and deposition of TiO2 nanoparticles in a sandy porous media. 
  • Connecting differential responses of native and invasive riparian plants to climate change and environmental alteration. 
  • Consistent declines in aquatic biodiversity across diverse domains of life in rivers impacted by surface coal mining. 
  • Consumption of biogenic nitric oxide in hydrated soil. 
  • Contribution of Brown Carbon to Direct Radiative Forcing over the Indo-Gangetic Plain. 
  • Cumulative Retrospective Exposure Assessment (REA) as a predictor of amphibole asbestos lung burden: validation procedures and results for industrial hygiene and pathology estimates. 
  • Cumulative impacts of mountaintop mining on an Appalachian watershed. 
  • Current approaches used in epidemiologic studies to examine short-term multipollutant air pollution exposures. 
  • Deep Impact: Effects of Mountaintop Mining on Surface Topography, Bedrock Structure, and Downstream Waters. 
  • Deforestation Due to Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining Exacerbates Soil and Mercury Mobilization in Madre de Dios, Peru. 
  • Density declines, richness increases, and composition shifts in stream macroinvertebrates. 
  • Dermal uptake and percutaneous penetration of organophosphate esters in a human skin ex vivo model. 
  • Detection and analysis of endogenous polar volatile organic compounds (PVOCs) in urine for human exposome research. 
  • Determination of HBCD, PBDEs and MeO-BDEs in California sea lions (Zalophus californianus) stranded between 1993 and 2003. 
  • Determination of elemental baseline using peltigeralean lichens from Northeastern Canada (Québec): Initial data collection for long term monitoring of the impact of global climate change on boreal and subarctic area in Canada. 
  • Determining times to maximum urine excretion of 1-aminopyrene after diesel exhaust exposure. 
  • Development of a methyl bromide collection system for fumigated farmland. 
  • Development of luminescence procedures to evaluate permeation of multi-ring polyaromatic compounds through protective materials. 
  • Dietary intake polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and associated cancer risk in a cohort of Chinese urban adults: Inter- and intra-individual variability. 
  • Direct in situ measurement of dissolved zinc in the presence of zinc oxide nanoparticles using anodic stripping voltammetry. 
  • Discharge competence and pattern formation in peatlands: a meta-ecosystem model of the Everglades ridge-slough landscape. 
  • Dispersal of Amazonian birds in continuous and fragmented forest. 
  • Dissolved Reactive Phosphorus Loads to Western Lake Erie: The Hidden Influence of Nanoparticles. 
  • Distribution and fate of neutral alkylphenol ethoxylate metabolites in a sewage-impacted urban estuary. 
  • Do Two Wrongs Make a Right? Persistent Uncertainties Regarding Environmental Selenium-Mercury Interactions. 
  • Dominant control of agriculture and irrigation on urban heat island in India. 
  • Effect of environmental changes on noise in the NICU. 
  • Effect of mechanical chest percussion on intracranial pressure: a pilot study. 
  • Effective monitoring of agriculture: a response. 
  • Effects of ambient ozone concentrations with different averaging times on asthma exacerbations: A meta-analysis. 
  • Effects of garage employment and tobacco smoking on breathing-zone concentrations of carbonyl compounds. 
  • Effects of personal air pollutant exposure on oxidative stress: Potential confounding by natural variation in melatonin levels. 
  • Effects of temperature, salinity, and sediment organic carbon on methylmercury bioaccumulation in an estuarine amphipod. 
  • Efficacy of Hair Total Mercury Content as a Biomarker of Methylmercury Exposure to Communities in the Area of Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining in Madre de Dios, Peru. 
  • Electrical and gas sensing properties of polyaniline functionalized single-walled carbon nanotubes. 
  • Environment. Monitoring Earth's critical zone. 
  • Environmental Justice in Unconventional Oil and Natural Gas Drilling and Production: A Critical Review and Research Agenda. 
  • Environmental management strategy: four forces analysis. 
  • Environmental occurrences, behavior, fate, and ecological effects of nanomaterials: an introduction to the special series. 
  • Epidemiology. Ensuring safe drinking water in Bangladesh. 
  • Estimates of historical exposures by phase contrast and transmission electron microscopy for pooled exposure--response analyses of North Carolina and South Carolina, USA asbestos textile cohorts. 
  • Estimates of historical exposures by phase contrast and transmission electron microscopy in North Carolina USA asbestos textile plants. 
  • Estimating common parameters of lognormally distributed environmental and biomonitoring data: harmonizing disparate statistics from publications. 
  • Estimating ecological thresholds for phosphorus in the Everglades. 
  • Estimating personal exposures from ambient air pollution measures: using meta-analysis to assess measurement error. 
  • Estimation of in-canopy ammonia sources and sinks in a fertilized Zea mays field 
  • Estimations of historical atmospheric mercury concentrations from mercury refining and present-day soil concentrations of total mercury in Huancavelica, Peru. 
  • Evaluating landfill aftercare strategies: A life cycle assessment approach. 
  • Evaluating the bioaccessibility of flame retardants in house dust using an in vitro Tenax bead-assisted sorptive physiologically based method. 
  • Evaluation and comparison of continuous fine particulate matter monitors for measurement of ambient aerosols. 
  • Evaluation of 1-dimensional nanomaterials release during electrospinning and thermogravimetric analysis. 
  • Evaluation of a field appropriate membrane filtration method for the detection of Vibrio cholerae for the measurement of biosand filter performance in the Artibonite Valley, Haiti. 
  • Evaluation of fish models of soluble epoxide hydrolase inhibition. 
  • Evaluation of private well contaminants in an underserved North Carolina community. 
  • Evidence for Coal Ash Ponds Leaking in the Southeastern United States. 
  • Evo-devo beyond morphology: from genes to resource use. 
  • Exposure to PBDEs in the office environment: evaluating the relationships between dust, handwipes, and serum. 
  • Exposure to flame retardant chemicals and occurrence and severity of papillary thyroid cancer: A case-control study. 
  • Exposure to flame retardant chemicals on commercial airplanes. 
  • Exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and volatile organic compounds among recently pregnant rural Guatemalan women cooking and heating with solid fuels. 
  • Exposures to lead-based paint dust in an inner-city high school. 
  • Express it in numbers: efforts to quantify engineered nanoparticles in environmental matrices advance. 
  • Factors Controlling the Risks of Co-occurrence of the Redox-Sensitive Elements of Arsenic, Chromium, Vanadium, and Uranium in Groundwater from the Eastern United States. 
  • Farmer's lung is now in decline. 
  • FenyMon: ferry-based monitoring and assessment of human and climatically driven environmental change in the Albemarle-Pamlico sound system. 
  • Field evaluation and comparison of five methods of sampling lead dust on carpets. 
  • Fine organic particulate matter dominates indoor-generated PM2.5 in RIOPA homes. 
  • Fine particulate matter and cardiovascular disease: Comparison of assessment methods for long-term exposure. 
  • Flame retardant associations between children's handwipes and house dust. 
  • Flame retardant exposure among collegiate United States gymnasts. 
  • Fleet behavior is responsive to a large-scale environmental disturbance: Hypoxia effects on the spatial dynamics of the northern Gulf of Mexico shrimp fishery. 
  • From bottle to microplastics: Can we estimate how our plastic products are breaking down? 
  • Fruiting trees as dispersal foci in a semi-deciduous tropical forest. 
  • Fuel-based fine particulate and black carbon emission factors from a railyard area in Atlanta. 
  • Functional group characterization of indoor, outdoor, and personal PM: results from RIOPA. 
  • Fundulus heteroclitus adapted to PAHs are cross-resistant to multiple insecticides. 
  • Gastroesophageal reflux disease in lung transplant recipients. 
  • Gender differences in autobiographical memory for everyday events: retrieval elicited by SenseCam images versus verbal cues. 
  • Geochemical evidence for fugitive gas contamination and associated water quality changes in drinking-water wells from Parker County, Texas. 
  • Give long-term datasets World Heritage status. 
  • Greenhouse gas fluxes in southeastern U.S. coastal plain wetlands under contrasting land uses. 
  • Groundwater quality and its health impact: An assessment of dental fluorosis in rural inhabitants of the Main Ethiopian Rift. 
  • Habitat restoration affects immature stages of a wetland butterfly through indirect effects on predation. 
  • Hazardous chemicals in synthetic turf materials and their bioaccessibility in digestive fluids. 
  • Health effects of real-world exposure to diesel exhaust in persons with asthma. 
  • Heat map visualization of complex environmental and biomarker measurements. 
  • Hierarchical spatial modeling of uncertainty in air pollution and birth weight study. 
  • High lead exposures resulting from pottery production in a village in Michoacán State, Mexico. 
  • Higher normalized concentrations of tetracycline resistance found in ballast and harbor water compared to ocean water. 
  • How does infiltration behavior modify the composition of ambient PM2.5 in indoor spaces? An analysis of RIOPA data. 
  • Human biomarker interpretation: the importance of intra-class correlation coefficients (ICC) and their calculations based on mixed models, ANOVA, and variance estimates. 
  • Human exposure assessment in air pollution systems. 
  • Human exposure to selected animal neurocarcinogens: a biomarker-based assessment and implications for brain tumor epidemiology. 
  • Hydraulic Fracturing (Fracking) and the Clean Air Act. 
  • Hydrocarbon-Rich Groundwater above Shale-Gas Formations: A Karoo Basin Case Study. 
  • Identification and expression of the ecdysone receptor in the harpacticoid copepod, Amphiascus tenuiremis, in response to fipronil. 
  • Identification of flame retardants in polyurethane foam collected from baby products. 
  • Identifying and assessing the application of ecosystem services approaches in environmental policies and decision making. 
  • Identifying linkages between land use, geomorphology, and aquatic habitat in a mixed-use watershed. 
  • Implementation Science to Accelerate Clean Cooking for Public Health. 
  • Importance of heterogeneous aggregation for NP fate in natural and engineered systems. 
  • In search of microbial indicator taxa: shifts in stream bacterial communities along an urbanization gradient. 
  • In vitro metabolism of the brominated flame retardants 2-ethylhexyl-2,3,4,5-tetrabromobenzoate (TBB) and bis(2-ethylhexyl) 2,3,4,5-tetrabromophthalate (TBPH) in human and rat tissues. 
  • In-situ organic phosphorus mineralization in sediments in coastal wetlands with different flooding periods in the Yellow River Delta, China. 
  • Indicator species characterization and removal in a detention pond in the Plaster Creek watershed. 
  • Inflammatory and oxidative stress responses of healthy young adults to changes in air quality during the Beijing Olympics. 
  • Influence of Sulfide Nanoparticles on Dissolved Mercury and Zinc Quantification by Diffusive Gradient in Thin-Film Passive Samplers. 
  • Influence of ambient (outdoor) sources on residential indoor and personal PM2.5 concentrations: analyses of RIOPA data. 
  • Influence of dissolved organic matter on the environmental fate of metals, nanoparticles, and colloids 
  • Inhalation exposure system used for acute and repeated-dose methyl isocyanate exposures of laboratory animals. 
  • Integrating bioassessment and ecological risk assessment: an approach to developing numerical water-quality criteria. 
  • Integrating impact evaluation in the design and implementation of monitoring marine protected areas. 
  • Intervention to reduce gymnast exposure to flame retardants from pit foam: A case study. 
  • Is Food Irrigated with Oilfield-Produced Water in the California Central Valley Safe to Eat? A Probabilistic Human Health Risk Assessment Evaluating Trace Metals Exposure. 
  • Isotopic imprints of mountaintop mining contaminants. 
  • It is Time to Stop Missing the Forest for the Trees: The Debate on Corticosteroid Use in Pediatric Heart Surgery. 
  • Laboratory assessment of the mobility of nanomaterials in porous media. 
  • Lactational exposure to polybrominated diphenyl ethers and its relation to social and emotional development among toddlers. 
  • Landscape characteristics of a stream and wetland mitigation banking program. 
  • Legacy of Coal Combustion: Widespread Contamination of Lake Sediments and Implications for Chronic Risks to Aquatic Ecosystems. 
  • Legacy of anthropogenic lead in urban soils: Co-occurrence with metal(loids) and fallout radionuclides, isotopic fingerprinting, and in vitro bioaccessibility. 
  • Leveraging Big Data Towards Functionally-Based, Catchment Scale Restoration Prioritization. 
  • Life cycle impacts and benefits of a carbon nanotube-enabled chemical gas sensor. 
  • Life history responses of Daphnia similoides simultaneously exposed to microcystin-LR and ammonia and their postexposure recovery. 
  • Linking PBDEs in house dust to consumer products using X-ray fluorescence. 
  • Linking physiological parameters to perturbations in the human exposome: Environmental exposures modify blood pressure and lung function via inflammatory cytokine pathway. 
  • Long-distance interactions regulate the structure and resilience of coastal ecosystems. 
  • Long-term ambient air pollution levels in four Chinese cities: inter-city and intra-city concentration gradients for epidemiological studies. 
  • Long-term dynamics of death rates of emphysema, asthma, and pneumonia and improving air quality. 
  • Long-term trends in liver neoplasms in brown bullhead in the Buffalo River, New York, USA. 
  • Longer commutes are associated with increased human exposure to tris(1,3-dichloro-2-propyl) phosphate. 
  • Low acetaldehyde collection efficiencies for 24-hour sampling with 2,4-dinitrophenylhydrazine (DNPH)-coated solid sorbents. 
  • Making the Environmental Justice Grade: The Relative Burden of Air Pollution Exposure in the United States 
  • Mapping Air Pollution with Google Street View Cars: Efficient Approaches with Mobile Monitoring and Land Use Regression. 
  • Mapping the yearly extent of surface coal mining in Central Appalachia using Landsat and Google Earth Engine. 
  • Mapping urban pipeline leaks: methane leaks across Boston. 
  • Measurement of flame retardants and triclosan in municipal sewage sludge and biosolids. 
  • Measurement of human CYP1A2 induction by inhalation exposure to benzo(a)pyrene based on in vivo isotope breath method. 
  • Measurement of polybrominated diphenyl ethers on hand wipes: estimating exposure from hand-to-mouth contact. 
  • Measuring Personal Exposure to Organophosphate Flame Retardants Using Silicone Wristbands and Hand Wipes. 
  • Measuring environmental change in forest ecosystems by repeated soil sampling: a north american perspective. 
  • Measuring site-level success in brownfield redevelopments: a focus on sustainability and green building. 
  • Meeting report: Estimating the benefits of reducing hazardous air pollutants--summary of 2009 workshop and future considerations. 
  • Mercury hair levels and factors that influence exposure for residents of Huancavelica, Peru. 
  • Methane contamination of drinking water accompanying gas-well drilling and hydraulic fracturing. 
  • Microbiome composition and implications for ballast water classification using machine learning. 
  • Microplastics in Small Waterbodies and Tadpoles from Yangtze River Delta, China. 
  • Microplastics in oysters Saccostrea cucullata along the Pearl River Estuary, China. 
  • Microvolume trace environmental analysis using peak-focusing online solid-phase extraction-nano-liquid chromatography-high-resolution mass spectrometry. 
  • Mobilization of arsenic and other naturally occurring contaminants in groundwater of the Main Ethiopian Rift aquifers. 
  • Monitoring indoor exposure to organophosphate flame retardants: hand wipes and house dust. 
  • Multiple stressors in the Sacramento River watershed. 
  • Naturally Occurring versus Anthropogenic Sources of Elevated Molybdenum in Groundwater: Evidence for Geogenic Contamination from Southeast Wisconsin, United States. 
  • Near-real-time determination of hydrogen peroxide generated from cigarette smoke. 
  • Negative ions offset cardiorespiratory benefits of PM_2.5 reduction from residential use of negative ion air purifiers. 
  • Nephrotoxic contaminants in drinking water and urine, and chronic kidney disease in rural Sri Lanka. 
  • New real-time technique to measure the size distribution of water-insoluble aerosols. 
  • Nitrate sink function of riparian zones induced by river stage fluctuations. 
  • Noble gases identify the mechanisms of fugitive gas contamination in drinking-water wells overlying the Marcellus and Barnett Shales. 
  • Noble gases: a new technique for fugitive gas investigation in groundwater. 
  • Nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drug toxicity monitoring and safety practices. 
  • Nontarget Screening with High Resolution Mass Spectrometry in the Environment: Ready to Go? 
  • Novel and high volume use flame retardants in US couches reflective of the 2005 PentaBDE phase out. 
  • Observing the human exposome as reflected in breath biomarkers: heat map data interpretation for environmental and intelligence research. 
  • Occurrence and Sources of Radium in Groundwater Associated with Oil Fields in the Southern San Joaquin Valley, California. 
  • Occurrence of contaminants of emerging concern in mussels (Mytilus spp.) along the California coast and the influence of land use, storm water discharge, and treated wastewater effluent. 
  • Optimizing a dansylhydrazine (DNSH) based method for measuring airborne acrolein and other unsaturated carbonyls. 
  • Organophosphate Esters: Are These Flame Retardants and Plasticizers Affecting Children's Health? 
  • Outdoor urban nanomaterials: The emergence of a new, integrated, and critical field of study. 
  • Overturning in the North Atlantic. 
  • Ozone Reaction Products Associated with Biomarkers of Cardiorespiratory Pathophysiology. 
  • Ozone in urban China: Impact on mortalities and approaches for establishing indoor guideline concentrations. 
  • PBDEs, methoxylated PBDEs and HBCDs in Japanese common squid (Todarodes pacificus) from Korean offshore waters. 
  • Pain in its environmental context: implications for designing environments to enhance pain control. 
  • Partial dust removal in vehicles does not mitigate human exposure to organophosphate esters. 
  • Pattern and process in Amazon tree turnover, 1976-2001. 
  • Patterns of fecal coliform contamination in day-care centers. 
  • Peak expiratory flow, breath rate and blood pressure in adults with changes in particulate matter air pollution during the Beijing Olympics: a panel study. 
  • Personal Exposure to PM_2.5 Oxidative Potential in Association with Pulmonary Pathophysiologic Outcomes in Children with Asthma. 
  • Personal and ambient exposures to air toxics in Camden, New Jersey. 
  • Personal exposure to particles in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia. 
  • Photodegradation pathways of nonabrominated diphenyl ethers, 2-ethylhexyltetrabromobenzoate and di(2-ethylhexyl)tetrabromophthalate: identifying potential markers of photodegradation. 
  • Photosynthesis and biomass allocation of radish cv. "Cherry Belle" in response to root temperature and ozone. 
  • Phylogenetic classification of the world's tropical forests. 
  • Physical, chemical, and mineralogical characteristics of a reservoir sediment delta (Lake Powell, U.S.A.) and implications for water quality during low water level. 
  • Policy-driven changes in enclosure fisheries of large lakes in the Yangtze Plain: Evidence from satellite imagery. 
  • Polybrominated diphenyl ethers in American eels (Anguilla rostrata) from the Delaware River, USA. 
  • Polyfluorinated compounds in serum linked to indoor air in office environments. 
  • Population Exposure to Ambient PM2.5 at the Subdistrict Level in China. 
  • Population-based dietary exposure to mercury through fish consumption in the Southern Peruvian Amazon. 
  • Post-mortem stability of blubber DLCs, PCB and tDDT in by-caught harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena). 
  • Potential impacts of leakage from deep CO2 geosequestration on overlying freshwater aquifers. 
  • Pre-drill Groundwater Geochemistry in the Karoo Basin, South Africa. 
  • Predicting polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons using a mass fraction approach in a geostatistical framework across North Carolina. 
  • Predictors of mitochondrial DNA copy number and damage in a mercury-exposed rural Peruvian population near artisanal and small-scale gold mining: An exploratory study. 
  • Predictors of tris(1,3-dichloro-2-propyl) phosphate metabolite in the urine of office workers. 
  • Preliminary study of propyl bromide exposure among New Jersey dry cleaners as a result of a pending ban on perchloroethylene. 
  • Prenatal exposure to perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances and the risk of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy. 
  • Preparation of antibodies and development of an enzyme immunoassay for determination of atrazine in environmental samples. 
  • Private drinking water wells as a source of exposure to perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) in communities surrounding a fluoropolymer production facility. 
  • Programmable ligand detection system in plants through a synthetic signal transduction pathway. 
  • Protecting off-site populations and site workers from vapor discharges during shallow soil mixing at the North Carolina State University National Priorities List Site. 
  • QPCR: a tool for analysis of mitochondrial and nuclear DNA damage in ecotoxicology. 
  • Quantification and statistical modeling--part I: breathing-zone concentrations of monomeric and polymeric 1,6-hexamethylene diisocyanate. 
  • Quantifying ground water inputs along the Lower Jordan River. 
  • Racial isolation and exposure to airborne particulate matter and ozone in understudied US populations: Environmental justice applications of downscaled numerical model output. 
  • Rapid degradation of Deepwater Horizon spilled oil by indigenous microbial communities in Louisiana saltmarsh sediments. 
  • Real-time measurements of PM_2.5 and ozone to assess the effectiveness of residential indoor air filtration in Shanghai homes. 
  • Recent declines in PAH, PCB, and toxaphene levels in the northern Great Lakes as determined from high resolution sediment cores. 
  • Reducing Indoor Levels of "Outdoor PM_2.5 " in Urban China: Impact on Mortalities. 
  • Relationship of Indoor, Outdoor and Personal Air (RIOPA) study: study design, methods and quality assurance/control results. 
  • Relationships between personal, indoor, and outdoor exposures to trace elements in PM(2.5). 
  • Relationships of Indoor, Outdoor, and Personal Air (RIOPA). Part I. Collection methods and descriptive analyses. 
  • Remobilization of residual non-aqueous phase liquid in porous media by freeze-thaw cycles. 
  • Remotely Sensed Data Informs Red List Evaluations and Conservation Priorities in Southeast Asia. 
  • Reply to Selin: Human impacts on the atmospheric burden of trace metals. 
  • Residential air exchange rates in three major US metropolitan areas: results from the Relationship Among Indoor, Outdoor, and Personal Air Study 1999-2001. 
  • Residential mercury contamination in adobe brick homes in Huancavelica, Peru. 
  • Residential metal contamination and potential health risks of exposure in adobe brick houses in Potosí, Bolivia. 
  • Respiratory and cardiovascular responses to walking down a traffic-polluted road compared with walking in a traffic-free area in participants aged 60 years and older with chronic lung or heart disease and age-matched healthy controls: a randomised, crossover study. 
  • Respiratory effects of exposure to diesel traffic in persons with asthma. 
  • Responses of 6500 households to arsenic mitigation in Araihazar, Bangladesh. 
  • Responses of serum chemokines to dramatic changes of air pollution levels, a panel study. 
  • Restoring diversity after cattail expansion: disturbance, resilience, and seasonality in a tropical dry wetland. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Ferguson, P. Lee, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Grambow, Steven C., Associate Professor of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
  • Hsu-Kim, Heileen, Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Nowacek, Douglas, Randolph K. Repass and Sally-Christine Rodgers University Distinguished Professor of Conservation Technology in Environment and Engineering, Nicholas Institute-Energy Initiative
  • Wolpert, Robert L., Professor Emeritus of Statistical Science, Environmental Sciences and Policy