Research Activities

Presentations by EPA's Exposure Researchers

For July 2008 - September 2008, ordered by date

Presented at American Water Resources Association 2008 Summer Specialty Conference, Virginia Beach, VA, June 30 - July 02, 2008. More information about the American Water Resources Association 2008 Summer Specialty Conference

Tallent-Halsell, N. G. and L. Walker. Impacts on Floodplains By an Invasive Shrub, Buddleja Davidii.

Presented at Computational Methods in Water Resources Conference, San Francisco, CA, July 06 - 10, 2008. More information about the Computational Methods in Water Resources Conference

Golden, H. E. and C. D. Knightes. Simulating Runoff from a Grid Based Mercury Model: Flow Comparisons.

Presented at International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Boston, MA, July 07 - 11, 2008. More information about the International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium

Lunetta, R. S. and Y. Shao. The Use of MODIS NDVI Data for Characterizing Cropland Across the Great Lakes Basin.

Presented at Society for Conservation Biology 2008 Annual Meeting, Chattanooga, TN, July 13 - 17, 2008. More information about the Society for Conservation Biology 2008 Annual Meeting

McGarvey, D. J. Fishing for Novel Approaches to Ecosystem Service Forecasts.
Rashleigh, B., D. Roux, P. J. Ashton, and N. Brajevich. Comparative Analysis of River Conservation in the United States and South Africa.

Presented at 8th INTECOL International Wetlands Conference, Cuiaba, Brazil, July 20 - 25, 2008. More information about the INTECOL International Wetlands Conference

Christensen, J., W. Crumpton, and A. Van Der Valk. Modeling Long-Term Dynamics of Litter Accumulation in Response to Static and Variable Hydroperiods.

Presented at Soil and Water Conservation Society Annual Meeting, Tucson, AR, July 25 - 30, 2008. More information about the Soil and Water Conservation Society Annual Meeting

Bruins, R. J. EPA's Future Midwestern Landscapes (FML) Study.
Guertin, P., D. Goodrich, W. G. Kepner, D. J. Semmens, M. Hernadez, S. Burns, A. Cate, L. Levick, and S. Miller. Oral & Poster - Automated Geopspatial Watershed Assessment (AGWA): A GIS-Based Hydrologic Modeling Tool for Watershed Assessment and Planning.

Presented at 93rd Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Milwaukee, WI, August 03 - 08, 2008. More information about the Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting

Tallent-Halsell, N. G. and L. Walker. The Influence of an Invasive Shrub, Buddleja Davidii on a Native Shrub, Griselinia Littoralis Transplanted into a New Zealand Floodplain Chronosequence.

Presented at National Environmental Monitoring Conference, Washington, DC, August 11 - 15, 2008. More information about the National Environmental Monitoring Conference

Bouchard, D., X. Ma, and C. Isaacson. Characterizing Aqueous Fullerene Suspensions.

Presented at 236th ACS National Meeting & Exposition, Philadelphia, PA, August 17 - 21, 2008. More information about the 236th ACS National Meeting & Exposition

Isaacson, C., J. A. Field, and D. Bouchard. Development of Mass Spectrometric Ionization Methods for Fullerenes and Fullerene Derivatives.
Hilal, S. H., A. N. Saravanaraj, and L. A. Carreira. Estimation of Henry's Law Constant for a Diverse Set of Organic Compounds from Molecular Structure.
Kong, L., O. Tedrow, and R. G. Zepp. Spectroscopic and Photochemical Properties of Water-Soluble Fullerenol.
Pelaez, M. A., A. A. Delacruz, and D. D. Dionysiou. Visible Light-activated TiO₂ Photocatalytic Films; Synthesis, Characterization and Environmental Application for the Destruction of Microcystin-LR.
MA, X. and D. Bouchard. Deposition of Colloidal Fullerenes on Polar and Non-Polar Surfaces.
Ayyampalayam, S. N., S. H. HILAL, and L. Carreira. Calculating Henry’s Constants of Charged Molecules Using SPARC.

Presented at 6th International Conference on Applications of Stable Isotope Techniques to Ecological Studies, Honolulu, HI, August 25 - 29, 2008. More information about the 6th International Conference on Applications of Stable Isotope Techniques to Ecological Studies

Burke, R. A., K. M. Fritz, B. R. Johnson, S. Fulton, and C. Barton. Impact of Mountaintop Mining/Valley Fill on the Stable Carbon Isotopic Composition and Concentration of Dissolved Organic Carbon and Dissolved Inorganic Carbon in Headwater Streams.
Walters, D. M., K. M. Fritz, D. Raikow, M. Mills, and R. R. Otter. Tracking Contaminant Flux from Aquatic to Terrestrial Food Webs.

Presented at Third Interagency Conference on Research in the Watersheds, Estes Park, CO, September 08 - 11, 2008. More information about the Interagency Conference on Research in the Watersheds

Golden, H. E., C. D. Knightes, E. Cooter, and R. L. Dennis. Modeled Watershed Runoff Associated with Variations in Precipitation Data with Implications for Contaminant Fluxes.
Kepner, W. G., D. J. Semmens, M. Hernadez, and D. Goodrich. Evaluating Hydrological Response to Forecasted Land-Use Change: Scenario Testing With Automated Geospatial Watershed Assessment Tool.

Presented at American Chemical Society 42nd Western Regional Meeting, Las Vegas, NV, September 23 - 27, 2008. More information about the American Chemical Society 42nd Western Regional Meeting

Bouchard, D., X. Ma, and C. Isaacson. Characterizing Fullerene Nanoparticles in Aqueous Suspensions.