Science & Technology

EPA Office of Inspector General Identifies Concerns Involving Agency’s Scientific Integrity

Meet EPA Hydrologist Yongping Yuan, Ph.D.

EPA researcher Yongping Yuan works on watershed hydrology and water quality. She focuses on the occurrence, persistence and causation of sediment- and nutrient-impacted streams and waterbodies. This allows her to seek the most effective alternative practic

STEM Outreach Provides Opportunities for Students and Teachers

Today, our researchers are passing this along to the next generation through a variety of outreach activities with teachers and students of all ages.

EPA Researcher Honored As Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Finalist

EPA researcher Dr. Gary Ankley was honored for three decades of work to establish techniques and standards to identify dangerous chemicals and prevent them from contaminating America’s lakes and waterways.

EPA Researchers Exploring Innovative Treatment for Lead in Soil

EPA researchers are working to reduce childhood lead exposure by exploring new ways to clean up lead in contaminated sites.

EPA Researchers Share Approaches to Identify Lead Service Lines

One of the most common sources of lead in drinking water is old lead service lines. Given the public health risks, there is a need to identify lead service lines on both public and private property so that they can be removed.

After a 50-year Partnership, EPA Wraps Up Presence on the University of Las Vegas Campus

The 50-year scientific partnership between EPA and UNLV allowed researchers to develop new science that helped EPA respond to catastrophic national events.

EPA’s Excess Food Opportunities Map – A National Tool to Divert Excess Food from Landfills

EPA scientists across the Agency successfully developed a mapping tool for food waste data that is commercially or publicly available.

Mini Superstars for Aquatic Research: Stable Isotopes

Monitoring the nation’s water quality is a fundamental part of EPA’s work. To conduct part of this monitoring, EPA scientists get help from some very small assistants – stable isotopes.

EPA Partners with Tribes to Deploy Air Sensors in Communities

EPA is working with tribal communities to deploy air sensors in a variety of venues, including on tribal lands, to help people learn about air quality issues in their communities.

Local Partnership Works to Improve Watershed Health

EPA researchers are working with partners to improve the health of the East Fork of the Little Miami River Watershed in Ohio.

Latest Village Green Station Finds New Home in Houston Museum District

EPA researchers installed a new Village Green bench in Houston, Texas.

EPA Science Matters Newsletter: How Deep Are the Seagrasses?

Article about research on seagrasses to help set water quality standards.

Launch of Village Blue Web Application Shares Water Monitoring Data with Baltimore Community

EPA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) have launched their mobile-friendly web application for Village Blue, a project that provides real-time water quality monitoring data to the Baltimore, Maryland community.

Study Shows Possible Link Between Air Pollution and Higher Cholesterol Levels

EPA researchers are using new diagnostic technology and air quality modeling to better understand potential links between air quality and high cholesterol.

Putting out the Fire: 50 Years of Science to Protect America’s Water

Over the past 50 years, EPA research has played a key role in protecting America's waters. Learn how EPA researchers helped the Agency extinguish an era marked by burning rivers.

Measuring Ecosystem Health: 50 Years of Science to Protect America’s Ecosystems

For nearly 50 years, EPA has strived to protect and restore the quality of our nation’s waters. These efforts have evolved over time into the National Aquatic Resource Surveys (NARS).

Web Summit Presentations: Clean Air Spaces – Indoor Air Filtration to Protect Public Health During Wildland Fire Smoke Episodes

Information on indoor air quality research is provided from a webinar summit on clean air spaces

EPA Research in the Field: Cleaning up the Muck at Salt Chuck

The Salt Chuck Mine is a former gold, silver, copper, and palladium mine on Prince of Wales Island in Alaska.

Meet EPA Ecologist Christopher Nietch, Ph.D.

Dr. Chris Nietch is a research ecologist with a Ph.D. in biological and marine sciences from the University of South Carolina. Over his 20 years with EPA, his research has focused on harmful algal bloom ecology and risk characterization and how to best app