Science & Technology
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Going Back to our Roots: EPA Researchers Help the City of Durham, North Carolina Site New Trees
EPA helps Durham, North Carolina sit 10,000 trees so that the community will benefit the most
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May 28 Webinar on Air Quality and Healthy Hearts: Progress and Remaining Challenges
Join our May 28 webinar that will highlight EPA research and new findings on the impacts of air pollution on the cardiovascular system.
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Advancing Systematic Review Workshop (December 2015)
EPA hosted an event to examine the systematic review process for development and applications of methods for different types of evidence (epidemiology, animal toxicology, and mechanistic). The presentations are also available.
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Swimming Upstream: Research to Protect Salmon Habitat in the Columbia River
EPA scientists in Corvallis, Oregon, are creating detailed digital models of local river systems and tracking populations of salmon and steelhead as they migrate upstream.
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IRIS Public Stakeholder Meeting (Nov 2012)
The goal of this meeting was to hear the views of the IRIS Program's many stakeholders about IRIS and changes that are underway to improve the Program.
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Meet EPA Senior Scientist Jason Sacks, MPH
EPA Epidemiologist Jason Sacks works to protect and improve air quality by helping to develop Integrated Science Assessments, which form the scientific basis of the National Ambient Air Quality Standards.
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DIY Air Sensor Now Available for Use by Educators and Citizen Scientists
EPA researchers have published instructions for building a portable, battery-powered air sensor, called the AirMapper, which can be used for educational outreach activities.
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IRIS Public Stakeholder Meeting Presentations (November 2012)
Presenter biographies and meeting presentations for the IRIS Public Stakeholder Meeting.
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Linking Minnesota Land Cover Changes to Drinking Water Treatment
EPA scientists are working with communities in Minnesota to look at the effects of land cover changes on drinking water treatment.
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Systematic Review Workshop Materials
Workshop agenda, presentations, and panelists biographies for the Systematic Review Workshop.
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EPA Researchers Work with Oklahoma Partners to Evaluate Ecological Conditions of Wadeable Streams and Restore Valuable Water Resources
EPA researchers worked with partners in Oklahoma to refine their current biological indices. The goal of this effort was to improve bioassessments based on fish and macroinvertebrate assemblages in wadeable streams throughout the state.
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Groundwater: Understanding and Protecting Our Hidden Resource
Groundwater provides about half of the drinking water supply worldwide. To protect this valuable resource, EPA researchers study how water is transported through the subsurface and how contaminants can move underground.
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Hexavalent Chromium Workshop
Workshop materials and meeting information for the Hexavalent Chromium Workshop.
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Children’s Health Month: Preventing Lead Exposure for Children Before it Occurs
EPA researchers are investigating ways to protect children from lead exposure.
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Meet EPA Chemist Lisandra Santiago-Delgado Trine
EPA chemist Lisandra Santiago-Delgado Trine analyzes water samples from across the nation to study how certain elements move through environmental systems.
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EPA Researchers Inform Public Health Officials in Ohio on Variants of COVID-19 Virus through Wastewater Monitoring and Sequencing
Early in the pandemic, researchers at EPA’s laboratory in Cincinnati began looking for evidence of SARS-CoV-2 in municipal wastewater.
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Meet EPA Chemist Stephen Jackson, Ph.D.
Dr. Stephen Jackson is a chemist developing methods to measure and analyze per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), ethylene oxide (EtO), and other environmental contaminants of emerging concern.
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Preventing Algal Blooms with a “Pinch of Sugar”
EPA researchers are looking at ways to inhibit the development of algae that can produce cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms. One method they are studying is adding a food source to water that would allow other bacteria to better compete.
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Meet EPA Epidemiologist Rebecca Massa Nachman, Ph.D., MPH
EPA epidemiologist Rebecca Nachman works on health assessments for EPA’s Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) program. She contributed to the recently finalized IRIS assessment of hexavalent chromium and currently is working on IRIS assessments of met
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Meet EPA Researcher Chelsea Hintz, Ph.D.
EPA researcher Chelsea Hintz is a biologist in EPA’s Office of Research and Development (ORD) Center for Environmental Solutions and Emergency Response (CESER). She joined the Agency in 2019 and her current research focuses on the impact of environmental c