Science & Technology
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“Marshing Forward” Despite Uncertainty: How EPA Researchers are Reframing Approaches to Coastal Climate Adaptation Efforts
EPA scientists evaluated both the scientific methodology and management practices behind coastal restoration projects. Using this research, they developed a framework to assist communities with collaboratively managing these fragile ecosystems.
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Studying Marine Ecosystems at the Ocean Basin Scale: Success Through Collaboration
EPA’s Dr. Jim Kaldy has been collaborating with colleagues at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Qingdao, China, on seagrass research. This international collaboration has led to significant scientific advancements about these critical estuarine habitats.
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EPA Researchers Partner with Cincinnati’s Cooper Creek Collaborative to Improve Water Quality
EPA researchers in Cincinnati, Ohio are partnering with local organizations and other federal agencies to retrofit urban stormwater infrastructure networks with technology to improve water quality and moderate flows in the Cooper Creek Watershed.
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Meet EPA Ecologist Bob McKane
The EPA Researchers at Work profile for Bob McKane
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EPA Combines Expertise with New Zealand Company to Advance Air Sensor Technologies
As low-cost air sensor technologies continue to become more readily available, the need to accurately characterize the air quality data remains a challenge
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EPA's Dr. Gerald Ankley Receives Presidential Rank Award
EPA's Dr. Gerald Ankley won the Presidential Rank Award for his career achievements at EPA.
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Research to Support the Toxic Substances Control Act
How EPA Research Supports the Toxic Substances Control Act
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Study Shows Low Levels of Air Pollution Pose Risk for Older Adults
An EPA grantee looked at the connection between older adults and long-term exposure to low levels of air pollution.
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Pre-Modeling Tool Helps Guide Contaminated Site Cleanup Plans
EPA and USGS partnered on a tool to clean up contaminated sites.
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Meet EPA Researcher Endalkachew Sahle-Demessie
Meet EPA Researcher Endalkachew Sahle-Demessie. Chemical and Environmental Engineer Endalkachew Sahle-Demessie, Ph.D., works on various projects, including nanomaterials and water resources, in EPA’s National Risk Management Research Laboratory.
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Meet EPA Scientist Sang Don Lee, Ph.D.
Sang Don Lee works as a researcher and technical expert in remediation for EPA’s homeland security research program.
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Meet EPA Scientist Jay Garland
Scientist Jay Garland Ph.D. spent twenty years at NASA trying to figure out how astronauts could stay in outer space for a long time without needing more supplies. Now he is bringing the same concepts of reusing and recovering resources to his research
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Meet EPA Researcher Justin Bousquin, MBA
Meet EPA researcher Justin Bousquin!
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EPA Researchers Publish Paper Analyzing Household Products for Chemical Presence
In a new study, EPA researchers used suspect screening to test household products for the presence of a wide variety of chemicals.
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Working with Farmers to Reduce Phosphorus in Lake Champlain
EPA researchers are working with Vermont small dairy farmers to explore whether pasture-based rotational grazing can be a viable, cost-effective, option for small farms to help to reduce phosphorus loadings to the lake.
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Advancing the Potential for Stormwater Reuse: Investigation of Water Quality and Treatment
EPA researchers collaborated with partners on a project to evaluate samples from stormwater collection systems that could potentially be harvested for landscaping and agricultural irrigation near Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, and Minneapolis.
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New MARKAL Tool Designed to Help Cities Meet Environmental Protection Goals
EPA researchers are creating an energy and water technology tool—called the Community-Scale MARKAL Model—to help cities and other municipalities make decisions on how to protect the environment, while also providing energy required for water services.
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Meet EPA Ecologist Caroline Ridley, Ph.D.
EPA ecologist Caroline Ridley assesses the impact of human activities on the environment.Her recent work includes examining the impacts of mining on salmon in Alaska and the impacts of hydraulic fracturing for oil and gas on drinking water nationwide.
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What Killed the Eagles? EPA Researchers Help Solve 25+ Year Mystery
After decades of exhaustive efforts to pinpoint the cause, EPA researchers helped determine that the eagles contracted a neurological disease from ingesting a toxin produced by a species of cyanobacteria.
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A Picture is Worth a Thousand Wells: Improving our Groundwater “Vision” with Electrical Resistivity Imaging
Traditional methods of studying the subsurface and groundwater include drilling exploratory wells–an expensive, intrusive, and often limiting approach. At the Arbuckle-Simpson Aquifer in Oklahoma, EPA researchers are using electrical resistivity imaging.