The EPA's Science and Technological Achievement Awards (STAA) program promotes and recognizes scientific and technological achievement by EPA employees. STAA is among the most prestigious of EPA's scientific awards programs.

The STAA program is an agency-wide competition sponsored by the Office of Research and Development (ORD) that recognizes outstanding scientific and technological papers published by EPA employees. Each year since 1980, EPA scientists and engineers have submitted their publications to be evaluated by a panel convened by EPAs Science Advisory Board (SAB). The SAB convenes an experienced group of scientists and engineers who review and evaluate the nominations. The SAB review panel then produces a set of recommendations used to select the actual awards.

Eligibility Criteria

Publications are now eligible for five (5) years based on publication date.  To be eligible, the nominated research must be published in a peer-reviewed journal, initiate or revise a scientific principle or procedure, and be recognized as a major achievement within its field of study. Publication date limits are set each year at the time of the formal announcement. The competition is EPA-wide and only EPA employees are eligible. Each award cycle identifies several categories to recognize for that particular year. In the past, categories have included:

• Control Systems and Technology
• Ecological Research
• Health Effects Research and Human Health Risk Assessment
• Monitoring and Measurement Methods
• Transport and Fate
• Review Articles
• Risk Management and Ecosystem Restoration
• Integrated Risk Assessment
• Social Sciences
• Environmental Futures
• Environmental Statistics

STAA Awards

Four award levels are granted in each research category:

• Level I: Level I awards are for those who have accomplished an exceptionally high-quality research or technological effort. The awards recognize the creation or general revision of scientific or technological principle or procedure, or a highly significant improvement in the value of a device, activity, program, or service to the public. Awarded research is of national significance or has high impact on a broad area of science/technology. The research has far reaching consequences and is recognizable as a major scientific/technological achievement within its discipline or field of study.
• Level II: Level II awards are for those who have accomplished a notably excellent research or technological effort that has qualities and values similar to, but to a lesser degree, than those described under Level I. Awarded research has timely consequences and contributes as an important scientific/technological achievement within its discipline or field of study.
• Level III: Level III awards are for those who have accomplished an unusually notable research or technological effort. The awards are for a substantial revision or modification of a scientific/technological principle or procedure, or an important improvement to the value of a device, activity, program, or service to the public. Awarded research relates to a mission or organizational component of the EPA, or significantly affects a relevant area of science/technology.
• Honorable Mention: Honorable Mention awards acknowledge research efforts that are noteworthy but do not warrant a Level I, II or III award. Honorable Mention applies to research that: (1) may not quite reach the level described for a Level III award; (2) show a promising area of research that the Subcommittee wants to encourage; or (3) show an area of research that the Subcommittees feels is too preliminary to warrant an award recommendation at this time.

Contact

Kathi Wiser (wiser.kathi@epa.gov) U.S. EPA, Office of Research and Development, Washington, DC; Telephone: (202) 564-6961

EPA announces the winners of the 2014 Scientific and Technological Achievement Awards, an agency-wide program that recognizes the outstanding scientific work of EPA employees who publish their technical work in peer-reviewed literature.

2014 EPA Administrator announcement of STAA winners (1 pg, 681 K, About PDF)

• 2014 Level I Scientific and Technological Achievement Awards (STAA)

  Level I awards are for those who have accomplished an exceptionally high-quality research or technological effort. The awards recognize the creation or general revision of scientific or technological principle or procedure, or a highly significant improvement in the value of a device, activity, program, or service to the public. Awarded research is of national significance or has high impact on a broad area of science/technology. The research has far reaching consequences and is recognizable as a major scientific/technological achievement within its discipline or field of study.

  Publication Title & Full Citation	Eligible/Ineligible Authors	Lab/Office/Institution	Citation
  (1) Estimating the National Public Health Burden Associated with Exposure to Ambient PM2.5 and Ozone Risk Analysis, 32(1):81-95 (2011) (2) The Recent and Future Health Burden of Air Pollution Apportioned Across U.S. Sectors Environmental Science and Technology, 47(8):3580-3589 (2013)	Neal Fann Kirk Baker Charlie Fulcher Bryan J. Hubbell Amy Lamson Karen Wesson Susan C. Anenberg David P. Risley	ORIA, Research Triangle Park, NC	Characterizing the Scope and Magnitude of the Public Health Burden of Air Pollution in the U.S.

• 2014 Level II Scientific and Technological Achievement Awards (STAA)

  Level II awards are for those who have accomplished a notably excellent research or technological effort that has qualities and values similar to, but to a lesser degree, than those described under Level I. Awarded research has timely consequences and contributes as an important scientific/technological achievement within its discipline or field of study.

  Publication Title & Full Citation	Eligible/Ineligible Authors	Lab/Office/Institution	Citation
  High-Throughput Models for Exposure-Based Chemical Prioritization in the ExpoCast Project Toxicological Sciences, 47(15):8479-88 (2013)	R. Woodrow Setzer John F. Wambaugh Elaine Cohen Hubal David M. Reif Jade Mitchell-Blackwood Sumit Gangwal Alicia Frame James R. Rabinowitz Thomas B. Knudsen Richard S. Judson Peter P. Egeghy Daniel A. Vallero Jon A. Arnot (Non-EPA) Olivier Jolliet (Non-EPA)	NCCT, Research Triangle Park, NC	ExpoCast High Throughput Framework for Rapid Prioritization of Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals
  (1) Ballast Water Regulations and the Move Towards Concentration-Based Numeric Discharge Limits Ecological Applications, 23(2): (2013) (2) Counting At Low Concentrations: The Statistical Challenges of Verifying Ballast Water Discharge Standards Ecological Applications, 23(2):339-351 (2013)	Melanie Frazier Henry Lee, II Ryan J. Albert John Lishman Juhi R. Saxena Deborah A. Reusser (Non-EPA) A. Whitman Miller (Non-EPA)	NHEERL, Newport, OR	Developing the Regulatory and Scientific Framework for Establishing Organism-Based Ballast Water Discharge Standards

• 2014 Level III Scientific and Technological Achievement Awards (STAA)

  Level III awards are for those who have accomplished an unusually notable research or technological effort. The awards are for a substantial revision or modification of a scientific/technological principle or procedure, or an important improvement to the value of a device, activity, program, or service to the public. Awarded research relates to a mission or organizational component of the EPA, or significantly affects a relevant area of science/technology.

  Publication Title & Full Citation	Eligible/Ineligible Authors	Lab/Office/Institution	Citation
  Energy Evaluations of the Global Biogeochemical Cycles of Six Biologically Active Elements and Two Compounds Ecological Modeling, 271:32-51 (2013)	Daniel Campbell Hongfang Lu (Non-EPA) Bin-Le Lin (Non-EPA)	NHEERL, Narragansett, RI	Progress Toward Evaluating the Environmental Liabilities Associated with the Far-Field Effects of Pollutants
  Advancing the Guanica Bay (Puerto Rico) Watershed Management Plan Coastal management, 41:19-38 (2013)	John F. Carriger William S. Fisher Tom B. Stockton, Jr. (Non-EPA) P.E. Sturm (Non-EPA)	NHEERL, Research Triangle Park, NC	Advancing the Guanica Bay Watershed-Management Plan in a Sustainable Manner
  Mysid population responses to resource limitation differ from those predicted by cohort studies Marine Ecology Progress Series, 432:115-123 (2011)	Jason Grear Doranne Borsay Horowitz Ruth Gutjarhr-Gobell	NHEERL, Narragansett, RI	Estimating Vital Statistics within Complex Populations for Ecological Prediction
  Nutrient Distributions, Transports, and Budgets on the Inner Margin of a River-Dominated Continental Shelf Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans, 118:4822-4838 (2014)	John C. Lehrter Michael C. Murrell Richard M. Greene James D. Hagy Blake Schaeffer Dong Ko (Non-EPA) Richard W. Gould, Jr. (Non-EPA) Brad Penta (Non-EPA)	NHEERL, Research Triangle Park, NC	Advancing the Understanding of Nutrient Dynamics on the Continental Shelf as Affected by the Mississippi River Outflow
  (1) An Assessment of the Exposure of Americans to Perfluorooctane Sulfonate: A Comparison of Estimated Intake with Values Inferred from NHANES Data Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology, 21(2):150-168 (2011) (2) Simple Intake and Pharmacokinetic Modeling to Characterize Exposure of Americans to Perfluorooctanoic Acid, PFOA Environmental Science and Technology, 45(19):8006-8014 (2011)	Peter P. Egeghy Matthew N. Lorber	NERL, Research Triangle Park, NC	Advancing Our Understanding of How Humans are Exposed to Perfluorinated Compounds
  Arsenic Exposure and Toxicology: A Historical Perspective Toxicological Sciences, 123(2):305-332 (2011)	Michael F. Hughes David J. Thomas Yu Chen (Non-EPA) Barbara Beck (Non-EPA) Ari Lewis (Non-EPA)	NHEERL, Research Triangle Park, NC	An Outlook on How Research Has Shaped Our Knowledge of the Exposure and Toxicology of the Human Carcinogen Arsenic
  (1) Sustainability Indicators for Chemicals Processes: 1. Taxonomy Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 51(5):2309-2328 (2011) (2) Sustainability Indicators for Chemicals Processes: II. Data Needs Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 51(5):2329-2353 (2011)	Gerardo J. Ruiz-Mercado Raymond L. Smith Michael A. Gonzalez	NRMRL, Cincinnati, OH	Sustainability Performance Assessment for Chemical Processes
  Evaluation of PCB Bioaccumulation by Lumbriculus variegatus in Field-Collected Sediments Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 32(7):1495-1503 (2013)	Lawrence P. Burkhard David R. Mount Terry L. Highland J. Russell Hockett Teresa J. Norberg-King Nanditha Billa (Non-EPA) Steven B. Hawthorne (Non-EPA) David J. Miller (Non-EPA) Carol B. Grabanski (Non-EPA)	NHEERL, Duluth, MN	Understanding and Applying Biota-Sediment Accumulation Factors at Superfund Sites
  (1) Contribution of Lubricating Oil to Particulate Matter Emissions from Light-Duty Gasoline Vehicles in Kansas City Environmental Science & Technology, 46(7):4191-4199 (2012) (2) Particulate Matter Speciation Profiles for Light-Duty Gasoline Vehicles in the United States Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association, : (2013)	Darrell B. Sonntag Chad R. Bailey Richard W. Baldauf Carl R. Fulper Catherine A. Yanca	NVFEL, Ann Arbor, MI	Advancing Understanding of Motor Vehicle Particulate Matter Emissions to Improve Risk Assessment and Control Strategies
  Dioctyl Sulfosuccinate Analysis in Near Gulf of Mexico Water by Direct-injection Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectrometry Journal of Chromatography A, 1231:46-51 (2012)	Lawrence B. Zintek David L. Schroeder Johnson Mathew Dennis J. Wesolowski George C. Schupp Caitlin R. Schupp (Non-EPA) Michael G. Kosempa (Non-EPA) Adam M. Zachary (Non-EPA)	Region 5, Chicago, IL	Method Development and Implementation for the Analysis of Dioctyl Sulfosuccinate for the Deep Water Horizon Oil Spill
  Where is the Consensus? A Proposed Foundation for Moving Ecosystem Service Concepts into Practice Ecological Economics, 77:27-35 (2012)	Amanda M. Nahlik Mary E. Kentula Dixon H. Landers M. Siobhan Fennessy (Non-EPA)	NHEERL, Corvallis, OR	Establishing a Standardized Lexicon and Framework for Ecosystem Service Research Directly Connected to Human Well-Being
  The Effects of Mountaintop Mines and Valley Fills on the Physicochemical Quality of Stream Ecosystems in the Central Appalachians: A Review Science of the Total Environment, 417-418:1-12 (2012)	Michael B. Griffith Susan B. Norton Laurie C. Alexander Amina I. Pollard Stephen D. LeDuc	NCEA, Cincinnati, OH	Review of Science on the Effects of Mountaintop Mines and Valley Fills on Appalachian Streams
  (1) Chiral Pesticides: Identification, Description, and Environmental Implication Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 217:1-74 (2012) (2) Chiral Chlordane Components in Environmental Matrices Book "Chiral Pesticides: Stereoselectivity and Its Consequences, 1085(Chapter 2):11-43 (2011)	Elin M. Ulrich Michael R. Goldsmith Renee L. Falconer (Non-EPA) Candice N. Morrison (Non-EPA) William T. Foreman (Non-EPA)	NERL, Research Triangle Park, NC	Reviews of Chiral Pesticides
  Release Characteristics of Selected Carbon Nanotube Polymer Composites Carbon, 68:33-57 (2014)	Richard G. Zepp Philip G. Sayre Richard J. Fehir Justin P. Roberts Christopher Kingston (Non-EPA) Wendel Wohlleben (Non-EPA) Anthony Andrady (Non-EPA) Darrell Boverhof (Non-EPA) Douglas Hawkins (Non-EPA) Betsy Shelton (Non-EPA) Yasir Sultan (Non-EPA) Viktor Vejins (Non-EPA)	NERL, Athens, GA	Developing a Creative Evaluation of Methods for Assessing Release of Carbon Nanomaterials from Polymer Composites
  (1) An Approach for Integrating Toxicogenomic Data in Risk Assessment: The Dibutyl Phthalate Case Study Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology, 271(3):324-335 (2013) (2) Use of Genomic Data in Risk Assessment Case Study: I. Evaluation of the Dibutyl Phthalate Male Reproductive Development Toxicity Data Set Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology, 271(3):336-348 (2013) (3) Use of Genomic Data in Risk Assessment Case Study: II. Evaluation of the Dibutyl Phthalate Toxicogenomic Data Set Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology, 271(3):349-362 (2013)	Susan Y. Euling Susan L. Makris Robert Benson Weihsueh A. Chiu Andrea S. Kim Chad M. Thompson Lori White Vickie S. Wilson L. Earl Gray, Jr. Banalata Sen Nagalakshmi Keshava Susan Hester Channa Keshava Paul M.D. Foster (Non-EPA) Meric A. Ovacik (Non-EPA) Ioannis P. Androulakis (Non-EPA) Kevin W. Gaido (Non-EPA) Marianthi Lerapetritou (Non-EPA)	NCEA, Washington, DC	Developing an Approach and Case Study Template for Evaluating and Utilizing Toxicogenomic Data in Risk Assessment
  (1) Overview of the Atmospheric Model Evaluation Tool (AMET) v1.1 for Evaluating Meteorological and Air Quality Models Environmental Modeling and Software, 26(4):434-443 (2011) (2) A multi-resolution assessment of the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model v4.7 wet deposition estimates for 2002-2006 Geoscientific Model Development, 4(2):357-371 (2011) (3) Examination of the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model performance over the North American and European Domains Atmospheric Environment, 53:152-155 (2012)	Keith W. Appel Robert C. Gilliam Steven C. Howard Kristen M. Foley Jesse O. Bash Robert W. Pinder Robin L. Dennis Shawn J. Roselle Samohineeveesu T. Rao Alexis Zubrow (Non-EPA) Charles Chemel (Non-EPA) Neil Davis (Non-EPA) Dale J. Allen (Non-EPA) Kenneth E. Pickering (Non-EPA) Stefano Galmarini (Non-EPA) Xavier J. Francis (Non-EPA) Ranjeet S. Sokhi (Non-EPA) Rong-Ming Hu (Non-EPA)	NERL, Research Triangle Park, NC	Development of a System for the Comprehensive Evaluation of Meteorological and Air-Quality Models
  Application of Robust Statistical Methods to Background Tracer Data Characterized by Outliers and Left-Censored Data Water Research / Print and Online Journal, 45:3107-3118 (2011)	Malcolm S. Field	NCEA, Washington, DC	Application of Robust Statistical Methods to Background Tracer Data
  (1) Epoxide Pathways Improve Model Predictions of Isoprene Markers and Reveal Key Role of Acidity in Aerosol Formation Journal-Environmental Science & Technology, 47(19):11056-11064 (2013) (2) A Computational Study of Acid Catalyzed Aerosol Reactions of Atmospherically Relevant Epoxides Journal - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 15(41):18065-18076 (2013)	Havala O.T. Pye Ivan R. Piletic Edward O. Edney Robert W. Pinder Deborah J. Luecken William T. Hutzell John H. Offenberg Tadeusz E. Kleindienst Michael Lewandowski Libero J. Bartolotti (Non-EPA) Ying Xie (Non-EPA) Shannon L. Capps (Non-EPA) Ying-Hsuan Lin (Non-EPA) Jason D. Surratt (Non-EPA) Avram Gold (Non-EPA) Mohammed Jaoui (Non-EPA) Zhenfa Zhang (Non-EPA)	NERL, Research Triangle Park, NC	Insight into the Mechanism by Which Isoprene Produces Particulate Matter
  (1) Transport of Nanoparticles with Dispersant through Biofilm Coated Drinking Water Sand Filters Water Research, 47:6457-6466 (2013) (2) Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulation of Transport and Retention of Nanoparticle in Saturated Sand Filters J. Hazardous Materials, 244-245:251-25 (2013) (3) Transport and Deposition of nano-size CeO2 through porous media, experimental studies and mathematical modeling Water Research, 45:4409-4418 (2011)	Endalkachew Sahle-Demessie Zhen Li (Non-EPA) Ashraf Aly Hassan (Non-EPA) George Sorial (Non-EPA)	NRMRL, Cincinnati, OH	Experimental and Computational Studies on the Fate and Transport of Nanomaterials in Water Filtration Process

• 2014 Honorable Mentions Scientific and Technological Achievement Awards (STAA)

  Honorable Mention awards acknowledge research efforts that are noteworthy but do not warrant a Level I, II or III award. Honorable Mention applies to research that: (1) may not quite reach the level described for a Level III award; (2) show a promising area of research that the Subcommittee wants to encourage; or (3) show an area of research that the Subcommittees feels is too preliminary to warrant an award recommendation at this time.

  Publication Title & Full Citation	Eligible/Ineligible Authors	Lab/Office/Institution	Citation
  (1) Shifting Cultivation, Forest Fallow, and Externalities in Ecosystem Services: Evidence from the Eastern Amazon Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 61(1):95-106 (2011) (2) Constraints or Cooperation? Determinants of Secondary Forest Cover Under Shifting Cultivation Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 40(3):471-487 (2011)	Heather Klemick	NCEE, Washington, DC	Research on the Determinants and Effects of Forest Fallow on Local Ecosystem Services
  Comparing Distributions of Environmental Outcomes for Regulatory Environmental Justice Analysis International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 8:1707-1726 (2011)	Kelly Maguire Glenn Sheriff	NCEE, Washington, DC	Research on Methods for Analyzing How Regulations Affect Environmental Justice
  The Spatial Extent of Water Quality Benefits in Urban Housing Markets Land Economics, 87(4):628-644 (2011)	Patrick J. Walsh J. Walter Milon (Non-EPA) David O. Scrogin (Non-EPA)	NCEE, Washington, DC	Research on the Spatial Extent of Water-Quality Benefits
  Classification and Accuracy Assessment for Coarse Resolution Mapping within the Great Lakes Basin, USA Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 79(11):1015-1026 (2013)	John S. Iiames, Jr. Ross S. Lunetta	NERL, Research Triangle Park, NC	Coarse Resolution Land-Cover Accuracy Assessment: Understanding Variability for Environmental-Modeling Sensitivity
  Plankton Community Respiration, Net Ecosystem Metabolism, and Oxygen Dynamics on the Louisiana Continental Shelf: Implications for Hypoxia Continental Shelf Research, 52:27-38 (2013)	Michael Murrell Roman S. Stanley John C. Lehrter James D. Hagy, Jr.	NHEERL, Research Triangle Park, NC	Research Addressing the Issues Relating to Hypoxia on the Louisiana Continental Shelf
  Estimating Benefits in a Recovering Estuary: Tampa Bay, Florida Estuaries and Coasts, DOI 10.100: (2013)	Marc Russell Holly Greening (Non-EPA)	NHEERL, Research Triangle Park, NC	Developing an Assessment of the Benefits of Seagrass, Mangrove and Habitat Restoration in Tampa Bay
  (1) Density Dependent Functional Forms Drive Compensation in Populations Exposed to Stressors Ecological Modeling, 265:149-157 (2013) (2) Incorporating Temperature-driven Seasonal Variation in Survival, Growth, and Reproduction Models for Small Fish Marine Ecology Progress Series, 4469:101-112 (2012)	Sandy Raimondo	NHEERL, Research Triangle Park, NC	Developing Population Models That Incorporate Density-Dependent Compensation and Temperature-Driven Functions
  Approach to Developing Numeric Water Quality Criteria for Coastal Waters: A Transition from SeaWiFS to MODIS and MERIS Satellites Journal of Applied Remote Sensing, 7(1):1-18 (2013)	Blake Schaeffer James D. Hagy Richard P. Stumpf (Non-EPA)	NHEERL, Research Triangle Park, NC	Constructing an Approach to Developing Water-Quality Criteria for Coastal Waters Using Satellite Information
  (1) Comparison of Cropland and Forest Surface Temperatures Across The Conterminous United States Agricultural and Forest Meteorology/Peer reviewed, 166-167:137-143 (2012) (2) Empirical Analysis of The Influence of Forest Extent on Annual and Seasonal Surface Temperatures for the Continental United States Global Ecology and Biogeography/Peer reviewed, 22(5):620-629 (2012)	James D. Wickham Timothy G. Wade Kurt H. Riitters (Non-EPA)	NERL, Research Triangle Park, NC	Influence of Forests and Croplands on Climate
  (1) Control of Pituitary Thyroid-Stimulating Hormone Synthesis and Secretion by Thyroid Hormones During Xenopus Metamorphosis General and Comparative Endocrinology, 173(3):428-437 (2011) (2) Thyroid-Stimulating Hormone (TSH): Measurement of Intracellular, Secreted, and Circulating Hormone in Xenopus Laevis and Xenopus Tropicalis General and Comparative Endocrinology, 171(3):319-325 (2011)	Sigmund J. Degitz Robin Sternberg Joseph J. Korte Michael Hornung Jose Serrano Joseph E. Tietge Kara R. Thoemke (Non-EPA) Lisa Korte (Non-EPA) Kathryn E. Lillegard (Non-EPA) Scott M. Moen (Non-EPA) Jessica M. Olson (Non-EPA)	NHEERL, Duluth, MN	Regulation of the Hypothalamo-Pituitary-Thyroid Axis during Amphibian Metamorphosis
  Assessing Spatial and Temporal Variability of VOCs and PM-components in Outdoor Air During the Detroit Exposure and Aerosol Research Study (DEARS) Atmospheric Environment, 61:159-168 (2012)	Sarah Bereznicki Jon Sobus Ronald Williams Alan Vette Matthew Stiegel (Non-EPA)	NERL, Research Triangle Park, NC	Defining the Spatial and Temporal Variability of the Multipollutant Urban Environment
  Dietary Intakes of Pesticides based on Community Duplicate Diet Samples Science of the Total Environment, 468-469:785-790 (2013)	Lisa Jo Melnyk Jianping Xue Larry C. Michael (Non-EPA) G. Gordon Brown (Non-EPA) Michelle McCombs (Non-EPA) Marcia Nishioka (Non-EPA)	NERL, Cincinnati, OH	Demonstrating the Applicability of an Innovative Dietary Exposure Collection Protocol
  Climate Change-Related Temperature Impacts on Warm Season Heat Mortality: A Proof-of-Concept Methodology Using BenMAP Environmental Science & Technology/Original Article, 45:1450-1457 (2011)	A. Scott Voorhees Neal Fann Charles Fulcher Patrick Dolwick Bryan Hubbell Britta Bierwagen Philip Morefield (Non-EPA)	OAR, Research Triangle Park, NC	Impact of Climate Change and Rising Temperatures on Public Health
  Why and How to Combine Evidence in Environmental Assessments: Weighing Evidence and Building Cases Science of the Total Environment, 409:1406-1417 (2011)	Glenn Walter Suter II Susan Marie Cormier	NCEA, Cincinnati, OH	A Methodology for Weighing Multiple Types of Evidence in Environmental Assessments
  Diagnosis of Potential Stressors Adversely Affecting Benthic Communities in New Bedford Harbor, MA (USA Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management/peer reviewed, 8(4):685-702 (2012)	Kay Ho Marguerite Pelletier Daniel Campbell Robert M. Burgess Roxanne L. Johnson Kenneth J. Rocha	NHEERL, Narragansett, RI	Integrating and Developing Simplified New Methods to Allow the Identification of Stressors in Complex Marine Systems
  (1) Molecular detection of Campylobacter spp. in California gull  (Larus californicus) excreta Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 77(14):5034-5039 (2011) (2) Molecular Detection of Campylobacter spp. and Fecal Indicator Bacteria during the Northern Migration of Sandhill Cranes(Grus canadensis) at the Central Platte River Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 79(12):3762-3769 (2013)	Jingrang Lu Jorge W. Santo Domingo Nicholas J. Ashbolt Hodon Ryu (Non-EPA) John F. Griffith (Non-EPA) Jason R. Vogel (Non-EPA)	NERL, Cincinnati, OH	Scientific and Technical Achievement in the Field of Water-Quality Monitoring and Measurement Methods
  (1) Comparison of gull feces-specific assays targeting the 16S rRNA gene of Catellicoccus marimammalium and Streptococcus spp Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 78(6):1909-1916 (2012) (2) Development and evaluation of a qPCR assay targeting fecal pollution of sandhill cranes (Grus canadensis) Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 78:4338-45 (2012)	Jorge W. Santo Domingo Jingrang Lu Nicholas J. Ashbolt Hodon Ryu (Non-EPA) Michael Elk (Non-EPA) Stephen Hill (Non-EPA) Carlos Toledo-Hernandez (Non-EPA) Joel Gonzalez-Nieves (Non-EPA) Izhar Khan (Non-EPA) John F. Griffith (Non-EPA) Jason R. Vogel (Non-EPA) Thomas A. Edge (Non-EPA) Felipe Chavez-Ramirez (Non-EPA)	NRMRL, Cincinnati, OH	Novel Molecular Assays to Determine the Presence of Waterfowl Fecal Pollution in Environmental Waters
  (1) Push-through Direct Injection NMR: An Optimized Automation Method Applied to Metabolomics Analyst, 137(9):2226-2232 (2012) (2) Impacts of 17a-Ethynylestradiol Exposure on Metabolite Profiles of Zebrafish (Danio rerio) Liver Cells Aquatic Toxicology, 130-131:184-191 (2013)	Quincy Teng Drew R. Ekman Timothy W. Collette Wenlin Huang (Non-EPA)	NERL, Athens, GA	Developing Cell-Based Metabolomics Tools for High-Throughput Screening of Contaminants in Environmental Risk Assessments
  (1) Depletion of the protective aluminum hydroxide coating in TiO2-based sunscreens by swimming pool water ingredients Chemical Engineering Journal, 191:95-103 (2012) (2) Statistical evaluation of A1(OH)3 layer damage on TiO2 nanoparticles in the presence of swimming pool and sea water Journal of Nanoparticle Research, 14(4):1-9 (2012)	Souhail Al-Abed Jurate Virkutyte (Non-EPA) Dionysios D. Dionysiou (Non-EPA)	NRMRL, Cincinnati, OH	Evaluating the Effect of Water Chemistry on Environmental and Health Implications of Nano Materials in Consumer Products
  Pollutant Emissions and Energy Efficiency under Controlled Conditions for Household Biomass Cookstoves and Implications for Metrics Useful in Setting International Test Standards Environmental Science & Technology, 46:10827-10834 (2012)	James J. Jetter Michael Hays Tiffany Yelverton Yongxin Zhao (Non-EPA) Kirk R. Smith (Non-EPA) Peter DeCarlo (Non-EPA) Bernine Khan (Non-EPA)	NRMRL, Research Triangle Park, NC	Evaluation of Air Pollutant Emissions and Energy Efficiency for Household Biomass Cookstoves
  Scientific Considerations for Evaluating Cancer Bioassays Conducted by the Ramazzini Institute Environmental Health Perspectives, 121(11-12):1253-1263 (2013)	Jeffrey S. Gift Jane C. Caldwell Jennifer Jinot Marina V. Evans Ila Cote John J. Vandenberg	NCEA, Arlington, VA	Analyses and Review of Key Issues Raised Regarding Ramazzini Institute Cancer Bioassay Data
  Macroscopic to Microscopic Scales of Particle Dosimetry: From Source to Fate in the Body Air Quality, Atmosphere & Health / Peer reviewed, 5(2):169-187 (2012)	Paul A. Solomon Deborah H. Bennett (Non-EPA) Robert F. Phalen (Non-EPA) Peter Gehr (Non-EPA) Loyda B. Mendez (Non-EPA) Barbara Rothen-Rutishauser (Non-EPA) Martin Clift (Non-EPA) Christina Brandenberger (Non-EPA) Christian Muhlfeld (Non-EPA)	NERL, Las Vegas, NV	Exploring Particle Dosimetry across the Source-to-Health Effects Paradigm-Linking Sources to Particle-Cell Interactions
  Application of Enteric Viruses for Fecal Pollution Source Tracking in Environmental Waters Environmental International, 45(15):151-164 (2012)	Kelvin Wong Marirosa Molina Theng-Theng Fong (Non-EPA) Kyle Bibby (Non-EPA)	NERL, Athens, GA	Moving the Field of Fecal Pollution Source Tracking Forward through Application of Enteric Viruses and Metagenomics
  Nature of the Interlayer Environment in an Organoclay Optimized for Sequestration of Dibenzo-p-Dioxin Environmental Science and Technology, 46(17):9584-9591 (2012)	Edwin F. Barth Cliff Johnston (Non-EPA) Sandip Chattopadhyay (Non-EPA) Stephen Boyd (Non-EPA) Bushra Kahn (Non-EPA)	NRMRL, Cincinnati, OH	Evaluation of the Chemical Bonding within the Interlayer of an Organoclay for Sustainable Site Remediation
  (1) Relating Ecosystem Services to Domains of Human Well-Being: Foundation for a U.S. Index Ecological Indicators, 28:79-90 (2013) (2) Development of Relative Importance Values as Contribution Weights for Evaluating Human Wellbeing: An Ecosystem Services Example Human Ecology, 41(4):631-641 (2013)	Lisa Smith Linda Harwell Kevin Summers Jason Case (Non-EPA) Heather Smith (Non-EPA)	NHEERL, Research Triangle Park, NC	Increasing the Understanding of Relationship of Human Well-Being and Ecosystem Services
  Solute Transport in Solution Conduits Exhibiting Multi-Peaked Breakthrough Curves Journal of Hydrology / Print and Online Journal, 440-441:26-335 (2012)	Malcolm S. Field Feike J. Leij (Non-EPA)	NCEA, Washington, DC	Modeling Solute Transport in Solution Conduits Exhibiting Multi-Peaked Breakthrough Curves
  (1) Air quality variability near a highway in a complex urban environment Atmospheric Environment, 64:169-178 (2013) (2) RLINE: A Line Source Dispersion Model for Near-Surface Releases Atmospheric Environment, 77:748-756 (2013) (3) Estimating near-road pollutant dispersion: a model inter-comparison Transportation Research Part D, 25:93-105 (2013)	Vlad Isakov David Heist Steven Perry Michelle Snyder Richard Baldauf Gayle Hagler Sue Kimbrough Richard Shores Robert Chris Owen Akula Venkatram (Non-EPA) Kevin Black (Non-EPA) Laurie Brixey (Non-EPA) Saravanan Arunachalam (Non-EPA) William Petersen (Non-EPA) David Carruthers (Non-EPA) Christina Hood (Non-EPA) Jenny Stocker (Non-EPA)	NERL, Research Triangle Park, NC	Advancements in Near-Road Dispersion Modeling
  (1) Determining the Spatial and Seasonal Variability in OM/OC Ratios across the United States Using Multiple Regression Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 11(6):2933-2949 (2011) (2) Simulating the Degree of Oxidation in Atmospheric Organic Particles Environmental Science & Technology, 46(1):331-339 (2012)	Heather Simon Prakash V. Bhave Jenise Swall Neil Frank William C. Malm (Non-EPA)	OAQPS, Research Triangle Park, NC	Measurement and Modeling Analyses to Advance the Characterization of Atmospheric Organic Aerosols
  Assessing the Long Term Impact of Phosphorus Fertilization on Phosphorus Loadings Using AnnAGNPS International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 8(6):2181-2199 (2011)	Yongping Yuan Ronald L. Bingner (Non-EPA) Martin A. Locke (Non-EPA) Jim Stafford (Non-EPA) Fred D. Theurer (Non-EPA)	NERL, Las Vegas, NV	Providing Critical Understanding of Phosphorus Losses from Agricultural Fields for Better Water Resource Management
  Fate and transport of elemental copper (Cu0) nanoparticles through porous media in the presence of organic materials Water Research, 46(7):2445-2456 (2012)	Chunming Su Edward H. Jones (Non-EPA)	NRMRL, Ada, OK	Pioneering Research on Transport and Fate of Nanocopper in Water Environments

EPA announces the winners of the 2015 Scientific and Technological Achievement Awards, an agency-wide program that recognizes the outstanding scientific work of EPA employees who publish their technical work in peer-reviewed literature.

2015 EPA Administrator announcement of STAA winners (2 pp, 854 K, About PDF)

• 2015 Level I Scientific and Technological Achievement Awards (STAA)

  Level I awards are for those who have accomplished an exceptionally high-quality research or technological effort. The awards recognize the creation or general revision of scientific or technological principle or procedure, or a highly significant improvement in the value of a device, activity, program, or service to the public. Awarded research is of national significance or has high impact on a broad area of science/technology. The research has far reaching consequences and is recognizable as a major scientific/technological achievement within its discipline or field of study.

  Publication Title & Full Citation	Eligible/Ineligible Authors	Lab/Office/Institution	Citation
  (1) Use of Statistical Modeling to Reassess the Performance Standard for the AOAC Use-Dilution Methods (1) Performance of the AOAC Use-Dilution Method with Targeted Modifications: Collaborative Study Journal of AOAC International, 97(1):68-77 (2014) Journal of AOAC International, 95(6):1618-1628 (2012)	Stephen F. Tomasino Albert E. Parker (Non-EPA) Martin A. Hamilton (Non-EPA) Gordon C. Hamilton (Non-EPA)	OPP, Fort Meade, MD	Reassessment of the Performance Standard for the AOAC Use-Dilution Methods

• 2015 Level II Scientific and Technological Achievement Awards (STAA)

  Level II awards are for those who have accomplished a notably excellent research or technological effort that has qualities and values similar to, but to a lesser degree, than those described under Level I. Awarded research has timely consequences and contributes as an important scientific/technological achievement within its discipline or field of study.

  Publication Title & Full Citation	Eligible/Ineligible Authors	Lab/Office/Institution	Citation
  Cardiopulmonary Toxicity of Peat Wildfire Particulate Matter and the Predictive Utility of Precision Cut Lung Slices Particle and Fibre Toxicology, 11(29):1-17 (2014)	M. Ian Gilmour Q. Todd Krantz Haiyan Tong John McGee Michael Hays Kasey Kovalcik Janice A. Dye Elizabeth Boykin Mary Daniels Yong Ho Kim (Non-EPA)	NHEERL, Research Triangle Park, NC	Comparative Toxicity of Wildfire Smoke
  (1) Relative Importance of Nitrite Oxidation by Hypochlorous Acid under Chloramination Conditions Environmental Science & Technology, 46(11):6056-6064 (2012) (2) A Proposed Abiotic Reaction Scheme for Hydroxylamine and Monochloramine under Chloramination Relevant Drinking Water Conditions Water Research, 60:218-227 (2014) (3) Hydroxylamine Addition Impact to Nitrosomonas europaea Activity in the Presence of Monochloramine Water Research, 68:719-730 (2014)	David G. Wahman Gerald E. Speitel, Jr. (Non-EPA) Madhav V. Machavaram (Non-EPA)	NRMRL, Cincinnati, OH	Research on Novel Ammonia-Oxidizing Bacteria and Monochloramine Interactions to Advance Chloramine Chemistry
  (1) Decades-Scale Degradation of Commercial, Side-Chain, Fluorotelomer-Based Polymers in Soils and Water Environmental Science & Technology, 49(2):915-23 (2015) (2) Characterizing Fluorotelomer and Perfluoroalkyl Substances in New and Aged Fluorotelomer-Based Polymers for Degradation Studies with GC/MS and LC/MS/MS Environmental Science and Technology, 48(10):5762-5769 (2014)	John W. Washington Jonathan E. Naile David G. Lynch Thomas M. Jenkins (Non-EPA) Keegan Rankin (Non-EPA)	NERL, Athens, GA	Experimental and Modeling Research to Determine Degradation Rates for Commercial Fluorotelomer-Based Polymers

• 2015 Level III Scientific and Technological Achievement Awards (STAA)

  Level III awards are for those who have accomplished an unusually notable research or technological effort. The awards are for a substantial revision or modification of a scientific/technological principle or procedure, or an important improvement to the value of a device, activity, program, or service to the public. Awarded research relates to a mission or organizational component of the EPA, or significantly affects a relevant area of science/technology.

  Publication Title & Full Citation	Eligible/Ineligible Authors	Lab/Office/Institution	Citation
  Work Breakdown Structure Models for Developing Unit Treatment Costs Journal AWWA, 105(11):E628-E641 (2013)	Rajiv Khera Thomas F. Speth Pat Ransom (Non-EPA)	NRMRL, Cincinnati, OH	Developing a New Approach for Estimating the National Costs of Future Drinking-Water Regulations
  Estimating the Social Cost of Non-CO2 GHG Emissions: Methane and Nitrous Oxide Energy Policy, 51:957-972 (2012)	Alex Marten Stephen C. Newbold	NCEE, Washington, DC	Demonstrating the Limitation of Using Global-Warming Potentials to Estimate the Social Cost of Methane and Nitrous Oxide
  (1) Cross-Species Conservation of Endocrine Pathways: A Critical Analysis of Tier 1 Fish and Rat Screening Assays with 12 Model Chemicals Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 32(5):1084-1087 (2013) (2) A Novel Framework for Interpretation of Data from the Fish Short-Term Reproduction Assay (FSTRA) for the Detection of Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 33(11):2529-2540 (2014)	Gerald Ankley Kathleen Jensen L. Earl Grey	NHEERL, Duluth, MN	Development of Guidance for Practical Use of the Fish Short Term Reproduction Assays for Endocrine Disruptor Screening and Testing
  (1) Differential Decay of Enterococci and Escherichia coli Originating from Two Fecal Pollution Sources Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 79(7):2488-2492 (2013) (2) Biotic Interactions and Sunlight Affect Persistence of Fecal Indicator Bacteria and Microbial Source Tracking Genetic Markers in the Upper Mississippi River Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 80(13):3951-3961 (2014)	Asja Korajkic Brian R. McMinn Nicholas J. Ashbolt Orin C. Shanks G. Shay Fout Mano Sivaganesan Valerie J. Harwood (Non-EPA)	NERL, Cincinnati, OH	Effect of Indigenous Microbiota and Sunlight on Decay of Fecal Indicators in the Aquatic Habitats
  (1) Molecular Target Sequence Similarity as a Basis for Species Extrapolation to Assess the Ecological Risk of Chemicals with Known Modes of Action Aquatic Toxicology, 144-145:141-154 (2013) (2) Cross-Species Sensitivity to a Novel Androgen Receptor Agonist of Potential Environmental Concern, Spironolactone Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 32(11):2528-2541 (2013) (3) Leveraging Existing Data for Prioritization of the Ecological Risks of Human and Veterinary Pharmaceuticals to Aquatic Organisms Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 369(1656):20140022 (2014)	Carlie A. LaLone Daniel L. Villeneuve Gerald T. Ankley Lyle D. Burgoon Michael D. Kahl Elizabeth J. Durhan Elizabeth A. Makynen Kathleen M. Jensen Kevin M. Flynn Phillip C. Hartig Christine L. Russom Joseph E. Tietge Teresa J. Norberg-King Rodney D. Johnson Jason P. Berninger (Non-EPA) Henry W. Helgen (Non-EPA) Megan N. Hughes (Severson) (Non-EPA) Jenna E. Cavallin (Non-EPA) Chad A. Blanksma (Non-EPA) Kyle E. Stevens (Non-EPA) Joanne S. Woodard (Non-EPA)	NHEERL, Duluth, MN	Development and Application of Innovative Species Extrapolation Methodology to Focus Toxicity Testing and Monitoring
  (1) Towards Improved Models for Predicting Bioconcentration of Well-Metabolized Compounds by Rainbow Trout Using Measured Rates of In vitro Intrinsic Clearance Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 32(7):1611-1622 (2013) (2) Optimizing the Use of Rainbow Trout Hepatocytes for Bioaccumulation Assessments With Fish Xenobiotica, 44(4):345-351 (2014) (3) Intra and Inter-laboratory Reliability of a Cryopreserved Trout Hepatocyte Assay for the Prediction of Chemical Bioaccumulation Potential Environmental Science and Technology, 48(14):8170-8178 (2014)	John W. Nichols Kellie A. Fay Patrick N. Fitzsimmons Alex D. Hoffman Robert T. Mingoia (Non-EPA) Diane L. Nabb (Non-EPA) Xing Han (Non-EPA) Helmut Segner (Non-EPA) Ina Bischof (Goeritz) (Non-EPA) Jon A. Arnot (Non-EPA) Barbara D. Ferrell (Non-EPA) Heather M. Peterson (Non-EPA) Duane B. Huggett (Non-EPA) Christina E. Cowan-Ellsberry (Non-EPA)	NHEERL, Duluth, MN	Development of Methods and Models to Predict Biotransformation Impacts on Chemical Accumulation in Fish
  (1) Depth Gradients in Food-web Processes Linking Habitats in Large Lakes: Lake Superior as an Exemplar Ecosystem Freshwater Biology, 59(10):2122-2136 (2014) (2) Habitat and Diet Differentiation by Two Strains of Rainbow Trout in Lake Superior Based on Archival Tags, Stable Isotopes, and Bioenergetics Journal of Great Lakes Research, 39(4):578-590 (2013)	Michael E. Sierszen Anne M. Cotter Joel C. Hoffman Mary T. Negus (Non-EPA) Thomas R. Hrabik (Non-EPA) Jason D. Stockwell (Non-EPA) Daniel L. Yule (Non-EPA)	NHEERL, Duluth, MN	Identifying the Spatial Organization and Support of Large-Lake Food Webs
  (1) Developing Predictive Approaches to Characterize Adaptive Responses of the Reproductive Endocrine Axis to Aromatase Inhibition: I. Data Generation in a Small Fish Model Toxicological Sciences, 133(2):225-233 (2013) (2) Developing Predictive Approaches to Characterize Adaptive Responses of the Reproductive Endocrine Axis to Aromatase Inhibition: II. Computational Modeling Toxicological Sciences, 133(2):234-247 (2013)	Daniel L. Villeneuve Gerald T. Ankley David C. Bencic Rory B. Conolly Michael S. Breen Kathleen M. Jensen Elizabeth A. Makynen Miyuki Breen (Non-EPA) Karen H. Watanabe (Non-EPA) Alun L. Lloyd (Non-EPA) Jenna E. Cavallin (Non-EPA) Linnea M. Thomas (Non-EPA) Leah C. Wehmans (Non-EPA)	NHEERL, Duluth, MN	Integration of Experimental and Computational Research to Develop Predictive Models of Endocrine Disruption
  (1) Biogeographical Analysis of Chemical Co-Occurrence Data to Identify Priorities for Mixtures Research Risk Analysis, 32(2):224-236 (2012) (2) Environmentally Relevant Mixtures in Cumulative Assessments: an Acute Study of Toxicokinetics and Effects on Motor Activity in Rats Exposed to a Mixture of Pyrethroids Toxicological Sciences, 130(2):309-318 (2012) (3) A Pharmacokinetic Model of Cis-and Trans-Permethrin Disposition in Rats and Humans with Aggregate Exposure Application Toxicological Sciences, 130(1):33-47 (2012)	Rogelio Tornero-Velez James M. Starr Elaine A. Cohen Hubal Peter P. Egeghy Michael F. Hughes David G. Ross Stephen G. Graham Kevin M. Crofton Rhyne W. Setzer Jim Xue Valerie Zartarian Edward J. Scollon Marcelo J. Wolansky Jimena Davis Michael J. Devito Daniel T. Chang Michael R. Goldsmith	NERL, Durham, NC	Use of Exposure Information to Focus Toxicological Evaluation of Mixtures
  (1) Selective Cognitive Deficits in Adult Rats after Prenatal Exposure to Inhaled Ethanol Neurotoxicology and Teratology, 45:44-58 (2014) (2) Toxicological Outcomes in Rats Exposed to Inhaled Ethanol During Gestation Neurotoxicology and Teratology, 45:59-69 (2014) (3) Neurophysiological Assessment of Auditory, Peripheral Nerve, Somatosensory, and Visual System Function After Developmental Exposure to Ethanol Vapors Neurotoxicology and Teratology, 43:1-10 (2014)	Tracey E. Beasley Wendy M. Oshiro Katherine L. McDaniel Philip J. Bushnell Paul A. Evansky Sheppard A. Martin Virginia C. Moser Joel Norwood Carey Copeland Laura L. Degn Danielle L. Freeborn Mary E. Gilbert Robert W. Luebke William k. Boyes David W. Herr John M. Rogers Charles W. Hamm Michele M. Taylor (Non-EPA)	NHEERL, Durham, NC	Evaluation of the Developmental Toxicity of Inhaled Ethanol as a Component of Renewable Automotive Fuels
  Interaction Effects of Temperature and Ozone on Lung Function and Markers of Systemic Inflammation, Coagulation, and Fibrinolysis: A Crossover Study of Healthy Young Volunteers Environmental Health Perspectives, 123(4):310–316 (2014); DOI:10.1289/ehp.1307986	Juliette J. Kahle Martin W. Case Lucas M. Neas David Diaz-Sanchez Robert B. Devlin Michael T. Schmitt Michael C. Madden	NHEERL, Research Triangle Park, NC	Research Informing the Interaction Health Effects of Elevated Temperature and Ozone in Healthy Volunteers
  Putative Mechanisms of Environmental Chemical-Induced Steatosis International Journal of Toxicology, 31(6):551-563 (2012)	J. Phillip Kaiser Scott C. Wesselkamper John C. Lipscomb	NCEA, Cincinnati, OH	Application of a Data-Mining Technique to Determine the Biochemical Mechanisms by Which IRIS Chemicals Cause Steatosis
  (1) Low Levels of Exposure to Libby Amphibole Asbestos and Localized Pleural Thickening Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 55(11):1350-5 (2013) (2) Localized Pleural Thickening: Smoking and Exposure to Libby Vermiculite Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology, 22(4):320-3 (2012) (3) Influence of Exposure Assessment and Parameterization on Exposure Response.  Aspects of Epidemiologic Cohort Analysis Using the Libby Amphibole Asbestos Worker Cohort Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology, 25(1):12-17 (2014)	Leonid Kopylev Krista Christensen Thomas Bateson	NCEA, Washington, DC	Scientific Innovation That Will Inform Risk-Management Decisions for the Libby, Montana, Superfund Site
  (1) Improving Infant Exposure and Health Risk Estimates: Using Serum Data to Predict Polybrominated Diphenyl Ether Concentrations in Breast Milk Environmental Science and Technology, 47:4787-4795 (2013) (2) Environmental Chemicals in Breast Milk Book Chapter in Reference Module in Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences, Elsevier 2013, :1-13 (2013)	Satori A. Marchitti John F. Kenneke Erin P. Hines Judy S. LaKind (Non-EPA) Daniel Q. Naiman (Non-EPA) Suzanne E. Fenton (Non-EPA) Cheston M. Berlin, Jr. (Non-EPA)	NERL, Athens, GA	Providing Critical Models and Information Needed for Exposure and Risk Assessments of Environmental Chemicals in Infants
  Omega- 3 Fatty Acid Supplementation Attenuates Particulate Air Pollution Induced Cardiac Effects and Lipid Changes in Healthy Middle-Aged Adult Volunteers Environmental Health Perspectives, 120(7):952-7 (2012)	Haiyan Tong Ana G. Rappold James M. Samet David Diaz-Sanchez Robert B. Devlin Wayne E. Cascio Jon Berntsen (Non-EPA) Susan E. Steck (Non-EPA)	NHEERL, Research Triangle Park, NC	Research Informing How Omega-3 Fatty Acids Can Protect People From Effects of Air Pollution
  (1) A Rapid and Repeatable Method to Deposit Bioaerosols on Material Surfaces Journal of Microbiological Methods, 92(3):375-380 (2013) (2) Comparative Evaluation of Vacuum-based Surface Sampling Devices for Collection of Bacillus spores Journal of Microbiological Methods, 95(December 2013):389-396 (2013) (3) Evaluation of Sampling Methods for Bacillus Spore-Contaminated HVAC Filters Journal of Microbiological Methods, 96(January 2014):1-5 (2014)	Michael Worth Calfee Sang Don Lee Shawn P. Ryan Laura J. Rose (Non-EPA) Stephen Morse (Non-EPA) Jenia Tufts (Non-EPA) Matt Clayton (Non-EPA) Dino Mattorano (Non-EPA) Nicole Griffin-Gatchalian (Non-EPA) Abderrahmane Touati (Non-EPA) Christina Slone (Non-EPA) Neal McSweeney (Non-EPA)	NHSRC, Research Triangle Park, NC	Development and Application of Test Methods to Evaluate Biological-Terror-Agent Surface Sampling
  Sustainability Indicators for Chemical Processes: III. Biodiesel Case Study Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 52(20):6747-6760 (2013)	Gerardo J. Ruiz-Mercado Raymond L. Smith Michael A. Gonzalez	NRMRL, Cincinnati, OH	Sustainability-Performance Assessment for the Manufacturing of Chemical Products
  (1) Hybrid Vapor Stripping-Vapor Permeation Process for Recovery and Dehydration of 1-Butanol and Acetone/Butanol/Ethanol from Dilute Aqueous Solutions. Part 1. Process Simulations Journal of Chemical Technology & Biotechnology, 88(8):1436-1447 (2013) (2) Hybrid Vapor Stripping-Vapor Permeation Process for Recovery and Dehydration of 1-Butanol and Acetone/Butano/Ethanol from Dilute Aqueous Solutions. Part2. Experimental Validation with Simple Mixture and Actual Fermentation Broth Journal of Chemical Technology & Biotechnology, 88(8):1448-1458 (2013)	Leland M. Vane Franklin R. Alvarez Laura G. Rosenblum (Non-EPA) Shekar Govindaswamy (Non-EPA)	NRMRL, Cincinnati, OH	Design and Demonstration of Efficient Fermentation-Product Recovery Technology to Improve Biofuel Sustainability
  (1) Near Road Modeling and Measurement of Cerium Containing Particles Generated by Nanoparticle Diesel Fuel Additive Use Environmental Science & Technology, 48(18):10607-10613 (2014) (2) Inhaled Diesel Emissions Generated with Cerium Oxide Nanoparticle Fuel Additive Induce Adverse Pulmonary and Systemic Effects Toxicological Sciences, 142(2):403-417 (2014) (3) Predicting the Effects of Nanoscale Cerium Additives in Diesel Fuel on Regional Scale Air Quality Environmental Science & Technology, 48(21):12775-12782 (2014)	Robert D. Willis Prakash V. Bhave Teri L. Conner Kathleen M. Fahey M. Ian Gilmour Charly J. King Urmila P. Kodavanti Kasey D. Kovalcik Q. Todd Krantz Allen D. Ledbetter William P. Linak Rohit Mathur John K. McGee George A. Pouliot Havala O.T. Pye Judy E. Richards Mette C. Schladweiler Heather Simon Jason P. Weinstein Charles E. Wood Susan A. Elmore (Non-EPA) Garnet B. Erdakos (Non-EPA) Brett Gantt (Non-EPA) Samantha J. Snow (Non-EPA) Virginia Bass (Non-EPA) Juana Maria Delgado-Saborit (Non-EPA) Roy M. Harrison (Non-EPA) Shamia Hoque (Non-EPA) Crystal L. Johnson (Non-EPA) Desinia B. Miller (Non-EPA) James P. Morrison (Non-EPA) David G. Nash (Non-EPA) Ronald F. Thomas (Non-EPA) K. Max Zhang (Non-EPA)	NERL, Durham, NC	Assessment of Health Effects and Air-Quality Modeling of NanoCerium-Bearing Diesel Emissions
  (1) Quantifying the Effects of Pesticide Exposure on Annual Reproductive Success of Birds Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management, 9(4):590-599 (2013) (2) Selecting Surrogate Endpoints for Estimating Pesticide Effects on Avian Reproductive Success Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management, 9(4):600-609 (2013)	Matthew Etterson Rick Bennett	NHEERL, Duluth, MN	Modeling Adverse Reproductive Outcomes in Response to Pesticide Exposure in Wild Birds
  (1) Field-Based Approach for Assessing the Impacts of Treated Pulp and Paper Mill Effluent on Endogenous Metabolites of Fathead Minnows (Pimephales promelas) Environmental Science and Technology, 47:10628-10636 (2013) (2) Biological Effects-Based Tools for Monitoring Impacted Surface Waters in the Great Lakes: A Multiagency Program in Support of the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Environmental Practice, 15(4):409-426 (2013) (3) An Inexpensive, Temporally Integrated System for Monitoring Occurrence and Biological Effects of Aquatic Contaminants in the Field Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 33(7):1584-1595 (2014)	Michael D. Kahl Drew Ekman Gerald Ankley Tim Collette Edwin Smith Quincy Teng Joseph Tietge Dan Villeneuve Elizabeth Durhan Kathleen Jensen Elizabeth Makynen David Miller John Davis (Non-EPA) Jason Berninger (Non-EPA) Vicki Blazer (Non-EPA) Jenna Cavallin (Non-EPA) Evan Eid (Non-EPA) Natalia Garcia-Reyero (Non-EPA) Bruce Holmen (Non-EPA) Megan Hughes (Non-EPA) Luke Iwanowicz (Non-EPA) Zachary Jorgenson (Non-EPA) Carlie LaLone (Non-EPA) Kathy Lee (Non-EPA) Joseph Mayasich (Non-EPA) Pat Mazik (Non-EPA) Edward Perkins (Non-EPA) Anthony Schroeder (Non-EPA) Kyle Stevens (Non-EPA)	NERL, Athens, GA	Developing Biological Tools for Monitoring Impacted Surface Waters in Support of the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative
  (1) Development of an Integrated Assessment of Great Lakes Using Towed In situ Sensor Technologies: Linking Nearshore Conditions with Adjacent Watersheds Aquatic Ecosystem Health and Management, 16(3):248-266 (2013) (2) Water Quality and Plankton in the United States Nearshore Waters of Lake Huron Environmental Management, 50(4):664-678 (2012) (3) Lake Ontario: Nearshore Conditions and Variability in Water Quality Parameters Journal of Great Lakes Research, 38(4):133-145 (2012)	John R. Kelly Peder M. Yurista Samuel E. Miller Jon D. Van Alstine (Non-EPA)	Duluth, MN	An Integrated-Assessment Strategy for the Great Lakes Nearshore
  The Mass Spectrometric Ortho Effect Studied for All 209 PCB Congeners International Journal of Mass Spectrometry, 352:51-64 (2013)	Lantis I. Osemwengie G. Wayne Sovocool	NERL, Las Vegas, NV	Developing a PCB Congener and Isomer-Distinguishing Tool for Use in Environmental and Human-Health Assessment
  A Rapid Miniaturized Residue Analytical Method for the Determination of Zoxamide and Its Two Acid Metabolites in Ginseng Roots Using UPLC-MS/MS Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 62(17):3702-3709 (2014)	Lynda V. Podhorniak	OPP, Fort Meade, MD	Development of a New Method for Zoxamide and Its Polar Metabolites to Protect the Environment and Human Health
  Habitat and Hydrology Condition Indices for the Upper Mississippi, Missouri, and Ohio Rivers Ecological Indicators, 29:111-124 (2013)	Debra L. Taylor David W. Bolgrien Brian H. Hill Mark S. Pearson Ted R. Angradi	NHEERL, Duluth, MN	Development of Novel Habitat and Hydrologic Indicators for Large Rivers
  (1) Derivation of a Benchmark for Freshwater Ionic Strength Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 32(2):263-271 (2013) (2) Assessing Causation of the Extirpation of Stream Macroinvertebrates by a Mixture of Ions Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 32(2):277-287 (2013) (3) Relationship of Land Use and Elevated Ionic Strength in Appalachian Watersheds Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 32(2):296-303 (2013)	Susan Marie Cormier Glenn Walter Suter, II Gregory J. Pond Lei Zheng (Non-EPA) Sam Wilkes (Non-EPA)	NCEA, Cincinnati, OH	Explaining the Cause of Invertebrate Extirpation and Calculating a Water-Quality Benchmark for Protection of Streams
  Nutrient Dynamics in Flooded Wetlands: I. Model Development Journal, 18(12):1724-1738 (2013)	Mohamed M. Hantush Latif Kalin (Non-EPA) Sabahattin Isik (Non-EPA) Ahmet Yucekaya (Non-EPA)	NRMRL, Cincinnati, OH	Developing a Process-Based Nutrient Wetland Model
  Nonparametric Bayesian Methods for Benchmark Dose Estimation Risk Analysis, 33(9):1608-19 (2013)	Maria A. Spassova Leonid Kopylev Paul D. White John Fox Anindya Roy (Non-EPA) Nilabja Guha (Non-EPA)	NCEA, Washington, DC	Development of Advanced Nonparametric Bayesian Methods for Modeling Bioassay Data
  Hyporheic Flow Patterns in Relation to Large River Floodplain Attributes Journal of Hydrology 448-449:161-173 (2012); doi: 10.1016/jhydrol.2012.04.039	Barton R. Faulkner J. Renée Brooks Kenneth J. Forshay Steven P. Cline	NRMRL, Ada, OK	Assessment of Hyporheic Flow Using Field Measurements and Modeling for a Large-River Floodplain Undergoing Restoration
  A Direct Sensitivity Approach to Predict Hourly Ozone Resulting from Compliance with the National Ambient Air Quality Standard Environmental Science & Technology, 47(5):2304-2313 (2013)	Heather Simon Kirk Baker Sergey Napelenok Norm Possiel Benjamin Wells Brian Timin Farhan Akhtar (Non-EPA)	OAQPS, Research Triangle Park, NC	A Novel Methodology to Capture Non-Linear Ozone Response to Emissions Changes for Application in Risk Assessments
  Phenotypic Screening of the ToxCast Chemical Library to Classify Toxic and Therapeutic Mechanisms Nature Biotechnology, 32(6):583-591 (2014)	Keith A. Houck Thomas B. Knudsen Matthew T. Martin David M. Reif Richard S. Judson Robert J. Kavlock Ann M. Richard David J. Dix Nicole C. Kleinstreuer (Non-EPA) Ellen Berg (Non-EPA) Mark Polokoff (Non-EPA) Jian Yang (Non-EPA)	NCCT, Research Triangle Park, NC	Classifying Toxic and Therapeutic Mechanisms by Phenotypic Screening of ToxCast Chemicals
  Profiling 976 ToxCast Chemicals across 331 Enzymatic and Receptor Signaling Assays Chemical Research in Toxicology, 26:878-895 (2013)	Nisha S. Sipes Thomas B. Knudsen Matthew T. Martin Richard S. Judson Keith A. Houck David M. Reif Ann M. Richard Robert J. Kavlock David J. Dix Parth Kothiya (Non-EPA)	NCCT, Research Triangle Park, NC	Using High-Throughput Screening Assays to Profile Enzymatic and Receptor Signaling Activity of ToxCast Chemicals
  (1) Evaluation of Multi-well Microelectrode Arrays for Neurotoxicity Screening Using a Chemical Training Set Neurotoxicology, 33:1048-57 (2012) (2) Burst and Principal Components Analysis of MEA Data Separates Chemicals by Class Neurotoxicology, 40:75-85 (2014) (3) Multi-well Microelectrode Array Recordings Detect Neurotoxicity of ToxCast Compounds Acting via Multiple Toxicity Pathways Neurotoxicology, 44:204-17 (2014)	Timothy J. Shafer William R. LeFew Cina M. Mack Matthew T. Martin Andrew FM Johnstone Keith Houck Lyle D. Burgoon Emma R. McConnell (Non-EPA) Pablo Valdivia (Non-EPA) Maxine McClain (Non-EPA) Bryant Lin (Non-EPA) James Ross (Non-EPA) James Turner (Non-EPA)	NHEERL, Research Triangle Park, NC	Development of Novel Methodology to Screen Chemicals for Potential Neurotoxicity
  High Throughput Heuristics for Prioritizing Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals Environmental Science and Technology, 48:12760-12767 (2014)	John F. Wambaugh R. Woodrow Setzer Kathie L. Dionisio Peter Egeghy Richard S. Judson Anran Wang (Non-EPA) Alicia Frame (Non-EPA)	NCCT, Research Triangle Park, NC	Developing High-Throughput Approaches to Characterize Potential Human Exposures to Environmental Chemicals
  (1) Processes of Ammonia Air-Surface Exchange in a Fertilized Zea Mays Canopy Biogeosciences, 10:981-998 (2013) (2) Linking Agricultural Management and Air-Quality Models for Regional to National-Scale Nitrogen Deposition Assessments Biogeosciences, 9:4023-4035 (2012) (3) Evaluation of a Regional Air-Quality Model with Bi-directional NH3 Exchange Coupled to an Agro-ecosystem Model Biogeosciences, 10:1635-1645 (2013)	Jesse O. Bash Ellen J. Cooter John T. Walker Jonathan E. Pleim Donna Schwede Jeffry D. Herrick Robin L. Dennis Matthew Jones (Non-EPA) Eiko Nemitz (Non-EPA) Tilden Meyers (Non-EPA) LaToya Myles (Non-EPA) Verel Benson (Non-EPA) Limei Ran (Non-EPA) Wayne P. Robarge (Non-EPA)	NERL, Research Triangle Park, NC	Linking Agricultural Crop Management and Air-Quality Models for Regional-to-National-Scale Nitrogen Assessments
  (1) Characterizing Mercury Concentrations and Fluxes in a Coastal Plain Watershed: Insights From Dynamic Modeling and Data Journal of Geophysical Research, 117(G1):March 2012; doi:10.1029/2011JG001806 (2) Climate Change and Watershed Mercury Export: A Multiple Projection and Model Analysis Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 32(9):2165-2174 (2013) (3) Mercury and Methylmercury Stream Concentrations in a Coastal Plain Watershed: A Multi-Scale Simulation Analysis Environmental Pollution, 187:182-192 (2014)	Heather E. Golden Christopher D. Knightes Paul M. Bradley (Non-EPA) Paul A. Conrads (Non-EPA) Toby D. Feaster (Non-EPA) Celeste A. Journey (Non-EPA) Stephen D. Benedict (Non-EPA) Mark Marvin-DiPasquale (Non-EPA) Mark Brigham (Non-EPA) Gary M. Davis (Non-EPA)	NERL, Cincinnati, OH	Effects of Climate Change, Scaling and Model Selection on Projected Watershed-Mercury Export and Concentrations
  (1) Examining the Impact of Heterogeneous Nitryl Chloride Production on Air Quality across the United States Atmospheric Chemistry & Physics, 12:6455-6473 (2012) (2) Importance of Tropospheric CINO2 Chemistry across the Northern Hemisphere Geophysical Research Letters, 41(11):4050-4058 (2014)	Golam Sarwar Heather Simon Rohit Mathur Prakash Bhave Jia Xing (Non-EPA) Greg Yarwood (Non-EPA)	NERL, Research Triangle Park, NC	Examining the Effect of Heterogeneous Nitryl Chlorine Production on Air Quality
  WRF-CMAQ Two-way Coupled System with Aerosol Feedback: Software Development and Preliminary Results Geoscientific Model Development, 5(2):299-312 (2012)	Cheung (David) Wong Jonathan Pleim Rohit Mathur Tanya Spero (Otte) Robert Gilliam George Pouliot Jeffrey O. Young Francis Binkowski (Non-EPA) Aijun Xiu (Non-EPA) Daiwen Kang (Non-EPA)	NERL, Durham, NC	Development and Evaluation of an Innovative Approach to Coupled Meteorology and Air-Quality Modeling

• 2015 Honorable Mentions Scientific and Technological Achievement Awards (STAA)

  Honorable Mention awards acknowledge research efforts that are noteworthy but do not warrant a Level I, II or III award. Honorable Mention applies to research that: (1) may not quite reach the level described for a Level III award; (2) show a promising area of research that the Subcommittee wants to encourage; or (3) show an area of research that the Subcommittees feels is too preliminary to warrant an award recommendation at this time.

  Publication Title & Full Citation	Eligible/Ineligible Authors	Lab/Office/Institution	Citation
  (1) A Hedonic Analysis of the Impact of LUST Sites on House Prices Resource and Energy Economics, 34(4):549-564 (2012) (2) What Do Property Values Really Tell Us? A Hedonic Study of Pollution from Underground Storage Tanks Land Economics, 89(2):211-226 (2013) (3) The Impacts of Pollution and Exposure Pathways on Home Values: A Stated Preference Analysis Ecological Economics, 82:53-63 (2012)	Dennis Guignet Jeffrey E. Zabel (Non-EPA)	NCEE, Washington, DC	Evaluating the Importance of Information in Housing Property Price Studies When Estimating Environmental Damages
  Examining the Health-Risk Tradeoffs of Mandatory Bicycle Helmet Laws Risk Analysis, 32(5):791-798 (2012)	Stephen C. Newbold	NCEE, Washington, DC	An Exploration of Health-Risk Tradeoffs and Their Relevance to Conducting Benefit-Cost Analysis with an Application to Bicycle-Helmet Laws
  (1) Metabolomics for in Situ Environmental Monitoring of Surface Waters Impacted by Contaminants from Both Point and Nonpoint Sources Environmental Science and Technology, 48(4):2395-2403 (2014) (2) Using Transcriptomic Tools to Evaluate Biological Effects Across Effluent Gradients at a Diverse Set of Study Sites in Minnesota, USA Environmental Science and Technology, 48(4):2404-2412 (2014)	David M. Skelton Timothy W. Collette Daniel L. Villeneuve Gerald T. Ankley Drew R. Ekman Quincy Teng Jason Berninger (Non-EPA) Dalma Martinovic-Weigelt (Non-EPA) Natalia Garcia-Reyero (Non-EPA) Edward J. Perkins (Non-EPA) Lynn Escalon (Non-EPA)	NERL, Athens, GA	Development and Application of Novel in Situ Omic Techniques for Advancing the EPA's Capability to Assess Chemical Risk
  (1) Using delta-15-N in Fish Larvae as an Indicator of Watershed Sources of Anthropogenic Nitrogen: Response at Multiple Spatial Scales Estuaries and Coasts, 35(6):1453-1467 (2012) (2) Landscape-Scale Food Webs of Fish Nursery Habitat Along a River-Coast Mixing Zone Estuaries and Coasts, 38(4):1335-1349 (2014)	Joel C. Hoffman Gregory S. Peterson Anne M. Cotter Michael E. Sierszen John R. Kelly Matthew A. Starry (Non-EPA)	NHEERL, Duluth, MN	Approach to Understand and Classify Nutrient and Energy Sources to Coastal Ecosystems
  (1) Carbon Sequestration in Wetland Soils of the Northern Gulf of Mexico Coastal Region Wetlands Ecology and Management, 22(3):289-303 (2014) (2) Application of a Three-Tier Framework to Assess Ecological Condition of Gulf of Mexico Coastal Wetlands Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 186(6):3477-3493 (2014)	Janet Nestlerode Virginia Hansen Matthew Harwell Aarin Teague (Non-EPA)	NHEERL, Research Triangle Park, NC	Assessing the Condition of Wetland Ecosystems in the Northern Gulf of Mexico
  Comparison of Methods for Quantifying Reef Ecosystem Services: A Case Study Mapping Services for St. Croix, USVI Ecosystem Services, 8:1-15 (2014)	Susan Yee Leah Oliver John Dittmar (Non-EPA)	NHEERL, Research Triangle Park, NC	Developing Methods for Quantifying Coral Reef Ecosystem Services
  Mode of Action Framework Analysis For Receptor-Mediated Toxicity: The Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor Alpha (Ppara) as a Case Study Critical Reviews in Toxicology, 44(1):1-49 (2014)	Chris Corton Christopher S. Lau Jennifer Seed James Klaunig (Non-EPA) Michael Cunningham (Non-EPA) Timothy Hummer (Non-EPA) Bette Meek (Non-EPA) Jeffrey M. Peters (Non-EPA) James A. Popp (Non-EPA) Lorenz Rhomberg (Non-EPA)	NHEERL, Durham, NC	Exceptional Contribution to Risk Assessment Activities
  (1) An Animal Model Of Marginal Iodine Deficiency During Development: The Thyroid Axis And Neurodevelopmental Outcome Toxicological Sciences, 132(1):177-195 (2013) (2) Evaluation of Iodide Deficiency In The Lactating Rat and Pup Using A Biologically Based Dose-Response Model Toxicological Sciences, 132(1):75-86 (2013)	Mary E. Gilbert Joan M. Hedge Kevin M. Crofton Joseph Tietge Eva McLanahan Annie Lumen Jeffrey Fisher (Non-EPA) Liza Valentin-Blasini (Non-EPA) Benjamin Blount (Non-EPA) R. Thomas Zoeller (Non-EPA) Jeffery Jarrett (Non-EPA) Kurunthachalam Kannan (Non-EPA) Li Shuang (Non-EPA)	NHEERL, Durham, NC	Thyroid-Hormone Disruption in the Fetal and Neonatal Brain-Biological Substrates and Lifestage Modeling
  (1) A Four-Step Approach To Evaluate Mixtures For Consistency With Dose Addition Toxicology, 313(2-3):134-144 (2013) (2) Cholinesterase Inhibition And Depression Of The Photic After Discharge Of Flash Evoked Potentials Following Acute or Repeated Exposures To A Mixture of Carbaryl and Propoxur Neurotoxicology, 33(3):332-346 (2012) (3) Impact Of Chemical Proportions On The Acute Neurotoxicity Of A Mixture Of Seven Carbamates In Preweanling And Adult Rats Toxicological Sciences, 129(1):126-134 (2012)	David W. Herr Virginia C. Moser Jane Ellen Simmons Danielle F. Lyke Stephanie Padilla Adam E. Swank Denise K. MacMillan Richard C. Hertzberg (Non-EPA) Mwanza Jean-Claude (Non-EPA) Ruosha Li (Non-EPA) Yi Pan (Non-EPA) Robert H. Lyles (Non-EPA) Lynne T. Haber (Non-EPA) Melissa Korman-Vincent (Non-EPA) R. Dan Zehr (Non-EPA)	NHEERL, Durham, NC	Transformative Methods for Assessing Additivity of Chemical Mixtures to Advance Public-Health Protection
  Elevated Blood Pressure in Offspring of Rats Exposed to Diverse Chemicals During Pregnancy Toxicological Sciences, 137(2):436-446 (2014)	John M. Rogers Brian E. Grey Joel Norwood, Jr. Robert Ellis Hutchings Robert M. Zucker Christopher Lau Curtis E. Grace Christopher J. Gordon	NHEERL, Research Triangle Park, NC	Research Elucidating the Ability of Maternal-Toxic Exposures to Cause Elevated Blood Pressure in Offspring
  Application of an Updated Physiologically-Based Pharmacokinetic Model for Chloroform to Evaluate CYP2E1-Mediated Renal Toxicity in Rats and Mice Toxicological Sciences, 131(2):360-374 (2013)	Alan F. Sasso Paul M. Schlosser John C. Lipscomb Zheng (Jenny) Li Susan Rieth Gregory L. Kedderis (Non-EPA) Mary Beth Genter (Non-EPA) John Snawder (Non-EPA)	NCEA, Washington, DC	Development and Application of Novel Data on CYPE1 in PBPK Modeling of Chloroform Bioactivation in the Kidney
  Public Health Benefits of Reducing Air Pollution in Shanghai:  A Proof-of-Concept Methodology With Application to BenMap Science of the Total Environment / Original Article Hard Copy, 485-486:396-405 (2014)	A. Scott Voorhees Jiandong Wang (Non-EPA) Cuicul Wang (Non-EPA) Shuxiao Wang (Non-EPA) Bin Zhao (Non-EPA) Haidong Kan (Non-EPA)	OAR, Research Triangle Park, NC	A Successful International Application of the EPA's BenMap Benefits Tool to Identify Impacts of Air Pollution in China
  Investigation of the Persistence of Nerve Agent Degradation Analytes on Surfaces through Wipe Sampling and Detection with Ultrahigh Performance Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectrometry Analytical Chemistry, 87(2):1034-1041 (2014)	Stuart Willison	NHSRC, Cincinnati, OH	Examining Chemical-Warfare Agent Persistence on Surfaces and a Novel Rapid Method to Support Remediation during Recovery
  (1) Beet Juice Utilization : Expeditious Green Synthesis of Nobel Metal Nanoparticles (Ag, Au, Pt, and Pd) Using Microwaves RSC Advances, 2:10283-10290 (2012) (2) Beet Juice-induced Green Fabrication of Plasmonic AgCl/Ag Nanoparticles ChemSusChem, 5:2435-2441 (2012) (3) Expeditious Organic-free Assembly: Morphologically Controlled Synthesis of Iron Oxides using Microwaves Nanoscale, 5:8675-8679 (2013)	Rajender S. Varma Jiahui Kou (Non-EPA)	NRMRL, Cincinnati, OH	Developing Sustainable Approaches to Nanomaterials with Diverse Applications in Catalysis and Remediation
  (1) Phosphate removal using modified Bayoxide E33 adsorption media Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology, 1:96-107 (2014) (2) Suppressing NOM access to controlled porous TiO2 particles enhances the decomposition of target water contaminants Catalysis Communications, 41:79-82 (2013) (3) Silver-based antibacterial surfaces for drinking water disinfection-an overview Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering, 3:25-29 (2014)	Mallikarjuna Nadagouda Rajender S. Varma Thomas F. Speth Abolfazl Zakersalehi (Non-EPA) Hyeok Choi (Non-EPA) Jay Garland (Non-EPA) Changseok Han (Non-EPA) Dionysios D. Dionysiou (Non-EPA) Gayathri Ram Mohan (Non-EPA) Jacob Lalley (Non-EPA) Somashetty Shankara (Non-EPA) Duck J. Yang (Non-EPA)	NRMRL, Cincinnati, OH	Sustainable Technology for Water Treatment
  (1) EPA's SHEDS-multimedia Model: Children's Cumulative Pyrethroid Exposure Estimates and Evaluation Against NHANES Biomarker Data Environmental International, 73:304-311 (2014) (2) Analysis of NHANES Measured Blood PCB's in the General Population and Application of SHEDS Model to Identify Key Exposure Factors Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology, 24:615-621 (2013)	Jianping Xue Valerie Zartarian Rogelio Tornero-Velez Nicolle Tulve Shi Liu Andrew Geller Bradley Schultz	NERL, Durham, NC	Evaluated SHEDS Model for Cumulative Pyrethroids and Dietary PCB Exposures to Inform Regulatory and Community Decisions
  Landscape and Regional Context Differentially Affect Nest Parasitism and Nest Predation for Wood Thrush in Central Virginia, USA Ornithological Applications, 116(2):205-214 (2014)	Matthew Etterson Tom Hollenhorst Russell Greenberg (Non-EPA)	NHEERL, Duluth, MN	Estimation of Competing Risk of Chemical Exposure and Other Stressors in Wildlife Populations
  Evaluation of a Fluidized Bed Asbestos Segregator Preparation Method for the Analysis of Low-Levels of Asbestos in Soil and Other Solid Media Analytical Methods: Royal Society of Chemistry/online and print, 7(5):1658-1668 (2013)	Jed Januch David Berry Lynn Woodbury (Non-EPA) William Brattin (Non-EPA)	Seattle, WA	Developing an Analytical Preparation Method for Asbestos in Soils That is 100 Times More Sensitive Than Current Methods
  (1) Lake Shore and Littoral Habitat Structure: A Field Survey Method and its Precision Lake and Reservoir Management, 30(2):157-176 (2014) (2) Relevance of Lake Physical Habitat Assessment Indices to Fish and Riparian Birds Lake and Reservoir Management, 30(2):177-191 (2014) (3) Lakeshore and Littoral Physical Habitat Structure in a National Lakes Assessment Lake and Reservoir Management, 30(2):192-215 (2014)	Philip R. Kaufmann Steven G. Paulsen David V. Peck John Van Sickle Robert M. Hughes (Non-EPA) Thomas R. Whittier (Non-EPA) Curt W. Seeliger (Non-EPA) Sandra A. Bryce (Non-EPA) Neil C. Kamman (Non-EPA)	NHEERL, Corvallis, OR	Ground-Breaking Development of a Physical-Habitat Assessment Approach for Lakes and Its Application in National Surveys
  Development of Rapid Canine Fecal Source Identification PCR-based Assays Environ. Sci. Technol. 48(19):11453-11461 (2014) ; DOI: 10.1021/es502637b	Orin C. Shanks Karen White Catherine Kelty Hyatt Green (Non-EPA)	NRMRL, Cincinnati, OH	Scientific and Technical Achievement in the Field of Water-Quality Testing
  Investigation of an Association Between Childhood Leukemia Incidences and Airports in Texas Atmospheric Pollution Research 5(2):189-195 (2014)	Sala N. Senkayi Melanie Sattler (Non-EPA) Nancy Rowe (Non-EPA) Victoria C.P. Chen (Non-EPA)	Region 6, Dallas, TX	Demonstrating Relationships between Incidences of Childhood Leukemia and Pollutant Emissions from Airports Using GIS
  Place-Based Stressors Associated with Industry and Air Health & Place, 28 (2014):31-37 (2014)	Carol Ann Gross-Davis Lauren O. Davis Michelle Kondo (Non-EPA) Katlyn May (Non-EPA) Tyiesha Johnson (Non-EPA) Alice Gabbadon (Non-EPA) Mable Mallard (Non-EPA) Claudia Sherrod (Non-EPA) Charles C. Branas (Non-EPA)	Region 3, Philadelphia, PA	South Philadelphia Air-Pollution Community-Engagement Project
  MetaPath: An Electronic Knowledge Base for Collating, Exchanging and Analyzing Case Studies of Xenobiotic Metabolism Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology, 63:84-96 (2012)	Richard C. Kolanczyk Patricia K. Schmieder William J. Jones Ovanes G. Mekenyan (Non-EPA) Gilman Veith (Non-EPA) Atanas Chapkanov (Non-EPA) Stanislav Temelkov (Non-EPA) Stefan Kotov (Non-EPA) Maria Velikova (Non-EPA) Verginia Kamenska (Non-EPA) Krasimir Vasilev (Non-EPA)	NHEERL, Duluth, MN	MetaPath: A Harmonized Database and Platform for the Evaluation of Xenobiotic Chemical Metabolism Studies
  A Synthesis of the Ecological Effects of Air Pollution from Nitrogen and Sulfur in the United States Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 10(7):365-372 (2012)	Tara Greaver Jeffrey D. Herrick Jason Lynch Robin Dennis Kris Novak Jean-Jacques Dubois Tim Sullivan (Non-EPA) Jill Baron (Non-EPA) Mary Barber (Non-EPA) Jack Cosby (Non-EPA) Marion Deerhake (Non-EPA) Christine Goodale (Non-EPA) Alan Herlily (Non-EPA) Greg Lawrence (Non-EPA) Lingli Liu (Non-EPA)	NCEA, Research Triangle Park, NC	A Synthesis of the Ecological Effects of Air Pollution from Nitrogen and Sulfur in the United States
  Methylmercury-induced Inhibition of Paraoxonase-1 (PON1)-Implications for Cardiovascular Risk J. Toxicol. Environ. Health A. 77(17):1004-1023 (2014) ; DOI:10.1080/15287394.2014.919837	Raghu G. Nath Babasaheb R. Sonawane Gary Ginsberg (Non-EPA) Paul Lewandowski (Non-EPA)	NCEA, Washington, DC	Paraoxonase 1 as a Marker for the Cardiovascular Toxicity of Methylmercury
  Evaluating Potential Response-Modifying Factors for Associations between Ozone and Health Outcomes: A Weight-of-Evidence Approach Environmental Health Perspectives review article, 122(11):1166-1176 (2014)	Lisa C. Vinikoor-Imler Jason D. Sacks Elizabeth O. Owens Mary Ross James S. Brown Jennifer L. Nichols (Non-EPA)	NCEA, Research Triangle Park, NC	A Review to Evaluate Potential Response-Modifying Factors of Associations between Ozone and Health Outcomes
  (1) Development of Aquatic Toxicity Benchmarks for Oil Products Using Species Sensitivity Distributions Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management, 8(4):610-615 (2013) (2) Ecological Impacts of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: Implications for Immunotoxicity Toxicologic Pathology, 40:315-320 (2012)	Mace G. Barron Crystal R. Jackson Michael J. Hemmer	NHEERL, Research Triangle Park, NC	Assessing Impacts of Oil and Oil Products on Marine and Estuarine Ecosystems
  Satellite Remote Sensing of Chlorophyll a in Support of Nutrient Management in the Neuse and Tar-Pamlico River (North Carolina) Estuaries Remote Sensing of Environment, 153:61-78 (2014)	Darryl J. Keith	NHEERL, Narragansett, RI	Satellite Remote Sensing as a Tool for Compliance Monitoring of TMDLs and Nutrient Criteria
  Residential Demolition and its Impact on Vacant Lot Hydrology: Implications for the Management of Stormwater and Sewer System Overflows Landscape and Urban Planning, 128:48-56 (2014)	William Shuster Stephen Dadio (Non-EPA) Patrick Drohan (Non-EPA) Russell Losco (Non-EPA) Jared Shaffer (Non-EPA)	NRMRL, Cincinnati, OH	Research on Understanding the Nature of Urban Soils and Their Role in Stormwater and Sewer Management
  Hydrological Impacts of Mesquite Encroachment in the Upper San Pedro Watershed Journal of Arid Environment, 82(1):147-155 (2012)	Yongping Yuan William Kepner Caroline Erickson Michael Jackson Wenming Nie (Non-EPA)	NERL, Las Vegas, NV	Assessment of Regional Woodland Encroachment on Sustainable Hydrology in the American West
  Urbanization Impacts on Flooding in the Kansas River Basin and Evaluation of Wetlands as a Mitigation Measure Transactions of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers, 55(3):849-859 (2012)	Yongping Yuan Ricardo D. Lopez Kamal Qaiser (Non-EPA)	NERL, Las Vegas, NV	Effect of Wetland for Flood Mitigation to Reduce Adverse Impact of Climate Change and Urbanization
  (1) Effect of Acid and Alcohol Network Forces within Functionalized Multiwall Carbon Nanotubes Bundles on Adsorption of Copper (II) Species Chemosphere, 90 (2013):395-402 (2013) (2) Effect of Chloride Ions and Water Chemistry on Copper (II) Adsorption on Functionalized and Pristine Carbon Nanotubes Compared to Activated Carbon F-400 Water Air Soil Pollution, 225:1913-1917 (2014) (3) Optimizing the Physical-Chemical Properties of Carbon Nanotubes (CNT) and Graphene Nanoplatelets (GNP) on Cu (II) Adsorption J. Hazardous Materials, 279:410-417 (2014)	Endalkachew Sahle-Demessie Shirley Rosenzwig (Non-EPA) George Sorial (Non-EPA) Drew C. McAvoy (Non-EPA) Ashraf Aly Hassan (Non-EPA) James Mack (Non-EPA)	NRMRL, Cincinnati, OH	Use of Carbon Nanotubes Adsorbents for Removing Metal Ions from Water That is Applicable for Point-of-Use Water Filters
  (1) Catchment-scale Hydrologic Implications of Parcel-level Stormwater Management (Ohio USA) Journal of Hydrology, 485 (2013) 177-187 (2) Exchange of Capitals in Water Resources Management- an Approach to Sustainability? Invited paper. Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy (2014) ; doi: 10.1007/s10098-014-0886-5	William Shuster Ahjond Garmestani Lee Rhea	NRMRL, Cincinnati, OH	Integrating Green Infrastructure, Adaptive Management toward Water-Resource Sustainability in U.S. Cities
  Immediate and long-term consequences of vascular toxicity during zebrafish development Reproductive Toxicology, 48:51-61 (2014)	Tamara Tal Peggy Harris Jeanene Olin Thomas Knudsen Michael Hemmer Nicole Kleinstreuer Charles Wood Stephanie Padilla Catherine McCollum (Non-EPA) Maria Bondesson (Non-EPA) Charu Hans (Non-EPA) Fatima Merchant (Non-EPA) Shishir Shah (Non-EPA)	NHEERL, Research Triangle Park, NC	Development of a Novel Experimental System to Evaluate Predictive-Toxicity Signatures
  Developing scientific information to support decisions for sustainable coral reef ecosystem services Ecological Economics 115(2015)39–50	Susan Yee Patricia Bradley William Fisher John Carriger Brian Dyson	NHEERL, Research Triangle Park, NC	Developing Approaches to Support Decisions Resulting in Sustainable Coral Reef Ecosystem Services
  (1) Travel Distance and Transformation of Injected Emulsified Zero Valent Iron Nanoparticles in the Subsurface during Two and Half Years Water Research, 47:4095-4106 (2013) (2) A Two and Half-Year-Performance Evaluation of a Field Test on Treatment of Source Zone Tetrachloroethene and its Chlorinated Daughter Products Using Emulsified Zero Valent Iron Nanoparticles Water Research, 46:5071-5084 (2012)	Chunming Su Mark Watling (Non-EPA) Bob Puls (Non-EPA) Tom Krug (Non-EPA) Suzanne O'Hara (Non-EPA) Jacqueline Quinn (Non-EPA) Nancy Ruiz (Non-EPA)	NRMRL, Ada, OK	Pioneering Work on Transport and Transformation of Nanoscale Zerovalent Iron during Subsurface Chloroethene Remediation
  Controls on Gas Transfer Velocities in a Large River Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 117(G2): (2012)	Jake J. Beaulieu William D. Shuster Jacob A. Rebholz (Non-EPA)	NRMRL, Cincinnati, OH	A Demonstration of Enhanced Methane-Gas Transfer from a Large River
  Air Emissions from Organic Soil Burning on the Coastal Plain of North Carolina Atmospheric Environment/online and traditional, 64(1):192-199 (2013)	Christopher D. Geron Michael D. Hayes	NRMRL, Durham, NC	Discovery of High Air-Pollutant-Emission Hazard from Organic-Soil Wildfires on the U.S. Coastal Plain
  (1) Air Quality Modeling in Support of the Near-Road Exposures and Effects of Urban Air Pollutants Study (NEXUS) International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 11(9):8777-8793 (2014) (2) A Method for Estimating Urban Background Concentrations in Support of Hybrid Air Pollution Modeling for Environmental Health Studies International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 11(10):10518-10536 (2014) (3) Creating Locally-Resolved Mobile-Source Emissions Inputs for Air Quality Modeling in Support of an Exposure Study in Detroit, Michigan, USA International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 11(12):12739-12766 (2014)	Vlad Isakov Michelle Snyder Janet Burke Richard Cook Valerie Garcia David Heist Steven Perry Alan Vette Kathie Dionisio Sarah Bereznicki Saravanan Arunachalam (Non-EPA) Adel Hanna (Non-EPA) Brian Naess (Non-EPA) Marc Serre (Non-EPA) Kevin Talgo (Non-EPA) Alejandro Valencia (Non-EPA) Mohammad Omary (Non-EPA) Yasuyuki Akita (Non-EPA) Neil Davis (Non-EPA) Stuart Batterman (Non-EPA)	NERL, Research Triangle Park, NC	Advancements in Modeling Exposures to Traffic-Related Air Pollution
  (1) A Regional Assessment of Marine Vessel PM2.5 Impacts in the U.S. Pacific Northwest Using a Receptor-Based Source Apportionment Method Atmospheric Environment, 68:103-111 (2013) (2) The Effects of Marine Vessel Fuel Sulfur Regulations on Ambient PM2.5 Along the West Coast of the U.S. Atmospheric Environment, 103:121-128 (2015)	Robert A. Kotchenruther	OEA, Seattle, WA	An Innovative Use of Receptor Models to Quantify Regional-Scale Air-Quality Impacts From Environmental Regulations
  Air Pollution Retention within a Complex of Urban Street Canyons: A Two- City Comparison Atmospheric Environment, 49:24-32 (2012)	Jennifer Richmond-Bryant Adam Reff	NCEA, Research Triangle Park, NC	Characterization of Air Pollutant Retention in Urban Street Canyons to Improve the Accuracy of Exposure Assessments
  Photoreactivity of Unfunctionalized Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes Involving Hydroxyl Radical: Chiral Dependency and Surface Coating Effect Environmental Science & Technology, 48(8):3875-3882 (2014)	Richard G. Zepp Wen-Che Hou (Non-EPA) Chad T. Jafvert (Non-EPA) Somayeh Beigzadehmilani (Non-EPA)	NERL, Athens, GA	Innovative Research on Relationships between Properties and Environmental Transformations of Nanomaterials

EPA announces the winners of the 2016 Scientific and Technological Achievement Awards, an agency-wide program that recognizes the outstanding scientific work of EPA employees who publish their technical work in peer-reviewed literature.

• 2016 Level II Scientific and Technological Achievement Awards (STAA)

  Level II awards are for those who have accomplished a notably excellent research or technological effort that has qualities and values similar to, but to a lesser degree, than those described under Level I. Awarded research has timely consequences and contributes as an important scientific/technological achievement within its discipline or field of study.

  Publication Title & Full Citation	Eligible/Ineligible Authors	Lab/Office/Institution
  Diesel Exhaust Modulates Ozone-induced Lung Function Decrements in Healthy Human Volunteers Particle & Fibre Toxicology, September 2014,11:37	Michael Madden Tina Stevens Martin Case Michael Schmitt Maryanne Bassett Tracey Montilla John Bertsen Robert Develin	NHEERL
  (1) Abiotic Hydrolysis of Fluorotelomer Polymers as a Source of Perfluorocarboxylates at the Global Scale Environmental Science & Technology, 2015, 49 (24), pp 14129–14135 (2) Identification of Unsaturated and 2H Polyfluorocarboxylate Homologous Series, and their Detection in Environmental Samples and as Polymer Degradation Products Environmental Science & Technology, 2015, 49 (22), pp 13256–13263	Eric Weber John Washington Thomas Jenkins	NERL
  (1) Part 1: Laboratory Culture of Centroptilum triangulifer (Ephemeroptera:Baetidae) using a Defined Diet of Three Diatoms Chemosphere, November 2015, 139:589-96 (2) Part 2: Sensitivity Comparisons of the Mayfly Centroptilum triangulifer to Ceriodaphnia dubia and Daphnia magna using Standard Reference Toxicants: NaCl, KCl and CuSO4 Chemosphere, November 2015, 139:597-603 (3) Elevated Major Ion Concentrations Inhibit Larval Mayfly Growth and Development Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, November 2015, 34(1):167–172	Paul Weaver Katherine Struewing Christopher Nietch James Lazorchak Brent Johnson David Funk Susanna DeCelles	NERL
  (1) Effects-Based Chemical Category Approach for Prioritization of Low Affinity Estrogenic Chemicals SAR and QSAR in Environmental Research, 2014, 25(4):289-323 (2) A Rule-Based Expert System for Chemical Prioritization Using Effects-Based Chemical Categories SAR and QSAR Environmental Research, 2014, 25(4):253-87	Mark Tapper Barbara Sheedy Patricia Schmieder Richard Kolanczyk Michael Hornung Tala Henry Phillip Hartig Jeffrey Denny Hristo Aladjov	NHEERL
  (1) Independent Data Validation of an In Vitro Method for the Prediction of the Relative Bioavailability of Arsenic in Contaminated Soils Environmental Science & Technology, 2015, 49(10):6312–6318 (2) Mouse Assay for Determination of Arsenic Bioavailability in Contaminated Soils Journal of Toxicology & Environmental Health, 2013, A. 76(13):815-26	David Thomas William Thayer Euan Smith Kirk Scheckel Dan Obenour Clay Nelson Bradley Miller Julie Klotzbach Albert Juhasz Michael Hughes Gary Diamond Stan Casteel Karen Bradham	NRMRL
  (1) Analysis of Hydraulic Fracturing Fluid Data from the FracFocus Chemical Disclosure Registry 1.0 U.S. EPA Report EPA/601/R-14/003 (2) Review of Well Operator Files for Hydraulically Fractured Oil and Gas Production Wells: Well Design and Construction U.S. EPA Report EPA/601/R-14/001	Nathan Wiser Mary Ellen Tuccillo Jose Torres Chuck Tinsley Alison Singer Susan Sharkey Gregory Oberley Claudia Meza-Cuadra David Marker Jonathan Koplos Andrea Joffe Charles Hillenbrand Jill Dean Guy Cole Susan Burden Glen Boyd	OSP
  Life Cycle Assessment of Domestic and Agricultural Rainwater Harvesting Systems Environmental Science & Technology, 2014, 48(7):4069–4077	John Johnston Wesley Ingwersen Troy Hawkins Santosh Ghimire	NERL
  Do Environmental Regulations Disproportionately Affect Small Business? Evidence from the Pollution Abatement Costs and Expenditures Survey Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, November 2013, 66,(3):523–538	Ronald Shadbegian Carl Pasurka Randy Becker	NCEE

• 2016 Level III Scientific and Technological Achievement Awards (STAA)

  Level III awards are for those who have accomplished an unusually notable research or technological effort. The awards are for a substantial revision or modification of a scientific/technological principle or procedure, or an important improvement to the value of a device, activity, program, or service to the public. Awarded research relates to a mission or organizational component of the EPA, or significantly affects a relevant area of science/technology.

  Publication Title & Full Citation	Eligible/Ineligible Authors	Lab/Office/Institution
  Novel Use of Time Domain Reflectometry in Infiltration-Based Low Impact Development Practices Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, August 2013, 139(8):625-634	Emilie Stander Amy Rowe Thomas O'Connor Michael Borst	NRMRL
  (1) Widespread Molecular Detection of Legionella pneumophila Serogroup 1 in Cold Water Taps across the United States Environmental Science & Technology, 2014, 48(6):3145–3152 (2) Increased Frequency of Nontuberculous Mycobacteria Detection at Potable Water Taps within the United States Environmental Science & Technology, 2015, 49(10):6127–6133	Stephen Vesper Stacy Pfaffer Jatin Mistry Mitch Kostich Dawn King Katharine O'Connell Maura Donohue Joyce Donohue Terry Covert Jules Bryan	NERL
  Hidden Markov Models for Estimating Animal Mortality from Anthropogenic Hazards Ecological Applications, 2013, 23(8):1915–1925	Matthew Etterson	NHEERL
  (1) A Validation Study of a Rapid Field-Based Rating System for Discriminating Among Flow Permanence Classes of Headwater Streams in South Carolina Environmental Management, November 2013, 52(5):1286-98 (2) Comparing the Extent and Permanence of Headwater Streams from Two Field Surveys to Values from Hydrographic Databases and Maps Journal of the American Water Resources Association, August 2013, 49(4):867–882 (3) Validation of Rapid Assessment Methods to Determine Streamflow Duration Classes in the Pacific Northwest, USA Environmental Management, July 2015,56(1):34–53	Parker Wigington William Wenerick Molly Reif Tracie-Lynn Nadeau Scott Leibowitz Mitch Kostich Elisabeth Hagenbuch Ken Fritz Joseph Ebersole Ellen D'Amico Robert Coulombe Randy Comeleo Karen Blocksom	NERL
  (1) Air Pollution Exposure Model for Individuals (EMI) in Health Studies: Evaluation for Ambient PM2.5 in Central North Carolina Environ. Sci. Technol., 2015, 49(24):14184–14194 (2) GPS-based Microenvironment Tracker (MicroTrac) Model to Estimate Time-Location of Individuals for Air Pollution Exposure Assessments: Model Evaluation in Central North Carolina Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology, July 2014, 24(4):412–420 (3) Modeling Spatial and Temporal Variability of Residential Air Exchange Rates for the Near-Road Exposures and Effects of Urban Air Pollutants Study (NEXUS) International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, November 2014, 11(11):11481-504	Ronald Williams Alan Vette Cecilia Tan Bradley Schultz Alexandra Schneider Jennifer Richmond-Bryant Qing Yu Meng Thomas Long John Langstaff Kristin Isaacs Christopher Godwin Andrew Geller Robert Devlin James Crooks Carry Croghan Ye Cao Janet Burke Timothy Buckley Miyuki Breen Michael Breen Stuart Batterman	NERL
  (1) Concentrations of Prioritized Pharmaceuticals in Effluents from 50 Large Wastewater Treatment Plants in the US and Implications for Risk Estimation Environmental Pollution, January 2014, 184:354-9 (2) Evaluating the Extent of Pharmaceuticals in Surface Waters of the United States using a National-Scale Rivers and Streams Assessment Survey Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, April 2016, 35(4):874-81	Anthony Olsen James Lazorchak Mitchell Kostich Thomas Kincaid Angela Batt	NERL
  Developing a Social Cost of Carbon for US Regulatory Analysis: A Methodology and Interpretation Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 2013, 7 (1):23-46	Ann Wolverton Elizabeth Kopits Michael Greenstone	NCEE
  (1) What’s Causing Toxicity in Sediments? Results of 20 Years of Toxicity Identification and Evaluations (TIES) Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, November 2013, 32(11):2424–2432 (2) Effects-Directed Analysis (EDA) and Toxicity Identification Evaluation (TIE): Complementary but Different Approaches for Diagnosing Causes of Environmental Toxicity Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, September 2013, 32(9):1935-45	Marja Lamoree Kay Ho Robert Burgess Werner Brack	NHEERL
  (1) Release of Silver from Nanotechnology-Based Consumer Products Environmental Science and Technology, 2013, 47(15):8894–8901 (2) Characterization of Silver Nanoparticles in Selected Consumer Products and its Relevance for Predicting Children’s Potential Exposures International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health, May 2015, 218(3):345–357	Robert Willis Marina Vance (Quatros) Nicolle Tulve Treye Thomas Aleksandr Stefaniak Diane Schwegler-Berry Kim Rogers Raymond Pierson Samuel Mwilu Linsey Marr Ryan Lebouf	NERL
  (1) Comprehensive Assessment of a Chlorinated Drinking Water Concentrate in a Rat Multigenerational Reproductive Toxicity Study Environmental Science & Technology, 2013, 47(18):10653–10659 (2) Reproductive Toxicity of a Mixture of Regulated Drinking Water Disinfection By-Products in a Multigenerational Rat Bioassay Environmental Health Perspectives, June 2015, 123(6):564–570	Inthirany Thillainadarajah Linda Teuschler Juan Suarez Lillian Strader Thomas Speth Jane Ellen Simmons Susan Richardson Glenn Rice Jonathan Pressman Michael Narotsky Ashley Murr Virginia Moser Richard Miltner Anthony McDonald Robert Luebke Gary Klinefelter E. Sidney Hunter Jerome Goldman Michael George Anthony DeAngelo Deborah Best	NHEERL
  (1) Manganese, Iron, and Sulfur Cycling in Louisiana Continental Shelf Sediments Continental Shelf Research, May 2015, 99:46–56 (2) Changes in Northern Gulf of Mexico Sediment Bacterial and Archaeal Communities Exposed to Hypoxia Geobiology, September 2015, 13(5):478–493 (3) Microphytobenthos Production Potential and Contribution to Bottom Layer Oxygen Dynamics on the Inner Louisiana Continental Shelf Bulletin of Marine Science, July 2014, 90(3):765-780	Diane Yates Tatiana Vishnivetskaya Anthony Palumbo Michael Murrell Jennifer Mosher John Lehrter Brandon Jarvis Brian Fry Richard Devereux Steven Brown David Beddick	NHEERL
  Fifteen-year Assessment of a Permeable Reactive Barrier for Treatment of Chromate and Trichloroethylene in Groundwater Science of the Total Environment, January 2014, 468–469(15):186–194	Leilani Woods Richard Wilkin Randall Ross Robert Puls Tony Lee Steven Acree	NRMRL
  Guidance for Product Category Rule Development Book published by the Product Category Rule Guidance Development Initiative. ISBN: 978-0-9897737-0-6	Vairavan Subramanian Angie Leith Wesley Ingwersen	NRMRL

• 2016 Honorable Mention Scientific and Technological Achievement Awards (STAA)

  Honorable Mention awards acknowledge research efforts that are noteworthy but do not warrant a Level I, II or III award. Honorable Mention applies to research that: (1) may not quite reach the level described for a Level III award; (2) show a promising area of research that the Subcommittee wants to encourage; or (3) show an area of research that the Subcommittees feels is too preliminary to warrant an award recommendation at this time.

  Publication Title & Full Citation	Eligible/Ineligible Authors	Lab/Office/Institution
  Innovative Research Program on the Renewal of Aging Water Infrastructure Systems Journal of Water Supply: Research and Technology – AQUA, 2015, 64(2):117-129	Raymond Sterling Ariamalar Selvakumar John Matthews Wendy Condit	NRMRL
  (1) Associations Between Prenatal Exposure to Air Pollution, Small for Gestational Age, and Term Low Birthweight in a State-wide Birth Cohort Environmental Research, July 2014, 132:132-139 (2) Influence of Urbanicity and County Characteristics on the Association between Ozone and Asthma Emergency Department Visits in North Carolina Environmental Health Perspectives, 2014, 122(5):506-512 (3) Associations of Ozone and PM2.5 Concentrations with Parkinson's Disease Among Participants in the Agricultural Health Study Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, May 2015, 57(5):509-17	Mary Ward Anna Waller Lisa Vinikoor-Imler Caroline Tanner Dale Sandler Jason Sacks David Richardson Ana Rappold Molini Patel Robert Meyer Lynne Messer Thomas Luben Ellen Kirrane Freya Kamel Jane Hoppin Allen Davis Honglei Chen Christal Bowman Aaron Blair	NCEA
  A National Approach for Mapping and Quantifying Habitat-based Biodiversity Metrics across Multiple Spatial Scales Ecological Indicators/Special Issue Publication, October 2013, 33:139–147	Elizabeth Samson Anne Neale Allison Leimer Darin Kopp William Kepper Rachel Guy Kevin Gergely Forrest East David Bradford Kenneth Boykin	NERL
  (1) Predicting Submerged Aquatic Vegetation Cover and Occurrence in a Lake Superior Estuary Journal of Great Lakes Research, December 2013, 39(4):536–546 (2) Sediment Nitrification and Denitrification in a Lake Superior Estuary Journal of Great Lakes Research, June 2014, 40(2):392–403 (3) Water Quality in the St. Louis River Area of Concern, Lake Superior: Historical and Current Conditions and Delisting Implications Journal of Great Lakes Research, February 2016,42(1):28–38	Matthew Starry Lindey Siefert-Monson Carol Reschke Mark Pearson LaRae Lehto Terri Jicha Joel Hoffman Brian Hill Colleen Elonen David Bolgrien Brent Bellinger Ted Angradi Leroy Anderson	NHEERL
  Below the Disappearing Marshes of an Urban Estuary: Historic Nitrogen Trends and Soil Structure Ecological Applications, June 2014, 24(4):633–649	Cathleen Wigand Elizabeth Watson Mark Stolt Charles Roman Patricia Rafferty Bradley S. Moran James Lynch Roxanne Johnson Alana Hanson Earl Davey Donald Calhoon	NHEERL
  Metabolite Profiling of Fish Skin Mucus: A Novel Approach for Minimally-Invasive Environmental Monitoring and Surveillance Environmental Science and Technology, March 2015, 49(5):3091-100	Dan Villeneuve David Skelton Anthony Schroeder Kathleen Jensen Drew Ekman John Davis Timothy Collette Jenna Cavallin Gerald Ankley	NERL
  (1) Concordance of "Transcriptional and Apical Benchmark Dose Levels for Conazole-Induced Liver Effects in Mice Toxicological Sciences, November 2013, 136(1):205-15 (2) Dose-response modeling of early molecular and cellular key events in the CAR-mediated hepatocarcinogenesis pathway Toxicological Sciences, April 2014, 138(2):425-45 (3) Developing toxicogenomics as a research tool by applying benchmark dose-response modeling to inform chemical mode of action and tumorigenic potency International Journal of Biotechnology, 2015, 14(1):28-46	Radhakrisha Sura Stephen Nesnow Susan Hester Bhaskar Golladpudi David Geter David Eastmond Virunya Bhat	NHEERL
  (1) In Vitro, Ex Vivo, and In Vivo Determination of Thyroid Hormone Modulating Activity of Benzothiazoles Toxicological Sciences, August 2015, 146(2):254-64 (2) Inhibition of the Thyroid Hormone Pathway in Xenopus laevis by 2-Mercaptobenzothiazole Aquatic Toxicology, January 2013, 15(126):128-36	Joseph Tietge Erica Nevalainen Michael Hornung Chitralekha Macherla Annelie Livingston-Anderson Patricia Kosian Joseph Korte Jonathan Haselman Sigmund Degitz Katie Challis Brian Butterworth Emily Burgess Pamela Blackshear	NHEERL
  The Matthew Effect and Widely Prescribed Pharmaceuticals Lacking Environmental Monitoring: Case Study of an Exposure-assessment Vulnerability Science of the Total Environment, 2014, 466-467:315-25	Christian Daughton	NERL
  (1) Estimating Lifetime Risk from Spot Biomarker Data and Intra-class Correlation Coefficients (ICC) Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, 2013, 76(12):747-66 (2) Estimating Common Parameters of Log-normally Distributed Environmental and Biomonitoring Data Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, 2014, 17(6):341-68	Mark Strynar Matthew Stiegel Jon Sobus Joachim Pleil Karen Oliver Cassandra Olenick Michael Madden Di Hu William Funk Mary Clark	NERL
  Observed and Modeled Effects of pH on Bioconcentration of Diphenhydramine, a Weakly Basic Pharmaceutical, in Fathead Minnows Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, June 2015, 34(6):1425-35	John Nichols Alex Hoffman Russell Erickson Bowen Du Kristin Connors Kevin Chambliss Bryan Brooks Jason Berninger	NHEERL
  Modulation of Aromatase Activity as a Mode of Action for Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals in a Marine Fish Aquatic Toxicology, February 2014, 147:140-50	Gerald Zaroogian Lesley Mills Susan Laws Ruth Guthjahr-Gobell Doranne Borsay Horowitz	NHEERL
  A Systematic Proteomic Approach to Characterize the Impacts of Chemical Interactions on Protein and Cytotoxicity Responses to Metal Mixture Exposures American Chemical Society, Journal of Proteome Research, 2015, 14(1):183–192	Mingyu Xi Joanne Woodard Witold Winnik Kathleen Wallace Kevin Teichman Adam Swank Maria Spassova Anindya Roy Jeffrey Ross William Lefew Sharon Leavitt Najwa Haykal-Coates Yue Ge Aimen Farraj Chao Chen Maribel Bruno Debora Andrews	NHEERL
  (1) Silicon Impurity Release and Surface Transformation of TiO2 Anatase and Rutile Nanoparticles in Water Environments Environmental Pollution, January 2014, 184:570-8 (2) Release of Phosphorous Impurity from TiO2 Anatase and Rutile Nanoparticles in Aquatic Environments and Its Implications Water Research, October 2013, 47(16):6149–6156 (3) Effects of Dominant Material Properties on the Stability and Transport of TiO2 Nanoparticles and Carbon Nanotubes in Aquatic Environment: From Synthesis to Fate Environmental Science Press Impacts, January 2013, 15(1):169-89	Chunming Su Xuyang Liu Arturo Keller Justin Erwin Gexin Chen Nadia Adam	NRMRL
  Historical Gaseous and Primary Aerosol Emissions in the United States from 1990 to 2010 Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 13:7531-7549	Jia Xing Chao Wei George Pouliot Jonathan Pleim Rohit Mathur Christian Hogrefe C. Meei Gan	NERL
  (1) Ozone induces glucose intolerance and systemic metabolic effects in young and aged Brown Norway rats Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology, December 2013, 273(3):551–560 (2) Episodic ozone exposure in adult and senescent Brown Norway rats: acute and delayed effect on heart rate, core temperature and motor activity Inhalation Toxicology, June 2014, 26(7):380-90	Mette Schladweiler Pamela Phillips Desinia Miller Robert McPhail Allen Ledbetter Urmila Kodavanti Andrew Johnstone Kimberly Jarema Christopher Gordon Donald Doerfler Wayne Cascio Virginia Bass Cenk Aydin Debora Andrews	NHEERL
  (1) Executive Summary: Variation in Susceptibility to Ozone Induced Health Effects in Rodent Models of Cardiometabolic Disease Inhalation Toxicology, March 2015, 27(1):105-115 (2) Whole Body Plethysmography Reveals Differential Ventilatory Responses to Ozone in Rat Models of Cardiovascular Disease Inhalation Toxicology, 2015, 27(1):14-25 (3) Pulmonary Transcriptional Response to Ozone in Healthy and Cardiovascular Compromised Rat Models Inhalation Toxicology, 2015, 27(1):93-104	Ward William Mette Schladweiler Allen Ledbetter Urmila Kodavanti Janice Dye Daniel Costa	NHEERL
  (1) The Influence of Declining Air Lead Levels on Blood Lead-Air Lead Slope Factors in Children Environmental Health Perspectives, July 2014, 122(7):754-60 (2) A Multi-level Model of Blood Lead as a Function of Air Lead Science of the Total Environment, September 2013, 461-462:207-13 (3) Effect Measure Modification of Blood Lead-Air Lead Slope Factors Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology, 2015, 25(4):411-6	Lisa Vinikoor-Imler Lauren Tuttle David Svendsgaard Mary Ross Jennifer Richmond-Bryant Joann Rice Qingyu Meng Shou-En Lu Dennis Kotchmar Ellen Kirrane Heidi Hubbard Erin Hines Allen Davis Jonathan Cohen James Brown	NCEA
  (1) Optimization of Adenovirus 40 and 41 Recovery from Tap Water Using Small Disk Filters Journal of Virological Methods, November 2013, 193(2):284-90	Brian McMinn Asja Korajkic	NERL
  Submersible Fluorometers Exposed to Chemically Dispersed Crude Oil: Wave Tank Simulations for Improved Oil Spill Monitoring Environmental Science and Technology, 2014, 48(3):1803-10	Michelle Wood Ian Walsh Scott Ryan Brian Robinson Scott Pegau Scott Miles Marlon Lewis Kenneth Lee Jordanna Lacoste Corey Koch Thomas King Christropher Kelble James Farr Robyn Conmy Paula Coble Mary Abercrombie	NRMRL
  (1) Classifying Lakes to Improve Precision of Nutrient-Chlorophyll Relationships Freshwater Science, 2014, 33(4):1184-1194 (2) Classifying Lakes to Quantify Relationships between Epilimnetic Chlorophyll a and Hypoxia Environmental Management, March 2015, 55(3):578–587 (3) Deriving Nutrient Targets to Prevent Excessive Cyanobacterial Densities in U.S. Lakes and Reservoirs Freshwater Biology, September 2015, 60, (9):1901–1916	Lester Yuan Amina Pollard	OW
  Transport and Retention of Colloids in Porous Media: Does Shape Really Matter? Environmental Science & Technology, 2013, 47(15):8391–8398	Chunming Su Megan Seymour Yusong Li Gexin Chen	NRMRL
  (1) Continuous Monitoring Reveals Multiple Controls on Ecosystem Metabolism in a Suburban Stream Freshwater Biology, 2013, 58(5):918-937 (2) Estimating Autotrophic Respiration in Streams Using Daily Metabolism Data Freshwater Science, 2013, 32(2):507-516	William Shuster Robert Hall, Jr. Jake Beaulieu David Balz Clay Arango	NRMRL
  (1) Concentrations of Environmental Phenols and Parabens in Milk, Urine and Serum of Lactating North Carolina Women Reproductive Toxicology, July 2015, 54:120-8 (2) Improving the Risk Assessment of Lipophilic Persistent Environmental Chemicals in Breast Milk Critical Reviews in Toxicology, August 2014, 44(7):600-17 (3) Environmental Chemicals and Mammary Gland Development Book chapter published in Encyclopedia of Toxicology, published by Elsevier, Inc	Sherry Ye Raymond Yang Clem Welsh Ondine Von Ehrenstein Mare Verner Rogelio Tornero-Velez Cecilia Tan Jeffrey Swartout Jane Simmons Sharon Savig Walter Rogan Jennifer Rayner Christine Powers Michael Poulson Linda Phillips Pauline Mendola Eva McLanahan Satori Marchitti Bryan Luukinen Matthew Longnecker Geniece Lehmann Judy Lakind Erin Hines Cara Hennig Sami Haddad Bettina Francis Warren Foster Paul Foster Suzanne Fenton Doug Farrer Hisham El-Masri Matthew Davis John Campbell Antonia Calafat John Barnett Sue Assimon	NCEA
  Modeling NAPL dissolution from pendular rings in idealized porous media Water Resources Research, 2015, 51(10):8182-8197	Junqi Huang Mark Goltz Avery Demond John Christ	NRMRL
  (1) Estimating Surface Area of Sponges and Gorgonians as Indicators of Habitat Availability on Caribbean Coral Reefs Hydrobiologia, May 2013, 707(1):1-16 (2) Contrasting Responses of Coral Reef Fauna and Foraminiferal Assemblages to Human Influence in La Parguera, Puerto Rico Marine Environmental Research, August 2014, 99:95-105 (3) Regional Status Assessment of Stony Corals in the US Virgin Islands Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, November 2014, 186(11):7165-81	Deborah Santavy William Fisher Leah Oliver Lee Courtney Robert Quarles Jed Campbell John Dittmar Leska Fore Pamela Hallock-Muller Peggy Harris Charles LoBue Becky Hemmer Aaron Hutchings Stephen Jordan Mel Parsons Daniel Rodriguez Sherry Wilkinson (Vickery)	NHEERL
  (1) Assessment of Status of White Sucker (Catostomus commersoni) Populations Exposed to Bleached Kraft Pulp Mill Effluent Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, July 2013, 32(7):1592-603 (2) Linking Mechanistic Toxicology to Population Models in Forecasting Recovery from Chemical Stress: A Case Study from Jackfish Bay, Ontario, Canada Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, July 2015, 34(7):1623-33	Xiangsheng Xia Joseph Tietge Kelly Munkittrick David Miller Mark McMaster David Griesmer Gerald Ankley	NHEERL
  Incorporating "Catastrophic" Climate Change into Policy Analysis Climate Policy, 2014, 14(5):637-664	Alex Marten Elizabeth Kopits Ann Wolverton	NCEE
  (1) A Rapid Assessment Model for Understanding the Social Cost of Carbon Climate Change Economics, 2013, 4(1):1-40 (2) Further Comment on “A Rapid Assessment Model for Understanding the Social Cost of Carbon.” Climate Change Economics	Ann Wolverton Stephen Newbold Chris Moore Elizabeth Kopits Charles Griffiths	NCEE
  Temporal Resolution and DICE Nature Climate Change, 2013, 3, 526–527	Stephen Newbold Alex Marten	NCEE
  Water Quality Indices and Benefit-Cost Analysis Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis, 2013, 4(1):81–105	William Wheeler Patrick Walsh	NCEE
  (1) Cold Temperature and Biodiesel Fuel Effects on Speciated Emissions of Volatile Organic Compounds from Diesel Trucks Environmental Science & Technology, December 2014, 48(24):14782-14789 (2) Effects of Cold Temperature and Ethanol Content on VOC Emissions from Light-Duty Gasoline Vehicles Environmental Science & Technology, 2015, 49(21:13067–13074	Richard Snow William Preston Thomas Long Jason Herrington Michael Hays Ingrid George Barbara George James Faircloth Richard Baldauf	NRMRL