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  • 2020 Level II Scientific and Technological Achievement Awards
  • 2020 Level III Scientific and Technological Achievement Awards
  • 2020 Honorable Mention Scientific and Technological Achievement Awards

2020 Level II Scientific and Technological Achievement Awards

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 Authors and Nominating Organization

Temporal Variability of Pyrethroid Metabolite Levels in Bedtime, Morning, and 24-h Urine Samples for 50 Adults in North Carolina

EPA:

  • Marsha K. Morgan
  • Carry Croghan
  • Jon Sobus
  • Denise MacMillan
  • Fu-Lin Chen
  • Maliha Nash
  • James Starr
  • Matthew Clifton
  • Erik Andersen

Non-EPA:

  • Dana Boyd Barr
  • Lillian Alston
  • Richard Walker
  • Dan Zehr

Nominating Organization: EPA ORD

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Community Vulnerability to Health Impacts of Wildland Fire Smoke Exposure

EPA:

  • Jeanette Reyes
  • Ana Rappold
  • Wayne Cascio
  • David Diaz-Sanchez
  • George Pouliot
  • Neal L. Fann

Non-EPA:

  • Richard Broome
  • Breanna Alman
  • Fay Johnston
  • Geoff Morgan

Nominating Organization: OAR

Development of the Larva Amphibian Growth and Development Assay: Effects of Chronic 4-tert-octylphenol or 17ß-trenbolone Exposure in Xenopus laevis from Embryo to Juvenile

EPA:

  • Jonathan Haselman
  • Rodney Johnson
  • Sigmund Degitz
  • Joseph Korte
  • Patricia Kosian

Non-EPA:

  • Allen Olmstead
  • Taisen Iguchi

Nominating Organization: ORD

Impact of Enhanced Ozone Deposition and Halogen Chemistry on Tropospheric Ozone over the Northern Hemisphere

EPA:

  • Golam Sarwar
  • Kristen Foley
  • Rohit Mathur
  • Brett Gantt
  • Donna Schwede
  • William T. Hutzell
  • Kathleen Fahey
  • Daiwen Kang
  • Heather Simon
  • Tanya L. Spero

Non-EPA:

  • Alfonso Saiz-Lopez
  • Jia Xing
  • William T. Hutzell
  • Tomás Sherwen
  • Hosein Foroutan

Nominating Organization: EPA ORD

Identification of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in the Cape Fear River by High Resolution Mass Spectrometry and Nontargeted Screening

EPA:

  • Seth Newton
  • Andrew Lindstrom
  • Mark J. Strynar
  • James P. McCord
  • Erik Andersen

Non-EPA:

  • Larry McMillain
  • Sonia Dagnino
  • Shuang Liang
  • Carol Ball
  • Michael Thurman
  • Rebecca McMahen
  • Imma Ferrer

Nominating Organization: EPA ORD

Disinfection By-Product Exposures and the Risk of Specific Cardiac Birth Defects

EPA:

  • John M. (Michael) Wright
  • Michael Narotsky

Non-EPA:

  • Amanda Evans
  • John Kaufman
  • Zorimar Rivera-Nunez

Nominating Organization: EPA ORD

2020 Level III Scientific and Technological Achievement Awards

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 Authors and Nominating Organization

Toxicological Perspective on The Osmoregulation and Ionoregulation Physiology of Major Ions by Freshwater Animals: Teleost Fish, Crustacea, Aquatic Insects, And Mollusca

EPA:

  • Michael B. Griffith

Nominating Organization: EPA ORD

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Fish Connectivity Mapping: Linking Chemical Stressors by Their Mechanisms of Action-Driven Transcriptomic Profiles

EPA:

  • Ronglin Wang
  • Adam Biales
  • Daniel Villeneuve
  • Gerald T. Ankley
  • David Bencic

Non-EPA:

  • Cataia Ives
  • Stephen Edwards
  • Natalia Garcia-Reyero
  • Edward Perkins

Nominating Organization: EPA ORD

Toxicokinetic Triage for Environmental Chemicals

EPA:

  • Barbara Wetmore
  • Rocky Goldsmith
  • Richard Judson
  • Russell Thomas
  • Woodrow Setzer
  • Imran Shah
  • John F. Wambaugh

Non-EPA:

  • Sieto Bosgra
  • Robert Pearce
  • Cory Strope
  • Alexander Sedykh
  • James Sluka
  • Alex Tropsha

Nominating Organization: EPA ORD

Phthalate Exposure and Male Reproductive Outcomes: A Systematic Review of the Human Epidemiological Evidence

EPA:

  • Elizabeth Radke
  • Todd Blessinger
  • Susan Euling
  • Xabier Arzuaga
  • Glinda Cooper
  • Lily Wang
  • Laura Dishaw
  • Brandiese Beverly
  • Christine Cai
  • Andrew Hotchkiss
  • Anuradha Mudipalli
  • Andre Weaver
  • Gary Klinefelter
  • Nagalakshmi Keshava
  • Karen Hogan
  • Susan Markis
  • Erin E. Yost

Non-EPA:

  • Anne-Marie Saillenfait
  • Joseph Braun
  • John Meeker

Nominating Organization: EPA ORD

The Geographic Distribution and Economic Value of Climate Change-related Ozone Health Impacts in United States in 2030

EPA:

  • Neal Fann
  • Amanda Curry Brown
  • Christopher Nolte
  • Tanya Spero
  • Sharon Phillips
  • Susan Anenberg
  • Patrick D. (Pat) Dolwick

Nominating Organization: EPA OAR

A National Statistical Survey Assessment of Mercury Concentrations in Fillets of Fish in the U.S. EPA National Rivers and Stream Assessment of the Continental USA 

EPA:

  • Angela Batt
  • John Wathen
  • Anthony Olson
  • Thomas Kincaid
  • James M. (Jim) Lazorchak

Nominating Organization: EPA ORD

MOAtox: A Comprehensive Mode of Action and Acute Aquatic Toxicity Database for Predictive Model Development

EPA:

  • Todd Martin
  • Crystal Lilavois
  • Mace Barron
  • Douglas Young
  • John Carriger

Nominating Organization: EPA ORD

Measuring Community Resilience to Natural Hazards: The Natural Hazard Resilience Screening Index (NaHRSI) Development and Application to the United States

EPA:

  • J. Kevin Summers
  • Lisa M Smith
  • Linda Harwell
  • Kyle Buck
  • Non-EPA:
  • Stephen Hafner

Nominating Organization: EPA ORD

Cardiac Effects of Seasonal Ambient Particulate Matter and Ozone Co-exposure in Rats

EPA:

  • Aimen K. Farraj
  • Mehdi S Hazari
  • Wayne E. Cascio
  • David Davies
  • Rachelle Duvall
  • Ian Gilmour
  • Todd Krantz
  • Jonathan Krug
  • Najwa Haykal-Coates
  • Mark Higuchi
  • Kasey Kovalcik
  • John McGee
  • Charly King
  • Allen Ledbetter
  • Joseph Patrick Pancras
  • Leslie Thomspon
  • Leon Walsh
  • Charles Wood
  • Darrell Winsett

Non-EPA:

  • Fatiha Malik
  • Brandi Martin
  • Kimberly Stratford

Nominating Organization: EPA ORD

Linking High Resolution Mass Spectrometry Data with Exposure and Toxicity Forecasts to Advance High-Throughput Environmental Monitoring

EPA:

  • Jon R. Sobus
  • John Wambaugh Antony Williams
  • Mark Strynar
  • Kristin Isaacs
  • Elin Ulrich
  • Ann Richard
  • Christopher Grulke
  • Seth Newton
  • Richard Judson

Non-EPA:

  • Julia Rager
  • Andrew McEachran
  • Shuang Liang
  • Rebecca McMahen

Nominating Organization: EPA ORD

Spatial Variability of Sediment Methane Production and Methanogen Communities within a Eutrophic Reservoir: Importance of Organic Matter Source and Quantity

EPA:

  • Jake J. Beaulieu
  • William C. Squier
  • Christopher T. Nietch
  • Michael G. McManus
  • J. T. Walker
  • K. M. White

Non-EPA:

  • Trinity L. Hamilton
  • Sarah Waldo
  • Ishi Buffam
  • John A. Harrison
  • David Balz
  • Megan E. Berberich
  • M. Keith Birchfield
  • J. L. Young
  • Michelle C. Platz

Nominating Organization: EPA ORD

Exposure to Perfluorinated Alkyl Substances and Health Outcomes in Children: A Systematic Review of the Epidemiologic Literature

EPA:

  • Evan Coffman
  • Erin K. Hines
  • Kristen M. Rappazzo

Nominating Organization: EPA ORD

Application of Passive Sampling for Measuring Dissolved Concentrations of Organic Contaminants in the Water Column at Three Marine Superfund Sites

EPA:

  • Robert M. Burgess
  • Monique Perron
  • Mark Cantwell

Non-EPA:

  • Rainer Lohmann
  • Joseph Schubauer-Berigan
  • Pamela Reitsma
  • Lisa Lefkovitz

Nominating Organization: EPA ORD

Coastal Wetland Support of Great Lakes Fisheries: Progress from Concept to Quantification

EPA:

  • Joel C. Hoffman
  • Anett Trebitz
  • Michael Sierszen

Non-EPA:

  • Matthew Cooper Donald Uzarski
  • Lee Schoen
  • Jessica Kosiara

Nominating Organization: EPA ORD

2020 Honorable Mention Scientific and Technological Achievement Awards

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 Authors and Nominating Organization
A Simple Decontamination Approach Using Hydrogen Peroxide Vapour for Bacillus anthracis Spore Inactivation

EPA:

  • Joseph P. (Joe) Wood
  • M. Worth Calfee
  • Shawn Ryan
  • Leroy Mickelsen

Non-EPA:

  • Vipin Rastogi
  • Matthew Clayton
  • Dahman Touati
  • Nicole Griffin-Gatchalian
  • Lisa Smith

Nominating Organization: EPA ORD

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Potential Toxicity of Complex Mixtures in Surface Waters from a Nationwide Survey of United States Streams: Identifying in Vitro Bioactivities and Causative Chemicals

EPA:

  • Brett R. Blackwell
  • Matthew Martin
  • Gerald Ankley
  • Keith Houck
  • Elizabeth Murphy
  • Richard Judson
  • Edwin Smith
  • Daniel Villeneuve

Non-EPA:

  • Shibin Li
  • Alex Medvedev
  • Paul Bradley
  • Sergei Makarov Steven Corsi
  • Laura DeCicco
  • Anthony Schroeder
  • Joseph Swintek

Nominating Organization: EPA ORD

Sustainable Water Systems for the City of Tomorrow – A Conceptual Framework

EPA:

  • Xin (Cissy) Ma
  • Jennifer Cashdollar
  • Jay Garland

Non-EPA:

  • Xiaobo Xue
  • Alejandra González-Mejía

Nominating Organization: EPA ORD

Effectiveness of Point-of- Use/Point-of-Entry Systems to Remove Per-and-Poly-fluoroalkyl Substances from Drinking Water

EPA:

  • Craig Patterson
  • Jonathan Burkhardt
  • Danielle Kleinmaier
  • Steven B. Merritt
  • Stephen Dyment
  • Lawrence Zintek

Non-EPA:

  • Donald Schupp
  • E. Radha Krishnan

Nominating Organization: EPA ORD

Proteomic Responses of BEAS- 2B Cells to Nontoxic and Toxic Chromium: Protein Indicators of Cytotoxicity Conversion

EPA:

  • Yue Ge
  • Jeffrey Ross
  • Maribel Bruno

Nominating Organization: EPA ORD

Estimating Potential Increased Bladder Cancer Risk Due to Increased Bromide Concentrations in Sources of Disinfected Drinking Waters

EPA:

  • Michael S. Elovitz
  • Michael Messner
  • John Michael Wright Jimmy Chen
  • Rex Pegram
  • Stig Regli

Non-EPA:

  • Susan Richardson
  • T.J. Pepping
  • Frank Letkiewicz

Nominating Organization: EPA ORD

Increasing Prevalence Rate of Nontuberculous Mycobacteria Infections in Five States, 2008-2013

EPA:

  • Maura J. Donohue
  • Larry Wymer

Nominating Organization: EPA ORD

Eco-Health Linkages: Assessing the Role of Ecosystem Goods and Services on Human Health using Causal Criteria Analysis

EPA:

  • Rebeca de Jesus Crespo
  • Richard Fulford
  • Susan Yee

Non-EPA:

  • Jianyong Wu
  • Mark Myer

Nominating Organization: EPA ORD

Linking Water Quality to Aedes aegypti and Zika in Flood-Prone Neighborhoods

EPA:

  • Rebeca de Jesus Crespo
  • Susan Yee
  • Stephanie Friedman
  • Autumn Oczkowski

Non-EPA:

  • Donald Yee
  • Pablo Mendez Lazaro
  • Fengwei Bai

Nominating Organization: EPA ORD

In Vivo Dermal Absorption of Pyrethroid Pesticides in the Rat

EPA:

  • Brenda C. Edwards
  • David Ross
  • James Starr
  • Michael F. Hughes
  • Michael J. DeVito
  • Kevin Crofton
  • Edward Scollon

Non-EPA:

  • Marcelo Wolansky

Nominating Organization: EPA ORD

A Comprehensive Framework for Evaluating the Environmental Health and Safety Implications of Engineered Nanomaterials

EPA:

  • William K. (Will) Boyes
  • Kim Rogers
  • Elaine Cohen
  • Hubal Souhail Al-Abed
  • Christian Andersen
  • Robert Burgess
  • Dermont Bouchard
  • Kay Ho
  • Michael Hughes
  • Kirk Kitchin
  • Jeffrey Ross
  • Jay Reichman
  • Paul Rygiewicz
  • Richard Zepp
  • Kirk Scheckel
  • Sheau-Fung Thai
  • Robert Zucker

Non-EPA:

  • Lila Thornton

Nominating Organization: EPA ORD

Assessing Land Use, Sedimentation, and Water Quality Stressors as Predictors of Coral Reef Condition in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands

EPA:

  • Leah Oliver
  • Deborah Santavy
  • Patricia Bradley
  • William Fisher

Non-EPA:

  • Leska Fore
  • Amelia Smith
  • Jeroen Gerritsen

Nominating Organization: EPA ORD

Biophysical Comparison of Four Silver Nanoparticles Coatings using Microscopy, Hyperspectral Imaging and Flow Cytometry

EPA:

  • Robert M. Zucker
  • William Boyes
  • Kim Rogers
  • John McGee
  • Laura Degn

Non-EPA:

  • Alice Goldstein-Plesser
  • Jayna Ortenzio
  • Jeremy Lerner
  • Jana Navaratolova

Nominating Organization: EPA ORD

The Effects of Marine Vessel Fuel Sulfur Regulations on Ambient PM2.5 at Coastal and Near Coastal Monitoring Sites in the U.S. 

EPA:

  • Robert A Kotchenruther

Nominating Organization: EPA OAR

Molecular Survey of Occurrence and Quantity of Legionella spp., Mycobacterium spp., Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Amoeba Hosts in Municipal Drinking Water Storage Tanks Sediments 

EPA:

  • Jingrang Lu
  • Nick Ashbolt
  • Darren Lytle
  • Jorge Santo Domingo

Non-EPA:

  • Ke Qin
  • Ian Struewing
  • Sheron Yelton

Nominating Organization: EPA ORD

Exacerbation of Ozone-Induced Pulmonary and Systemic Effects by ß2-adrenergic and/or Glucocorticoid Receptor Agonist/s

EPA:

  • Urmila P. Kodavanti
  • Mette C. Schladweiler
  • Samantha Snow
  • Prasada Kodavanti
  • Janice A. Dye
  • Allen Ledbetter
  • Judy Richards
  • Anna Fisher
  • Hongzu Ren

Non-EPA:

  • Colette N. Miller
  • Andres Henriquez
  • Marie McGee
  • Matthew Valdez
  • John House

Nominating Organization: EPA ORD

A Watershed Integrity Definition and Assessment Approach to Support Strategic Management of Watersheds

EPA:

  • Joseph E. Flotemersch
  • John L. Stoddard
  • Scott G. Leibowitz

Non-EPA:

  • Ryan A Hill
  • Rebecca E Tharme
  • Martin C Thoms

Nominating Organization: EPA ORD

Removal of Phosphate using Calcium and Magnesium-Modified Iron-Based Absorbents 

EPA:

  • Mallikarjuna N. Nadagouda
  • Jay Garland
  • Thomas Speth

Non-EPA:

  • Jacob Lalley
  • Han Changseok
  • Nidhi Iyanna
  • Dion Dionysiou
  • Gayathri Rammohan

Nominating Organization: EPA ORD

Using Data Derived From Cellular Phone Locations to Estimate Visitation to Natural Areas: An Application to Water Recreation in New England, USA

EPA:

  • Nathaniel H. Merrill
  • Kate K. Mulvaney
  • Justin Bousquin
  • Marisa J. Mazzotta

Non-EPA:

  • Sarina F. Atkinson

Nominating Organization: EPA ORD

A Systematic Evaluation of the Potential Effects of Trichloroethylene Exposure on Cardiac Development 

EPA:

  • Susan L. Makris 
  • Andrew Hotchkiss
  • Xabier Arzuaga
  • John Fox
  • Thomas Knudsen
  • Susan Euling
  • Christina Parsons
  • Jennifer Jinot
  • Karen Hogan
  • Barbara Abbott
  • E. Sidney Hunter
  • Michael Narotsky

Non-EPA:

  • Cheryl Siegel Scott

Nominating Organization: EPA ORD

Reactivity of Graphene Oxide with Reactive Oxygen Species (Hydroxyl Radical, Singlet Oxygen, and Superoxide Anion)

EPA:

  • Richard G. Zepp

Non-EPA:

  • Hsin-Se Hsieh

Nominating Organization: EPA ORD

VOC Emissions and Formation Mechanisms from Carbon Nanotube Composites During 3D Printing

EPA:

  • Souhail R. Al-Abed

Non-EPA:

  • Phillip Potter
  • Slawomir Lomnicki
  • Dean Lay

Nominating Organization: EPA ORD

Comparing Measures of Estuarine Ecosystem Production in a Temperate New England Estuary

EPA:

  • Autumn J. Oczkowski
  • Donald Cobb
  • Adam Pimenta
  • Alana Hanson
  • Rick McKinney
  • Sandra Robinson

Non-EPA:

  • Jason Krumholz
  • Kenneth Miller
  • Christopher Hunt
  • Courtney Schmidt
  • Scott Nixon
  • Emily Santos
  • Leslie Smith
  • Candace Oviatt
  • Leanna Heffner
  • Joaquin Chavez

Nominating Organization: EPA ORD

The Impacts of Environmental Regulation on the U.S. Economy 

EPA:

  • Ann Wolverton
  • Alex Marten
  • Ann E. Ferris
  • Richard Garbaccio

Nominating Organization: EPA AO

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