Scientific and Technological Achievement Award (STAA) 2021

The SAB Scientific and Technological Achievement Awards (STAA) 2021-2024 Panel selected 20 nominations to receive awards and selected 19 honorable mentions. 

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Level II Awards

Publication

  1. The Development of DISC (Decision Integration for Strong Communities): An Agile Software Application of Sustainability Indicators for Small and Rural Communities

Authors and Nominating Organization

EPA:

  • Linda Harwell
  • Kevin Summers
  • Maria V. Salazar
  • David M. Olszyk
  • Allen F. Brookes

Nominating Organization: EPA ORD

Publications

  1. Asymptomatic norovirus infection associated with tropical beach: A prospective cohort
  2. Immunoprevalence to Six Waterborne Pathogens in Beachgoers at Boquerón Beach, Puerto Rico: Application of a Microsphere-Based Salivary Antibody Multiplex Immunoassay

Authors and Nominating Organization

EPA:

  • Tim Wade
  • Swimburne Augustine
  • Shannon Griffin
  • Andrey Egorov
  • Alfred Dufour
  • Tarsha Eason
  • Elizabeth Sams
  • Kevin Oshima
  • Larry Wymer
  • Ann Grimm
  • G. Shay Fout (Retired)
  • Maryjean See

Non-EPA:

  • Clarissa Curioso
  • Kaneatra Simmons

Nominating Organization: EPA ORD

Publications

  1. Cardiopulmonary Effects of Fine Particulate Matter Exposure among Older Adults, during Wildfire and Non-Wildfire Periods in the U.S. 2008-2010
  2. Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Department Visits Associated with Wildfire Smoke Exposure in California in 2015

Authors and Nominating Organization

EPA:

  • Stephanie Deflorio-Barker
  • Ana G. Rappold
  • Wayne E. Cascio

Non-EPA:

  • James Crooks
  • Jeanette Reyes
  • Zachary Wettstein
  • Sumi Hoshiko
  • Jahan Fahimi
  • Robert Harrison

Nominating Organization: EPA ORD

Publications

  1. A North American and global survey of perfluoroalkyl substances in surface soils: Distribution patterns and mode of occurrence
  2. Determining global background soil PFAS loads and the fluorotelomer based polymer degradation rates

Authors and Nominating Organization

EPA:

  • John Washington
  • David Lynch
  • Laurence Libelo
  • Mike Cyterski

Non EPA:

  • Keegan Rankin
  • Thomas Jenkins
  • Scott Mabury

Nominating Organization: EPA ORD

Publications

  1. Re-evaluating the Significance of Estrone as an Environmental Estrogen
  2. A potential confounding factor in assessing risks of environmental estrogens to fish

Authors and Nominating Organization

EPA:

  • Kathleen Jensen
  • Gerald Ankley
  • Brett Blackwell
  • Jeff Denny
  • Michael D. Kahl
  • Rick Kolanczyk
  • Carlie Lalone
  • Mark Tapper
  • Dan Villeneuve
  • Carlie Lalone
  • Richard Kolanczk

Non-EPA:

  • Jenna Cavallin
  • Travis Saari
  • Shane Poole
  • Eric Randolph
  • David Feifarek

Nominating Organization: EPA ORD

Level III Awards

Publication

  1. Material recovery from electronic waste using pyrolysis: Emissions measurements and risk assessment

Authors and Nominating Organization

EPA:

  • Endalkac Sahle-Demessie
  • Stephen Harmon
  • Chun Lee (Retired)

Non-EPA:

  • Bineyam Mezgebe
  • Yonggui Shan
  • Joshua Dietrich

Nominating Organization: EPA ORD

Publications

  1. Modeling the Property Price Impact of Water Quality in 14 Chesapeake Bay Counties
  2. The Implicit Price of Aquatic Grasses
  3. Improving Water Quality in an Iconic Estuary: An Internal Meta-analysis of Property Value Impacts Around the Chesapeake Bay

Authors and Nominating Organization

EPA:

  • Heather Klemick
  • Charles Griffiths
  • Patrick Walsh
  • Dennis Guignet

Nominating Organization: EPA AO

Publication

  1. Satellite monitoring of cyanobacterial frequency in recreational and drinking waters

Authors and Nominating Organization

EPA:

  • Blake Schaeffer
  • John Darling
  • John Johnston

Non-EPA:

  • John Clark
  • Erin Urquhart
  • Amber Ignatius
  • Mark Myer
  • Keith Loftin
  • Jeremy Werdell
  • Richard Stumpf

Nominating Organization: EPA ORD

Publication

  1. Anthropogenic enhancements to production of highly oxygenated molecules from autoxidation

Authors and Nominating Organization

EPA:

  • Havala Pye
  • Rohit Mathur

Non-EPA:

  • Emma D'Ambro
  • Jin Liao
  • Ben Lee
  • Siegfried Schobesberger
  • Masayuki Takeuchi
  • Jiumeng Liu
  • John Shilling
  • Yue Zhao
  • Felipe Lopez-Hilfiker
  • Joel Thornton
  • Jia Xing
  • Ann Middlebrook
  • Andre Welti
  • Martin Graus
  • Carsten Warneke
  • Ilana Pollack
  • Joost de Gouw
  • John Holloway
  • Thomas Ryerson

Nominating Organization: EPA ORD

Publication

  1. Integrating geographically isolated wetlands into land management decisions

Authors and Nominating Organization

EPA:

  • Heather Golden
  • Laurie Alexander
  • Jay Christensen
  • Charles Lane

Non-EPA:

  • Irena Creed
  • Genevieve Ali
  • Nandita Basu
  • Brian Neff
  • Mark Rains
  • Daniel McLaughlin
  • Ali Ameli
  • Grey Evenson
  • Charles Jones
  • Megan Lang

Nominating Organization: EPA ORD

Publications

  1. Weight of evidence evaluation of a network of adverse outcome pathways linking activation of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor in honeybees to colony death
  2. Extracting and benchmarking emerging adverse outcome pathway knowledge
  3. Adverse outcome pathway network- based assessment of the interactive effects of an androgen receptor

Authors and Nominating Organization

EPA:

  • Dan Villeneuve
  • Gerald Ankley
  • Justin Housenger
  • Carlie Lalone
  • Brett Blackwell
  • Michael Kahl
  • Kristina Garber
  • Keith Sappington
  • Nathan Pollesch
  • Kathleen Jensen

Non-EPA:

  • Jenna Cavallin
  • Rebecca Milsk
  • Judy Wu- Smart
  • Jason O-Brien
  • Travis Saari
  • Eric Randolph
  • Shane Poole
  • David Feifarek
  • Jon Doering

Nominating Organization: EPA ORD

Publications

  1. Extending the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) modeling system to hemispheric scales
  2. Impacts of different characterizations of large-scale background on simulated regional-scale ozone

Authors and Nominating Organization

EPA:

  • Rohit Mathur
  • Christian Hogrefe
  • Robert Gilliam
  • Golam Sarwar
  • Jon Pleim
  • George Pouliot
  • Shawn Roselle (Retired)
  • Tanya Spero
  • David Wong
  • Jeffrey Young

Non-EPA:

  • Jia Xing
  • Peng Liu
  • Johannes Flemming
  • Meiyun Lin
  • Rokjin Park

Nominating Organization: EPA ORD

Publication

  1. Adaptation and application of multivariate AMBI (M- AMBI) in US coastal waters

Authors and Nominating Organization

EPA:

  • Peg Pelletier
  • Treda Grayson

Non-EPA:

  • Anna Hamilton
  • Virginia Hansen
  • Erik Leppo
  • Steve Weisberg
  • Anjel Borja
  • David Gillett

Nominating Organization: EPA ORD

Publication

  1. Quantifying Seagrass Light Requirements Using Algorithm to Spatially Resolve Depth of Colonization

Authors and Nominating Organization

EPA:

  • Jim Hagy
  • Marcus Beck (Retired)

Non-EPA:

  • Chengfeng Le

Nominating Organization: EPA ORD

Publications

  1. Mobile source contributions to ambient ozone and particulate matter in 2025
  2. Monetized health benefits attributable to mobile source emission reductions across the United States
  3. The recent and future health burden of the U.S. mobile sector apportioned by source

Authors and Nominating Organization

EPA:

  • Margaret Zawacki
  • Ken Davidson
  • Neal Fann
  • Kirk Baker
  • Sharon Phillips
  • Charles Fulcher

Non-EPA:

  • Philip Wolfe

Nominating Organization: EPA OAR

Publications

  1. Evaluating the ecosystem services and benefits of wetland restoration by use of the rapid benefit indicators approach
  2. A geospatial assessment of flood vulnerability reduction by freshwater wetlands–a benefit indicators approach
  3. Rapid benefit indicator tools

Authors and Nominating Organization

EPA:

  • Justin Bousquin
  • Marisa Mazzotta
  • Walter Berry
  • Rick McKinney

Non-EPA:

  • Claudette Ojo
  • Caroline Gottschalk Druschke
  • Kristen Hychka

Nominating Organization: EPA ORD

Publication

  1. Associations between long-term fine particulate matter exposure and mortality in heart failure patients

Authors and Nominating Organization

EPA:

  • Cavin Ward-Caviness
  • Anne Weaver
  • Matthew Buranosky (Retired)
  • David Diaz-Sanchez
  • Lucas Neas
  • Robert Devlin
  • Wayne Cascio

Non-EPA:

  • Emily Pfaff
  • Joel Schwartz
  • Qian Di

Nominating Organization: EPA ORD

Publications

  1. Calcification continues in Caribbean reef- building corals at high pCO2 levels in a recirculating ocean acidification exposure system
  2. Elevated pCO2 and hypoxia alter the acid- base regulation of developing sheepshead minnows Cyprinodon variegatus

Authors and Nominating Organization

EPA:

  • Cheryl Hankins
  • Mace Barron
  • William Fisher
  • Deborah Vivian
  • Elizabeth Moso
  • Sandy Raimondo
  • Laura Enzor (Retired)

Non-EPA:

  • Madison Hamilton-Frazier

Nominating Organization: EPA ORD

Publication

  1. HTTK: R package for high- throughput toxicokinetics

Authors and Nominating Organization

EPA:

  • John Wambaugh
  • Woodrow Setzer
  • Barbara Wetmore
  • Robert Pearce (Retired)

Non-EPA:

  • Caroline Ring
  • Cory Strope
  • Nisha Sipes

Nominating Organization: EPA ORD

Publication

  1. A critical review of the postulated role of the non-essential amino acid, β-N-methylamino-L-alanine, in neurodegenerative disease in humans

Authors and Nominating Organization

EPA:

  • Donna Jenkins Hill
  • Neil Chernoff (Retired)
  • Judith Schmid (Retired)

Non-EPA:

  • Deacqunita Diggs
  • Witold Winnik
  • Brenda Faison
  • Bettina Francis
  • Johnsie Lang
  • Madeleine Larue
  • Thao Le
  • Keith Loftin
  • Joaquin Lugo

Nominating Organization: EPA ORD

Honorable Mention

Publication

  1. Integrating multimedia models to assess nitrogen losses from the Mississippi River basin to the Gulf

Authors and Nominating Organization

EPA:

  • Yongping Yuan
  • Ellen Cooter (Retired)
  • Limei Ran (Retired)

Non-EPA:

  • Ruoyu Wang
  • Prasad Daggupati
  • Dongmei Yang
  • Raghavan Srinivasan
  • Anna Jalowska

Nominating Organization: EPA ORD

Publication

  1. Nitrogen–phosphorus- associated metabolic activities during the development of a cyanobacterial bloom revealed by metatranscriptomics

Authors and Nominating Organization

EPA:

  • Jingrang Lu

Non-EPA:

  • Bo Zhu
  • Ian Struewing
  • Ning Xu

Nominating Organization: EPA ORD

Publication Title

  1. The role of trees in urban stormwater management

Authors and Nominating Organization

EPA:

  • Matt Hopton
  • Ahjond Garmestani
  • Haynes Goddard (Retired)
  • William Shuster (Retired)

Non-EPA:

  • Sheri Shiflett
  • Adam Berland
  • Dustin Herrmann

Nominating Organization: EPA ORD

Publication

  1. Adaptive governance to promote ecosystem services in repurposed vacant urban spaces

Authors and Nominating Organization

EPA:

  • Matt Hopton
  • Ahjond Garmestani
  • William Shuster (Retired)

Non-EPA:

  • Olivia Green
  • Sandra Albro
  • Natalie Ban
  • Adam Berland
  • Caitlin Burkman
  • Mary Gardiner
  • Michael Schoon
  • Lance Gunderson

Nominating Organization: EPA ORD

Publication

  1. Using Re-Scaled Resilience  Screening Index Results and  Location Quotients for Socio- Ecological Characteristics in  U.S. Coastal Regions

Authors and Nominating Organization

EPA:

  • Lisa Smith
  • Linda Harwell
  • Kevin Summers
  • Justin Bousquin
  • James Harvey
  • Kyle Buck

Non-EPA:

  • Michelle McLaughlin

Nominating Organization: EPA ORD

Publication 

  1. EPA’s non-targeted analysis collaborative trial (ENTACT): genesis, design, and initial findings
  2. Using prepared mixtures of ToxCast chemicals to evaluate non-targeted analysis method performance

Authors and Nominating Organization

EPA:

  • Elin Ulrich
  • Jon Sobus
  • Antony Williams
  • Chris Grulke (Retired)
  • William Shuster
  • Ann Richard
  • Seth Newton
  • Mark Strynar

Non-EPA:

  • Alex Chao
  • Jarod Grossman
  • Andrew McEachran
  • Randolph Singh
  • Kamel Mansouri

Nominating Organization: EPA ORD

Publications

  1. Trends in Drinking Water Nitrate Violations Across the United States
  2. Arsenic Drinking Water Violations Decreased Across the United States Following Revision of the Maximum Contaminant Level

Authors and Nominating Organization

EPA:

  • Michael Pennino
  • Jana E. Compton
  • Scott G. Leibowitz

Non-EPA:

  • Stephanie A. Foster

Nominating Organization: EPA ORD

Publication

  1. A framework for linking population model development with ecological risk assessment objectives

Authors and Nominating Organization

EPA:

  • Sandy Raimondo
  • Wade Lehmann
  • Andrew Kanarek
  • Matt Etterson
  • Nathan Pollesch
  • Kristina Garber
  • Jill Awkerman

Nominating Organization: EPA ORD

Publications

  1. Filtration Efficiency of Hospital Face Mask Alternatives Available for Use During COVID-19 Pandemic
  2. Evaluation of Cloth Masks and Modified Procedure Masks as Personal Protective Equipment for the Public During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Authors and Nominating Organization

EPA:

  • James Samet
  • Haiyan Tong

Non-EPA:

  • Emily Sickbert-Bennett
  • William Bennett
  • Philip Clapp
  • Jon Benrtsen
  • Kirby Zeman
  • David Weber
  • Deverick Anderson
  • Hao Chen

Nominating Organization: EPA ORD

Publication

  1. Comparison of Five Modeling Approaches to Quantify and Estimate the Effect of Clouds on the  Radiation

Author and Nominating Organization

EPA:

  • Eric S. Hall

Nominating Organization: EPA ORD

Publication Title

  1. Characterization of Organophosphorus Flame Retardants’ Sorption on Building Materials and  Consumer Products

Authors and Nominating Organization

EPA:

  • Xiaoyu Liu

Non-EPA:

  • Matthew R. Allen
  • Nancy F. Roache

Nominating Organization: EPA ORD

Publications

  1. Mining Available Data from the United States Environmental Protection Agency to Support Rapid Life Cycle Inventory Modeling of Chemical Manufacturing
  2. Coupling Computer-Aided Process Simulation and Estimations of Emissions and Land Use for Rapid Life Cycle Inventory Modeling

Authors and Nominating Organization

EPA:

  • Ray Smith
  • Bill Barrett
  • Michael Gonzalez
  • David Meyer
  • Wesley Ingwersen
  • Paul Randall
  • Gerardo Ruiz- Mercado
  • John Abraham (Retired)

Non-EPA:

  • Sarah Cashman
  • Ashley Edelen

Nominating Organization: EPA ORD

Publication

  1. The use of evidence from high-throughput screening and transcriptomic data in human health risk assessments

Authors and Nominating Organization

EPA:

  • Roman Mezencev
  • Ravi Subramaniam

Nominating Organization: EPA ORD

Publication Title

  1. Modeling spatiotemporal patterns of ecosystem metabolism and organic carbon dynamics affecting hypoxia on the Louisiana Continental Shelf

Authors and Nominating Organization

EPA:

  • Brandon Jarvis
  • Yongshan Wan
  • Jim Hagy
  • Marcus Beck (Retired)
  • John Lehrter (Retired)
  • Michael Murrell (Retired)

Non-EPA:

  • Lisa Lowe
  • Dong Ko
  • Bradley Penta
  • Rick Gould

Nominating Organization: EPA ORD

Publication

  1. The CompTox Chemistry Dashboard: a community data resource for environmental chemistry

Authors and Nominating Organization

EPA:

  • Antony Williams
  • Ann Richard (Retired)
  • Jeff Edwards
  • Grace Patlewicz
  • Imran Shah
  • John Wambaugh
  • Richard Judson
  • Chris Grulke (Retired)

Non-EPA:

  • Andrew McEachran
  • Kamel Mansour
  • Nancy Baker

Nominating Organization: EPA ORD

Publication

  1. Offspring susceptibility to metabolic alterations due to maternal high-fat diet and the impact of inhaled ozone used as a stressor

Authors and Nominating Organization

EPA:

  • Urmila Kodavanti
  • Mette Schladweiler
  • Colette Miller
  • Samantha Snow (Separated)
  • Allen Ledbetter (Retired)
  • Pamela Phillips (Retired)
  • Christopher Gordon (Retired)

Non-EPA:

  • Katarzina Broniowska
  • Edward Karoly
  • Andres Henriquez

Nominating Organization: EPA ORD

Publication

  1. Biological Degradation of Polymers in the Environment

Authors and Nominating Organization

EPA:

  • John Glaser (Retired)

Nominating Organization: EPA ORD

Publication

  1. Analysis of the Transport and Fate of Metals Released from the Gold King Mine in the Animas and San Juan Rivers

Authors and Nominating Organization

EPA:

  • John Washington
  • Kate Sullivan
  • Chris Knightes
  • Mike Cyterski
  • Steve Kraemer
  • Lourdes Prieto

Non-EPA:

  • Brian Avant

Nominating Organization: EPA ORD

Publications

  1. Retrospective surveillance of wastewater to examine seasonal dynamics of enterovirus infections
  2. Reducing inherent biases introduced during DNA viral metagenome analyses of municipal wastewater

Authors and Nominating Organization

EPA:

  • Nichole Brinkman
  • Scott Keely
  • Jay Garland
  • G Shay Fout (Retired)
  • Eric Villegas

Nominating Organization: EPA ORD

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