2009 Level II Scientific and Technological Achievement Awards (STAA) Awarded Nominations

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.

     

Nominations Recommended for a Level II Award ($5,000) -- Total of Twenty-Two
Nom. #	Publication Title & Full Citation	Eligible Authors	Ineligible Authors	Lab/Office/Institution	Citation
S09ER0004	Genomic Approaches for Cross-Species Extrapolation in Toxicology Book Published by: CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, Boca Raton, FL, : (2007)	William H. Benson	Richard T. Di Giulio	NHEERL, Gulf Breeze, FL	Advancing Use of Genomic Technologies to Improve the Integrity of the Environment and Human Health
S09ER0008	(1) Linkage of Biochemical Responses to Population-Level Effects: A Case Study with Vitellogenin in the Fathead Minnow (Pimephales promelas) Environmental Toxicology & Chemistry, 26:521-527 (2007) (2) Relationship of Plasma Sex Steroid Concentrations in Female Fathead Minnows to Reproductive Success and Population Status Aquatic Toxicology, 88:69-74 (2008)	Gerald T. Ankley David H. Miller Kathleen M. Jensen Daniel L. Villeneuve Elizabeth J. Durhan Michael D. Kahl Elizabeth A. Makynen	Dalma Martinovic	NHEERL, Duluth, MN	Linkage of Mechanistic Biomarkers to Individual and Population - Level Responses in Fish
S09ER0009	Stable Nitrogen Isotopes of Plankton and Benthos Reflect a Landscape-Level Influence on Great Lakes Coastal Ecosystems Journal of Great Lakes Research, 33(Special Issue 3):27-41 (2007)	Gregory S. Peterson Michael E. Sierszen Peder M. Yurista John R. Kelly		NHEERL, Duluth, MN	Stable Isotope Studies that Link the Quality of Great Lakes Watersheds with their Coastal Water Receiving Systems
S09ER0019	Comparing Environmental Influences on Coral Bleaching Across and within Species Using Clustered Binomial Regression Ecological Modelling, 218(1-2):162-174 (2008)	Susan Harrell Yee Deborah L. Santavy Mace G. Barron		NHEERL, Gulf Breeze, FL	Improving Predictive Models of Coral Bleaching by Incorporating Species-Specific Responses to Environmental Stressors
S09ER0115	(1) Evaluation of Stony Coral Indicators for Coral Reef Management Marine Pollution Bulletin, 56:1737-1745 (2008) (2) Estimating 3-Dimensional Colony Surface Area of Field Corals Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 351:234-242 (2007) (3) Characterizing Coral Condition Using Estimates of Three-Dimensional Colony Surface Area Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 125(1-3):347-360 (2007)	William S. Fisher Lee Courtney Leah Oliver Robert Quarles Jed Campbell Sandy Raimondo Will Davis Peggy Harris Becky Hemmer Jim Patrick Charles LoBue Wayne Davis Mel Parsons	Leska Force Aaron Hutchins	NHEERL, Gulf Breeze, FL	Development of Coral Reef Bioassessment Procedures to Support Biocriteria and Clean Water Act Regulatory Programs
S09HE0024	(1) Evaluation of Physiologically Based Pharmacokinetic Models for Use in Risk Assessment Journal of Applied Toxicology, 27:218-237 (2007) (2) Approaches for Applications of Physiologically Based Pharmacokinetic Models in Risk Assessment Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, Part B, 11:519-547 (2008)	Weihsueh Chiu Hugh A. Barton Robert S. DeWoskin John C. Lipscomb Chad M. Thompson Paul Schlosser Babasaheb Sonawane	Kannan Krishnan	NCEA, Washington, DC	Developing Guidelines for Physiologically Based Pharmacokinetic (PBPK) Modeling in Quantitative Risk Assessment
S09HE0032	(1) Differences in Allergenic Potential of Food Extracts Following Oral Exposure in Mice Reflect Differences in Digestibility: Potential Approaches to Safety Assessment Toxicological Sciences, 102(1):100-109 (2008) (2) Failure to Induce Oral Tolerance in Mice is Predictive of Dietary Allergenic Potency Among Foods with Sensitizing Capacity Toxicological Sciences, 106(2):435-443 (2008)	Christal C. Bowman MaryJane K. Selgrade		NHEERL, Research Triangle Park, NC	Mouse Models Developed to Predict Potential Food Allergy Responses to Transgenic Proteins
S09HE0033	Toxicogenomic Study of Triazole Fungicides and Perfluoroalkyl Acids in Rat Livers Predicts Toxicity and Categorizes Chemicals Based on Mechanisms of Toxicity Toxicological Sciences, 97(2):595-613 (2007)	David J. Dix Matthew T. Martin Christopher Lau Carmen R. Wood Hongzu Ren J. C. Corton Robert J. Kavlock	Richard J. Brennan Wenyue Hu Eser Ayanoglu	NCCT, Research Triangle Park, NC	Mechanism-Based Categorization of Environmental Chemicals Based on Toxicogenomic Data
S09IE0042	(1) Methanol Oxidation Using Ozone on Titania-Supported Vanadia Catalyst Environmental Science and Technology, 41(13):4754-4760 (2007) (2) Vapor Phase Oxidation of Dimethyl Sulfide with Ozone over V2O5/TiO2 Catalyst Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 84(3-4):408-419 (2008) (3) Catalytic Oxidation of Dimethyl Sulfide with Ozone: Effects of Promoter and Physico-Chemical Properties of Metal Oxide Catalysts Applied Catalysis A: General, 348(1):86-93 (2008)	Endalkachew Sahle-Demessie	Venu Gopal Devulapelli Catherine B. Almquist Sridara Chandra Sehker Julia Sowash	NRMRL, Cincinnati, OH	Development and Demonstration of Catalytic Process that Converts Kraft Mill Waste Pollutants into Value Added Products
S09MM0049	(1) Perfluorinated Compounds in House Dust from Ohio and North Carolina, USA Environmental Science and Technology, 42(10):3751-3756 (2008) (2) Perfluorinated Compounds in the Cape Fear Drainage Basin in North Carolina Environmental Science and Technology, 41(16):5271-5276 (2007) (3) Perfluorinated Compounds in Whole Fish Homogenates from the Ohio, Missouri, and Upper Mississippi Rivers, USA Environmental Pollution, 156(3):1227-1232 (2008)	Andrew B. Lindstrom Mark J. Strynar Peter Egeghy James Lazorchak	Xibiao Ye Shoji Nakayama Jerry L. Varns Laurence Helfant	NERL, Research Triangle Park, NC	Establishing a World-Class Method Development Laboratory for Analyzing PFOS, PFOA, and Perfluorinated Compounds
S09MM0065	Using Field Data and Weight of Evidence to Develop Water Quality Criteria Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management, 4(4):490-504 (2008)	Susan M. Cormier John F. Paul Robert L. Spehar Walter J. Berry Glenn W. Suter, ll Patricia Shaw-Allen		NCEC, Cincinnati, OH	Research to Provide Environmental Quality Criteria for Unconventional Pollutants
S09OR0070	(1) Hydrologic Modeling of an Eastern Pennsylvania Watershed with NEXRAD and Rain Gauge Data Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 11(6):555-569 (2006) (2) Stochastic Residual-Error Analysis for Estimating Hydrologic Model Predictive Uncertainty Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 13(7):585-596 (2008)	Mohamed M. Hantush	Latif Kalin	NRMRL, Cincinnati, OH	Contributing Novel Analysis and Methodology to Effective Watershed Modeling
S09OR0072	Spatial and Temporal Variability of Solar Ultraviolet Exposure of Coral Assemblages in the Florida Keys: Importance of Colored Dissolved Organic Matter Limnology and Oceanography, 53(5):1909-1922 (2008)	Richard G. Zepp William S. Fisher Michael J. Cyterski	G. Christoper Shank Erik Stabenau Erich Bartels Karen W. Patterson Susan L. Anderson	NERL, Athens, GA	Determining the Role of Colored Dissolved Organic Matter in Exposure of Coral Reefs to Damaging UV Radiation
S09RA0075	Dietary Uptake Models Used for Modeling the Bioaccumulation of Organic Contaminants in Fish Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 27(4):755-777 (2008)	M. Craig Barber		NERL, Athens, GA	Mathematical and Statistical Analyses that Identify the Assumptions and Uncertainties of Fish Bioaccumulation Models
S09RA0082	(1) Bioavailability of Chemical Contaminants in Aquatic Systems Chapter 2, In: The Toxicology of Fishes, :9-54 (2008) (2) Toxicokinetics in Fishes Chapter 3, In: The Toxicology of Fishes, :55-152 (2008) (3) Ecological Risk Assessment Chapter 18, In: The Toxicology of Fishes, :757-775 (2008)	Russell Erickson Gerald Ankley Mace Barron Philip Cook Tala Henry James McKim David Mount John Nichols	William Hayton Kevin Kleinow	NHEERL, Duluth, MN	State-of-the-Science Evaluation of Methods for Assessing Chemical Bioavailability, Toxicokinetics, and Risks for Fish
S09RA0083	Non-Navigable Streams and Adjacent Wetlands: Addressing Science Needs Following the Supreme Court's Rapanos Decision Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 6(7):364-371 (2008)	Scott G. Leibowitz Parker J. Wigington, Jr Donna M. Downing	Mark C. Rains	NHEERL, Corvallis, OR	Advancing the Scientific Basis for Assessing Functional Interactions and Flow Duration in Integrated Hydrologic Systems
S09TF0094	(1) Effects of Using the CB05 vs. SAPRC99 vs. CB4 Chemical Mechanism on Model Predictions: Ozone and Gas-Phase Photochemical Precursor Concentrations Atmospheric Environment, 42(23):5805-5820 (2008) (2) Impact of an Updated Carbon Bond Mechanism on Predictions from the Community Multiscale Air Quality Modeling System: Preliminary Assessment Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 47(1):3-14 (2008)	Deborah Luecken Golam Sarwar Sharon Phillips Carey Jang	Greg Yarwood Gary Whitten William P.L. Carter	NERL, Durham, NC	Incorporation of an Updated Chemical Mechanism into the CMAQ Model and Analysis of the Impacts on Air Pollutants
S09TF0099	(1) Seasonal and Regional Air Quality and Atmospheric Deposition in the Eastern US Journal of Geophysical Research, 112(D17302):1-18 (2007) (2) Changes in Air Quality and Atmospheric Deposition in the Eastern US: 1990-2004 Journal of Geophysical Research, 112(D17301):1-19 (2007)	Joseph E. Sickles, II	Douglas S. Shadwick	NERL, Research Triangle Park, NC	Using Monitoring Data to Examine Spatial Behavior of Atmospheric Ecosystem Stressors Associated with Emission Reductions
S09TF0101	Organic Carbon-Water Concentration Quotients (II socS and pocS): Measuring Apparent Chemical Disequilibria and Exploring the Impact of Black Carbon in Lake Michigan Enviromental Science & Technology, 42(10):3615-3621 (2008)	Lawrence P. Burkhard Philip M. Cook Marta T. Lukasewycz		NHEERL, Duluth, MN	Advancing Understanding of Quantitative Impacts of Black Carbon on Chemical Disequilibria in Lake Water Columns
S09TF0103	Evaluation of Groudwater Flow Patterns Around a Dual-Screened Groundwater Circulation Well Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, 93:188-202 (2007)	Michelle A. Simon	Richard L. Johnson	NRMRL, Cincinnati, OH	Developing a Protocol Ranking the Diagnostic Methods for Evaluating Groundwater Flow Patterns
S09TF0108	Designing Small Molecules for Biodegradability Chemical Reviews, 107(6):2207-2227 (2007)	Robert S. Boethling David DiFiore Elizabeth Sommer		Washington, DC	Outstanding Achievement in Demonstrating the Principles of Design for Biodegradability
S09TF0111	Air-Liquid Partition Coefficient for a Diverse Set of Organic Compounds: Henry's Law Constant in Water and Hexadecane Environmental Science and Technology (ES&T), 42(24):9231-9236 (2008)	Said Hilal	L. A. Carreira S. N. Ayyampalayam	NERL, Athens, GA	Development of Mathematical Models for Predicting the Fate of Organic Pollutants in the Environment
Key to Acronyms used in the above Table OA Office of the Administrator NERL National Exposure Research Laboratory NHEERL National Health and Environmental Effects Laboratory NRMRL National Risk Management Research Laboratory OAQPS Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards OPP Office of Pesticide Programs ORIA Office of Radiation and Indoor Air ORCR Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery OSCP Office of Science Coordination and Policy *Note: The percentages given after name represent the current percent of the total level of effort as documented in the EPA nomination.