2010 Level I Scientific and Technological Achievement Awards (STAA) Awarded Nominations

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.

       

Nominations Recommended for a Level I Award ($10,000) -- Total of Six
Nom. #	Publication Title & Full Citation	Eligible Authors	Ineligible Authors	Lab/Office/Institution	Citation
S10CS0008	A Bayesian Method for Calculating Real-Time Quantitative PCR Calibration Curves Using Absolute Plasmid DNA Standards BMC Bioinformatics, 9(120): (2008)	Orin C. Shanks Mano Sivaganesan Richard A. Haugland Manju Varma Shawn Siefring		NRMRL, Cincinnati, OH	The Development of a Molecular Biology Data Analysis Model
S10ER0033	(1) Geographic, Anthropogenic, and Habitat Influences on Great Lakes Coastal Wetland Fish Assemblages Canadian J. Fisheries Aquatic Sciences, 66:1328-1342 (2009) (2) Patterns in Habitat and Fish Assemblages within Great Lakes Coastal Wetlands and Implications for Sampling Design Canadian J. Fisheries Aquatic Sciences, 66:1343-1354 (2009)	Anett S. Trebitz John C. Brazner Mark S. Pearson Danny K. Tanner Gregory S. Peterson Debra L. Taylor Corlis W. West	Nicholas P. Danz Tom Hollenhorst	NHEERL, Duluth, MN	Advancing Understanding of Biotic Responses to Anthropogenic Stressors in Coastal Receiving Waters
S10MM0087	(1) Quantitative PCR for Detection and Enumeration of Genetic Markers of Bovine Fecal Pollution Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 74(3):745-752 (2008) (2) Quantitative PCR for Genetic Markers of Human Fecal Pollution Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 75(7):5507-5513 (2009)	Richard A. Haugland Manju Varma Catherine A. Kelty Jorge Santo Domingo Shawn Siefring Orin C. Shanks Mano Sivaganesan	Jingrang Lu Rachel T. Noble A. Denene Blackwood Emina Atikovic	NRMRL, Cincinnati, OH	The Development of Quantitative Real-Time PCR Methods for the Detection of Human and Cow Fecal Pollution
S10OR0091	(1) Terminology of Developmental Abnormalities in Common Laboratory Mammals (Version 2) Birth Defects Research Part B, 86:227-327 (2009) (2) Terminology of Developmental Abnormalities in Common Laboratory Mammals (Version 2) Reproductive Toxicology, 28:371-434 (2009) (3) Terminology of Developmental Abnormalities in Common Laboratory Mammals (Version 2) Congenital Anomalies, 49:123-246 (2009)	Susan Makris	Howard Solomon Ruth Clark Kohei Shiota Stephane Barbellion L. David Wise Makoto Ema Michio Fujiwara Konstanze Grote Keith P. Hazelden Kok-Wah Hew Masao Horimoto Yojiri Ooshima Meg Parkinson Jochen Buschmann	NCEA, Washington, DC	Completion of an International Collaborative Project and Publication of a Primary Reference on Developmental Terminology
S10OR0093	(1) A Meta-Analysis of Children's Hand-to-Mouth Frequency Data for Estimating Nondietary Ingestion Exposure Risk Analysis, 27(2):411-420 (2007) (2) A Meta-Analysis of Children's Object-to-Mouth Frequency Data for Estimating Non-Dietary Ingestion Exposure Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology, : (2009)	Jianping Xue Valerie Zartarian Jacqueline Moya Nicolle Tulve	Natalie Freeman Paloma Beamer Kathy Black Willa AuYeung Stuart Shalat	NERL, Research Triangle Park, NC	Refining Probabilistic Distributions of Exposure Factors for Use in Human Exposure Modeling and Risk Assessments
S10TF0133	(1) Estimates of the Contributions of Biogenic and Anthropogenic Hydrocarbons to Secondary Organic Aerosol at a Southeastern US Location Atmospheric Environment, 41(37):8288-8300 (2007) (2) B-Caryophyllinic Acid: An Atmospheric Tracer for B-Caryophyllene Secondary Organic Aerosol Geophysical Research Letters, 34(L05816):1-4 (2007) (3) Composition of PM2.5 During the Summer of 2003 in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina Atmospheric Environment, 41(19):4073-4083 (2007)	Edward O. Edney Tadeusz E. Kleindienst Michael Lewandowski John H. Offenberg	Mohammed Jaoui Prakash V. Bhave	NERL, Research Triangle Park, NC	Developing Laboratory-Based Techniques for Determining Precursors to Secondary Organic Aerosol in Ambient Environments
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.