2010 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 Fifteen
Nom. #	Publication Title & Full Citation	Eligible Authors	Ineligible Authors	Lab/Office/Institution	Citation
S10ER0014	Mucus: A NewTissue Fraction for Rapid Determination of Fish Diet Switching Using Stable Isotope Analysis Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences/Print, 66(1):1-5 (2009)	Marshall Robbins Church Joseph L. Ebersole	Kirk M. Rensmeyer Ryan B. Couture Frederc T. Barrows David L.G. Noakes	NHEERL, Corvallis, OR	Developing a Novel Procedure for Stable Isotope Analysis for Rapid Determination of Diet Switching of Fish
S10ER0016	(1) Physical Indicators of Hydrologic Permanence in Forested Headwater Streams Journal of the North American Benthological Society, 27(3):690-704 (2008) (2) Larval Salamanders and Channel Geomorphology are Indicators of Hydrologic Permanence in Forested Headwater Streams Ecological Indicators, 9(1):150-159 (2009) (3) Can Bryophytes be Used to Characterize Hydrologic Permanence in Forested Headwater Streams Ecological Indicators, 9(4):681-692 (2009)	Ken M. Fritz Brent R. Johnson David M. Walters Karen A. Blocksom Jennifer L. Greenwood	Janice M. Glime John Hribljan	NERL, Research Triangle Park, NC	Providing Science to Address the Jurisdictional Determination of Headwater Streams Under the Clean Water Act
S10HE0041	(1) Exposure to Concentrated Coarse Air Pollution Particles Causes Mild Cardiopulmonary Effects in Healthy Young Adults Environmental Health Perspectives, 117(7):1089-1094 (2009) (2) Concentrated Ambient Ultrafine Particle Exposure Induces Cardiac Changes in Young Healthy Volunteers American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 179:1-9 (2009)	Don Graff Robert Devlin James Samet Ana Rappold Yuh-Chin Huang MaryAnn Bassett Tracey Montilla	Wayne Cascio Haibo Zhou Philip Bromberg Jon Berntsen Milan Hazucha Margaret Herbst	NHEERL, Research Triangle Park, NC	Research Determining the Health Effects Associated with Exposure to Coarse and Fine Air Pollution Particles
S10HE0044	Differential Potentiation of Allergic Lung Disease in Mice Exposed to Chemically Distinct Diesel Samples Toxicological Sciences, 2(107):522-534 (2009)	Tina Stevens M. Ian Gilmour William P. Linak	Seung-Hyun Cho	NHEERL, Research Triangle Park, NC	Examining the Role of Physico-Chemical Characteristics of Air Pollutants in Elicting Adverse Health Effects
S10HE0054	(1) Profiling Chemicals Based on Chronic Toxicity Results from the U.S. EPA ToxRef Database Environmental Health Perspectives, 117(3):392-399 (2009) (2) Profiling the Reproductive Toxicity of Chemicals from Multigeneration Studies in the Toxicity Reference Database Toxicological Sciences, 110(1):181-190 (2009) (3) Profiling the Activity of Environmental Chemicals in Prenatal Developmental Toxicity Studies Using the U.S. EPA's ToxRefDB Reproductive Toxicology, 28(2):209-219 (2009)	Matthew T. Martin David J. Dix Thomas B. Knudsen Richard S. Judson Robert J. Kavlock David M. Reif Elizabeth Mendez	Daniel Corum Daniel Rotroff Amar V. Singh	NCCT, Research Triangle Park, NC	Communicating Toxicity Databases that Facilitate Transparency of EPA's Evaluation of Chemical Risk to the Environment and Public Health
S10HE0062	(1) SystemicTranslocation of 70 Zinc: Kinetics Following Intratracheal Instillation in Rats Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology, 234(1):25-32 (2009) (2) Systemic Translocation of Particulate Matter-Associated Metals Following a Single Intratracheal Instillation in Rats Toxicological Sciences, 98(1):231-239 (2007)	Urmila P. Kodavanti John K. McGee Kasey D. Kovalcik Allen D. Ledbetter Mette C. Schladweiler Matthew Landis	J. Grace Wallenborn	NHEERL, Research Triangle Park, NC	Bioavailable Particulate Matter-Associated Essential and Non-Essential Metals, When Inhaled, Translocate Systemically
S10IR0076	(1) Use of Habitat-Contamination Spatial Correlation to Determine when to Perform a Spatially Explicit Ecological Risk Assessment Ecological Modelling, 204(1-2):180-192 (2007) (2) SADA: Ecological Risk Based Decision Support System for Selective Remediation Decision Support Systeme for Risk-Based Management of Contaminated Sites, :239-256 (2009)	Steven Thomas Purucker	Christopher J.E. Welsh Robert N. Stewart Peter Starzec	NERL, Athens, GA	Providing Efficient Methods to Remediate and Protect Ecosystems from Chemical Exposures
S10IR0077	(1) Global Transcriptomic Response of Pseudomonas Aeruginosa to Chlorhexidine Diacetate Environmental Science and Technology, 43(21):8406-8415 (2009) (2) Toxicogenomic Response of Pseudomonas Aeruginosa to Ortho-Phenylphenol BMC Genomics, 9:473: (2009) (3) Microarray Analysis of Mycobacterium Bovis BCG Revealed Induction of Iron Acquisition Related Genes in Response to Hydrogen Peroxide Environmental Science Technology, : (2009)	Freshteh Toghrol	Chantal Nde Hyeung-Jin Jang William E. Bentley	MRL, Ft. Meade, MD	Scientific Research of Pathogen Genomic Behavior Against Antimicrobials Supporting the EPA's Antimicrobial Testing Program
S10MM0082	The Development and Inter-Laboratory Verification of LC-MS Libraries for Organic Chemicals of Environmental Concern Talanta, 79:810-817 (2009)	Charlita Rosal Lawrence Zintek Leon D. Betowski Dennis Wesolowski	Joshua Neukom Joseph Romano	NERL, Las Vegas, NV	Developing Transferable LC-MS Libraries for Monitoring Drinking Water Supply Safety
S10RA0103	An Evaluation of the Mode of Action Framework for Mutagenic Carcinogens Case Study ll.:Chromium Cr(VI) Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis, 51(#2):1-23 (2009)	Nancy McCarroll Nagalakshmi Keshava Jonathan Chen Gregory Akerman Andrew Kilgerman Esther Rinde		OPP, Washington, DC	EPA's First Mutagenic Mode of Action Analysis with Age-Dependent Adjustment Factor: Hexavalent Chromium: Cr(VI)
S10RA0104	Continuous and Semicontinuous Monitoring Techniques for Particulate Matter Mass and Chemical Components: A Synthesis of Findings from EPA's Particulate Matter Supersites Program and Related Studies Journal Air & Waste Manage. Assoc., peer-reviewed, 58(2):164-195 (2008)	Paul A. Solomon	Constantinos Sioutas	NERL, Research Triangle Park, NC	Evaluating and Recommending Continuous Particle Composition Measurement Methods for EPA and State Monitoring Networks
S10TF0122	Examination of Arsenic Speciation in Sulfidic Solutions Using X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy Environmental Science and Technology, 42(5):1643-1650 (2008)	Douglas G. Beak Richard T. Wilkin Robert G. Ford	Shelly D. Kelly	BLANK, Ada, OK	Understanding the Chemical Speciation of Arsenic in Sulfidic Environments
S10TF0125	Application of Ecosystem-Scale Fate and Bioaccumulation Models to Predict Fish Mercury Response Times to Changes in Atmospheric Deposition Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 28(4):881-893 (2009)	Christopher D. Knightes Elynor M. Sunderland Robert B. Ambrose, Jr. M. Craig Barber John M. Johnston		NERL, Athens, GA	Linking Multi-Media Mercury Models to Investigate Magnitude/time of Fish Tissue Response to Emissions Reductions
S10TF0132	(1) Modeling the Impacts of Traffic Emissions on Air Toxics Concentrations Near Roadways Atmospheric Environment, 43(20):3191-3199 (2009) (2) Analysis of Air Quality Data Near Roadways Using a Dispersion Model Atmospheric Environment, 41(40):9481-9497 (2007) (3) A Wind Tunnel Study of the Effect of Roadway Configurations on the Dispersion of Traffic-Related Pollution , 43(32):5101-5111 (2009)	Vlad Isakov Richard Baldauf David Heist Steven Perry Eben Thoma	Akula Venkatram Robert Seila Laurie Brixey	OAR, Ann Arbor, MI	Expanding and Improving the Scientific and Regulatory Communities' Ability to Assess the Impacts of Mobile Source Emissions
S10TF0134	(1) Development and Test Application of a Screening -Level Mercury Fate Model and Tool for Evaluating Wildlife Exposure Risk for Surface Waters with Mercury-Contaminated Sediments (SERAFM) Environmental Software & Modelling, 23(4):495-510 (2008) (2) Evaluating Regional Predictive Capacity of a Process-Based Mercury Exposure Model, Regional -Mercury Cycling Model, Applied to 91 Vermont and New Hampshire Lakes and Ponds, USA Environmental Toxicology & Chemistry, 26(4):807-815 (2007)	Christopher D. Knightes Robert B. Ambrose, Jr.		NERL, Athens, GA	Evaluating and Developing Mercury Cycling Models to Improve Understanding of Methylmercury Exposure Risk
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.