2001 STAA Honorable Mentions

Dr. William P. Linak (40%)
Dr. Charles Andrew Miller (40%)

Mention For research contributing to a fuller understanding of particle formation mechanisms in oil-fired combustion systems.

Dr. Ravi K. Srivastava (60%)
Mr. Charles B. Sedman (10%)
Mr. James D. Kilgroe (10%)

For a comprehensive analysis of performance and cost characteristics of mercury control technologies for utility boilers.

Dr. William P. Linak (35%)
Mr. Jeffrey V. Ryan (35%)

For advances in the understanding and development of improved mercury speciation measurement methods.

Dr. Rajender S. Varma (90%)

For outstanding research in "Green" synthesis of non-volatile ionic liquid solvents.

Dr. Robert W. Puls (80%)

Honorable Mention For pioneering research on the long-term performance of permeable reactive barriers for groundwater remediation.

Dr. C.C. Lee (45%)
Mr. George L. Huffman (45%)
Dr. J. C. S. Chang (6%)

For providing the public with an extremely useful set of calculations regarding waste destructor designs and add-on emission controls.

Dr. Steven C. McCutcheon (40%)
Ms. Amy E. Bergstedt (10%)

For establishment of critical design data to translate scientific discoveries into protocols for cleanup of wetlands.

Dr. Michael Lewis (65%)
Mr. Stephen Foss (10%)
Ms. Peggy Harris (10%)
Mr. Roman Stanley (10%)
Dr. James Moore (5%)

Impact of a Golf Complex on Adjacent Sediment Toxicity and Quality.

Ms. Virginia D. Engle (60%)
Dr. J. Kevin Summers (40%)

Establishing biogeographical estuarine benthic species distribution boundaries for application in environmental stressor assessments.

Dr. Richard T. Wilkin (45%)
Ms. Mary Sue McNeil (25%)
Ms. Cherri Adair (25%)
Dr. John Wilson (5%)

For research that improves the quality of environmental monitoring and assessment studies by evaluating field measurement practices.

Mr. Edward Todd Urbansky (60%)
Ms. Stephanie K. Brown (40%)

For advancing the analysis of potable water for bromate, a disinfection byproduct.

Dr. Zhishi Guo (30%)
Dr. Ronald B. Mosley (15%)
Ms. Shirley J. Wasson (15%)

Investigation into SF6 breakdown and its potential impact on measurements of air pollutants and ventilation rates.

Dr. Matthew L. Magnuson (34%)
Ms. Catherine A. Kelty (33%)
Dr. Ricardo Cant (33%)

Development of stable association complex electrospray mass spectrometry for regulatory and environmental research.

Dr. Susan D. Richardson (75%)
Ms. Tashia V. Caughran (15%)

For developing a method to detect and identify highly polar DBPs in drinking water.

Dr. H.D. Alan Lindquist (50%)
Mr. Michael Ware (25%)
Mr. Ronald E. Stetler (20%)
Mr. Larry Wymer (4%)
Dr. Frank W. Schaefer, III (1%)

For describing and characterizing the advantages and disadvantages of currently available Crytosporidium detection methods.

Dr. Frank H. McCormick (50%)
Dr. Philip R. Kaufmann (10%)
Mr. David V. Peck (10%)
Dr. John L. Stoddard (5%)

Advances in indicator development and assessment of conditions in aquatic ecosystems.

Dr. J. Jackson Ellington (25%)
Dr. Nelson L. Wolfe (25%)
Dr. Arthur W. Garrison (25%)

For a creative approach to understanding perchlorate uptake by tobacco plants and occurrence in tobacco products.

Dr. R. K. Srivastava (80%)

For developing an efficient and cost-effective adaptive grid algorithm for use in air quality modeling.

Mr. Chris D. Geron (85%)

Isoprene from Vegetation: Measurement Protocol and Emission Factor Development.

Dr. William C. Sidle (80%)
Ms. Deborah L. Roose (5%)

Application of Radium Isotopes Measurement Methodologies to the Identification of Non-point Fertilizer Pollution and Correction of Agricultural Drainage Practices.

Mr. Edward Todd Urbansky (95%)
Mr. Michael R. Schock (5%)

For raising awareness of environmentally relevant topics among educators in furtherance of chemically sound environmental research and its application in the field.

b) Carbinolamines and geminal diols in environmental chemistry. Journal of Chemical Education, 77(12):1644-1647 (2000)

Don't be tricked by your integrated rate plot! Journal of Chemical Education, 78(7):921-923 (2001)

Dr. Timothy W. Collette (60%)

For seminal assessment of the importance of modern Raman spectroscopy for environmental application to aqueous systems.

Development of analytical tools for risk management decisions involving environmentally significant colloids and contaminated particles.

Dr. Subhas K. Sikdar (65%)
Mr. Douglas Grosse (10%)

Role of advanced separation technologies to organic compounds and metals removal from dilute matrices.

Dr. Kay Ho (45%)
Ms. Anne Kuhn (20%)
Ms. Margaret Pelletier (20%)
Dr. Robert Burgess (5%)
Mr. Jonathan Serbst (5%)

Development of a new miniaturized method for short-term, multi-species sediment testing.

Dr. Lesa Meng (50%)
Mr. Bryan Taplin (20%)

Winter flounder growth and stable isotope ratios as indicators of habitat quality.

Dr. Richard Pruell (35%)
Mr. Bryan Taplin (35%)
Mr. Doug McGovern (15%)
Mr. Rick McKinney (10%)
Dr. Susan Norton (5%)

For proving new information on the accumulation and trophic transfer of toxic organic contaminants in marine biota.

Dr. Daniel Campbell (100%)

For progress toward quantifying the concepts of integrity and health as they are related to ecosystems.

Dr. William E Wilson (60%)
Dr. David T. Mage (30%)
Dr. Lester D. Grant (10%)

For presenting new and original techniques for the separation of personal exposure into its ambient and nonambient components.

Dr. Timothy Gleason (60%)
Dr. Wayne Munns, Jr. (20%)
Dr. Dianne Nacci (20%)

Projecting population-level responses in ecological risk assessments.

Dr. Brian H. Hill (75%)
Dr. Philip R. Kaufmann (5%)

Analysis of taxonomic levels of identifying stream diatom assemblages.

Dr. Peter Trenham (50%)

Amphibian metapopulations: assumptions and implications for monitoring strategies.

Dr. John C. Brazner (40%)
Mr. Danny K. Tanner (40%)
Dr. John A. Morrice (10%)

Ecological linkages between coastal wetlands and the adjacent Great Lakes.

Dr. Sally Perreault Darney (25%)
Dr. Sherry G. Selevan (25%)

Innovations in male reproductive risk assessment: Loss of genetic integrity in human spermatozoa after exposure to air pollution.

Dr. Naomi Detenbek (25%)
Ms. Sharon Batterman (15%)
Ms. Virginia Snarski (10%)
Dr. John Brazner (15%)
Ms. Jo Thompson (15%)
Ms. Debra Taylor (10%)

Watershed classification strategy for assessing site-specific probability of impairment.

Dr. Louise G. Parks (25%)
Ms. Christy S. Lambright (35%)
Dr. G. T. Ankley (5%)
Dr. L. E. Gray, Jr. (25%)

Identification of environmental androgenic activity in pulp mill effluent.

Dr. Cathleen Wigand (75%)

Effect of the native submersed macrophyte Vallisneria americana (l.) on community structure and ecosystem function.

Ms. Marguerite Pelletier (70%)
Dr. Robert Burgess (10%)
Mr. Mark Cantwell (5%)
Mr. Jonathan Serbst (5%)
Dr. Kay Ho (5%)
Mr. Stephen Ryba (5%)

Benthic populations with pelagic larvae at greater risk to PAH contaminated sediments due to maternal transfer of contaminants.

Dr. Paul Ringold (60%)

A new approach to the design of environmental monitoring.