Environmental Engineering & Toxicology

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Holmes Hummel: Accelerating private capital utility investments in inclusive clean energy solutions

Fellow Holmes Hummel is the Founding Director of Clean Energy Works, a nonprofit organization that seeks to accelerate private capital utility investments in inclusive clean energy solutions.
May 21, 2019
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Bradman and Klein find organic diet intervention significantly reduces pesticide levels in urine

Editor's note: The video attached to this story was produced by Organic for All.
April 10, 2019
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Can genetic engineering save disappearing forests?

Humans have not yet released a genetically engineered plant that is intended to spread and persist in an unmanaged environment. Biotech trees – genetically engineered or gene-edited – offer the possibility of releasing genetically engineered trees into forests to counter threats to forest health and represent a new frontier in biotechnology, writes Fellow Jason Delborne.
January 23, 2019
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Miner publishes on a screening-level approach to quantifying glacial release

Fellow Kimberley Miner has published a new article in Nature. A screening-level approach to quantifying risk from glacial release of organochlorine pollutants in the Alaskan Arctic Abstract
December 10, 2018
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Bradman publishes on whether buffer zones will protect school children from pesticides

Fellow Asa Bradman published recently on whether buffer zones around schools in agricultural areas will be adequate to protect children from the potential adverse effects of pesticide exposure?
October 4, 2018
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Miner publishes on legacy pollutants re-entering European watersheds from melting glaciers

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October 2, 2018
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Richter publishes on sixty years of research and inaction on fluorinated compounds

Lauren Richter has published an article in Social Studies of Science, "Non-stick science: Sixty years of research and (in)action on fluorinated compounds" about how the risks of PFASs have been both structurally hidden and unexamined by existing regulatory and industry practice. Abstract
October 2, 2018
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Miner publishes on presence organochlorine pollutants within a polythermal glacier in the Interior Eastern Alaska Range

To assess the presence of organochlorine pollutants (OCP) in Alaskan sub-Arctic latitudes, Fellow Kimberley Miner analyzed ice core and meltwater samples from Jarvis Glacier, a polythermal glacier in Interior Alaska. Jarvis Glacier is...
September 10, 2018
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Janelle Heslop

2018 Fellow
Janelle Heslop is the Associate Director for Strategy and Innovation at NASA’s Earth Science Division, where she leads strategic initiatives and partnerships that connect cutting-edge science with real-world applications. With a background in engineering and business, she works at the intersection of technology, innovation, and strategic decision-making to drive meaningful change for our planet.
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Regan Patterson

2018 Fellow
Regan Patterson is Assistant Professor at UCLA Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. She was previously a postdoctoral research fellow at The University of Michigan Institute for Social Research in the Social Environment and...