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A Critical Review on the Factors that Influence Water Quality: From the Water Source to the Fixtures in Residential Buildings

April 10, 2023
Author(s)
Alshae Logan, Marylia Duarte Batista, William M. Healy, Tania Ullah, Andrew Whelton, Timothy Bartrand, Caitlin Proctor, Jennifer Dootz, Visesh Uppoor
Residential buildings provide more opportunities for opportunistic premise plumbing pathogens (OPPPs) exposure via aerosolized water droplets compared to commercial buildings. As such, there needs to be preventative measures in place to reduce these types

Berlin Statement on Legacy and Emerging Contaminants in Polar Regions

April 6, 2023
Author(s)
Rebecca Pugh, Ralf Ebinghaus, Elena Barbaro, Susan Bengtson Nash, Cristina de Avila, Cynthia de Wit, Valeria Dulio, Janine Felden, Antonio Franco, Juergen Gandrass, Marco Grotti, Heike Herata, Kevin Hughes, Morten Jartun, Hanna Joerss, Roland Kallenborn, Jan Koschorreck, Anette Kuster, Rainer Lohmann, Zhanyun Wang, Matthew MacLeod, Caren Rauert, Jaroslav Slobodnik, Roxana Suhring, Katrin Vorkamp, Zhiyong Xie
Polar regions should be given greater consideration with respect to chemical monitoring, chemicals risk assessment, and management, consistent with requirements of the precautionary principle. Protecting the vulnerable polar environments requires (i)

Green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas) accumulate heavy metals near a former skeet shooting range in Kailua, O'ahu, Hawai'i

March 3, 2023
Author(s)
Katherine Shaw, George Balazs, T. Todd Jones, Harry Lynch, Jing Liu, George Cobb, David Klein, Jennifer Lynch
This study determined if green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas) in Kailua Bay, Oahu, in the Hawaiian Islands have elevated blood and scute Pb, As, and Sb concentrations resulting from lead deposition at a historic skeet shooting range. Blood and scute samples

Characterization of Reference Materials 8690 to 8693

February 13, 2023
Author(s)
Jessica Reiner, Benjamin Place, N. Alan Heckert, Katherine Peter, Alix Rodowa
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Reference Materials (RMs) 8690 Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in Aqueous Film-Forming Foams (AFFF) Formulation I, RM 8691 Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in Aqueous Film

Measurement of Transient Environmental Effects in GPS-Disciplined Clocks

January 23, 2023
Author(s)
Andrew Novick, Michael A. Lombardi, Demetrios Matsakis, John Clark
GPS-disciplined clocks (GPSDCs) are designed to optimize the accuracy and stability of their pulse-per-second (PPS) and frequency outputs by steering an internal oscillator to the timing solution from a GPS receiver based on the received satellite signals

Micro- and Nanoscale Surface Analysis of Late Iron Age Glass from Broborg, a Vitrified Swedish Hillfort

January 11, 2023
Author(s)
Bethany Matthews, James Neeway, Lorena Nava Farias, Jose Marcial, Bruce Arey, Jennifer Soltis, LiBor Kovarik, Zihua Zhu, Michael Schweiger, Nathan Canfield, Tamas Varga, Mark Bowden, Jamie Weaver, John McCloy, Rolf Sjoblom, Eva Hjarthner-Holdar, Mia Englund, Erik Ogenhall, Edward Vicenzi, Claire Corkhill, Clare Thorpe, Russell Hand, David Peeler, Carolyn Pearce, Albert Kruger
Archaeological glasses with prolonged exposure to biogeochemical processes in the environment can be used to understand glass alteration, which is important for the safe disposal of vitrified nuclear waste. Samples of mafic and felsic glasses with