Environmental & Public Health

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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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Community-based research and action on drinking water contaminants

Lauren Richter was hired as Research Scientist with Silent Spring Institute to lead a community-based participatory research project on highly fluorinated chemical contamination of drinking water in New England. Per- and polyfluorinated...
June 20, 2018
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Teniope Adewumi-Gunn

2018 Fellow
Teniope Adewumi-Gunn is currently a Science Fellow at NRDC focusing on the intersection of climate change and worker health. Her research looks for solutions to address the climate impacts faced by workers, with a focus on underserved...
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Candice Youngblood

2018 Fellow
Candice Youngblood is a passionate environmental justice lawyer and advocate. An asthmatic, she grew up in Los Angeles County living beside major freeways. Candice became motivated to protect the right to breathe clean air after realizing...
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Miyuki Hino

2018 Fellow
Miyuki Hino is a Ph.D. candidate in the Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources at Stanford University. She studies strategies for managing flood risk in a changing climate, ranging from strategic relocation programs...
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Carina Bracer: Really? A climate refugee?

Really? A climate refugee? Amazing how that became a reality for my family last October after the passing of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. The destruction it caused forced us to suddenly uproot our lives. Compared to others, we were very fortunate. Neither we nor anyone in our extended family lost their home, or had to survive more than three months without electricity.
May 29, 2018
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Kimberley Rain Miner: Preparing for the disasters we never saw coming

Is it possible to identify and stop a climate change disaster before it happens? Kimberley Rain Miner, a National Science Foundation Fellow and Department of Defense SMART Scholar, believes it might be with the proper predictions and preparations in a broad range of scenarios.
May 29, 2018