Sentences with phrase «environmental fate»

Dr. Jackson's interests are in the biogeochemistry and environmental fate of trace metals in the environment with a focus on human exposure.

He also has a Master of Science in environmental sciences and policy from Johns Hopkins University, where he concentrated his research and study in environmental fate and transport, oceanic and atmospheric processes, hydrology and the ecological effects of pollutants.

Research covers physical oceanography, atmospheric sciences, biology, protected species, social sciences and economics, submerged cultural resources and environmental fates and effects.

Although the model makes assumptions about the environmental fate of nitrogen that risk oversimplifying matters, says oceanographer Don Boesch of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science in Cambridge, Maryland, he calls the conclusions «robust.»

According to Greenpeace UK's chief Scientist, Doug Parr: «The disturbing aspect is that they are going into the environment and our bodies with little knowledge about their effects on health and environmental fate.

The researchers do note that such a limited sampling regime is not sufficiently robust to ascertain the environmental fate of F - 53B, but these preliminary results suggest that it will be similar to that of PFOS.

And of course, as anyone who's followed the dispersant saga knows, there's this: «Prior to the Gulf oil spill disaster, no deepwater applications of dispersant had been conducted, and thus no data existed on the environmental fate of dispersants in deepwater.»

Given that Lovelock predicted in 2006 that by this century's end «billions of us will die and the few breeding pairs of people that survive will be in the Arctic where the climate remains tolerable», this new laissez - faire attitude to our environmental fate smells and sounds like of a screeching handbrake turn.

AECOM is providing technical resources and review for the project, plus financial support for research studies to investigate the environmental fate and transport, toxicity, and safe handling of nanoscale zero valent iron (nZVI)-- a nanomaterial that is proving effective in treating contaminated groundwater and soils.