A Review of the Environmental Protection Agency's Science to Achieve Results Research Program (2017) / Chapter Skim
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4 Research for Addressing the Environmental Protection Agency's Priority Scientific Questions
4 Research for Addressing the Environmental Protection Agency's Priority Scientific Questions
Pages 52-62
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Major research challenges involve understanding the potential responses of environmental systems and effects on public health that might occur on various spatial scales (from local to global) and temporal scales (from acute to chronic)
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The disciplines include the more basic subjects -- such as the earth sciences, atmospheric sciences, life sciences, ecology, and toxicology -- and the more applied domains, such as environmental engineering, sustainable energy, human exposure and health effects, and human behavioral studies. Figure 4-1 provides a layered view of the contributing fields of knowledge, from basic research along the bottom row (in yellow)
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. T TINCTIVE NATURE OF S DIST SCIENCE TO O ACHIEVE RESULTS RESSEARCH The committee found that ST T TAR's distinguuishing charactteristics lie not in t the rese earch topic are that it suppo but that th program is u eas orts, he used strategicaally by EPA to address critical gaps in knowledge re A elated to human and ecosyste an em health issues.
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The Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research Centers began with examining at the influence of the chemicalphysical environment on asthma and neurodevelopment, but over time many of the centers investigated new questions about possible relationships between environmental factors and other health outcomes such as obesity (NIEHS/EPA 2013)
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As a result, EPA released a STAR RFA on the Source, Composition, and Health Effects of Coarse Particulate Matter in 2006, which awarded five grants which compared the heterogeneity, composition, sources and toxicity of PM10-2.5. STAR research helped address scientific issues identified in an international public health effort in 2012.
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The STAR program has addressed knowledge gaps that are identified on the basis of environmental emergencies. For example, after the Deep Water Horizon oil spill in 2010, STAR released an RFA in 2011 on the environmental effects and mitigation of oil spills.
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. STAR research can also evaluate the possible adverse consequences of resource conservation practices aimed at environmental protection; in 2014, STAR released an RFA on human and ecologic health effects associated with water reuse and conservation practices.
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Examples include an RFA titled "Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research Centers: understanding environmental factors to improve children's health in child care environments" (RFA developed in 2010 but never released) , Developing the Next Generation of Air Quality Measurement Technology (RFA released in 2011, but cancelled during grant award phase)
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2006. Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee Recommendations Concerning the Final National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Particulate Matter.
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2012. Prenatal polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH)
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2012. Air pollution sensors: Highlights from an EPA workshop on the evolution and revolution in low cost participatory air monitoring.
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