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New Methods in 21st Century Exposure Science
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), as part of its Science to Achieve Results (STAR) program, is seeking applications proposing innovative research to advance methods for characterizing real-world human exposure to chemicals associated with consumer products in indoor environments. (CFDA: 66.509)
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Susceptibility and Variability in Human Response to Chemical Exposure
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), as part of its Science to Achieve Results (STAR) program, is seeking applications proposing research to study life stage and/or genetic susceptibility in order to better characterize the sources of human variability in response to chemical exposure. (CFDA: 66.509)
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Healthy Schools: Environmental Factors, Children’s Health and Performance, and Sustainable Building Practices
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), as part of its Science to Achieve Results (STAR) program, is seeking applications proposingresearch that will inform school (K-12 educational facilities) building design, construction and operation practices in order to foster safe and healthy school environments and maximize student achievement and teacher and staff effectiveness. (CFDA: 66.509)
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EPA Awards More Than $4.3 Million in Partnership with NSF and NOAA for Climate and Air Quality Research / Southern Company, Electric Power Research Institute provide additional support Today the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced more than $4.3 million in grants to 13 institutions to study and improve our understanding of how certain organic compounds form in the atmosphere.
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EPA SBIR Awardees, Orono and Ecovative receive Tibbetts Awards at the White House
Ecovative Design Two of EPA's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program awardees received Tibbets Awards at the White House. Orono Spectral Solutions and Ecovative Design were among the 21 recipients of this year’s Tibbets Awards. This prestigious award is presented to small businesses and individuals that are exemplary in their work and continue to illustrate the mission and goals of the SBIR and Small Business Technology Transfers programs.
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National Center for Innovation in Small Drinking Water Systems
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), as part of its Science to Achieve Results (STAR) program, is seeking applications for a National Research Center that will: identify, develop, demonstrate and facilitate widespread acceptance and applicability of novel and innovative technologies and approaches to measure or treat groups of microbiological or chemical contaminants, or their precursors; apply novel new information technology systems; and improve the sustainability of small drinking water systems. (CFDA: 66.509)
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Defiant Technologies Hand-held Gas Chromatography Tool. Image credit: defiant-tech.com Smallest Hand-held Gas Chromatography tool is a Big SBIR Success
Defiant Technologies has developed a hand-held, portable device to detect and analyze VOCs in water, soil and air. The FROG- 4000™, a portable gas chromatography (GC) instrument, is constructed with miniaturized components used for analytical chemistry. The battery powered FROG-4000™ is the smallest and lightest GC system on the market today and provides onsite VOC analysis results in less than 10 minutes.
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P3 Logo More than 3.5 Gigawatt Hours Saved Through Lucid Designs Energy Competitions
Lucid Designs, a company established by Oberlin College P3 Expo winners in 2004, conducts annual College Campus and K-12 School energy conservation competitions using their Building Dashboard energy monitoring and display technology. (CFDA: 66.509)
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Dry Cleaning Minority Populations May be at Higher Risk to Perc Exposures
STAR Grantee, Jan Storm of New York State’s Department of Health Bureau of Toxic Substance Assessment, has found socioeconomic disparities in exposure to perchloroethylene in indoor air. (CFDA: 66.509)
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This cross-section of Douglas-fir from Arizona shows the tree's annual growth rings. Each ring has a light-colored band, or earlywood, that forms in the spring and a dark-colored band, or latewood, that forms in the summer. The width of the band tells how much the tree grew during that period and therefore can be used as a proxy for the climate during that season. (Image (c) Daniel Griffin/University of Arizona) Tree Rings Used to Identify Past Droughts in the US Southwest
Daniel Griffin, a 2010 Fellowship recipient has been researching the use of tree-ring analysis to reconstruct ­­­­monsoon records over the past 500 years in America’s southwest. Griffin has found that the monsoon droughts of the past were more severe and persistent than any of the last 100 years. (CFDA: 66.509)
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Science for Sustainable and Healthy Tribes
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), as part of its Science to Achieve Results (STAR) program, is seeking applications proposing research on science for sustainable and healthy tribes. This solicitation is focused on research to develop sustainable solutions to environmental problems that affect tribes. (CFDA: 66.509)
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