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N.C.G. Freeman T. Wainman P.J. Lioy A.H. Stern S.I. Shupack 《Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association (1995)》2013,63(8):604-605
Honorary Memberships are conferred by the Air Pollution Control Association on persons of widely recognized eminence in some part of the field of air pollution control or who have rendered especially meritorious service to the Association. Honorary Memberships were awarded this year to Dr. Leonard Greenburg and Mr. Milton Reizenstein, both past presidents of APCA. 相似文献
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McCreanor L Tsuji LJ Wainman BC Martin ID Weber JP 《Environmental monitoring and assessment》2008,140(1-3):211-222
Abandoned military sites in northern North America are relics of the Cold War and sources of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs).
In the late 1990s, the Canadian federal and provincial governments began the cleanup of the mid-Canada radar line in Ontario,
Canada. The first site to be remediated was Site 050 (Fort Albany First Nation) in 2001; however, the community remains concerned
that contaminants may have moved prior to, during, and after remediation into the Albany River directly adjacent to Site 050.
Thus, the Albany River was monitored (1999, 2001, 2002) during the remediation process to determine if the cleanup itself
further contaminated the aquatic compartment, using leeches (Haemopis spp.) as bioindicators. Few organochlorines were found in leeches at levels higher than the detection limit, aside from PCBs.
Leech data from the present study indicated that PCB levels were significantly higher near Site 050 than the control site
upstream, indicating point source contamination from Site 050. The temporal trend in leech contaminant data indicated an increase
in PCB contaminant load from 1999 (pre-remediation) to 2001 (immediately post-remediation), but this difference was not statistically
significant due to high variances. Nevertheless, logit log-linear contingency modeling did reveal that immediately after cleanup
(2001), contaminants (CBs 99, 118, 128, 156, 170, 183) in leeches were detected significantly more frequent than expected.
When taken together, leech body burden and frequency of detection data suggest that the remediation process itself further
contaminated the aquatic environment, if only temporarily. Lastly, the removal of the terrestrial source of PCBs during remediation
did remove the source of aquatic contaminants in that body burden of contaminants in leeches were significantly lower a year
after cleanup. 相似文献
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Typical household vacuum cleaners: the collection efficiency and emissions characteristics for fine particles 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Lioy PJ Wainman T Zhang J Goldsmith S 《Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association (1995)》1999,49(2):200-206
The issue of fine particle (PM2.5) exposures and their potential health effects is a focus of scientific research because of the recently promulgated National Ambient Air Quality Standard for PM2.5. Before final implementation, the health and exposure basis for the standard will be reviewed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency within the next five years. As part of this process, it is necessary to understand total particle exposure issues and to determine the relative importance of the origin of PM2.5 exposure in various micro-environments. The results presented in this study examine emissions of fine particles from a previously uncharacterized indoor source: the residential vacuum cleaner. Eleven standard vacuum cleaners were tested for the emission rate of fine particles by their individual motors and for their efficiency in collecting laboratory-generated fine particles. An aerosol generator was used to introduce fine potassium chloride (KCl) particles into the vacuum cleaner inlet for the collection efficiency tests. Measurements of the motor emissions, which include carbon, and the KCl aerosol were made using a continuous HIAC/Royco 5130 A light-scattering particle detector. All tests were conducted in a metal chamber specifically designed to completely contain the vacuum cleaner and operate it in a stationary position. For the tested vacuum cleaners, fine particle motor emissions ranged from 9.6 x 10(4) to 3.34 x 10(8) particles/min, which were estimated to be 0.028 to 176 micrograms/min for mass emissions, respectively. The vast majority of particles released were in the range of 0.3-0.5 micron in diameter. The lowest particle emission rate was obtained for a vacuum cleaner that had a high efficiency (HEPA) filter placed after the vacuum cleaner bag and the motor within a sealed exhaust system. This vacuum cleaner removed the KCl particles that escaped the vacuum cleaner bag and the particles emitted by the motor. Results obtained for the KCl collection efficiency tests show > 99% of the fine particles were captured by the two vacuum cleaners that used a HEPA filter. A series of tests conducted on two vacuum cleaners found that the motors also emitted ultra-fine particles above 0.01 micron in diameter at rates of greater than 10(8) ultra-fine particles/CF of air. The model that had the best collection efficiency for fine particles also reduced the ultra-fine particle emissions by a factor of 1 x 10(3). 相似文献
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Tsuji LJ Wainman BC Martin ID Weber JP Sutherland C Elliott JR Nieboer E 《Journal of environmental monitoring : JEM》2005,7(9):888-898
Abandoned radar line stations in the North American arctic and sub-arctic regions are point sources of contamination, especially for PCBs. Few data exist with respect to human body burden of organochlorines (OCs) in residents of communities located in close proximity to these radar line sites. We compared plasma OC concentration (unadjusted for total lipids) frequency distribution data using log-linear contingency modelling for Fort Albany First Nation, the site of an abandoned Mid-Canada Radar Line station, and two comparison populations (the neighbouring community of Kashechewan First Nation without such a radar installation, and Hamilton, a city in southern Ontario, Canada). This type of analysis is important as it allows for an initial investigation of contaminant data without imputing any values. The two-state log-linear model (employing both non-detectable and detectable concentration frequencies and applicable to PCB congeners 28 and 105 and cis-nonachlor) and the four-state log-linear model (using quartile concentration frequencies for Aroclor 1260, PCB congeners [99,118,138,153,156,170,180,183,187], beta-HCH, p,p'-DDT +p,p'-DDE, HCB, mirex, oxychlordane, and trans-nonachlor) revealed that the effects of subject gender were inconsequential. Significant differences (p < 0.05) between the groups examined were attributable to the effect of location on the frequency of detection of OCs or on their differential distribution among the concentration quartiles. In general, people from Hamilton had higher frequencies of non-detections and of concentrations in the first quartile (p < 0.05) for most OCs compared to people from Fort Albany and Kashechewan (who consume a traditional diet of wild meats that does not include marine mammals). An unexpected finding was that, for Kashechewan males, the frequency of many OCs was significantly higher (p < 0.05) in the 4th concentration quartile than that predicted by the four-state log-linear model, but significantly lower than expected in the 1st quartile for beta-HCH. The levels of PCBs found for women in Fort Albany and Kashechewan were greater than those reported for Dene (First Nation people) and Métis (mixed heritage) of the western Northwest Territories (NWT) who did not consume marine mammals, and for Inuit living in the central NWT (occasional consumers of marine mammals). Moreover, the levels of total p,p'-DDT were greater for Fort Albany and Kashechewan women compared to these same aboriginal groups. 相似文献
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Tsuji LJ Manson H Wainman BC Vanspronsen EP Shecapio-Blacksmith J Rabbitskin T 《Environmental monitoring and assessment》2007,127(1-3):293-306
Great concern has been raised with respect to the 13 traplines that constitute the traditional territory of the Ouje-Bougoumou
Cree located in the James Bay region of northern Quebec, Canada, with respect to mine wastes originating from three local
mines. As a result, an “Integrative Risk Assessment” was initiated consisting of three interrelated components: a comprehensive
human health study, an assessment of the existing ecological/environmental database, and a land use/potential sites of concern
study. In this paper, we document past and present land use in the traditional territory of the Ouje-Bougoumou Cree for 72
heads of households, including 13 tallymen, and use a Geographic Information System (GIS) to layer harvest/hunting and gathering/collecting
data over known mining areas and potential sites of concern. In this way, potential receptors of contamination and routes
of human exposure were identified. Areas of overlap with respect to land use activity and mining operations were relatively
extensive for certain harvesting activities (e.g., beaver, Castor canadensis and various species of game birds), less so for fish harvesting (all species) and water collection, and relatively restrictive
for large mammal harvesting and collection of firewood (and other collection activities). Potential receptors of contaminants
associated with mining activity (e.g., fish and small mammals) and potential routes of exposure (e.g., ingestion of contaminated
game and drinking of contaminated water) were identified. 相似文献
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