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Recognizing Environmental Science & Technology’s Contributors: Top Papers 2012
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Second Runner-Up. Public Health Impacts of Combustion Emissions in the United Kingdom Steve H. L. Yim and Steven R. H. Barrett Environmental Science & Technology 2012, 46 (8), 4291− 4296 (see article)
ur authors are pivotal. We ask them to submit manuscripts that not only meet high scientific standards, but are carefully drafted and redrafted until the message is delivered just right. Through rejection and resubmission they persevere. It is therefore fitting to recognize ES&T’s exceptional papers from 2012. Beginning in December editors nominate papers and our editorial advisory board carefully combs through the nominees. Our winners were highlighted in issue 7 this year, and below is the complete list of winners and runners up. Runner-up papers in each category are worthy of praise. They were chosen from nearly 1600 manuscripts published in 2012. These articles are the top 1% of our content. For 2013 we introduce a new reader’s choice category to ES&T’s awards. When you read exceptional Science, Technology, Policy or Feature articles in ES&T you can tweet your nominations to @EnvSciTech with #ReadersChoice throughout the year. Emails to
[email protected] will also be catalogued (please title: “readers choice nomination”). We will collect these and announce the selections early next year.
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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE Top Paper. Exposure Assessment for Estimation of the Global Burden of Disease Attributable to Outdoor Air Pollution Michael Brauer, Markus Amann, Rick T. Burnett, Aaron Cohen, Frank Dentener, Majid Ezzati, Sarah B. Henderson, Michal Krzyzanowski, Randall V. Martin, Rita Van Dingenen, Aaron van Donkelaar, and George D. Thurston Environmental Science & Technology 2012, 46 (2), 652−660 (see article) First Runner-Up (Tie). Photochemical Formation of Polybrominated Dibenzo-p-dioxins from Environmentally Abundant Hydroxylated Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers Kristina Arnoldsson, Patrik L. Andersson, and Peter Haglund Environmental Science & Technology 2012, 46 (14), 7567− 7574 (see article) First Runner-Up (Tie). Photochemical Formation of Brominated Dioxins and Other Products of Concern from Hydroxylated Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers (OH-PBDEs) Paul R. Erickson, Matthew Grandbois, William A. Arnold, and Kristopher McNeill Environmental Science & Technology 2012, 46 (15), 8174− 8180 (see article) Second Runner-Up. Predicting Water Quality Criteria for Protecting Aquatic Life from Physicochemical Properties of Metals or Metalloids Fengchang Wu, Yunsong Mu, Hong Chang, Xiaoli Zhao, John P. Giesy, and K. Benjamin Wu Environmental Science & Technology 2013, 47 (1), 446−453 (see article) Third Runner-Up. Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis of Naphthenic Acids in Natural Waters Surrounding the Canadian Oil Sands Industry Matthew S. Ross, Alberto dos Santos Pereira, Jon Fennell, Martin Davies, James Johnson, Lucie Sliva, and Jonathan W. Martin Environmental Science & Technology 2012, 46 (23), 12796− 12805 (see article)
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FEATURE Top Paper. Transformations of Nanomaterials in the Environment Gregory V. Lowry, Kelvin B. Gregory, Simon C. Apte, and Jamie R. Lead Environmental Science & Technology 2012, 46 (13), 6893− 6899 (see article) First Runner-Up. Ecological and Evolutionary Functional GenomicsHow Can It Contribute to the Risk Assessment of Chemicals? Nico M. van Straalen and Martin E. Feder Environmental Science & Technology 2012, 46 (1), 3−9 (see article) Second Runner-Up. Sea-Surface Chemistry and Its Impact on the Marine Boundary Layer D. J. Donaldson and Christian George Environmental Science & Technology 2012, 46 (19), 10385− 10389 (see article)
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ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY Top Paper. Using Land To Mitigate Climate Change: Hitting the Target, Recognizing the Trade-offs John Reilly, Jerry Melillo, Yongxia Cai, David Kicklighter, Angelo Gurgel, Sergey Paltsev, Timothy Cronin, Andrei Sokolov, and Adam Schlosser Environmental Science & Technology 2012, 46 (11), 5672− 5679 (see article) First Runner-Up. Fuel Miles and the Blend Wall: Costs and Emissions from Ethanol Distribution in the United States Bret Strogen, Arpad Horvath, and Thomas E. McKone Environmental Science & Technology 2012, 46 (10), 5285− 5293 (see article) © 2013 American Chemical Society
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Top Paper. Detection, Characterization, and Abundance of Engineered Nanoparticles in Complex Waters by Hyperspectral Imagery with Enhanced Darkfield Microscopy Appala Raju Badireddy, Mark R. Wiesner, and Jie Liu Published: April 29, 2013 4961
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Environmental Science & Technology 2012, 46 (18), 10081− 10088 (see article) First Runner-Up. Monitoring of a Simulated CO2 Leakage in a Shallow Aquifer Using Stable Carbon Isotopes Alexandra Schulz, Carsten Vogt, Hendrik Lamert, Anita Peter, Ben Heinrich, Andreas Dahmke, and Hans-Hermann Richnow Environmental Science & Technology 2012, 46 (20), 11243− 11250 (see article) Second Runner-Up. Water Footprint of European Cars: Potential Impacts of Water Consumption along Automobile Life Cycles Markus Berger, Jens Warsen, Stephan Krinke, Vanessa Bach, and Matthias Finkbeiner Environmental Science & Technology 2012, 46 (7), 4091− 4099 (see article) Third Runner-Up. High Performance Thin-Film Composite Forward Osmosis Hollow Fiber Membranes with Macrovoid-Free and Highly Porous Structure for Sustainable Water Production Panu Sukitpaneenit and Tai-Shung Chung Environmental Science & Technology 2012, 46 (13), 7358− 7365 (see article)
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