Browsing by Author "Anenberg, Susan"

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    New Approaches to Identifying and Reducing the Global Burden of Disease From Pollution
    (Wiley, 2020-03-25) Filippelli, Gabriel; Anenberg, Susan; Taylor, Mark; van Green, Alexander; Khreis, Haneen; Earth Sciences, School of Science
    Pollution from multiple sources causes significant disease and death worldwide. Some sources are legacy, such as heavy metals accumulated in soils, and some are current, such as particulate matter. Because the global burden of disease from pollution is so high, it is important to identify legacy and current sources and to develop and implement effective techniques to reduce human exposure. But many limitations exist in our understanding of the distribution and transport processes of pollutants themselves, as well as the complicated overprint of human behavior and susceptibility. New approaches are being developed to identify and eliminate pollution in multiple environments. Community-scale detection of geogenic arsenic and fluoride in Bangladesh is helping to map the distribution of these harmful elements in drinking water. Biosensors such as bees and their honey are being used to measure heavy metal contamination in cities such as Vancouver and Sydney. Drone-based remote sensors are being used to map metal hot spots in soils from former mining regions in Zambia and Mozambique. The explosion of low-cost air monitors has allowed researchers to build dense air quality sensing networks to capture ephemeral and local releases of harmful materials, building on other developments in personal exposure sensing. And citizen science is helping communities without adequate resources measure their own environments and in this way gain agency in controlling local pollution exposure sources and/or alerting authorities to environmental hazards. The future of GeoHealth will depend on building on these developments and others to protect a growing population from multiple pollution exposure risks.
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    Thank You to Our 2020 Peer Reviewers
    (Wiley, 2020-03) Filippelli, Gabriel; Colwell, Rita R.; Anenberg, Susan; Balbus, John; Ceccarelli, Daniela; Hudson‐Edwards, Karen A.; Jutla, Antarpreet; Miao, Chiyuan; Sandifer, Paul A.; Vengosh, Avner; Earth Sciences, School of Science
    Peer review is at the heart of the scientific endeavor, ensuring that high‐quality discoveries are communicated in effective and impactful ways. As a voluntary and mostly anonymous effort, peer review is often poorly recognized. But it is so valuable to journal Editors, and we are often so impressed by the incredibly detailed, constructive, and informative reviews that we get back from reviewers. In 2019, GeoHealth benefited from more than 94 reviews provided by 73 of our peers for papers submitted to the journal. Thank you all for being such an important part of the scientific process, advancing the communication of discoveries at the intersections of the environmental and health sciences to improve society.
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    Thank You to Our 2021 Peer Reviewers
    (Wiley, 2022) Filippelli, Gabriel; Colwell, Rita; Anenberg, Susan; Balbus, John; Ceccarelli, Daniela; Hudson-Edwards, Karen; Jutla, Antarpreet; Miao, Chiyuan; Sandifer, Paul; Vengosh, Avner; Earth Sciences, School of Science
    *The editors thank the 2021 peer reviewers. *In 2021, GeoHealth benefited from 365 reviews provided by 241 of our peers. *A number of individuals submitted multiple reviews for GeoHealth in 2021.
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    Thank You to Our 2022 Peer Reviewers
    (Wiley, 2023-05-21) Filippelli, Gabriel; Colwell, Rita R.; Anenberg, Susan; Ceccarelli, Daniela; Franklin, Meredith; Dey, Sagnik; Hudson-Edwards, Karen A.; Jutla, Antarpreet; Miao, Chiyuan; Paytan, Adina; Vengosh, Avner; Earth and Environmental Sciences, School of Science
    Peer review is at the heart of the scientific endeavor, ensuring that high‐quality discoveries are communicated in effective and impactful ways. As a voluntary and mostly anonymous effort, peer review is often poorly recognized. But it is so valuable to journal Editors, and we are often so impressed by the incredibly detailed, constructive, and informative reviews that we get back from reviewers. In 2022, GeoHealth benefited from 333 reviews provided by 245 of our peers for papers submitted to the journal. Thank you all for being such an important part of the scientific process, advancing the communication of discoveries at the intersections of the environmental and health sciences to improve society. Thank you to the 245 reviewers who submitted 333 reviews in the journal last year. Individuals in italics provided two or more reviews for GeoHealth during the year.