Superfund Research Program

Madeleine Kangsen Scammell

Boston University
Department of Environmental Health
715 Albany St., Talbot 4W
Boston, Massachusetts 02118
Phone: 617-638-4454
Fax: 617-638-4857
Email: mls@bu.edu

Projects

• Boston University: Administrative Core (1995-2021)
• Boston University: Community Engagement Core (2005-2021)
• Boston University: Research Translation Core (2005-2021)

Hazardous Waste Sites

50 Tufts Street

• Boston University: Community Engagement Core
• Boston University: Research Translation Core

Coal Tar Processing Facility (former)

• Boston University: Research Translation Core

New Bedford Harbor

• Boston University: Community Engagement Core

Town of Eastham Landfill

• Boston University: Research Translation Core

Publications

2020

• Heiger-Bernays WJ, Tomsho KS, Basra K, Petropoulos ZE, Crawford KA, Martinez A, Hornbuckle KC, Scammell MK. 2020. Human health risks due to airborne polychlorinated biphenyls are highest in New Bedford Harbor communities living closest to the harbor. Sci Total Environ 710:doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.135576 PMID:31785914 PMCID:PMC7015809

2018

• Basra K, Fabian MP, Scammell MK. 2018. Consumption of contaminated seafood in an environmental justice community: A qualitative and spatial analysis of fishing controls. Environ Justice 11(1):doi:10.1089/env.2017.0010 PMID:30828408 PMCID:PMC5830855 (ahead of print)
• Basra K, Scammell MK, Benson EB, Heiger-Bernays WJ. 2018. Ambient air exposure to PCBs: Regulation and monitoring at five contaminated sites in EPA Regions 1, 2, 4, and 5. New Solut 28(2):262-282. doi:10.1177/1048291118763620 PMID:29558851
• Tomsho KS, Basra K, Rubin SM, Miller CB, Juang R, Broude S, Martinez A, Hornbuckle KC, Heiger-Bernays WJ, Scammell MK. 2018. Community reporting of ambient air polychlorinated biphenyl concentrations near a Superfund site. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int 25(17):16389-16400. doi:10.1007/s11356-017-0286-6 PMID:29079973 PMCID:PMC6015112

2017

• Levy JI, Scammell MK, Heiger-Bernays WJ. 2017. Measuring the health of the climate by how sick we aren't. (non-peer reviewed)
• Martinez A, Hadnott BN, Awad AM, Herkert N, Tomsho KS, Basra K, Scammell MK, Heiger-Bernays WJ, Hornbuckle KC. 2017. Release of airborne polychlorinated biphenyls from New Bedford Harbor results in elevated concentrations in the surrounding air. Environ Sci Technol Lett 4(4):127-131. doi:10.1021/acs.estlett.7b00047 PMID:28413805 PMCID:PMC5390305

2016

• Butler L, Scammell MK, Benson EB. 2016. The Flint, Michigan water crisis: a case study in regulatory failure and environmental injustice. Environ Justice 9:93-97. doi:10.1089/env.2016.0014
• Osterberg D, Scammell MK. 2016. PCBs in schools--where communities and science come together. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int 23(3):1998-2002. doi:10.1007/s11356-015-5009-2 PMID:26194237 PMCID:PMC4770789
• Pennell KG, Scammell MK, McClean MD, Suuberg EM, Moradi A, Moradi A, Roghani M, Ames J, Friguglietti L, Indeglia PA, Shen R, Yao Y, Heiger-Bernays WJ. 2016. Field data and numerical modeling: a multiple lines of evidence approach for assessing vapor intrusion exposure risks. Sci Total Environ 556:291-301. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.02.185 PMID:26977535 PMCID:PMC4844003

2015

• Zachek C, Rubin SM, Scammell MK. 2015. Whatever works: Legal tactics and scientific evidence in environmental justice cases. Environ Justice 8:20-25. doi:10.1089/env.2014.0024

2013

• Pennell KG, Scammell MK, McClean MD, Ames J, Weldon B, Friguglietti L, Suuberg EM, Shen R, Indeglia PA, Heiger-Bernays WJ. 2013. Sewer gas: An indoor air source of PCE to consider during vapor intrusion investigations. Ground Water Monit Remediat 33(3):119-126. PMID:23950637 PMCID:PMC3740581

2010

• Scammell MK. 2010. Qualitative environmental health research: an analysis of the literature, 1991-2008. Environ Health Perspect 118:1146-1154. doi:10.1289/ehp.0901762 PMID:20421191 PMCID:PMC2920087

2009

• Scammell MK, Senier L, Darrah-Okike J, Brown P, Santos A. 2009. Tangible evidence, trust and power: public perceptions of community environmental health studies. Soc Sci Med 68(1):143-153. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2008.10.002 PMID:18995942 PMCID:PMC2657232

2008

• Nelson J, Scammell MK, Webster TF, Ozonoff DM, Altman RG. 2008. A new spin on research translation: The Boston Consensus Conference on Human Biomonitoring. Environ Health Perspect 117:495-499. doi:10.1289/ehp.0800037 PMID:19440485 PMCID:PMC2679590

2005

• Scammell MK. 2005. Roots of community research: primer on the legacy of participatory research partnerships. Race, Poverty & The Environment XINo.2:

2004

• Suk WA, Avakian MD, Carpenter DO, Groopman JD, Scammell MK, Wild CP. 2004. Human exposure monitoring and evaluation in the arctic: the importance of understanding exposures to the development of public health policy. Environ Health Perspect 112(2):113-120. PMID:14757538