BIOPROCESSING -- Synthesis of Poly(L(+) Lactic Acid) by Polycondensation Method in Solution -- The Feasibility of Using Cattails from Constructed Wetlands to Produce Bioethanol -- Significance of Bile Salt Tolerant Lactobacillus reuteri -- The Effect of Insulin from Jerusalem Artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus) Extract on Growth and Viability of Lactobacillus salivarius in Fermented Milk -- Lactic Acid Production from Apple Skin Waste by Immobilized Cells of Lactobacillus reuteri -- BIOREMEDIATION -- Cu and Zn Uptake Inhibition by PAHs as Primary Toxicity in Plants -- Metagenomic Environmental Assessment of Aquatic Ecosystems -- ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND ETHICS -- Water Quality in an Environmental Justice Community in Durham, NC -- The Impact of Social Capital on Environmental Risk Reduction in Moncure -- Air Quality Issues for an Aging Population -- Environmental Pollution, Race and Place: Research and Policy Implications -- Financial Reporting of Environmental Risks and Liabilities -- Oak Biodiesel: State Building and Fire Codes Affecting Biodiesel Manufacturing -- The Ecological Effects of Salt Water Intrusion on the Agriculture Industry After Hurricane Katrina -- Municipal Wastewater Concentrations of Pharmaceutical and Xeno-Estrogens: Wildlife and Human Health Implications -- Challenges in the Devolution of Environmental Health Service Delivery in South Africa -- A Review of Health and Hygiene Promotion as Part of Sanitation Delivery Programmes to Informal Settlements in the City of Cape Town (South Africa) -- Pollution, Environmental Justice, and the North Carolina Pork Industry -- Reducing Community Exposure to Toxics: A Critical Component in Building Healthy and Sustainable Communities -- Environmental Ethics of Health Mission To Enugu Nigeria -- FATE AND TRANSPORT OF CONTAMINANTS -- Use of Kalman Filter and Particle Filter in a One Dimensional Leachate Transport Model -- Organic Pollutant Transport in Groundwater Using Particle Filter -- Modeling the Sorption Behavior of Aromatic Amine Onto Sediment Under Acidic Conditions -- Radioactive Contaminanant Transport in Subsurface Porous Environment -- Transport and Degradation of a Trichloroethylene Plume Within a Stream Hyporheic Zone -- GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE -- Using a Spoken Diary and Heart Rate Monitor in Modeling Human Exposure to Airborne Pollutants for EPA'S Consolidated Human Activity Database -- Proposal for Focus Shift in Addressing Climate Change and Environmental Assesment -- Sensor Webs in Digital Earth: Monitoring Climate Change Impacts -- Thermal Characterization of Biodegradable Poly (Lactic Acid)/Clay Nanocomposites -- Tools for Carbon Management: Potential Carbon Footprint Reduction Through Fuel Switching -- Coral Disease and Global Climate Change -- Climate Change, Drought, and Wetland Vegetation -- Dynamics of Soil Organic Nitrogen and its Functions in Soil Carbon Stabilization Processes -- Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Potential of Corn Ethanol: Accounting for Corn Acreage Expansion -- Comparative Effects of Sea Level Rise Versus Hurricane Event on Coastal Erosion -- Global Warming in Asheville, North Carolina -- INNOVATIVE ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY AND SENSORS -- Tuckaseegee Watershed Observatory: A Collaborative Environmental Research Tool -- Encapsulation of Potassium Permanganate Oxidant in Polymers -- C. Elegans Chemotaxis and Reproduction Following Environmental Exposure -- Storing Weather Data and Dissemination Via the Web -- Rapid and Simple Method for the Encapsulation of Lactobacillus reuteri in the Production of Lactic Acid -- POLLUTION PREVENTION/SOLVENTS AND PROCESSES -- Analysis of Partition Coefficients and Ternary Liquid-Liquid Equilibrium Data for Highly Non-Ideal Systems -- Application of Chitosan in Remediation of Dyes -- An Apparatus for Density and VLE Measurements for Gas-Liquid Systems -- MSE Walls in Solid Waste Applications -- Study of the Molecular Weight Dependence of Glass Transition Temperature for Amorphous Poly(L-Lactide) by Molecular Dynamics Simulation -- Channel Catfish Estrogenicity and Sewer Overflows; Implications for Xenoestrogen Exposure -- Sorption and Desorption of Nitrogen and Phosphorus by Zeolite and Shale.