Source: OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY submitted to NRP
AN ASSESSMENT FRAMEWORK TO EVALUATE RESTORATION OF ECOSYSTEM: SERVICES AND RESILIENCE OF DEGRADED SOILS
Sponsoring Institution
National Institute of Food and Agriculture
Project Status
COMPLETE
Funding Source
HATCH
Reporting Frequency
Annual
Accession No.
1003934
Grant No.
(N/A)
Cumulative Award Amt.
(N/A)
Proposal No.
(N/A)
Multistate No.
(N/A)
Project Start Date
Oct 16, 2014
Project End Date
Sep 30, 2019
Grant Year
(N/A)
Program Code
[(N/A)]- (N/A)
Recipient Organization
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
1680 MADISON AVENUE
WOOSTER,OH 44691
Performing Department
School of Natural Resources
Non Technical Summary
Healthy soils of high quality are the foundation of ecosystem support. These services include food, fresh water, biofuel, nutrient cycling and waste processing, climate regulation, and cultural, spiritual and recreational benefits. As human populations grow, so do the resource demands imposed on soil ecosystems. Restoration of degraded urban soils is essential to provide services ranging from local food and global climate change to protection and enhancement of human health, and meet the demands of the 21st century. Many of our soils are degraded due to (1) lost topsoil (2) contamination, and (3) soil conditions that will not support plant or microbial life including excessive salt and pH. Organic soil amendments (i.e., biosolids, anaerobic digester waste, compost) are an effective soil amendment to restore degraded land and sequester contaminants in soil thereby reducing/eliminating their risk to human and ecological health. In short, organic amendments greatly improve soil quality. An important task of restoration of degraded urban land is accurate assessment of improved soil quality and its effect on human health and ecosystem function before and after restoration. The goal of our proposed research is to develop an assessment framework to evaluate restoration of ecosystem services.
Animal Health Component
50%
Research Effort Categories
Basic
25%
Applied
50%
Developmental
25%
Classification

Knowledge Area (KA)Subject of Investigation (SOI)Field of Science (FOS)Percent
1010110310025%
1020110200025%
1020110201025%
1020110106025%
Knowledge Area
102 - Soil, Plant, Water, Nutrient Relationships; 101 - Appraisal of Soil Resources;

Subject Of Investigation
0110 - Soil;

Field Of Science
2010 - Physics; 1060 - Biology (whole systems); 2000 - Chemistry; 3100 - Management;
Goals / Objectives
Healthy soils of high quality are the foundation of ecosystem support. Soil, the living thin skin or Earth, provides services essential for proper functioning of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. These services include food, fresh water, biofuel, nutrient cycling and waste processing, climate regulation, and cultural, spiritual and recreational benefits. As human populations grow, so do the resource demands imposed on soil ecosystems. Restoration of degraded urban soils is essential to provide services ranging from local food and global climate change to protection and enhancement of human health, and meet the demands of the 21st century. Many of our soils are degraded due to (1) lost topsoil (2) contamination, and (3) soil conditions that will not support plant or microbial life including excessive salt and pH. Several research and demonstration studies have shown that organic soil amendments (i.e., biosolids, anaerobic digester waste, compost) are an effective soil amendment to restore degraded land and sequester contaminants in soil thereby reducing/eliminating their risk to human and ecological health. In short, organic amendments greatly improve soil quality. An important task of restoration of degraded urban land is accurate assessment of improved soil quality and its effect on human health and ecosystem function before and after restoration. The project objectives are (1) Develop an assessment framework that can measure the efficacy of soil measurements and treatments to restore ecosystem functions and resilience in degraded soils, (2) Identify soil management practices, including soil amendments, that restore ecosystem function and resilience, and (3) Understand biogeochemical processes that are critical for proper ecosystem functioning in restored and/or remediated degraded soil.
Project Methods
Research within this proposal will be conducted to determine soil physical, chemical, and microbiological measures that quantify soil ecosystem services. Soil measurements and processes important to resilience of degraded and restored soils will also be quantified. Several locations with degraded soils will be studied over the 5 year project including (1) urban contaminated soils (i.e., brownfields, residential properties), industrial sites, Department of Defense military sites, USEPA Superfund / National Priority sites, degraded farmland (i.e. Waterman Farm), and unconventional gas exploration (i.e. shale fracking) sites. Comprehensive soil and plant analyses from each location will be performed. The baseline soil and plant quality assessment will provide information about nutrient cycling and nutrient needs for optimal plant growth. Human and ecological receptor methods will be used to assess trace element contaminant bioavailability. Methods will include plant bioassay, earthworm bioassays, and soil microbial measurements. Soil resilience will be assessed by observing changes in soil quality measurements over time and space subsequent to disturbance and restorative management practices. The project investigators will identify soil tests of greatest importance to evaluate ecosystem services. They will cross-correlate information between results from several field studies of different types of degraded soil and restoration practices. An assessment framework will allow transfer of information from our studies into practice. At the simplest level, we will identify which soil measures are most likely to result in a significant improvement in ecosystem services and resilience in degraded soils.

Progress 10/16/14 to 09/30/19

Outputs
Target Audience:Regulatory agencies (city, state, federal); regional biosolids stakeholder organizations; public interested in urban soils; scientific community Changes/Problems: Nothing Reported What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?training of graduate students How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Yes. at two high impact events. Basta, Nicholas T. 2018. Chemistry, Bioavailability, Fate and Transport of Heavy Metals in Field Soils. Conference on Connections between Soil Health and Human Health. Silver Spring, MD. Oct. 16-17, 2018. Basta, N.T. 2019. Cleaning up lead and other dirty issues in soil for community health on a budget. Soil Science Society of America 2019 Congressional Soil Caucus Briefings, Longworth House Office Building, Washington, DC, June 14, 2019. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals? Nothing Reported

Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals? Human activities including mining, leaded gasoline combustion and use of lead-based paint have introduced lead (Pb) into the environment. Exposure to Pb when contaminated soil is ingested with food poses a risk to wildlife especially birds which ingest soil. Ecological risk assessment (ERA) is used by the United States Environmental Protection Agency's (USEPA) Superfund program and in other land cleanup programs to identify polluted soils and determine whether soil remediation is needed. We developed an Avian Ohio State University (AOSU) laboratory method that allows accurate assessment of risk to birds from ingestion of soil Pb. The laboratory method uses a simulated gastrointestinal tract of birds to determine if Pb in contaminated soil is dissolved in the stomach acid and can be absorbed into the bird's blood through its intestine. The AOSU method was able to predict blood Pb in Japanese quail. The AOSU is an inexpensive (<$100/soil) method that will allow USEPA and other regulatory agencies to determine if cleanup of Pb contaminated soil is necessary.

Publications

  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2018 Citation: Wade, J., S. W. Culman, S. Sharma, M. Mann, M. S. Demyan, K. L. Mercer, and N. T. Basta. 2019. How Does Phosphorus Restriction Impact Soil Health Parameters in Midwestern CornSoybean Systems?. Agron. J. doi:10.2134/agronj2018.11.0739
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2018 Citation: Basta, N.T. Basta, S. W. Whitacre, V. Hanley, B.N. Stevens, K. Scheckel, and A. Betts. 2018. Predicting Arsenic Bioavailability in Contaminated Soils by Using in Vitro Gastrointestinal Bioaccessibility and Speciation. Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry North America 39th Annual Meeting, Sacramento, CA, Nov 4-8, 2018.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2018 Citation: Hanley, V., S. Whitacre, C. Sorrentino, and N.T. Basta. 2018. California Arsenic Bioaccessibility Method: Recommended Method for bench-Top Prediction of Relative Bioavailability in Contaminated Soils, Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry North America 39th Annual Meeting, Sacramento, CA, Nov 4-8, 2018.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2019 Citation: Basta, N.T., W. N. Beyer, A.M. Zearley, G.M. Davies, M.S. Gonzalez-Serrano, and R.L. Chaney. 2019. Predicting bioavailability to Japanese Quail in Pb contaminated soils by using in vitro gastrointestinal bioaccessibility to adjust ecological exposure. International Conference on the Biogeochemistry of Trace Elements, Nanjing, China May 5-9, 2019.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2019 Citation: Basta N.T., B.N. Stevens, S.W. Whitacrea, V. M. Hanley, A. R. Betts and K. G. Scheckel. 2019. Predicting Arsenic Bioavailability in Contaminated Soils by Using in Vitro Gastrointestinal Bioaccessibility and Speciation. International Conference on the Biogeochemistry of Trace Elements, Nanjing, China May 5-9, 2019.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2019 Citation: Whitacre, Shane, N.T. Basta, B.N. Stevens, V. M. Hanley, R.H. Anderson and K.G. Scheckel. 2019. Modification of an existing in vitro method to predict relative bioavailable arsenic in soils. International Conference on the Biogeochemistry of Trace Elements, Nanjing, China May 5-9, 2019.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2019 Citation: Basta, N.T. 2019. Cleaning up lead and other dirty issues in soil for community health on a budget. Soil Science Society of America 2019 Congressional Soil Caucus Briefings, Longworth House Office Building, Washington, DC, June 14, 2019.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2019 Citation: David, J., Weissmannov�, H. D., Steinmetz, Z., Kabel�kov�, L., Demyan, M. S., `ime?kov�, J., . . . Ku?er�k, J. (2019). Introducing a soil universal model method (SUMM) and its application for qualitative and quantitative determination of poly(ethylene), poly(styrene), poly(vinyl chloride) and poly(ethylene terephthalate) microplastics in a model soil. Chemosphere, 225, 810-819. doi:10.1016/j.chemosphere.2019.03.078
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2018 Citation: Proceedings Basta, Nicholas T. 2018. Chemistry, Bioavailability, Fate and Transport of Heavy Metals in Field Soils. Conference on Connections between Soil Health and Human Health. Silver Spring, MD. Oct. 16-17, 2018.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2018 Citation: Foster, Andrea L., Alpers, Charles N., Regnier, Tamsen, Blum, Alex E., Petersen, Erich U., Basta, Nicholas T., Whitacre, Shane D., Casteel, S.W., Kim, Christopher S. and Amy Brown. 2018 LINKING MINERALOGY TO GASTROINTESTINAL BIOAVAILABILITY AND BIOACCESSIBILTY OF ARSENIC AT THE EMPIRE MINE STATE PARK, CA, USA.Geological Survey of America Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, IN. Nov 4-7, 2018.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2018 Citation: Tokarski, D., Ku?er�k, J., Kalbitz, K., Demyan, M. S., Merbach, I., Barkusky, D., . . . Siewert, C. (2018). Contribution of organic amendments to soil organic matter detected by thermogravimetry. Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, 181(5), 664-674. doi:10.1002/jpln.201700537
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2019 Citation: Demyan, M.S. & Smeck, N. 2019. How does spatial variability change over 25 years in a reclaimed strip mine? SSSA International Soils Meeting. January 6th-9th, 2019. San Diego. Oral presentation.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2019 Citation: Demyan, M.S., �gren, G, Fukuin, Y, Schulz, E, K�tterer, T., Bosatta, E., M�ller, T. & Cadisch, G. 2019. The continuous quality (q) theory of soil organic matter; can we predict q? SSSA International Soils Meeting. January 6th-9th, 2019. San Diego. Oral presentation.


Progress 10/01/17 to 09/30/18

Outputs
Target Audience:Regulatory agencies (federal and state); public interested in urban agriculture; scientific organizations Changes/Problems: Nothing Reported What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?Training of graduate students including graduate fellows How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Yes. A few to highlight To the urban agroculture public. Basta, Nicholas T. 2018. Urban Soils and Metal Contaminants: Assessment and Solutions. In Building Sustainable Urban Communities from the Ground Up. Pennsylvania State University College of Agricultural Sciences. June 7, 2018. to the national regulatory community. The first regulatory framework (on line) to provide trianing and education to state regulators and enivornmental risk assessors. Bioavailability is a key part of a soil health framework for contaminants Interstate Technology and Regulatory Council (ITRC). 2017. Bioavailability of in contaminants in soil: Considerations for Human Health Risk Assessment. BCS-1. Washington, D.C. Interstate Technology and Regulatory Council, Bioavailability in Contaminated Soil Team. http://bcs-1.itrcweb.org to the scientific community, 3 presentations on incorporating bioavailability in a soil health framework at the 19th International Conference on Heavy Metals in the Environment held in Athens, Georgia on July 21-25, 2018. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?Development of a framework for contaminant assessment in a soil health framework.

Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals? Progress was made under objectives 1 Objective 1, Development and identification of new lan methods to be used to access contaminant bioavailability in soils. Research idetermined several laboratory methods can be used to measure metal contaminant bioavailability in soils associated with human exposure by soil and dust ingestion. They are (i) a modified U.S. EPA Method 1340, (ii) Unified bioaccessibility method, (iii) OSU IVG method, (iv) the California bioaccessibility method. These four methods should be part of an assessment framework to evaluate soils restored to address heavy metal contamination especially in urban soils which has historicalPb contamination from paint and leaded gas and/or arsenic contamination from historical use of pesticides (i.e., insecticides and weed killers)

Publications

  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2018 Citation: Brooke N. Stevens, Aaron R. Betts, Bradley W. Miller, Kirk G. Scheckel, Richard H. Anderson, Karen D. Bradham, Stan W. Casteel, David J. Thomas, and Nicholas T. Basta. 2018. Arsenic Speciation of Contaminated Soils/Solid Wastes and Relative Oral Bioavailability in Swine and Mice. Soil Syst. 2:1-13.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2017 Citation: Basta, Nicholas T., Kristen Kathleen Theibert, John Obrycki, Kirk G Scheckel. 2017. Testing and Interpreting Soil Pb Concentration and Bioavailability. Soil Science Society of America International Annual Meeting, Tampa, FL. Oct. 22-25, 2017.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2018 Citation: Basta, Nicholas T. 2018. Urban Soils and Metal Contaminants: Assessment and Solutions. In Building Sustainable Urban Communities from the Ground Up. Pennsylvania State University College of Agricultural Sciences. June 7, 2018
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2018 Citation: Zearley, Alyssa M., Nicholas T. Basta, G. Matthew Davies, Milton S. Gonz�lez-Serrano, Rufus L. Chaney, and W. Nelson Beyer. 2018. Incorporating Diet into In Vitro Methods to Improve Prediction of Lead Bioaccessibility in Wildlife Impacts. 19th International Conference on Heavy Metals in the Environment, Athens, Georgia July 21-25, 2018.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2018 Citation: Nicholas Basta, Shane Whitacre, James M. Barthel, Trevor Schwab. 2018. Boaccessibility and Extractability of Ecobond� LBP Lead Defender� Treated Lead Based Paint 19th International Conference on Heavy Metals in the Environment, Athens, Georgia July 21-25, 2018.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2018 Citation: Basta, Nicholas T. 2018. Bioavailability: Advances in Science and Implementation for Adjusting Human and Ecological Exposure. 19th International Conference on Heavy Metals in the Environment, Athens, Georgia July 21-25, 2018.
  • Type: Theses/Dissertations Status: Published Year Published: 2018 Citation: Alyssa, M. Zearley. 2018. Incorporating Diet into In Vitro Bioaccessibility Assays to Improve Prediction of Bioavailability of Soil Pb in Birds and Humans. The Ohio State University, Columbus. OH.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2018 Citation: Emily Osborne, Brian Lower, Steven Lower, Eric Mumper, Ratnasingham Sooryakumar, Christopher PierceTitle. 2018 Measurement of Bacterial Flagella Force using Micromagnetic Tweezers, Bulletin of the American Physical Society, American Physical Society, 2018 Annual Fall Meeting of the APS Ohio-Region Section, Toledo, Ohio
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2018 Citation: James Dunn, Nadia Casillas Ituarte, Steven Lower, Brian Lower. 2018. Exploring the influence of amino acid strucuture on interactions between peptides and hematite surfaces. Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 255, American Chemical Society, 255 ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana
  • Type: Websites Status: Published Year Published: 2018 Citation: Interstate Technology and Regulatory Council (ITRC). 2017. Bioavailability of in contaminants in soil: Considerations for Human Health Risk Assessment. BCS-1. Washington, D.C. Interstate Technology and Regulatory Council, Bioavailability in Contaminated Soil Team. http://bcs-1.itrcweb.org
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2018 Citation: Rhea Mehta, Christopher Pierce, Eric Mumper, Brian Lower, Steven Lower, Ratnasingham Sooryakumar. 2018. Variations in the Hydrodynamic Motility of Magnetotactic Bacteria tion date: Bulletin of the American Physical Society, American Physical Society, 2018 Annual Fall Meeting of the APS Ohio-Region Section, Toledo, Ohio
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2018 Citation: James Dunn, Nadia Casillas Ituarte, Steven Lower, Brian Lower. 2018. Exploring the influence of amino acid structure on interactions between peptides and hematite surfaces. Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 255, American Chemical Society, 255 ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2018 Citation: Title: A Self-Assembled Flagellated Bacterial Micropump Hiran Wijesinghe, Eric Mumper, Zachery Oestreicher, Zhixin Song, Christopher Pierce, Steven Lower, Brian Lower, Ratnasingham. 2018. Bulletin of the American Physical Society, American Physical Society, APS March Meeting 2018, Los Angeles, California
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2018 Citation: Christopher Pierce, Hiran Wijesinghe, Eric Mumper, Sisheng Yu, Zachery Oestreicher, Brian Lower, Steven Lower, Fengyuan Yang, Ratnasingham Sooryakumar. 2018. Hydrodynamic Clustering of Oriented Magnetotactic Bacteria at Solid-Liquid Interfaces, Bulletin of the American Physical Society, American Physical Society, APS March Meeting 2018, Los Angeles, California


Progress 10/01/16 to 09/30/17

Outputs
Target Audience:Scientific organizations through publications and professional meetings. USEPA, OEPA, USGS, ODNR, and general public Changes/Problems: Nothing Reported What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?1 graduate student and 2 undergraduates trained How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Yes. Mainly through publications and presentations at scientific and general audience meetings. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?We are developing an urban soil test field kit for use by varied audiences. The test kit measure soil health parameters important to the soil health assessment framework (objective 1 of project)

Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals? Progress was made under objectives 2 and 3. A long term study was completed "Assessment of Long-Term Soil Quality Parameters of an Urban Soil Treated with Biosolids and Compost Amendments." Urban soils can show signs of degradation such as a decline in soil structure, compaction, reduced infiltration, less organic matter, salt imbalance, changes to pH levels, and a less diverse soil microbial community. Experimental plots were established in 2009 on urban soils in Calumet, IL where biosolids and compost treatments were applied to assess and compare affects on soil quality. Treatments were incorporated into the top 12.5 cm of the soil and were: biosolids at 202 Mg ha-1 , biosolids at 202 Mg ha-1, compost at 137 Mg ha-1, and a blend of biosolids, drinking water treatment residuals, and biochar. After initial application and seeding, plots were left undisturbed and were sampled multiple times over a 7 yr span. Contradictory to current Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (ILEPA) soil amendment recommendations, biosolids outperformed compost for multiple soil quality parameters including soil N, total and organic soil C, plant available macro and micronutrients, cation exchange capacity, and soil pH. The greater biosolids application, however, led to excess soil P which could lead to runoff and environmental harm. T202 Mg ha-1 biosolids treatment is the recommended urban soil amendment to lead to greatest soil quality benefit.

Publications

  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2016 Citation: Obrycki, John F., Nicholas T. Basta, Steven W. Culman. 2016. Management Options for Contaminated Urban Soils to Reduce Public Exposure and Maintain Soil Health. J. Environ. Qual. Doi.2134/jeq2016.07.0275
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2017 Citation: Obrycki, John F., Darryl B. Hood, Tyler Serafini, Chris Alexander, Pam Blais, Nicholas T. Basta. Public health data contextualizes soil Pb hazard management in Ohio. 2017. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice. doi: 10.1097/PHH.0000000000000488
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2017 Citation: Obrycki, John F, Nicholas T. Basta, Robyn S. Wilson. 2017. Evaluating public and regulatory acceptance for urban soil management approaches. J. Environ. Qual. 46: 20-26. doi:10.2134/jeq2016.06.0230.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2017 Citation: Obrycki, John F, Kirk G. Scheckel, and Nicholas T. Basta. 2017. Soil solution interactions may limit Pb remediation using P amendments in an urban soil. Environ Pollut. 220:549-556.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2016 Citation: Obrycki, John F., Nicholas T. Basta, Kirk Scheckel, Albert Juhasz, Brooke N. Stevens, and Kristen K. Minca. 2016. Phosphorus amendment efficacy on soil Pb depends upon bioaccessible method conditions. Special Issue: Soil in the City J. Environ. Qual. 45(1): 37-44.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2016 Citation: Zearley, Alyssa, Nicholas T. Basta and Shane D. Whitacre. 2016. Impact of Diet on Pb Bioccessibility for Wildlife in Vitro Methods. 2016. Soil Science Society of America International Annual Meeting, Phoenix, AZ. Nov. 6-9, 2016.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2016 Citation: Benson, Kaitlyn, and Nicholas T. Basta. Assessing Long-Term Soil Quality of a Restored Degraded Site in Illinois. Soil Science Society of America International Annual Meeting, Phoenix, AZ. Nov. 6-9, 2016.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2016 Citation: Obrycki, John F and Nicholas T. Basta. 2016. Contextualizing Urban Soil Pb within a Public Health Framework. Soil Science Society of America International Annual Meeting, Phoenix, AZ. Nov. 6-9, 2016.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2016 Citation: Basta, N.T. 2016. Mechanisms and Permanence of Sequestered Pb and As in Soils: Impact on Human Bioavailability, SERDP Project ER-1742. Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program Webinar, Nov. 3, 2016 (attendance est. 420)


Progress 10/01/15 to 09/30/16

Outputs
Target Audience:Academic community via publications and meetings. Professionals (i.e., environmental consultants, govenmental agency land assessors) through the Interstate Tecnology Regulatory Council (ITRC) 3 yr project to provide novel landmark on-line guidance "Bioavailability in Contaminated Soil (http://www.itrcweb.org/team/Public?teamID=70). Our Hatch research is being used to establish part of the ITRC framework for the U.S. ITRC is a public-private coalition working to reduce barriers to the use of innovative environmental technologies that reduce compliance costs and maximize cleanup efficacy. ITRC produces documents and training that broaden and deepen technical knowledge and expedite quality regulatory decision making while protecting human health and the environment. ITRC achieves its mission through its technical teams, which are composed of environmental professionals, including state and federal environmental regulators, federal agency representatives, industry experts, community stakeholders, and academia. OARDC, through my Hatch project, is a major contributor to this effort. Since 1995, ITRC has published hundreds of documents and reached tens of thousands of participants through training courses on hundreds of topics. With private and public sector members from all 50 states and the District of Columbia, ITRC truly provides a national perspective. ITRC is a program of the Environmental Research Institute of the States (ERIS), a 501(c)(3) organization incorporated in the District of Columbia and managed by the Environmental Council of the States (ECOS). ECOS is the national, nonprofit, nonpartisan association representing the state and territorial environmental commissioners. Its mission is to serve as a champion for states; to provide a clearinghouse of information for state environmental commissioners; to promote coordination in environmental management; and to articulate state positions on environmental issues to Congress, federal agencies, and the public. More information on ECOS is available at www.ecos.org. Changes/Problems: Nothing Reported What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?Training of one undergraduate Honors student and two graduate students How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Yes, through presentations and publications. Development of on line tools are underway What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?Design and implement a framework for evaluting contaminants in degraded soils. Exisiting soil health frameworks (i.e., Cornell soil health or USDA NRCS SMAF) were developed for rural agricultural land and not urban argiculture. Evaluation of legacy contamination in urban areas is essential for food production and safety. We hope to release such a framework during the next reporting period.

Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals? Objective 1. Assessment methods to evaluate human health impact from soil contaminants have been devleoped and evaluated. Objective 2. Assessment methods have been applied to evaluate long term restortaton of degraded soils and ecosystem services.

Publications

  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2016 Citation: Basta, N.T., D.M. Busalacchi, L.S. Hundal, K. Kumar, R.P. Dick, R.P. Lanno, J. Carlson, A.E. Cox, and T.C. Granato. 2016. Restoring ecosystem function in degraded urban soil using biosolids, biosolids blend and compost. Special Issue: Soil in the City. J. Environ. Qual. 45(1): 74-83.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2016 Citation: Obrycki, John F., Nicholas T. Basta, Kirk Scheckel, Albert Juhasz, Brooke N. Stevens, and Kristen K. Minca. 2016. Phosphorus amendment efficacy on soil Pb depends upon bioaccessible method conditions. Special Issue: Soil in the City J. Environ. Qual. 45(1): 37-44.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2015 Citation: Yuqin Jiao, Julie K. Bower, Wansoo Im, Nicholas Basta, John Obrycki, Mohammad Z. Al-Hamdan, Allison Wilder, Claire Bollinger, Tongwen , Zhang, Ludie Hatten, Jerrie Hatten, Darryl B. Hood. 2015. Development of Educational PPGIS Risk-Communication Tools and Application to Evaluating Urban Soils. In Proceedings from the 2015 Minority Health and Health Disparities Grantees' Conference, as a Special Issue of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH). J. Community Medicine. http://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/13/1/11.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2015 Citation: Obrycki, John F. and Nicholas T. Basta. 2015. Managing Pb Contaminated Urban Soils Using Low Rates of P Amendments. Presentation 325-5. ASA, CSSA, and Soil Science Society International Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN Nov. 15-18, 2015.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2015 Citation: Obrycki, John F. and Nicholas T. Basta. 2015. Beneficial Use of Sediments in Soil Blends to Cap and Remediate Contaminated Urban Soils. Presentation 86-11. ASA, CSSA, and Soil Science Society International Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN Nov. 15-18, 2015.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2015 Citation: Betts, Aaron R., Brooke Stevens, Nicholas T. Basta, and Kirk G Scheckel. 2015. Correlating arsenic (As) and iron (Fe) speciation to as bioavailability from a collection of contaminated soils with varying contamination sources and soil properties. Presentation 262-6. ASA, CSSA, and Soil Science Society International Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN Nov. 15-18, 2015.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2015 Citation: Basta, N.T. 2015. Restoring ecosystem function in degraded urban soil using biosolids, biosolids blend and compost. Ohio Water Environment Association, 2015 Biosolids Specialty Workshop. Columbus, OH Dec. 3, 2015
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2016 Citation: Basta, N.T., S.D. Whitacre, V. Kecojevic, A. Lashgari, and B.T. Lusk. 2016. Dust Characterization and Source Apportionment at an Active Surface Mine in West Virginia. Annual Meeting of the Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration, Phoenix, AZ. Feb. 21-24, 2016.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2016 Citation: Basta, N.T. Restoring Ecosystem Services in Degraded Urban Soils Using Biosolids and Soil Amendment Blends, Illinois Water Environment Association Annual Conference Champaign, IL. February 29, 2016
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2016 Citation: Basta, N.T. Using Bioavailability and Bioaccessibility for Risk Assessment and Remediation of Upland Soils. U.S. EPA Ecological Risk Assessment Forum Annual Meeting, Chicago IL June 7  9, 2016
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2016 Citation: Basta, N.T., Brooke Stevens, S. D. Whitacre, K.G. Scheckel, A. Betts, K.D. Bradham, C. Schadt, D. Thomas, S. W. Casteel, R. Chaney, A. Juhasz and R. Anderson. 2016. Mechanisms and Permanence of Sequestered Pb and As in Soils: Impact on Mobility and Bioavailability. 18th International Conference on Heavy Metals in the Environment, Ghent, Belgium Sept 12-15, 2016.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2016 Citation: Stevens, Brooke, A. Betts, K. Scheckel , S. Whitacre, R. Anderson, K. Bradham, D. Thomas and N. Basta. Comprehensive evaulation of in vitro bioaccessibility methods to predict bioavailability of arsenic in contaminated soils. 2016. 18th International Conference on Heavy Metals in the Environment, Ghent, Belgium Sept 12-15, 2016.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2016 Citation: Whitacre, S.W., B.N Stevens, V.L. Mitchell, P. Myers and N.T. Basta. 2016. Predicting Arsenic Bioavailability in Moderately Contaminated Soils. 18th International Conference on Heavy Metals in the Environment, Ghent, Belgium Sept 12-15, 2016.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2016 Citation: Whitacre, Shane, Brooke Stevens, Valerie Hanley Perry Myers, Andrea Foster, and Nick Basta. 2016. Independent Measures for More Confident Selection and Application of Arsenic Bioaccessibility Methods to Predict Bioavailability. 18th International Conference on Heavy Metals in the Environment, Ghent, Belgium Sept 12-15, 2016.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2016 Citation: Stevens, Brooke, S. Whitacre, K. Bradham, D. Thomas, S. Casteel, R. Anderson, and N. Basta. 2016. Comparison of Bioavailability Measurements determined using Juvenile Swine and Adult Mouse Models for Arsenic Contaminated Soils. 18th International Conference on Heavy Metals in the Environment, Ghent, Belgium Sept 12-15, 2016.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2016 Citation: Basta, N.T., S. D. Whitacre, Brooke Stevens , R. Anderson, P. Myers and V.L. Hanley. 2016. Predicting arsenic bioavailability in contaminated soils by using in vitro gastrointestinal bioaccessibility for site-specific risk assessment. 18th International Conference on Heavy Metals in the Environment, Ghent, Belgium Sept 12-15, 2016.
  • Type: Theses/Dissertations Status: Published Year Published: 2016 Citation: Obrycki, John Francis. 2016. Ph.D. Dissertation. Managing Soils for Environmental Science and Public Health Applications. The Ohio State University, Columbus. OH.
  • Type: Theses/Dissertations Status: Published Year Published: 2016 Citation: Stevens, Brooke Nan. 2016. Ph.D. Dissertation. Bioaccessibility, Bioavailability, and Chemical Speciation of Arsenic in Contaminated Soils and Solid Wastes. The Ohio State University, Columbus. OH.


Progress 10/16/14 to 09/30/15

Outputs
Target Audience:Scientific organizations through publications and professional meetings. USEPA, OEPA, USGS, ODNR, and general public Changes/Problems: Nothing Reported What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?Training of undergraduate students and garduate students was accomplished How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Yes, through publications and presentations. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?continue to work on all three objectives. Current work is focused on soil health / soil quality measurements for a framework.

Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals? Objective 1: progress made in development and measurement of risk with human health risk part of the framework. Progress made on vaidation of in vitro gastrointestinal methods for Pb and As (common soil contaminants). Objective 2: We evaluated the use of organic amendments (biosolids and compost) abd mixtures of these amendments on restoration of ecosystem function. Biosolids was superior in performance to non-biosolids compost based materials.

Publications

  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2015 Citation: Kaiser, M.L., M.L. Williams, N. Basta, M. Hand, and S. Huber. 2015. When vacant lots become urban gardens: Characterizing the perceived and actual food safety concerns of urban agriculture in Ohio. J. Food Protect. 78(11):2070-2080.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2015 Citation: Heather Henry , Marisa F. Naujokas , Chammi Attanayake , Nicholas T. Basta , Zhongqi Cheng, Ganga M. Hettiarachchi , Mark Maddaloni , Christopher Schadt , and Kirk G. Scheckel. 2015. Bioavailability-based in situ remediation to meet future lead (Pb) standards in urban soils and gardens. Environ. Sci. Technol. 49 (15), pp 89488958.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2015 Citation: Li, Jie, Kan Li, Xin-Yi Cui, N.T. Basta, Li-Ping Li, Hong-Bo Li, and L.Q. Ma. 2015. In vitro bioaccessibility and in vivo relative bioavailability in 12 contaminated soils: Method comparison and method development. Science of the Total Environment. 532:812-820.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2015 Citation: Carlson, J., J. Saxena, N. Basta, L. HUndal, D. Busalacchi. 2015. Application of organic amendments to restore degraded soil: effects on microbial properties. Environ. Monit. Assess 187(3):1-15.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Awaiting Publication Year Published: 2015 Citation: Basta, N.T., D.M. Busalacchi, L.S. Hundal, K. Kumar, R.P. Dick, R.P. Lanno, J. Carlson, A.E. Cox, and T.C. Granato. 2015. Restoring ecosystem function in degraded urban soil using biosolids, biosolids blend and compost. J. Environ. Qual. Special Issue: Soil in the City. In press
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Awaiting Publication Year Published: 2015 Citation: Obrycki, John F., Nicholas T. Basta, Kirk Scheckel, Albert Juhasz, Brooke N. Stevens, and Kristen K. Minca. Phosphorus amendment efficacy on soil Pb depends upon bioaccessible method conditions. J. Environ. Qual. Special Issue: Soil in the City. In press
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Awaiting Publication Year Published: 2015 Citation: Yuqin Jiao, Julie K. Bower, Wansoo Im, Nicholas Basta, John Obrycki, Mohammad Z. Al-Hamdan, Allison Wilder, Claire Bollinger, Tongwen , Zhang, Ludie Hatten, Jerrie Hatten, Darryl B. Hood. 2015. Development of Educational PPGIS Risk-Communication Tools and Application to Evaluating Urban Soils. In Proceedings from the 2014 Minority Health and Health Disparities Grantees' Conference, as a Special Issue of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH). J. Community Medicine. In press
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Under Review Year Published: 2015 Citation: W. Nelson Beyer, Nicholas T. Basta, Rufus Chaney, Paula F. P. Henry, Thomas May, David Mosby, Barnett A. Rattner, Kirk G. Scheckel, Daniel Sprague. Bioaccessibility tests accurately estimate bioavailability of lead to quail. Environ. Toxicol. Chem. In review
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Submitted Year Published: 2015 Citation: Basta, N.T., S.D. Whitacre, V. Kecojevic, A. Lashgari, and B.T. Lusk. Dust Characterization and Source Apportionment at an Active Surface Mine in West Virginia. Environ. Monitor. Assess. In review
  • Type: Book Chapters Status: Awaiting Publication Year Published: 2015 Citation: Obrycki J.F., K.K. Minca, and N.T. Basta. In review. Screening for Soil Lead Contamination Using a Common Soil Test Method. In Sowing Seeds in the City: Municipal and Ecological Considerations (S. Brown, K. McIvor and E. Snyder (eds.), Springer, NY.
  • Type: Book Chapters Status: Published Year Published: 2015 Citation: Basta, N.T. and A. Juhasz. 2014. Chapter 9: Using In Vivo Bioavailability and/or In Vitro Gastrointestinal Bioaccessibility Testing to Adjust Human Exposure from Soil Ingestion. In : R.J.Bowell, J. Majzlan and C.Alpers (eds.) Geochemistry, Mineralogy and Microbiology of Arsenic in Environment, Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry, Mineralogical Society of America.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2015 Citation: Basta, N.T., S.D. Whitacre, V. Kecojevic, A. Lashgari, and B.T. Lusk. Dust Characterization and Source Apportionment at an Active Surface Mine in West Virginia. 2015. Second environmental considerations in energy production conference, Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration and ARIES, Pittsburgh, PA. Sept. 20-23, 2015.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2015 Citation: Whitacre, S.D., N.T. Basta, and W.L. Daniels. Evaluation Soil and Dust as an Exposure Medium for Arsenic, Cadmium, Lead and other Contaminants in Appalachian Coal Mining Communities. 2015. Second environmental considerations in energy production conference, Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration and ARIES, Pittsburgh, PA. Sept. 20-23, 2015.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2015 Citation: Basta, N.T. 2015. Key Scientific Principles for Selecting a Bioaccessibility Method to Evaluate Bioavailability and In Situ Soil Treatment Performance in Metal(oid) Contaminated Soil. Interstate Technology Regulatory Council Spring Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA., Apr. 20-21, 2015.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2015 Citation: Basta, Nicholas T., Dawn M. Busalacchi, Lakhwinder S. Hundal, Kuldip Kumar, Richard P. Dick, Roman P. Lanno, Jennifer Carlson Albert E. Cox, and Thomas C. Granato. 2015. Restoring ecosystem function in degraded urban soil using biosolids, biosolids blend and compost. Society of Ecological Restoration Midwest Great Lakes Annual Meeting, Glencoe, IL., Mar 27-29, 2015.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2015 Citation: Mitchell, V.L., S.Whitacre, S.W. Casteel, P. Myers, and N.T. Basta. 2015. New in vitro model accurately predicts arsenic bioavailability in soils. Society of Toxicology, Sand Diego, CA. Mar. 22-26, 2015.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2014 Citation: Basta, N.T. 2014. Characterizing Arsenic Bioavailability in Gold Mining Contaminated Soils S. Whitacre, A. Foster, C. Alpers, V. Mitchell, and P. Myers. Bioavailability and Bioaccessibility: Critical Tools For Risk Management Decisions Session, 35th North American Annual Meeting of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Nov 9-13, 2014.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2014 Citation: Lanno, R.P., and N.T. Basta. 2014. Development of the Utica Shale Energy Environmental Laboratory: An academic-industry partnership at Ohio State University. 35th North American Annual Meeting of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Nov 9-13, 2014.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2014 Citation: Basta, N.T., J.F. Obrycki. 2014. Requisites of Soil Testing to Measure Toxic Metal Bioavailability to Adjust Risk from the Human Soil Ingestion Exposure Pathway. Contaminants in Urban Soils Symposium: Current State of Science. Presentation 336-3, ASA, CSSA, and Soil Science Society International Annual Meeting, Long Beach, CA Nov. 2-5, 2014.
  • Type: Other Status: Published Year Published: 2015 Citation: Bartens, Julia, Nick Basta, Sally Brown, Craig Cogger, Bruce Dvorak, Britt Faucette, Peter Groffman, Ganga Hettairachchi, Kristen McIvor, Richard Pouyat, Gurpal Toor, and James Urban. 2012. Soils in the Cities: A look at Urban Soils. CSA News Magazine August Cover Story Publication (official magazine for members of the American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, and Soil Science Society of America), SSSA, Madison, WI. https://www.soils.org/files/publications/csa-news/soils-in-the-city.pdf
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2015 Citation: Liang, Zhenfei. 2015. M.S. Non-Thesis Report. Predicting Metal(loid) Phytoaccumulation from Soil Property and Chemical Extraction Method.