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The quality of U.S. drinking water is at risk from many causes, including the nation's aging infrastructure and environmental conditions that affect source water conditions. Quality Water from Every Tap, a workshop held in Washington, D.C., on November 21-22, 2019, provided an opportunity for experts from government, affected communities, academia, and the private sector to explore both the challenges and factors that affect the delivery of water with acceptable quality and the paths to increase the quality of water for systems that do not meet today's drinking water standards - especially focusing on communities that lack adequate resources and expertise because they are small or have declining populations. This publication provides the rapporteurs' high-level summary of the topics addressed in the workshop and suggestions provided by workshop participants for potential actions to address the nation's water quality challenges.
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https://doi.org/10.17226/26069
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2021. Quality Water from Every Tap: Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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At the request of the National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology, Strategic Report on Research and Development in Biotechnology for Defense Innovation provides an overview of the current landscape of artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML)-enabled biotechnology, the opportunities it presents, and the challenges it poses. This report offers a strategic vision for connecting scientists and technologists to build on, leverage, and tailor advances at the intersection of AI/ML, automated experimentation, and biotechnology to drive innovation in defense-related biotechnologies. Strategic Report on Research and Development in Biotechnology for Defense Innovation makes recommendations to address long-standing challenges that have limited research, development, prototyping, testing and evaluation, and eventual use of biotechnologies. Addressing these challenges will help to advance U.S. national security and defense by improving the performance of existing capabilities, enabling the creation of domestic supply chains of valuable products, reducing reliance on processes and chemicals that are harmful to the environment, and/or adding new capabilities not currently possible with established technologies.
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ISBN Paperback: 0-309-72673-5
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https://doi.org/10.17226/27971
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2025. Strategic Report on Research and Development in Biotechnology for Defense Innovation. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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The TRB Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) has released its annual report, which provides an overview of the program, status of each of TCRP's projects, and a summary of some of the program's accomplishments for the year.
TCRP focuses on issues significant to the public transportation industry, with emphasis on developing near-term research solutions to a variety of transit problems involving facilities, vehicles, equipment, service concepts, operations, policy, planning, human resources, maintenance, and administrative practices.
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ISBN Ebook: 0-309-72885-1
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https://doi.org/10.17226/28025
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. TCRP 2024 Annual Report of Progress. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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The United States Department of Agriculture's Contingency Planning and Training of Personnel Rule, which went into effect on January 3, 2022, mandates that all regulated institutions that do not meet di minimis exemptions for implementing emergency plans must ensure the humane care of their animals during emergencies or disasters as specified in its regulations.
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Roundtable on Science and Welfare of Animals Involved in Research convened a public workshop on June 4-5, 2024 to examine the successes, challenges, and lessons learned from the first year of the Rule's implementation. The workshop included representatives from various sectors of the research community who shared their experiences, strategies, achievements, obstacles, and insights about the Rule. This Proceedings of a Workshop-in Brief provides an overview of the workshop.
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ISBN Ebook: 0-309-71798-1
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https://doi.org/10.17226/27738
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Contingency Planning and Training of Personnel Rule: One Year of Implementation: Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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Ensuring every child is on an optimal trajectory to a healthy and productive adulthood is imperative for the nation's future. Investments in children and families improves child health, but also health equity, education outcomes, workforce productivity, and cost-effectiveness in public spending. Despite advances in health care, children, especially those from historically marginalized groups, face rising rates of chronic diseases, obesity, and mental health challenges.
Launching Lifelong Health by Improving Health Care for Children, Youth, And Families presents a vision for transforming the child and adolescent health care system. This report also examines how the health care system can be better positioned to equitably address the needs of all children and families and leverage community supports. This requires transforming key components, such as health care financing, public health investment, community partnerships, and accountability strategies, to encourage team-based care delivery models and attention to and health promotion, prevention, and root causes of health disparities.
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ISBN Paperback: 0-309-72194-6
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https://doi.org/10.17226/27835
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Launching Lifelong Health by Improving Health Care for Children, Youth, and Families. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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2023 shattered global climate records as the warmest year in the modern record, bringing with it devastating impacts on human and natural systems. Methane emissions, about 60% of which come from human activities, are a major contributor to global warming, second only to carbon dioxide (CO2). Methane is relatively short-lived in the atmosphere but is 80 times more potent than CO2 at trapping heat over a 20-year period. Together with reducing CO2 emissions, rapid and sustained reductions in methane emissions are critical to limit both near- and long-term warming in future decades. But given the many barriers to achieving needed emissions reductions at scale, researchers are exploring the potential of technologies to remove methane from the atmosphere.
A Research Agenda Toward Atmospheric Methane Removal is the first report of a two-phase study to assess the need and potential for atmospheric methane removal. This report identifies priority research that should be addressed within 3-5 years so that a second-phase assessment could more robustly assess the technical, economic, and social viability of technologies to remove atmospheric methane at climate-relevant scales. The research agenda presented in this report includes foundational research that would help us better understand atmospheric methane removal while also filling knowledge gaps in related fields, and systems research that seek to address what developing and/or deploying atmospheric methane removal at scale would entail. A Research Agenda Toward Atmospheric Methane Removal also assesses five atmospheric methane removal technologies that would accelerate the conversion of methane to a less radiatively potent form or physically remove methane from the atmosphere and store it elsewhere.
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ISBN Paperback: 0-309-70665-3
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https://doi.org/10.17226/27157
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. A Research Agenda Toward Atmospheric Methane Removal. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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TRB's Behavioral Traffic Safety Cooperative Research Program (BTSCRP) has released its annual report. BTSCRP provides practical, ready-to-implement solutions to save lives, prevent injuries, and reduce the costs of road traffic crashes associated with unsafe behaviors. The BTSCRP 2024 Annual Report highlights current and pending projects, sponsors, publications, and other details about the program.
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ISBN Ebook: 0-309-72888-6
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https://doi.org/10.17226/28026
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. BTSCRP 2024 Annual Report. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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Airports are committing to achieve net-zero carbon emissions, some by as soon as 2050. Part of that commitment can include carbon dioxide removal (CDR), a segment of the industry that is rapidly changing; new technology, science, and best practices are constantly being discovered and published. With CDR pathways, there are many details, opportunities, constraints, and application guidelines for airports to consider.
ACRP Research Report 270: Carbon Removal at Airports, from TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Board, aims to define the terms related to CDR and potential applications and discusses the need for carbon reduction, the different pathways for removing carbon, a process for evaluating CDR, and airport-specific considerations.
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ISBN Paperback: 0-309-73047-3
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https://doi.org/10.17226/28458
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Carbon Removal at Airports. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has made clear the vulnerability of aviation and other industries to shock events. While the pandemic is one of the largest events to impact the aviation industry, other previous shock events have also exerted profound impacts on the aviation industry.
ACRP Research Report 272: Incorporating Shock Events into Aviation Demand Forecasting and Airport Planning, from TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program, provides a methodology to assist airports in identifying and describing relevant shock events, understanding their potential impact on various aspects of the airport business, and developing approaches and strategies to enable the airport to better withstand and respond to shock events if they occur.
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ISBN Paperback: 0-309-72737-5
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https://doi.org/10.17226/27987
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Incorporating Shock Events into Aviation Demand Forecasting and Airport Planning. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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A 2024 consensus report of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine titled Potential Hydrodynamic Impacts of Offshore Wind Energy on Nantucket Shoals Regional Ecology: An Evaluation from Wind to Whales, examined the potential for offshore wind farms in the Nantucket Shoals region to affect oceanic physical processes and in turn impact ecosystem dynamics, including zooplankton productivity and aggregations relevant to right whale foraging and population health. Among other recommendations, the report outlined the need for observational and modeling efforts to fill knowledge gaps and inform decision-making regarding wind energy development and operations in the region.
To delve further into specifically what observational and monitoring activities could best meet these needs, the National Academies hosted a follow-on workshop, entitled Field Monitoring Program to Evaluate Hydrodynamic Impacts of Offshore Wind Energy on Nantucket Shoals Regional Ecology: A Workshop, July 9-10, 2024 in Washington, DC. The workshop brought together participants from academia, government, and the offshore wind industry to explore examples of observational needs and discuss components of a field monitoring program that could help to advance models for elucidating the potential effects of wind energy development on Nantucket Shoals ecology. This Proceedings of a Workshop was prepared by rapporteurs as a high-level summary of what occurred at the workshop.
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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Nantucket Shoals Wind Farm Field Monitoring Program: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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The Florida Everglades is a treasured ecosystem, but the water quality, quantity, flow, and distribution have been dramatically degraded by drainage and infrastructure development during the past century. A joint effort launched by the State and federal government in 2000, the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP) seeks to reverse the decline of the ecosystem. The National Academies have provided a biennial review of CERP since 2004. This tenth biennial report in the series highlights significant recent restoration progress and offers guidance in three areas: applying Indigenous Knowledge in project planning, using modeling tools for understanding the effects of climate change on the CERP, and strengthening adaptive management for CERP decision making.
Thanks to record state and federal investments in recent years, the pace of restoration implementation has reached historic levels and sizeable restoration benefits have been achieved. However, information on natural system restoration progress relative to CERP expectations continues to be difficult to find and interpret. The report recommends modeling tools be applied to anticipate the effects of climate change, including temperature and precipitation, on CERP outcomes and to inform planning and management. Moving forward, consistent and meaningful engagement between CERP agencies and tribal nations is necessary to create a partnership where Indigenous Knowledge can be considered and applied in restoration decision-making. Building expertise and a culture of adaptive management can help ensure continued restoration progress amid uncertainties and improve restoration outcomes through the incorporation of new information.
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ISBN Paperback: 0-309-72305-1
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https://doi.org/10.17226/27875
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Progress Toward Restoring the Everglades: The Tenth Biennial Review - 2024. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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National Research Council. 2001. Resident Research Associateships: Postdoctoral and Senior Research Awards. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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The U.S. science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce plays a vital role in fostering and sustaining innovation, economic competitiveness, and national security. This workforce currently depends, and for the foreseeable future will depend, on both international and domestic talent. Foreign STEM talent contributes to domestic innovation, economic growth, and U.S. leadership in science and technology and also expands perspectives and networks essential to future scientific collaborations and discoveries.
At the request of the U.S. Department of Defense, this report reviews foreign and domestic talent or incentive programs and their corresponding scientific, economic, and national security benefits. International Talent Programs in the Changing Global Environment makes recommendations to improve the effectiveness of U.S. mechanisms for attracting and retaining international students and scholars relative to the programs and incentives other nations use to support national research capabilities, especially in national security and defense-related fields.
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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. International Talent Programs in the Changing Global Environment. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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To better understand key considerations around law enforcement use of advanced forensic DNA technologies, the Committee on Law and Justice and the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a workshop titled "Law Enforcement Use of Probabilistic Genotyping, Forensic DNA Phenotyping, and Forensic Investigative Genetic Genealogy Technologies." The workshop was organized in response to Executive Order 14074, issued in May 2022, and was held on March 13 and 14, 2024. The order focused on advancing effective, accountable policing, as well as criminal justice practices around algorithmic approaches to policing; it directed the National Academies to hold a workshop to explore the different approaches. The workshop focused on three specific advanced forensic DNA practices: probabilistic genotyping, forensic DNA phenotyping, and forensic investigative genetic genealogy. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussion of the workshop.
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ISBN Paperback: 0-309-72364-7
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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Law Enforcement Use of Probabilistic Genotyping, Forensic DNA Phenotyping, and Forensic Investigative Genetic Genealogy Technologies: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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National Research Council. 2006. Postdoctoral Research Associateships, 2006: Opportunities for Research Tenable at the US Department of Homeland Security, Washington, DC. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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National Research Council. 2006. Research Associateships: Postdoctoral and Senior Research Awards.. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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National Research Council. 2005. Research Associateships: Postdoctoral and Senior Research Awards.. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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National Research Council. 2002. Resident Research Associateships: Postdoctoral and Senior Research Awards. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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National Research Council. 2000. Resident Research Associateships: Postdoctoral and Senior Research Awards. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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