马克-爱德华兹 水质工程师

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Marc Edwards
Water Quality Engineer | Class of 2007
Analyzing the chemistry and toxicity of drinking water supplies in America’s largest cities and making critical contributions to an often-neglected area of public safety.

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Title
Water Quality Engineer
Affiliation
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Location
Blacksburg, Virginia
Age
43 at time of award
Area of Focus
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Published January 28, 2007
ABOUT MARC'S WORK
Marc Edwards, a civil engineer, is playing a vital role in ensuring the safety of drinking water and in exposing deteriorating water-delivery infrastructure in America’s largest cities. An expert in the chemistry and toxicity of urban water supplies in the United States, he has made significant advancements in a broad array of areas, including arsenic removal, coagulation of natural organic material, and the causes and control of copper and lead corrosion in new and aging distribution systems. Melding rigorous science, concern for public safety, and dogged investigation, Edwards’ recent work focused on the identification and analysis of lead contamination in the Washington, D.C. area’s local water supply. In this research, he made the startling discovery that the addition of chloramine disinfectant (a new and widely used replacement for chlorine) in tap water actually increased the incidence of lead leaching in residential and commercial aqueducts, in many cases above acceptable EPA limits. He went on to link several cases of lead poisoning, earlier thought to be caused by lead paint, to local tap water. His findings also revealed systemic weaknesses in the regional water testing program, prompting the Washington Area Water Authority to replace lead service lines throughout the district. Now expanding his focus to other cities, he is defining new and more effective ways to test local water and predict the risk of chemical contamination in urban infrastructure. Through his exhaustive research efforts, Edwards is making critical contributions to the health of individuals and communities throughout the U.S. in an often-neglected area of domestic public safety.

BIOGRAPHY
Marc Edwards received a B.S. (1986) from the State University of New York at Buffalo and an M.S. (1988) and Ph.D. (1991) from the University of Washington in Seattle. Since 1997, he has been affiliated with Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, where he is currently the Charles P. Lunsford Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He taught previously at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

RECENT NEWS
Marc Edwards continues his volunteer efforts exposing government science agency wrong-doing during the Washington, DC, “Lead Crisis.” He has also developed new research interests at Virginia Tech, including ethics education and waterborne disease from pathogens in plumbing systems. His work on the “Lead Crisis” led to publication of a landmark paper documenting harm to DC children resulting from government agency negligence. That work triggered dozens of newspaper stories, congressional investigations and hearings into Centers for Disease Control (CDC) misconduct, and numerous awards, including an outstanding science paper in Environmental Science and Technology (2010), a Praxis Award in Professional Ethics from Villanova University (2010), and the first ever IEEE Barus Award to a university professor for “defending the public interest at great personal risk” (2013).

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马克-爱德华兹
水质工程师 | 2007级
分析美国最大城市饮用水供应的化学和毒性，为一个经常被忽视的公共安全领域做出重要贡献。

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标题
水质工程师
工作单位
弗吉尼亚理工学院和州立大学土木和环境工程系
工作地点
布莱克斯堡，弗吉尼亚州
年龄
获奖时43岁
重点领域
土木和环境工程
发表于2007年1月28日
关于Marc的工作
马克-爱德华兹（Marc Edwards）是一名土木工程师，在确保饮用水安全和揭露美国最大城市不断恶化的供水基础设施方面发挥着重要作用。作为美国城市供水的化学和毒性方面的专家，他在一系列广泛的领域取得了重大进展，包括砷的去除、天然有机物的凝结以及新的和老化的分配系统中铜和铅腐蚀的原因和控制。爱德华兹将严谨的科学、对公共安全的关注和执着的调查融为一体，他最近的工作重点是确定和分析华盛顿特区当地供水中的铅污染情况。在这项研究中，他有一个惊人的发现，在自来水中加入氯胺消毒剂（一种新的、广泛使用的氯的替代品）实际上增加了住宅和商业管道中铅浸出的发生率，在许多情况下超过了可接受的环保局限制。他继续将几个早期被认为是由含铅油漆引起的铅中毒案例与当地自来水联系起来。他的发现还揭示了区域水测试计划的系统性弱点，促使华盛顿地区水务局在整个地区更换含铅服务管。现在，他将重点扩大到其他城市，他正在确定新的和更有效的方法来测试当地的水和预测城市基础设施中的化学污染风险。通过他详尽的研究工作，爱德华兹在一个经常被忽视的国内公共安全领域为全美个人和社区的健康做出了重要贡献。

个人简历
马克-爱德华兹在纽约州立大学水牛城分校获得学士学位（1986年），在西雅图的华盛顿大学获得硕士学位（1988年）和博士学位（1991年）。自1997年以来，他一直隶属于弗吉尼亚理工学院和州立大学，目前他是Charles P. Lunsford土木和环境工程的教授。他曾在科罗拉多大学博尔德分校任教。

最近的新闻
马克-爱德华兹继续他的志愿工作，揭露政府科学机构在华盛顿特区 "铅危机 "中的错误行为。他还在弗吉尼亚理工大学发展了新的研究兴趣，包括道德教育和水管系统中的病原体引起的水传播疾病。他在 "铅危机 "方面的工作导致发表了一篇具有里程碑意义的论文，记录了政府机构的疏忽对华盛顿特区儿童造成的伤害。这项工作引发了数十家报纸的报道，国会对疾病控制中心（CDC）的不当行为进行了调查和听证，并获得了许多奖项，包括《环境科学与技术》上的一篇杰出的科学论文（2010年），维拉诺瓦大学颁发的职业道德实践奖（2010年），以及首次授予大学教授的IEEE Barus奖（2013年），表彰其 "冒着巨大的个人风险捍卫公共利益"。

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