Dr. Vallero conducts research focused on transport and transformation of organic compounds in environmental media, especially soil and the troposphere. Currently, he is developing models to predict potential exposure to chemical compounds in products. Recently, his research has focused on exposure to chemical ingredients in consumer products, articles, and building materials. He also leads the Pratt School's "Ethics across the Curriculum," which addresses ethics from introduction of academic integrity to first-year undergraduate students and throughout the students' academic and research experiences at Duke. He co-facilitates the Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) training for all Duke Ph.D. students actually or potentially engaged in research, and conducts research and develops teaching approaches related to macroethics of emerging technologies.

Contact Info:

Office Location:	121 Hudson Hall
Office Phone:	(919) 660-5200
Email Address:
Web Pages:	https://cee.duke.edu/faculty/daniel-vallero https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_A._Vallero https://www.amazon.com/Daniel-A.-Vallero/e/B001HMNH28 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4680-4605

Education:

PhD, Duke University, 2000

MS, University of Kansas, 1996

MSCRP, Southern Illinois University, 1977

BA, Southern Illinois University, 1974

Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests: Transport, transformation, fate and risk of environmental contaminants

Current projects: Consumer product exposure and risk, Exposure scientific workflow development, Exposure-based chemical screening, Life cycle analysis

Environmental systems science; environmental measurement and modeling research, including high throughput risk screening, tracer studies, development of pollution collection devices, and biosystem engineering; life cycle analysis; and sustainable design.

Areas of Interest:

consumer products
recycling
climate change
ground water pollution
air pollution
engineering ethics
hazardous wastes
endocrine disruptors
transport, transformation and fate of semivolatile organic compounds
asbestos

Specialties:

Environmental Engineering
Air quality
Policy, Science and Engineering
Homeland Security
Aerosols
Atmospheric Science
Waste, Hazardous
Ethics in Engineering
Environmental Impacts
Nanoscience
Microbial Engineering, biological remediation

Representative Publications   (More Publications)   (search)

1. D.A. Vallero, Methods and Calculations in Environmental Physics (2022), AIP Publishing Books, [9780735424357] .
2. D.A. Vallero, Applications and Calculations in Environmental Physics (2022), AIP Publishing Books [9780735424913] .
3. Vallero, D.A. and Gunsch, C.K, Applications and implications of emerging biotechnologies in environmental engineering, Journal of Environmental Engineering, vol. 146 no. 6 (2020) [doi] .
4. East, A., Dawson, D.E., Brady, S., Vallero, D.A., and Tornero-Velez, R., A Scoping Assessment of Implemented Toxicokinetic Models of Per-and Polyfluoro-Alkyl Substances, with a Focus on One-Compartment Models, Toxics, vol. 11 no. 2 (2023), pp. 163 .
5. Hubbard, H.F., Ring, C.L., Hong, T., Henning, C.C., Vallero, D.A., Egeghy, P.P., and Goldsmith, M-R., Exposure Prioritization (Ex Priori): A Screening Level High Throughput Chemical Prioritization Tool., Toxics, vol. 10 no. 10 (2023), pp. 569 [doi] .
6. D.A. Vallero, Environmental Systems Science: Theory and Practical Applications (2021), . Academic Press [doi] .
7. D. Yadav, P. Kumar, P. Singh, and D.A. Vallero, ). Hazardous Waste Management: An Overview of Advanced and Cost-Effective Solutions (2021) [doi] .
8. D.A. Vallero, Air Pollution Calculations: Quantifying Pollutant Formation, Transport, Transformation, Fate and Risks (2019) .
9. D.A. Vallero, Translating Diverse Environmental Data into Reliable Information:How to Coordinate Evidence from Different Sources (2017), Academic Press .
10. D.A. Vallero and T.M. Letcher, Environmental Disasters, in Encyclopedia of Toxicology (2023) .
11. D.A. Vallero and T.M. Letcher, Unraveling Environmental Disasters (2012), Elsevier Academic Press [9780123970268] .
12. Vallero, D.A. Resnik, D.B., Geoengineering: Enhancing cloud albedo, in McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science and Technology, 2013, edited by D. Blumel, vol. 2013 (2013), McGraw-Hill [YB130089]  [abs].
13. Vallero, D.A., Chapter 5. Measurements in environmental engineering, in Handbook of Measurement in Science and Engineering, edited by Kutz, M. (2013), John Wiley & Sons, Inc. .
14. Dawson, D., Fisher, H.. Noble, A., Meng, Q., Doherty, A., Sakano, Y., Vallero, D., Tornero-Velez, R., and Cohen-Hubal, E., Assessment of Non-Occupational 1,4-Dioxane Exposure Pathways from Drinking Water and Product Use, Environmental Science & Technology, vol. 56 no. 8 (2022), pp. 5266-5275 [doi] .
15. Vallero, D.A., Viewpoint: Closing the Exposure Gap, Environmental Science & Technology (December 1, 2014) [doi] .