MARK A.S. LAIDLAW- PUBLICATIONS

(April, 2010)

 

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

 

Mark A.S. Laidlaw, Sammy Zahran, Howard W. Mielke, Mark P. Taylor, Gabriel M. Filippelli.2011. 2011. Re-suspension of lead contaminated urban soil as a dominant source of atmospheric lead in Birmingham, Chicago, Detroit and Pittsburgh, USA Atmosphe. 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2011.11.030

Laidlaw MAS and Taylor MP. 2011. Potential for Childhood Lead Poisoning in the Inner Cities of Australia Due to Exposure to Lead (Pb) in Soil Dust. Environmental Pollution

Laidlaw, M.A.S. and Filippelli. Correlation of Atmospheric Soil and Atmospheric Lead (Pb) in Detroit, Birmingham and Pittsburgh (USA). (IN PREPARATION)

Mielke H, Laidlaw MAS, Gonzales 2010. Characterization of lead (Pb) from traffic in 90 U.S.A. urbanized areas: Review of accumulated urban lead dust on health. Environment International

Mielke H, Laidlaw MAS, Gonzales 2010. Lead (Pb) Legacy from vehicle traffic in eight California urbanized areas: Continuing influence of lead dust on children’s health. Science of the Total Environment.

Filippelli, G.M. and Laidlaw, M.A.S., 2010. The elephant in the playground: Confronting lead-contaminated soils as an important source of lead burdens to urban populations. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine.

Filippelli, G.M. and Laidlaw, M.A.S., 2009. Response to Comment by Bogden and Kemp Soil lead, blood lead, and vitamin D. Applied Geochemistry, 24: 1041.

 

Laidlaw, M.A. and Filippelli, G.M., 2008.  Resuspension of urban soils as a persistent source of lead poisoning in children: A review and new directions. Applied Geochemistry, 23: 2021-2039.

Laidlaw M., Mielke, H.W., Gonzales, C.R., Filippelli, G.M., and Johnson, D., 2006.Response to Comment by Brown and Jacobs “Sources of blood lead in children.” Environmental Health Perspectives, 114 (1): A19.

Laidlaw MAS, Mielke HW, Filippelli GM, Johnson DL, Gonzales CR. 2005. Seasonality and children's blood lead levels: developing a predictive model using climatic variables and blood lead data from Indianapolis, Indiana, Syracuse, New York, and New Orleans, Louisiana (USA). Environ Health Perspect 113:793-800; doi:10.1289/ehp.7759.

Filippelli, Gabriel M., Laidlaw, Mark A.S., Latimer, Jennifer C., Raftis, Robyn.2005. Urban Lead Poisoning and Medical Geology: An Unfinished Story. GSA Today. 15:4-11. (INVITED)

 

 

Peer-Reviewed Abstracts

 

Laidlaw, M.A.S. and Taylor M. 2010. Potential for Widespread Childhood Lead Poisoning in the Older Inner Cities of Australia Due to Exposure to Lead (Pb) in Soil Dust: Lessons from the United States. (Accepted).

Laidlaw, M.A. 2009. Correlation of Atmospheric Soil and Atmospheric Lead in Three North American Cities: Can Re-suspension of Urban Lead Contaminated Soil be a Major Source of Urban Atmospheric Lead and Cause Seasonal Variations in Children’s Blood Lead Levels?  24th International Applied Geochemistry Symposium. New Brunswick, Canada.

Laidlaw, Mark and Filippelli, Gabriel. 2006. Reducing the Lead-load for Urban Youth: the Role of Atmospheric Soil Re-Suspension as a Significant Public Health Threat in the United States. Geological Society of America 2006 Annual Meeting, Philadelphia. October, 2006.

 

Laidlaw, Mark and Filippelli, Gabriel. 2006. Soils and Society: The Human Health Legacy of Urban  Lead Contamination. ASA-CSSA-SSSA International Annual Meetings. November 12-16, 2006

 

Laidlaw M.A.S., Lee, Y. P., Cook, A., Thompson, P. Weinstein, P. 2006. Asthma Seasonality and weather in Western Australia. The Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand. 2006 WATSANZ Scientific Meeting – March.

 

Filippelli, Gabriel M., Laidlaw, Mark A. S., Mielke, Howard, Johnson, David, Gonzales, Christopher, Latimer, Jennifer, and Raftis, Robyn, Developing Predictive Tools For Optimizing Health Care Using Medical Geology: An Example From Urban Lead Poisoning. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting. 2005 Salt Lake City Annual Meeting (October 16–19, 2005). (INVITED).

 

Filippelli, G.M., Laidlaw, M., Raftis, R., and Latimer, J., 2004. Lead poisoning and medical geology: An unfinished story. GSA Abstracts with Programs, 36 (5). (INVITED).

 

Laidlaw, M. and Fillippelli, G.M. 2004 Seasonal association between child blood lead levels, fine atmospheric particulates, and soil moisture in Indianapolis, IN and Syracuse, NY. American Association of American Geographers (AAG)  2004 Annual Meeting. Philadelphia, Pennslyvania (USA)  (INVITED).

 

Laidlaw, M., Mielke, H., Fillippelli, G., Johnson, D., and Gonzalez, C. 2004. Multiple linear Regression modeling of the seasonal (temporal) association between soil moisture, atmospheric particulates, climate, and pediatric blood lead levels in Indianapolis Indiana, New Orleans Louisiana and Syracuse New York, USA. First International Symposium on Recent Advances in Environmental Health Research Jackson, Mississipi.

 

Laidlaw, M. and Fillippelli, G.M., 2003. Regression analysis of the temporal relationship between child blood lead, soil moisture, and pm10. 6th International Symposium on Environmental Geochemistry, Edinburgh, Scotland.

 

Science Magazine- Lead’s Lingering Legacy. Science Now, Vol. 2002, Issue 1101, 3 November 1, 2002.

 

Fillippelli, G.M., Latimer, J.C., LAIDLAW, M., and Raftis, R., 2002. Diffuse lead and children’s blood lead levels in Indianapolis. GSA Abstracts with Programs, 34 (6): 146.

 

Fillippelli, G.M., LAIDLAW, M., Atkins, R., and Latimer, J., 2000. Lead in surface soils of Marion County, Indiana. GSA Abstracts with Programs, 32 (5): 30.

 

Filippelli, G.M., L. Tedesco, A. Barth, D. Clark, J. Carnahan, B. Belt, V. Hernly, J. Latimer, M.

Laidlaw, B. Pace, D. Zbieskowski, M. Corbin, S. Belt, 1997. Lake sedimentation and climate in Southern California through the Holocene: Dry Lake, San Bernardino Mountains. Eos (abs.), 78 (17): S171.

 

 

Other

 

Laidlaw, M., Devine, M., Weinstein, P., and Cook, W. 2005. Microbial Classification of Recreational Water in the Swan/Canning Rivers.  A consultancy report written by the University of Western Australia School of Population Health for the Western Australia Department of Health (WADOH).

 

Laidlaw, Mark. 2001. Distribution and Sources of Metals in Soil of Marion County, Indiana. Masters Thesis. Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis, IN. Geology Department.

 

Laidlaw, Mark, 1993. Changes in soil Toxic Metal Concentrations between 1983 and 1993 in the Dayton Ohio Region. Senior Thesis. The University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio (USA)