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John C. Little

John C. Little

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
48
Citations
8334
World Ranking
5557
National Ranking
2030

Overview

John C. Little is affiliated with Virginia Tech in the United States and conducts research primarily in the field of Environmental Science. Their work spans several subfields including Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Environmental Engineering, Water Science and Technology, Global and Planetary Change, and Oceanography.

The research topics explored by John C. Little cover a variety of environmental and health-related issues. These include:

  • Indoor Air Quality and Microbial Exposure
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact
  • Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals
  • Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics
  • Odor and Emission Control Technologies
  • Water resources management and optimization

Key publication venues where John C. Little has frequently published include:

  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Water Resources Research
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by John C. Little are:

  • Assessing Human Exposure to SVOCs in Materials, Products, and Articles: A Modular Mechanistic Framework, 2020, Environmental Science & Technology
  • Socio-technical scales in socio-environmental modeling: Managing a system-of-systems modeling approach, 2020, Environmental Modelling & Software
  • The Magnitude and Drivers of Methane Ebullition and Diffusion Vary on a Longitudinal Gradient in a Small Freshwater Reservoir, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
  • CO2 emissions from urban buildings at the city scale: System dynamic projections and potential mitigation policies, 2020, Applied Energy
  • Integrated assessment across building and urban scales: A review and proposal for a more holistic, multi-scale, system-of-systems approach, 2022, Sustainable Cities and Society

Frequent co-authors collaborating with John C. Little include:

  • Clara M. A. Eichler
  • Ying Xu
  • Chenyang Bi
  • Elaine A. Cohen Hubal
  • Amro M. Farid

Best Publications

  • Modeling Emissions of Volatile Organic Compounds from New Carpets

    John C Little;Alfred T Hodgson;Ashok J Gadgil

  • Can commonly-used fan-driven air cleaning technologies improve indoor air quality? A literature review

    Yinping Zhang;Jinhan Mo;Yuguo Li;Jan Sundell;Jan Sundell

  • Predicting Emissions of SVOCs from Polymeric Materials and Their Interaction with Airborne Particles

    Ying Xu;John C. Little

  • Rapid methods to estimate potential exposure to semivolatile organic compounds in the indoor environment.

    John C. Little;Charles J. Weschler;William W Nazaroff;Zhe Liu

  • Predicting Residential Exposure to Phthalate Plasticizer Emitted from Vinyl Flooring: A Mechanistic Analysis

    Ying Xu;Elaine A Cohen Hubal;Per A Clausen;John C Little

  • Predicting emissions of volatile and semivolatile organic compounds from building materials: A review

    Zhe Liu;Wei Ye;Wei Ye;John C. Little

  • Measuring partition and diffusion coefficients for volatile organic compounds in vinyl flooring

    Steven S. Cox;Dongye Zhao;John C. Little

  • Influence of Temperature on the Emission of Di-(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate (DEHP) from PVC Flooring in the Emission Cell FLEC

    Per Axel Clausen;Zhe Liu;Vivi Kofoed-Sørensen;John Little

  • Machine learning and statistical models for predicting indoor air quality.

    Wenjuan Wei;Olivier Ramalho;Laeticia Malingre;Sutharsini Sivanantham

  • Designing hypolimnetic aeration and oxygenation systems--a review.

    Vickie L Singleton;John C Little

  • Measuring and predicting the emission rate of phthalate plasticizer from vinyl flooring in a specially-designed chamber.

    Ying Xu;Zhe Liu;Jinsoo Park;Per A. Clausen

  • Predicting diffused-bubble oxygen transfer rate using the discrete-bubble model.

    Daniel Frank Mcginnis;John C Little

  • Controlling soluble iron and manganese in a water-supply reservoir using hypolimnetic oxygenation.

    Paul A. Gantzer;Lee D. Bryant;John C. Little

  • Predicting the emission rate of volatile organic compounds from vinyl flooring.

    Steven S. Cox;John C. Little;Alfred T. Hodgson

  • Transport of subsurface contaminants into buildings

    John C. Little;Joan M. Daisey;William W. Nazaroff

  • Predicting residential exposure to phthalate plasticizer emitted from vinyl flooring: sensitivity, uncertainty, and implications for biomonitoring.

    Ying Xu;Elaine A. Cohen Hubal;John C. Little

  • Interaction between a bubble plume and the near field in a stratified lake

    Daniel Frank Mcginnis;A. Lorke;A. Wüest;A. Stöckli

  • Applying the two-resistance theory to contaminant volatilization in showers

    John C. Little

  • First report of the successful operation of a side stream supersaturation hypolimnetic oxygenation system in a eutrophic, shallow reservoir.

    Alexandra B. Gerling;Richard G. Browne;Paul A. Gantzer;Mark H. Mobley

  • Characterizing gas-particle interactions of phthalate plasticizer emitted from vinyl flooring.

    Jennifer L. Benning;Zhe Liu;Andrea Tiwari;John C. Little

  • Can commonly-used active air cleaning technologies improve indoor air quality? A literature review

    Yinping Zhang;Jinhan Mo;Yuguo Li;Jan Sundell;Jan Sundell

Frequent Co-Authors

Cayelan C. Carey
Cayelan C. Carey Virginia Tech
Alfred Wüest
Alfred Wüest Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Daniel Frank Mcginnis
Daniel Frank Mcginnis University of Geneva
William W. Nazaroff
William W. Nazaroff University of California, Berkeley
Alfred T. Hodgson
Alfred T. Hodgson Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Yinping Zhang
Yinping Zhang Tsinghua University
Linsey C. Marr
Linsey C. Marr Virginia Tech
Per Axel Clausen
Per Axel Clausen National Research Centre for the Working Environment
Charles J. Weschler
Charles J. Weschler Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Chengwang Lei
Chengwang Lei University of Sydney

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