Thomas McKone, Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor of Environmental Health Sciences
PHONE: (510) 642-8771 or (510) 486-6163
FAX: (510) 642-5815
LOCATION: 743 University Hall
E-MAIL: temckone@lbl.gov
WEBSITE: http://ehs.sph.berkeley.edu/people/mckone.htm
Research Interests
- Risk assessment methods
- Health tracking
- Mass transfer at environmental and human/environment boundaries
- Model uncertainty and reliability in exposure/risk assessment
- Environmental and occupational radioactivity
Publications
McKone TE, and Deshpande AW, "Can Fuzzy Logic Bring Complex Problems into Focus?" Environmental Science and Technology 39(1)A-pages feature, 2005
MacLeod MJ and McKone TE, "Overall Multi-Media Persistence as an Indicator of Potential for Population-Level Intake of Environmental Contaminants," Journal Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 23(10)2465-2472 2004
Lobscheid AB and McKone TE, "Constraining Uncertainties about the Sources and Magnitude of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon (PAH) Levels in Ambient Air: the State of Minnesota as a Case Study," Atmospheric Environment, 38(33)5501-5515, 2004
McKone, TE and MacLeod MJ "Tracking Multiple Pathways of Human Exposure to Persistent Multimedia Pollutants: Regional, Continental, and Global Scale Models,” Annual Reviews of Environment and Resources, 28:463-492, 2004
Sohn MD, McKone TE, and Blancato JN, “Reconstructing population exposures from dose biomarkers: inhalation of trichloroethylene (TCE) as a case study” Journal of Exposure Analysis and Environmental Epidemiology , 14(3):204-213, 2004
McKone TE and Bennett DH, “Chemical-Specific Representation of Air-Soil Exchange and Soil Penetration in Regional Multimedia Models,” Environmental Science & Technology, 33(14):2123-2132, 2003
Other Interests
- Senior Staff Scientist and Deputy Department Health, Indoor Environment Department, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Member, Committee on Assessment of the Health Implications of Exposure to Dioxin, National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences, 2004 - present
- Member, Committee on the Selection and Use of Models in the Regulatory Decision Process, National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences, 2003 - present
Profile updated: January 31, 2005