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William H. Glaze: a tribute to a 21st century pioneer in Environmental Science and Technology.

environmental science and technology In this special issue, Environmental Science & Technology (ES&T) pays tribute to Dr. William (Bill) H. Glaze, a man of science, knowledge, research, and respect, who served as Editor-in-Chief of the journal from 1988 to 2002. This issue has been coordinated with the excellent technical assistance of the ES&T editorial staff, particularly Dr. Darcy J. Gentleman (managing editor, ACS headquarters), Dr. Barbara Booth (assistant editor, ES&T Iowa office), and Peggy Singer (editorial assistant, University of Oklahoma). Several contributions in this issue stem from a Special Symposium entitled “Environmental Science and Technology: A Tribute to William ‘Bill’ Glaze”, held at the 238th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in Washington, DC in August 2009. This was a very special occasion that highlighted the close connection of Bill’s life work, his dedication to science, and how he was a prime motivating force in the evolution of environmental science and technology as a discipline. On this occasion, Dr. Darcy Gentleman, on behalf of the current ES&T Editor Dr. Jerald Schnoor and ACS Publications, presented Bill with a plaque for his outstanding contributions to the journal. The breadth and depth of Bill’s contributions to the discipline are reflected in many topical areas he worked in. These included work on the fate of organic compounds in the environment, the use of ozone and other advanced oxidation techniques for drinking water treatment, and many other studies that can be generalized as sustainable development, sustainable energy, and green chemistry, well before such topics were particularly fashionable. A hint of the scope and impact of Bill’s example is reflected in the 22 papers in this special issue that encompass a range of contributions written by leading scientists, some of whom are Bill’s colleagues, former students or postdoctoral fellows, and close friends. The papers included in this tribute issue can arbitrarily be grouped into five general areas including (1) water treatment, (2) advanced oxidation processes, (3) enhanced biological transformations, (4) advances in molecular environmental science, and (5) environmental aspects of nanoparticles. One of the interesting aspects of Bill’s career as both a scholar and editor was to position ES&T at the intersection of environmental biology and chemistry. Perhaps not an issue of the journal goes by wherein the metabolic fate of some contaminant is not considered in great detail. It is somehow entirely fitting that most of the contributions in this tribute reflect this overriding philosophy. The first group of papers by Pressman et al. (Environ. Sci. Technol. DOI 10.1021/es9039314), Loperfido et al. (Environ. Sci. Technol. DOI 10.1021/es100164c), Daskalaki et al. (Environ. Sci. Technol. DOI 10.1021/es9038962), Attene-Ramos et al. (Environ. Sci. Technol. DOI 10.1021/ es1000193), Kallio et al. (Environ. Sci. Technol. DOI 10.1021/es903402c), and Yi et al. (Environ. Sci. Technol. DOI 10.1021/es100233w) study the health effects of disinfection byproducts, the utility of volunteer water quality data for monitoring purposes, the use of photocatalysts for the degradation of organic and inorganic compounds in wastewater, the genotoxicity of drinking water disinfection byproducts, the fate of an anti-inflammatory drug and its metabolite in fish, and the presence of antibiotics and associated resistance genes in several environmental compartments, respectively. Advanced oxidation of contaminants is the subject of papers by Burns et al. (Environ. Sci. Technol. DOI 10.1021/es903519m), Bokare and Choi (Environ. Sci. Technol. DOI 10.1021/es903930h), Antoniou et al. (Environ. Sci. Technol. DOI 10.1021/es1000243), and Kornaros et al. (Environ. Sci. Technol. DOI 10.1021/es100564j), that analyze the generation of reactive oxygen species, consider the degradation of aqueous organic pollutants by these oxidants, the interactions of cyanotoxins with sulfate radicals, and the modeling of oxidizing bacteria exposed to transient anoxic/aerobic conditions. The next group of papers, by Tomei et al. (Environ. Sci. Technol. DOI 10.1021/es903806p), Zhu and Aitken (Environ. Sci. Technol. DOI 10.1021/es100112a), Zhu et al. (Environ. Sci. Technol. DOI 10.1021/es100114g), Arias et al. (Environ. Sci. Technol. DOI 10.1021/es1008664), and Johnson et al. (Environ. Sci. Technol. DOI 10.1021/ es100161p), deal with the improvement of bioreactor performance for the removal of substituted phenol contaminants, mechanisms for the enhancement of PAH biodegradation, improvement of chromium phytoremediation by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, and substantive comment on the controls over mercury methylation in sediments. Papers by Callaghan et al. (Environ. Sci. Technol. DOI 10.1021/es1002023), Chhikara et al. (Environ. Sci. Technol. DOI 10.1021/es100116t), and Moberly et al. (Environ. Sci. Technol. DOI 10.1021/es100117f) illustrate the integration of molecular biology with environmental science objectives. This includes contributions on the detection of biomarker genes associated with anaerobic hydrocarbon decay in the environment, the genotoxicity of persistent organic pollutants in plants, and the toxicity of zinc species to microorganisms.