Dr. Dale Stephenson joined the faculty of the Department of Community and
Environmental Health at Boise State University in 2003. He is responsible for the overall
management and growth of the undergraduate environmental and occupational health academic
program, and directs the Center for Excellence for Environmental Health and Safety. The
Center promotes environmental health and occupational safety in Idaho through technical
assistance, consultation, and outreach. Dr. Stephenson has a Ph.D. in Environmental
Health, with an emphasis in Occupational Health, from Colorado State University. He is
board certified in the comprehensive practice of industrial hygiene (CIH) by the American
Board of Industrial Hygiene. In addition to his work at Boise State, Dr. Stephenson
serves the community as vice-chairman of the governor-appointed Treasure Valley Air
Quality Council, a council member of the National Environmental Health Science and
Protection Accreditation Council, a member of the crop burning advisory committee of the
Idaho Department of Environmental Quality, and a member of the board of directors of the
Pacific Northwest International Section of the Air & Waste Management Association. 

In 2012, Dr. Stephenson traveled to both Malaysia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as
an external reviewer for newly formed undergraduate programs in environmental and
occupational health at Universiti Sains Malaysia in Kota Bharu, and Jumeira University in
Dubai. He had also been to the United Arab Emirates in 2010 as chair of a site visit team
performing an accreditation review of undergraduate degrees in global health and
environmental health and safety at Abu Dhabi University.

Articles & Conference Proceedings

Comparison of Sampling Methods to Measure Exposure to Diesel Particulate Matter in an Underground Metal Mine (with T. M. Spear and M. G. Lutte), Mining Engineering (2006)

Diesel particulate matter (DPM) continues to be scrutinized as an adverse occupational exposure agent. Currently,...

 

Environmental Health and Service Learning (with Kelly Tuohig, Dean Lillquist, Justin Bird, Stephen Adler, and Mark Babitz), Academic Exchange Quarterly (2005)

In developing curriculum for a Salt Lake City, Utah High School's Advance Placement--Environmental Studies class,...

 

Occupational Exposure to Snowmobile Emission at Yellowstone National Park (with Wendy Campbell, Ryan Morris, and Terry Spear), Proceedings of the National Occupational Research Agenda Symposium, Salt Lake City, UT (2005)

In recent years, regulations regarding snowmobile recreation in Yellowstone National Park have become more restrictive....

 

Side-by-Side Comparison of Three Sampling Methods for Aerosolized Endotoxin in a Wastewater Treatment Facility (with Dean R. Lillquist, Frank D. DeRosso, Daniel D. Greene, and George White), Journal of Environmental Health (2004)

Research studies have established the occurrence of adverse health effects in individuals exposed to organic...

 

The Presence of P22 Bacteriophage in Electrocautery Aerosols (with David A. Allcott and Michael Koch), Proceedings of the National Occupational Research Agenda Symposium, Salt Lake City, UT (2004)

Electrosurgery units, including lasers and electrosurgical cauterizers, are commonly used for both inpatient and outpatient...

 

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Contributions to Books

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Respiratory Protection (with David O. Wallace, Tori Burns, and Dean Lillquist), Essential Resources for Industrial Hygiene : A Compendium of Current Practice Standards and Guidelines (2000)
 

Presentations

Carbon Monoxide Poisonings and Fatalities Associated with Recreational Watercraft, Annual Education Conference, National Environmental Health Association (2011)

Carbon monoxide (CO) is a colorless and odorless gas generated from the incomplete combustion of...

 

Evaluation and Control of Noise and Airborne Chemical Agents, Safety Fest of the Great Northwest (2011)

This course will cover the fundamentals of evaluation and control of noise and airborne chemical...

 

Status of EPA’s Proposed Rule to Strengthen the Ozone Standard, PNWIS 2010, Air & Waste Management Association’s Regional Conference (2010)

On January 6, 2010 the EPA rolled out a proposal to reduce the 8-hour primary...