Publications & Presentations

Steven Babin

Peer-reviewed Publications:

  1. Rowland J, Babin S, 1987: Fine-scale measurements of microwave refractivity profiles with helicopter and low-cost rocket probes. Johns Hopkins APL Tech. Digest, 8, 413-417.

  2. Babin S, Rowland J, 1992: Observation of a strong surface radar duct using helicopter acquired fine-scale radio refractivity measurements. Geophys. Res. Lett., 19, No. 9, 917-920.

  3. Babin S, Miller R, Rowland J, 1993: A high-power, dual-frequency monostatic acoustic sounder for studying the atmospheric boundary layer. J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 10, No. 4, 486-492.

  4. Babin S, 1995: A case study of subrefractive conditions at Wallops Island, Virginia. J. Appl. Meteorol., 34, No. 5, 1028-1038.

  5. Babin S, 1995: Sensitivity of average annual runoff to spatial variability and temporal correlation of rainfall. J. Climate, 8, No. 8, 2104-2108 (scholarly paper for Master's thesis).

  6. Babin S, 1996: Surface duct height distributions for Wallops Island, Virginia, 1985 to 1994. J. Appl. Meteorol., 35, No. 1, 86-93.

  7. Babin S, G. Young and J. Carton, 1997: A new model of the oceanic evaporation duct. J. Appl. Meteorol., 36, No. 3, 193-204.

  8. Monaldo F, Sikora T, Babin S, Sterner R, 1997: Satellite imagery of sea surface temperature cooling in the wake of 1996 Hurricane Edouard. Mon. Wea. Rev., 125, No. 10, 2716-2721.

  9. Babin S, Thompson D, 2000: Effects of atmospheric boundary layer moisture on friction velocity with implications for SAR imagery. IEEE Trans. Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 38, No. 1, 618-621.

  10. Sikora T, Porter D, Babin S, Wisecup M, 2001: Observations of a progressive warm-fresh oceanic front and a cool-moist atmospheric front at Duck, North Carolina. Boundary-Layer Meteorol., 100, No. 2, 349-361.

  11. Babin S, Dockery GD, 2002: LKB-based evaporation duct model comparison to buoy data. J. Appl. Meteorol., 41, No. 4, 434-446.

  12. Babin S, Sikora T, Winstead N, 2003: A case study of satellite synthetic aperture radar signatures of spatially evolving atmospheric convection over the Western Atlantic Ocean. Boundary-Layer Meteorol., 106, No. 3, 527-546.

  13. Babin S, 2003: Weather and climate effects on disease background levels. Johns Hopkins APL Tech. Digest, 24, No. 4, 343-348.

  14. Happel Lewis S, Cutchis P, Babin S, Burkom H, 2003: Simulated release of plague in Montgomery County, Maryland. Johns Hopkins APL Tech. Digest, 24, No. 4, 354-359.

  15. Babin S, Carton J, Dickey T, Wiggert J, 2004: Satellite evidence of hurricane-induced phytoplankton blooms in an oceanic desert. J. Geophysical Research - Oceans, 109, C03043, doi:10.1029/2003JC001938. Cited by ScienceWatch as One of the Top Twenty Tropical Storm papers cited during 2004-2006.

  16. Coberly J, Murphy S, Babin S, Burkom H, Feighner B, Lin J, Lombardo J, 2006: The development of virtual data for syndromic surveillance exercises. Advances in Disease Surveillance, 1, 15.

  17. Lin J, Burkom H, Murphy S, Elbert Y, Hakre S, Babin S, Feldman A, 2006: Bayesian Fusion of Syndromic Surveillance with Sensor Data for Disease Outbreak Classification. Chapter 6 in Life Science Data Mining, S. Wong and C-S. Li, Eds. Science, Engineering, and Biology Informatics - Vol. 2, World Scientific Publishing, Inc., Hackensack, NJ, 400 pp. (Published February 2007).

  18. Babin S, Burkom H, Holtry R, Tabernero N, Davies-Cole J, Stokes L, Lee D, 2007: An exploration of new uses of traditional data within an ecologic study: air quality effects on pediatric asthma exacerbation analysis. Advances in Disease Surveillance, 2, 141.

  19. Sikes Jr M, Holtry R, Babin S, Loschen W, Coberly J, Happel Lewis S, 2007: An innovative design for conducting simulation exercises on electronic disease surveillance systems. Advances in Disease Surveillance, 2, 212.

  20. Babin S, Burkom H, Holtry R, Tabernero N, Stokes L, Davies-Cole J, DeHaan K, Lee D, 2007: Pediatric patient asthma-related emergency department visits and admissions in Washington, DC, from 2001-2004, and associations with air quality, socio-economic status, and age group. Environmental Health, 6, 9 (21Mar2007), doi:10.1186/1476-069X-6-9.

  21. Babin S, Burkom H, Mnatsakanyan Z, Ramac-Thomas L, Thompson M, Wojcik R, Lombardo J, Happel Lewis S, Clayton K, 2007: Incorporating water security into syndromic surveillance. Advances in Disease Surveillance, 4, 1.

  22. Mnatsakanyan Z, Cutchis P, Babin S, Hung L, Mollura D, Lombardo J, 2007: Linking public health and healthcare data for syndromic surveillance. Advances in Disease Surveillance, 4, 12.

  23. Babin S, Cutchis P, Tabernero N, Hung L, Lombardo J, 2007: A simple method of using linked health data in syndromic surveillance. Advances in Disease Surveillance, 4, 83.

  24. Mollura D, Carrino J, Matuszak D, Mnatsakanyan Z, Eng J, Cutchis P, Babin S, Sniegoski C, Lombardo J, 2008: Bridging radiology and public health: the emerging field of radiologic public health informatics. Journal of the American College of Radiology, 5(3), 174-181.

  25. Babin S, Burkom H, Holtry R, Tabernero N, Davies-Cole J, 2008: Air quality effects on health indicator data in disease outbreak surveillance. Johns Hopkins APL Tech. Digest, 27, No. 4, 393-402.

  26. Babin S, Burkom H, Mnatsakanyan Z, Ramac-Thomas L, Thompson M, Wojcik R, Happel Lewis S, Yund C, 2008: Drinking water security and public health disease outbreak surveillance. Johns Hopkins APL Tech. Digest, 27, No. 4, 403-411.

  27. Babin S, Burkom H, Holtry R, Tabernero N, Stokes L, Davies-Cole J, DeHaan K, Lee D, 2008: Medicaid patient asthma-related acute care visits and their associations with ozone and particulates in Washington, DC, from 1994-2005. International Journal of Environmental Health Research, 18, No. 3, 209-221.

  28. Uscher-Pines L, Farrell C, Hsieh Y-H, Babin S, Gaydos C, Moskal M, Cattani J, Rothman R, 2008: Framework for the development of response protocols for public health syndromic surveillance systems. Advances in Disease Surveillance, 5, No. 2, 131.

  29. Uscher-Pines L, Farrell C, Hsieh Y-H, Babin S, Gaydos C, Moskal M, Cattani J, Rothman R, 2008: A survey of usage and response protocols of syndromic surveillance systems by state public health departments in the U.S. Advances in Disease Surveillance, 5, No. 2, 132.

  30. Uscher-Pines L, Farrell CL, Babin S, Cattani J, Gaydos CA, Hsieh Y-H, Moskal MD, Rothman RE, 2009: Framework for the development of response protocols for public health syndromic surveillance systems: case studies of eight US states. Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, 3(suppl 1): S29-S36.

  31. Uscher-Pines L, Farrell CL, Cattani J, Hsieh Y-H, Moskal MD, Babin S,Gaydos CA, Rothman RE, 2009: A survey of usage protocols of syndromic surveillance systems by state public health departments in the United States. J. Public Health Management and Practice, 15(5):432-438. doi: 10.1097/PHH.Ob013e3181a5d36b.

  32. Babin S, 2009: Detecting pneumonic plague in syndromic surveillance systems. Epidemiology and Infection, (in press), doi:10.1017/S0950268809990689.

  33. Tabernero NR, Loschen WA, Jorgensen J, Suereth J, Coberly JS, Holtry RS, Sikes ML, Babin S, Happel Lewis SL, 2009: Enhancing disease surveillance event communication among jurisdictions. Biomedical Informatics Insights, (in press).

  34. Moniz L, Buczak A, Hung L, Babin S, 2009: Construction and validation of synthetic electronic medical records. On-line Journal of Public Health Informatics, (in press).

Presentations, Books, Non-refereed Publications & Conference Proceedings:

  1. Babin S, 1983: An experimental study of a coiled unclad fiber optic pH sensor. M.S. Thesis, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 36 pp.

  2. Babin S, Rowland J, 1986: Meteorological studies of radar ducting phenomena. Presented by S. Babin at the 1986 International IEEE AP-S Symposium & URSI National Radio Science Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, 8-13 June. Preprints. 1986 National Radio Science Meeting, 284.

  3. Babin S, Rowland J, 1988: An acoustic sounder for monitoring qualitative temporal variations in vertical radio refractivity profiles in the lower troposphere. Presented by S. Babin at the IEEE/URSI National Radio Science Meeting, Boulder, CO, 5-8 January. Preprints. 1988 National Radio Science Meeting, 181.

  4. Babin S, Rowland J, 1989: Experimental measurements of microwave refractivity profiles in the lower troposphere using a small high power dual frequency monostatic acoustic sounder. Presented by S. Babin at the URSI Commission F Open Symposium, La Londe-Les-Maures, France, 11-15 September. Proc. 5th URSI Commission F Symposium, 4.2.1-4.2.4.

  5. Babin S, Rowland J, Miller R, 1990: Studies of the lower marine troposphere using a dual frequency high power acoustic sounder. Presented at IGARSS '90, (invited paper), College Park, MD, 20-24 May. Proc. of the IEEE Tenth Annual International Geoscience & Remote Sensing Symposium: Remote Sensing for the Nineties, Volume I, 71.

  6. Goldhirsh J, Babin S, Musiani B, Gebo N, 1990: Fade measurements and statistics for two over-the-water propagation links at C-band. Proc. of the IEEE Tenth Annual International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium: Remote Sensing for the Nineties (invited paper), College Park, MD, 20-24 May, Volume I, 75.

  7. Babin S, Rowland J, Miller R, 1991: Studies of the marine boundary layer and surface duct height using a dual frequency acoustic sounder. Presented by S. Babin at the American Meteorological Society 25th International Conference on Radar Meteorology, Paris, France, 24-28 June. Preprints. 25th International Conference on Radar Meteorology, 440-442.

  8. Babin S, 1996: A new model of the oceanic evaporation duct and its comparison with current models, Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Meteorology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 190 pp.

  9. Babin S, 1996: Radar meteorology in the marine boundary layer. Invited seminar presented at the Department of Meteorology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 26 April.

  10. Babin S, 1996: Statistical distributions of surface duct heights for Wallops Island, Virginia, over a ten year period. Presented at the 1996 International IEEE AP-S Symposium & URSI National Radio Science Meeting, Baltimore, MD, 22-25 July. Preprints. 1996 USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting, 112.

  11. Babin S, 1997: The oceanic evaporation duct. Invited seminar presented at the Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey, CA, 28 April.

  12. Babin S, 1997: The evaporation duct: an introduction. Invited seminar presented at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, 29 April.

  13. Beal R, Thompson D, Monaldo F, Babin S, 1997: Wind, wave, and current signatures in RADARSAT imagery. Proc. Geomatics in the Era of RADARSAT (Ger '97) Symposium, Application Development and Research Opportunity (ADRO) Program Mid-Term Symposium, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 26-27 May, Paper No. 352.

  14. Winstead N, Young G, Babin S, 1998: Inferring wind direction from the organization of mesoscale atmospheric signatures in RADARSAT imagery. Proc. of the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium: IGARSS '98, Seattle, Washington, 6-10 July, volume 2, 1159-1161.

  15. Beal R, Thompson D, Monaldo F, Babin S, 1998: Wind, wave, and current signatures in RADARSAT imagery. Application Development and Research Opportunity (ADRO) Final Symposium, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 13-15 October.

  16. Babin S, 2000: Remote sensing in coastal and marine meteorology. Invited seminar presented at the Maryland Space Grant Consortium, School of Professional Studies in Business and Education course in Understanding and Teaching Earth's Observations from Space, The Johns Hopkins University Columbia Center, 18 July.

  17. Babin S, Dockery GD, 2001: Comparison of LKB-based evaporation duct models with in situ atmospheric data. Presented by S. Babin at the URSI National Radio Science Meeting, Boulder, CO, 8 January. Preprints. 2001 USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting, 90.

  18. Spisz T, Barnum B, Hume E, Babin S, Stoyanov B, 2001: Forecasting radar ducting using RADMAPS and the MM5 weather model. Presented by T. Spisz at the MSS 47th Annual Tri-Service Radar Symposium, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD 22-24 May.

  19. Babin S, Carton J, Dickey T, Wiggert J, 2002: Hurricane-induced phytoplankton blooms in the Sargasso Sea. Presented by J. Wiggert at the 2002 AGU/ASLO Ocean Sciences Meeting, Hawaii Convention Center, Honolulu, HI, 11-15 February.

  20. Babin S, Casper J, Witt C, Lombardo J, 2003: Animal bio-surveillance. Invited presentation by S. Babin to the National Park Service Interprogram Response to Zoonotic/Environmentally Transmitted Diseases Workshop, Ft. Collins, CO, 7-8 January.

  21. Babin S, Casper J, Witt C, Happel Lewis S, Wojcik R, Magruder S, Burkom H, Weitzel J, Lombardo J, 2003: Early detection of possible bioterrorist events using sentinel animals. Peer-reviewed. Presented by S. Happel Lewis at the 131st Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, San Francisco, CA, 15-19 November.

  22. Babin S, Witt C, Casper J, Wojcik R, Happel Lewis S, Lombardo J, 2003: Syndromic animal surveillance in the Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE). Presented by C. Witt at the National Multi-Hazard Symposium: "One Medicine" Approach to Homeland Security, Research Triangle Park, NC, 11-12 December.

  23. Witt C, Anderson D, MacLarty A, Babin S, Wojcik R, Foster V, Vincent-Johnson N, 2004: Syndromic surveillance as a public health practice in veterinary treatment facilities. Presented by C. Witt at the 7th Annual Force Health Protection Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 8-12 August.

  24. Lin J, Burkom H, Murphy S, Babin S, Hakre S, Elbert Y, Feldman A, 2004: Fusing disparate, weighted evidence for threat assessment. Peer-reviewed. Presented by H. Burkom at the Joint Program Executive Office Conference on Science and Technology for Chem-Bio Information Systems, Williamsburg, VA, 19-21 October.

  25. Lin J, Burkom H, Murphy S, Elbert Y, Hakre S, Babin S, Feldman A, 2004: Bayesian fusion of syndromic surveillance with sensor data for disease outbreak classification. Presented by A. Feldman at the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, Brighton, England, 1-4 November.

  26. Hurt-Mullen K, Holtry R, Babin S, Coberly J, 2004: Syndromic surveillance on the epidemiologist's desktop: making sense of much data. Peer-reviewed. Presented by K. Hurt-Mullen at the 2004 National Syndromic Surveillance Conference, Boston, MA, 3-4 November.

  27. Lin J, Burkom H, Feldman A, Murphy S, Elbert Y, Hakre S, Babin S, 2004: Improving medical surveillance through fusing disparate evidence. Presented by J. Lin at the 2004 Scientific Conference on Chemical and Biological Defense Research, Hunt Vally, MD, 15-18 November.

  28. Lin J, Burkom H, Murphy S, Elbert Y, Hakre S, Babin S, Feldman A, 2005: Early confirmation of biosensor detections with Bayesian fusion of syndromic data. Presented by J. Lin at the 2005 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Public Health Information Network Conference, Atlanta, GA, 10-12 May.

  29. Murphy S, Burkom H, Feighner B, Coberly J, Babin S, Lin J, Sikes Jr M, Higgins T, Ashar R, Lombardo J, 2005: The development of virtual inject data for syndromic surveillance exercises. Presented by S. Murphy at the Department of Defense Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System Emerging Infectious Disease Modeling Symposium, Linthicum, MD, 3 August.

  30. Sikes Jr M, Babin S, Holtry R, Coberly J, Murphy S, Burkom H, Happel Lewis S, 2005: Exercising use of electronic syndromic surveillance in public health preparedness. Presented by S. Babin at the 2005 National Syndromic Surveillance Conference, Seattle, WA, 14-15 September.

  31. Coberly J, Murphy S, Babin S, Burkom H, Feighner B, Lombardo J, 2005: The development of virtual data for syndromic surveillance exercises. Presented by J. Coberly at the 2005 National Syndromic Surveillance Conference, Seattle, WA, 14-15 September.

  32. Lin J, Murphy S, Burkom H, Feighner B, Babin S, 2005: Modeling Aggregate Behavior in Syndromic Surveillance. Presented by J.Lin at the 2005 Scientific Conference on Chemical and Biological Defense Research, Timonium, MD, 14-16 November.

  33. Sikes Jr M, Holtry R, Babin S, Loschen W, Coberly J, Happel Lewis S, 2006: An Innovative Design for Conducting Simulation Exercises on Electronic Disease Surveillance Systems. Presented by M. Sikes at the 2006 Syndromic Surveillance Conference, Baltimore, MD, 18-20 October.

  34. Babin S, Burkom H, Holtry R, Tabernero N, Stokes L, Davies-Cole J, Lee D, DeHaan K, 2006: An Investigation of New Uses of Traditional Data Within An Ecological Study: Air Quality Effects On Pediatric Asthma Exacerbation Analysis. Presented by R. Holtry at the 2006 Syndromic Surveillance Conference, Baltimore, MD, 18-20 October.

  35. Babin S, Magruder S, Hakre S, Coberly J, Lombardo J, 2007: Understanding the Data: Health Indicators in Disease Surveillance. Chapter 2 in Disease Surveillance: A Public Health Informatics Approach, J. Lombardo and D. Buckeridge, Eds., Wiley-Interscience, John Wiley and Sons, New York, 488 pp.

  36. Happel Lewis S, Hurt-Mullen K, Martin C, Ma H, Tokars J, Lombardo J, Babin S, 2007: Modern Disease Surveillance Systems in Public Health Practice. Chapter 6 in Disease Surveillance: A Public Health Informatics Approach, J. Lombardo and D. Buckeridge, Eds., Wiley-Interscience, John Wiley and Sons, New York, 488 pp.

  37. Buckeridge D, Thompson M, Babin S, Sikes Jr M, 2007: Evaluating Automated Surveillance Systems. Chapter 10 in Disease Surveillance: A Public Health Informatics Approach, J. Lombardo and D. Buckeridge, Eds., Wiley-Interscience, John Wiley and Sons, New York, 488 pp.

  38. Mnatsakanyan Z, Cutchis P, Babin S, Hung L, Mollura D, Lombardo J, 2007: Linking Healthcare Data for Public Health Surveillance. Presented by Z. Mnatsakanyan at the 5th Annual Public Health Information Network (PHIN) Conference, Atlanta, GA, 27-29 August.

  39. Cutchis P, Lombardo J, Babin S, Mollura D, 2007: Use of the AHIC Minimum Data Set to Support Public Health Practice. Presented by P. Cutchis at the 5th Annual Public Health Information Network (PHIN) Conference, Atlanta, GA, 27-29 August.

  40. Babin S, Burkom H, Mnatsakanyan Z, Ramac-Thomas L, Thompson M, Wojcik R, Lombardo J, Happel Lewis S, Clayton K, 2007: Incorporating water security into syndromic surveillance. Peer-reviewed and selected as a Plenary talk. Presented by S. Babin at the Sixth Annual International Society for Disease Surveillance Conference, Indianapolis, IN, 11-12 October.

  41. Mnatsakanyan Z, Cutchis P, Babin S, Hung L, Mollura D, Lombardo J, 2007: Linking public health and healthcare data for syndromic surveillance. Peer-reviewed. Presented by Z. Mnatsakanyan at the Sixth Annual International Society for Disease Surveillance Conference, Indianapolis, IN, 11-12 October.

  42. Babin S, Cutchis P, Tabernero N, Hung L, Lombardo J, 2007: A simple method of using linked health data in syndromic surveillance. Peer-reviewed. Presented by P. Cutchis at the Sixth Annual International Society for Disease Surveillance Conference, Indianapolis, IN, 11-12 October.

  43. Buczak A, Moniz L, Copeland J, Rolka H, Lombardo J, Babin S, Feighner B, 2008: Data-driven hybrid method for synthetic electronic medical records generation. Presented by A Buczak at the Data Mining and Analysis session of the Intelligent Data Analysis in Biomedicine and Pharmacology (IDAMAP) 2008 Workshop,in conjunction with the American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium, Washington, DC, 7 November.

  44. Uscher-Pines L, Farrell C, Hsieh Y-H, Babin S, Gaydos C, Moskal M, Cattani J, Rothman R, 2008: A survey of usage and response protocols of syndromic surveillance systems by state public health departments in the U.S. Peer-reviewed. Presented by L. Uscher-Pines at the Seventh Annual International Society for Disease Surveillance Conference, Raleigh, NC, 3-5 December.

  45. Uscher-Pines L, Farrell C, Hsieh Y-H, Babin S, Gaydos C, Moskal M, Cattani J, Rothman R, 2008: Framework for the development of response protocols for public health syndromic surveillance systems: preliminary results from Texas, Minnesota, New Jersey, and District of Columbia. Peer-reviewed. Presented by L. Uscher-Pines at the Seventh Annual International Society for Disease Surveillance Conference, Raleigh, NC, 3-5 December.

  46. Burkom H, Ramac-Thomas L, Babin S, Holtry R, Mnatsakanyan Z, Yund C, 2009: An accessible approach for fusion of environmental and human health data for disease surveillance. Invited talk presented by H Burkom at the 12th Biennial Symposium on Statistical Methods: Utilization of Multi-Source Data, Statistical Advisory Group, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Decatur, GA, April 7.

  47. Farrell C, Uscher-Pines L, Babin S, Rothman R, 2009: Research priorities for syndromic surveillance systems response: an expert panel summary. Presented by C Farrell at the 137th Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, Philadelphia, PA, November 9.

  48. Uscher-Pines L, Babin S, Farrell C, Hsieh Y-H, Gaydos C, Moskal M, Rothman R, 2009: Framework for the development of response protocols for public health syndromic surveillance systems: expert panel recommendations. Presented by L Uscher-Pines at the 137th Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, Philadelphia, PA, November 10.

  49. Burkom H, Ramac-Thomas L, Holtry R, Babin S, 2009: An accessible approach for fusion of environmental and human health data for disease surveillance. Presented by H Burkom at the 137th Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, Philadelphia, PA, November 10.