John J. Bloomfield Award

2025 John J. Bloomfield Awardee

The John J. Bloomfield Award is presented to a young industrial hygienist who pursues the problem of occupational health hazards primarily by doing fieldwork.

The 2025 Bloomfield Award recipient is Dylan James, MS.

Dylan James is an industrial hygienist at SafeBridge Consulting where he specializes in industrial ventilation, and industrial Hygiene. He received his masters from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill where he studied environmental engineering and focused on hazard modeling and indoor aerosol chemistry. Dylan sits on the AIHA aerosol technology board, the North Carolina American Industrial Hygiene Association board, and instructs at the North Carolina Industrial Ventilation Conference. Dylan is a former recipient of the Pat Curran Memorial Award.

Previous Award Recipients

  • 1979 — Gary A. Wiederhoeft
  • 1980 — Ronald J. Young
  • 1981 — Lynn C. O Donnell
  • 1982 — Jack O. Geissert
  • 1983 — John M. Fajen
  • 1984 — Margie E. Zalesak
  • 1985 — Scott E. Merkle
  • 1986 — Deborah S. Green
  • 1987 — Miriam C. Vaughn
  • 1988 — Kathy L. Morring
  • 1989 — Michael G. Gressel
  • 1990 — Mark A. Ashworth
  • 1991 — Mary Giguere
  • 1992 — Patricia M. Holton
  • 1993 — Jeffrey C. Hutchins
  • 1994 — Teresa A. Seitz
  • 1995 — Mark J. Nieuwenhuijsen
  • 1996 — David M. Zalk
  • 1997 — Dean R. Lillquist
  • 1998 — D. Scott Hayes
  • 1999 — Stanley J. Jossell
  • 2000 — Seth J. Burmeister
  • 2001 — Michael V. Van Dyke
  • 2002 — Lieutenant Robert E. McCleery
  • 2003 — Kimberley J. Nipko
  • 2004 — Anthony J. Intrepido
  • 2005 — Lieutenant Commander Lauralynn Taylor
  • 2006 — Aleksandr B. Stefaniak
  • 2007 — Robert M. Eninger, Maj, USAF, CIH
  • 2008 — Aubrey Grimes
  • 2009 — Jessica Ramsey
  • 2010 — Shannon Henshaw Gaffney, MHS, PhD, CIH
  • 2011 — Lilia Chen, MS, CIH
  • 2012 — Cara M. Mitchell
  • 2013 — Erica Jones, CIH
  • 2014 — Catherine A. Hovde, CIH, CSP
  • 2015 — R. Todd Niemeier, MS, CIH
  • 2016 — Enjoli DeGrasse Parson, MSPH, CIH
  • 2017 — Lucinette Alvarado, MS, CIH
  • 2018 — Carl E. Johnson, CIH, CSP
  • 2019 — Phillip Rauscher, MPH, CSP, CIH
  • 2020 — Elizabeth Angus
  • 2021 — Michael Grant, ScD
  • 2022 — Rebecca M. Burton, CIH, CSP, MPH
  • 2023 — Robert Vannice, MS, CIH, CSP
  • 2024 — Margaret Sietsema, PhD, CIH