Environmental Monitoring

Empirical evaluation and recommendations for equivalent soil mass adjustment of soil organic carbon stocks
E Potash, A von Haden, L Bergschneider, MS Douglass, L Ferrari, RI Lopez, AR Martinez, AJ Margenot
Geoderma, 2026. (github)

Think outside the plots: Perimeter measurements and spatial modeling mitigate confounding in a 145-year experiment
E Potash, Y Nakayama, M Douglass, G Gonzalez, A Margenot
Agricultural & Environmental Letters, 2025. (figshare)

Measure-and-remeasure as an economically feasible approach to crediting soil organic carbon at scale
E Potash, MA Bradford, EE Oldfield, K Guan
Environmental Research Letters, 2025. (figshare, webapp)

Multi-site evaluation of stratified and balanced sampling of soil organic carbon stocks in agricultural fields
E Potash, K Guan, A Margenot, DK Lee, A Boe, M Douglass, E Heaton, C Jang, V Jin, N Li, R Mitchell, N Namoi, M Schmer, S Wang, C Zumpf
Geoderma, 2023. (figshare)

How to estimate soil organic carbon stocks of agricultural fields? Perspectives using ex-ante evaluation
E Potash, K Guan, A Margenot, DK Lee, E DeLucia, S Wang, C Jang
Geoderma, 2022.

A Bayesian Approach to Recreational Water Quality Model Validation and Comparison in the Presence of Measurement Error
E Potash and S Steinschneider
Water Resources Research, 2022.

Lead Poisoning

In collaboration with the Chicago Department of Public Health, I led the development and validation of a predictive model to target home lead investigations. The source code is available on GitHub. Our work was reported in the Chicago Tribune, The Atlantic, and South Side Weekly.

Predictive Modeling for Public Health: Preventing Childhood Lead Poisoning
E Potash, J Brew, A Loewi, S Majumdar, A Reece, J Walsh, E Rozier, E Jorgensen, R Mansour, R Ghani 21st ACM SIGKDD Proceedings, 2015.

Randomization Bias in Field Trials to Evaluate Targeting Methods
E Potash Economics Letters, 2018.

Validation of a Machine Learning Model to Predict Childhood Lead Poisoning
E Potash, R Ghani, J Walsh, E Jorgensen, C Lohff, N Prachand, R Mansour
JAMA Network Open, 2020.

As a member of the Proactively Addressing Substandard Housing (PASH) working group, I helped draft a city ordinance proposing the Chicago Healthy Homes Inspection Program (CHHIP), a universal rental housing inspection program to protect tenants from health hazards including lead.

Algorithmic Fairness

Prediction-Based Decisions and Fairness: A Catalogue of Choices, Assumptions, and Definitions
S Mitchell, E Potash, S Barocas, A D’Amour, K Lum
Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application, 2021.