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- EU-Project Poseidon, Assessment of
Technologies for the Removal of Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products in Sewage and
Drinking Water Facilities to Improve the Indirect Potable Water Reuse, European Union
- Environmental Risk Assessment of
Veterinary Medicines in Sludge (ERAVMIS), International Office for Water
- Global Earth Sciences
Organizations
- The Contaminated Land Rehabilitation Network for
Environmental Technologies in Europe (CLARINET)
- EUGRIS: Portal for Soil and Water Management in
Europe
- Australian Geological Survey Organization
- CRC for Waste Management and Pollution Control
Limited (Australia)
- Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies (CRES),
Conducts interdisciplinary research on environmental and resource issues (Australia)
- Environment Canada
- Danish Hydraulic Institute
- NEDO Global Environmental Technology
Development (Japan)
- Laboratory for Environmental
Biotechnology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Information on
bioremediation, biodegradation, and phytoremediation (Switzerland)
- Contaminated Land: Applications in Real Environments
(CLAIRE) (United Kingdom)
- www.ContaminatedLand.co.uk, Information on
contaminated land in the UK, for all working in the field, whether involved in buying, selling,
assessing, advising, or remediating (United Kingdom)
- Environmental Water Management Research
Centre, Cardiff School of Engineering, Cardiff University (United Kingdom)
- Hydrogeology Research
Group, University of Birmingham, Conducts research on numerical modeling, geochemistry,
ground-water contamination, and remediation (United Kingdom)
- The National Center for Environmental Toxicology (NCET)
(United Kingdom)
- Center for Biomedical and Toxicological Research,
Florida State University
- Center for Bioremediation, Weber
State University
- Center For Ecological Risk
Assessment and Management, Colorado State University
- Center for Environmental Biotechnology, The University
of Tennessee, Knoxville
- Center for Environmental Chemistry and
Geochemistry, Pennsylvania State University ( Penn State )
- Center for Expertise for Superfund
Site Recycling, University of Virginia
- Center for Groundwater Research at the Oregon Graduate
Institute coordinates a range of projects relating to the transport and fate of contaminants
in soils and groundwater
- Center for Water Research, University of Texas at
San Antonio
- Center for Water Research and Policy,
School of the Environment, University of South Carolina
- Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology, CIIT is a
not-for-profit toxicology research institute dedicated to providing an improved scientific basis
for understanding and assessing the potential adverse effects of chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and
consumer products on human health.
- Environmental Research Group, University of New
Hampshire , Conducts research on ground water processes and bioremediation
- Geohydrology and Geochemistry
Section, Center for Nuclear Waste Regulatory Analyses, Southwest Research Institute,
Research on hydrologic flow and transport of environmental contaminants in diverse geological
systems
- Groundwater Geochemistry and
Remediation, University of Waterloo , Summaries of research on the fate, transport, and
remediation of metals and nutrients in ground water
- Hazardous Substance Research Centers (HSRC)
- Hydrogeology Research Group, University of
Tennessee , Knoxville , Conducts research on contaminant transport in ground water
- Institute for International Cooperative Environmental
Research, Florida State University
- Institute of Chemical Toxicology, Wayne State
University conducts research on the short- and long-term effects of chemicals on human,
animal, and plant life.
- MIT Center for Environmental Health Sciences
- North Carolina State
University Water Quality Group, A multidisciplinary group that studies nonpoint source (NPS)
pollution policy, assessment, and control technologies
- Phytoremediation Research Lab, University
of California , Berkeley
- Superfund Basic Research Program,
University of California, Berkeley
- SUNY Environmental Science and Forestry
- Utah Water Resource Laboratory - In-Situ
Bioremediation
- University Consortium
Solvents-in-Groundwater Research Program, A university-based research program on the
behavior, fate, and remediation of chlorinated solvents in the subsurface
- University of Arizona Contaminant Transport
Group, Investigations of fate and transport of contaminants in the subsurface
- University of Idaho Center For Hazardous Waste
Remediation Research
- National Environmental Methods Index -- A free online
clearinghouse of environmental monitoring methods.
- The National Toxicity Program
- Chemical Health &
Safety Data -- Health and Safety information has been collected on over 2000 chemicals
studied by the National Toxicity Program.
- EXTOXNET - The EXtension
TOXicology NETwork -- The EXTOXNET InfoBase provides a variety of information about pesticides.
EXTOXNET is a cooperative effort of University of California-Davis, Oregon State University,
Michigan State University, Cornell University, and the University of Idaho.
- The American Geological
Institute Groundwater and Soil Contamination Database
- ToxFAQs Frequently Asked Questions About
Contaminants Found at Hazardous Waste Sites.
- The Groundwater Remediation Technologies Analysis Center
(GWRTAC) compiles, analyzes, and disseminates information on innovative ground-water
remediation technologies
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Groundwater
Pollution Primer; Online information on pollution sources, contaminant types, transport and
fate, monitoring, modeling, and remediation; Virginia Tech
- Natural Attenuation Tool Kit-The Web
Site, A web site created for professionals and students to promote a better understanding of
natural attenuation processes and protocols
- Hazardous Waste Resource Center, sponsored by the
Environmental Technology Center (a trade association of environmental firms that recycle, treat,
and dispose of industrial and hazardous wastes; and clean up contaminated sites)
- Environmental Chemistry.com,
Environmental, Chemistry, and Hazardous Materials Information and Resources, An educational site
that makes the subject of chemistry a little less daunting to the average student
- Brownfields Technology Support Center, A
cooperative effort to provide technical support to federal, state, and local officials on items
related to use of technology for site investigation and cleanup
- Environmental Fate Data Base (EFDB) -- the
ERDB gives rapid access to all available environmental fate data on a given chemical. The EFDB
is comprised of several interrelated files--DATALOG, CHEMFATE, BIOLOG, and BIODEG. The data base
is sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
- Cleanup Levels for Hazardous Waste Sites -- A
large collection of links to information on regulatory requirements for cleanup levels at
hazardous waste sites. This web site is maintained by a knowledgeable individual as a service to
environmental professionals of all kinds
- Hyporheic Network -- A knowledge transfer network on ground water/surface water
interactions and hyporheic zone processes (United Kingdom)
- Toxicological Profile Information
Sheets from the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) --
Each sheet contains information on a substance's toxicity, health effects, and potential
exposure
- Environmental Contaminants Encyclopedia,
General information about 118 elements, compounds, and products (U.S. National Park Service)
- DAIN Metadatabase of Resources for
Environmental Chemicals, A collection of separate databases that can be searched by type of
database, use of chemicals, type of information and/or descriptors
- Toxicology and Environmental Health
Information, National Library of Medicine's databases and other information services related
to toxicology, hazardous chemicals and environmental health
- Where to Find Material Safety Data Sheets on the
Internet
- MSDS-Search, A comprehensive listing of free
information on Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS)
Links presented on this page are for informational purposes only and do not indicate endorsement by
the U.S. Geological Survey or the Toxic Substances Hydrology Program.
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