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Training Workshops
Table of Contents
- What's new in release 2.2?
- Basic Information
- What does AQUATOX do?
- Training—classes and downloadable lectures
- AQUATOX Email Listserver
- Selected Publications on AQUATOX
- Upcoming AQUATOX Training Workshop
- Training Workshop Materials
- Sign up to receive email notification about future training
Upcoming Workshop
A one day short course on AQUATOX 
will be presented as part of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) North America 29th Annual Meeting to be held 16–20 November 2008 at the Tampa Convention Center, Tampa, Florida, USA. The workshop will be held on Sunday November 16th, 2008.
Course Details (subject to change)
Objectives
The objective is to familiarize users of diverse backgrounds with the capabilities of AQUATOX Release 3 distributed by the US EPA for use in a variety of regulatory settings. The model will be compared with a variety of other models used in risk assessment. It provides a detailed overview for those who cannot spare the time or travel expense to attend an EPA-sponsored 3-day workshop. While not hands-on, the course will provide documentation, code, example files, and setup instruction for attendees.
Description
The course is a distillation of a three-day comprehensive course offered by the US EPA. The code, example files, and lecture material for the course will be provided on CD. The course will include comparisons with other dynamic ecosystem models used for risk assessment. Examples of applications will cover the impacts of nutrients, sediments, and toxic organics on a variety of ponds, lakes, reservoirs, rivers, and an estuary.
Topics
- Introduction to course, organization
- Why AQUATOX? Comparison with other water quality, fate, and effects models
- How is AQUATOX used? Overview of user-friendly graphical interface
- What are the analytical capabilities? control-perturbed comparisons, process rates, sensitivity analysis, uncertainty analysis
- Applications in nutrient criteria: Lake Onondaga NY, MN rivers, Lower Boise River ID, Lake Tenkiller OK
- Applications in sediment impacts: Lower Boise River ID, Blue Earth River MN, Cahaba River AL
- Applications in fate of organic chemicals: HCB in tank, chlorpyrifos in pond, PCB bioaccumulation in Lake Ontario and Galveston Bay TX
- Applications in ecotoxicology: chlorpyrifos and esfenvalerate in farm ponds and streams, dieldrin in Coralville Lake IA, herbicide in Clear Lake CA
Training Workshop Materials
The following are materials from the AQUATOX workshop presented October 24-26, 2006 in Philadelphia. The lectures and exercises are based on AQUATOX Release 2.2.
AQUATOX Application
The first file consists of an self-executable file that includes AQUATOX Release 2.2 (43 Mb), plus all of the example and data files used for the course exercises. It also includes files that help link AQUATOX to the BASINS GIS-modeling system, which is used in one exercise. The executable file automatically creates the correct directory structure, including a "Documents" subfolder, although it does not contain the supporting documents themselves (see below).
Once the download completes, find and double-click the file. The file will unzip and install on your Windows PC. Follow the instructions from the installation program. More information on specific installation files...
If you prefer, you can download just the AQUATOX program. Please note, there aren't as many example studies in this download.
Documentation
These files include all of the supporting documents, such as the course lecture materials and all AQUATOX user manuals, technical documentation, and the addenda.
You will need Adobe Reader to view some of the files on this page. See EPA's PDF page to learn more.
Individual documentation files:
- 2006 Training
- Day 1 Notes and Slides (PDF) (4.9 MB, 170 pp.)
- Day 2 and Slides Notes (PDF) (3.3 MB, 124 pp.)
- Day 3 and Slides Notes (PDF) (2.4 MB, 98 pp.)
- AQUATOX 2.2 Fact Sheet (PDF) (92 K, 2 pp.)
- BASINS Extension User's Manual, Release 2.1 (PDF) (2.8 MB, 50 pp.)
- Flowchart of AQUATOX Interface (PDF) (1 page, 92 K)
- Periphyton Validation, Release 1.1 (PDF) (630 K, 41 pp.)
- Release 2.1 Addendum (PDF) (778 K, 32 pp.)
- Release 2.2 Addendum (PDF) (129 K, 21 pp.)
- Technical Documentation, Release 2 (PDF) (6.4 MB, 210 pp.)
- User's Manual, Release 2 (PDF) (7.5 MB, 180 pp.)
- Validation, Release 1 (PDF) (3.0 MB, 69 pp.)
If you download the complete zipped file with all documentation, unzip it to the Documents sub-folder.
- All documents for short course (ZIP) (40.7 MB)
AQUATOX Web Training Installshield README
This workshop Installshield extracts the following files:
- AQUATOX folder
- OUTPUT, PROGRAM, DATABASE, STUDIES subfolders—Basic AQUATOX file structure including locations for file output, executables, parameters, and example AQUATOX simulations.
- ReadMe-Installshield-AQUATOX3-Web-Training.pdf—This text.
- WinHSPF subfolder
- BLUE.WDM & revATC.UCI—BASINS files to be used in the linkage exercise. (Note: these files must not be in a directory structure that includes space characters or the exercises will not work. Also, GenScn, WinHSPF version 2.3 or higher must be installed to complete some parts of the short-course.)
- Document subfolder
- Save the documentation here.
- Data subfolder
- This subfolder contains the data files and spreadsheets to be used in the exercises.
- AQT_LINK_LOG_RCH54_3.txt
- AQUATOX_External_Toxicity_Model.xls
- AQUATOX_Internal_Toxicity_Model.xls
- BE Atrazine.xls
- Boise solar.xls
- Cahaba River AL calibration.xls
- Cahaba River AL FCrit.xls
- Cahaba River AL MN prms.xls
- Cahaba River AL warm prms.xls
- E Onondaga Obs 0.xls
- E Onondaga Obs.xls
- Glenwood Depth Discharge calibration.xls
- Glenwood obs TSS.xls
- Glenwood OP.xls
- H Onondaga Obs 0.xls
- H Onondaga Obs.xls
- LBR Glenwood Br ID_Rate.xls
- LBR Glenwood CBOD5.xls
- LBR Glenwood discharge.xls
- LBR Glenwood DO.xls
- LBR Glenwood NH4.xls
- LBR Glenwood NO3.xls
- LBR Glenwood Temp.xls
- LBR OBS Norm.dbf
- This subfolder contains the data files and spreadsheets to be used in the exercises.