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Newsroom
Updates
Recent Events
March 31, 2009
CREM Publishes Guidance on Development, Evaluation and Application of Environmental Models
January 12, 2009
CREM releases White Paper on Integrated Modeling to Integrated Environmental Decision Making
September 22, 2008
The CREM announced its plans for an EPA-wide workshop on Life-Cycle Model Evaluation. The workshop will take place in the EPA Region 4 in Atlanta, GA on November 5-6, 2008. The workshop website provides further information.
September 22, 2008
The CREM announced its plans for a workshop on the information technology and information management aspects of Integrated Modeling. The workshop is open to participants from within and outside of EPA and will be held on December 10-12, 2008 in Phoneix, AZ to coincide with the OEI National Environmental Information Symposium.August 13, 2008
CREM Guidance on the Development, Evaluation and Application of Environmental Models issued for a 30-day public comment period
June 14, 2007
NRC Study on Models in Environmental Regulatory Decision Making Released. 
January 30-February 1, 2007
Integrated Modeling Workshop held in RTP 
December 1, 2006
EPA Administrator Steve Johnson responds to the SAB's Regulatory Environmental Modeling (REM) Guidance Advisory Panel report. The Administrator's response (PDF) (2 pp, 107 KB, about PDF) outlines the following activities that the CREM, with the support of the Science Policy Council, will accomplish in the following year:
- Deliver a Final Guidance Document on Environmental Models
- Deliver a refined version of the Models Knowledge Base, along with a strategic vision and plan for its improvement
- Intra-Agency modeling coordination and integrated modeling
- Research on uncertainty in model-based decision making
November 15, 2006
The CREM announced its plans for an EPA-wide workshop on Integrated Modeling for Integrated Environmental Decision Making. The workshop will take place in the EPA campus in Research Triangle Park in North Carolina. The workshop website provides further information.
October 26, 2006
The latest installment in the CREM Regional Seminar series took place on October 26, 2006. This seminar included speakers from the University of Wisconsin as well as EPA's Region 5, Office of Water, Office of Environmental Information and Office of Research and Development. The aim of the seminar was to provide an overview of a variety of tools currently being developed and used by Region 5 to assist in watershed and water quality management activities. Please see the Regional Seminars page for further information.
October 10-11, 2006
The Trans-Atlantic Uncertainty
Colloquium (TAUC) was held in Washington, DC. More information may
be found on the TAUC website.
August 22, 2006
The Science Advisory Board's Regulatory Environmental Modeling (REM) Guidance Advisory Panel issued its report on the Review of the CREM Draft Guidance on the Development, Evaluation and Application of Environmental Models and the Models Knowledge Base (PDF) (76 pp, 668 KB, about PDF). The report is available on the SAB's website.
December 1, 2005
National Academy of Sciences (NAS)
Panel on Environmental Models. The CREM is working with the NAS
to develop a &Red Book" on environmental models. The NAS panel has
been formed and has convened three public workshops. See: http://www8.nationalacademies.org/cp/projectview.aspx?key=50