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- Air and Climate
- Drinking Water, Surface Water and Ground Water
- Ecosystems and Landscape Ecology
- Pesticides and Toxic Substances
- Pollution Prevention
- Waste Management and Emergency Response
- Pollutant Fate and Transport, Human Exposure, Toxicology and Risk Assessment
- Enforcement
Air Quality Modeling contains links to air quality modeling groups and support centers.
Atmospheric Modeling Group develops models that simulate the transport and fate of pollutants in the atmosphere.
Climate Change Waste Tools contains tools used by EPA to determine the greenhouse impact of various purchasing, manufacturing, and waste management actions.
Climate Economic Models lists models used by the Climate Change Division to assess the economic impacts of climate change.
Emissions Modeling Clearinghouse is a list of models that assess the pollutant emissions of point and non-point sources.
Global Change Research Program Decision Tools and Models lists the two models currently in use by the Global Change Research Program to assess climate change.
Indoor Air Quality Modeling has created two models that assess the impact of sources, sinks, ventilation, and air cleaners on indoor air quality.
Integrated Planning Model evaluates the economic and environmental impacts of environmental programs on the electric power sector.
Landfill Gas Emissions Model (LandGEM) estimates emission rates for total landfill gas, methane, carbon dioxide, nonmethane organic compounds, and individual air pollutants from municipal solid waste landfills.
Livestock Assessment Model characterizes trends in the populations of cattle and buffalo, and the methane that they emit.
Mid-Atlantic Air Quality Modeling uses models to predict the implications of State Implementation Plans (SIP)’s of government policies.
Mobile Source Ozone Precursor Emissions Characterization and Modeling uses several models to characterize vehicle emissions.
ORD Natural Risk Management Economics and Performance (Models on left bar) maintains and develops economic performance models that estimate the costs of air pollution prevention and control.
ORD Natural Risk Management Indoor Environment (Models on left bar) researches models and other methods of measuring indoor air quality trends.
PART5 Model estimates particulate air emissions from highway vehicles.
Radiation Risk Assessment Model Software is a list of models used by the Radiation Protection Program.
Support Center for Regulatory Atmospheric Modeling (SCRAM) supports the EPA Air Quality Modeling Group, which conducts modeling analyses to support policy and regulatory decisions in the Office of Air and Radiation.
TANKS Emissions Estimation Software estimates volatile organic compound (VOC) and hazardous air pollutant (HAP) emissions from fixed- and floating-roof storage tanks.
Technology Transfer Network FERA (Fate, Exposure, and Risk Analysis) includes information on tools used to evaluate the health risks and environmental effects associated with exposure to "criteria" (six common air pollutants including ozone and particles) and toxic air pollutants.
Transportation Models lists models and databases used by EPA Office of Transportation and Air Quality to estimate emissions from on-road vehicles, non-road sources, and fuels.
Drinking Water, Surface Water and Ground Water
Casual Analysis, Diagnostic Decision Information System (CADDIS) looks for and evaluates causes of biological effects observed in aquatic systems such as streams, lakes and estuaries.
Center for Subsurface Modeling Support (CSMoS) provides users with models used to assess ground-water patterns.
EPANET Drinking Water Model models the hydraulics and water quality of water distribution piping systems.
Great Lakes Modeling provides a group of interwoven models that address facets of the Lake Michigan aquatic ecosystem.
Ground Water Compendium contains fact sheets about models that can be used to analyze ground water quality and quantity.
Office of Water Models lists models, databases, and other resources developed at the EPA Office of Water.
OW Water Quality Models contains several models that assess different aspects of water quality.
Storm Water Management Model simulates rainfall runoff in urban areas for single events or long-term data.
Watershed and Water Quality Modeling Technical Support Center provides access to models and tools that can be used in the development of Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDL), waste load allocations, and watershed protection plans.
Watershed Management Tools contains several models that assess different aspects of water quality on a watershed scale.
Watershed Mapping Tools lists two models that map and simulate watershed development over time.
Ecosystems and Landscape Ecology
Ecosystems Research Models lists models that can be used for ecosystems research.
Ecosystems Research Tools provides a list of tools that can be used to assess potential policy implications on ecosystems.
Landscape Ecology Assessment Tools contains links to several tools that can be used to analyze landscape changes.
Mid-Continent Ecology Division Databases and Software lists models that have been developed by the Mid-Continent Ecology Division.
Mid-Continent Ecology Division Models and Methods lists descriptions of models that apply to Mid-Continent Ecology Division research areas.
Pesticides and Toxic Substances
OPP Models (and Databases) contains aquatic, terrestrial, atmospheric, and health systems models that are used to support pesticide policy.
OPP Water Models contains water models that are used by the Office of Pesticide Prevention.
OPPT Exposure Assessment Models contains models developed by OPPT that look at what happens to chemicals when they are released into the environment.
OPPTS Databases and Software lists databases and modeling software used by the Office of Pesticide Prevention and Toxic Substances.
Environmentally Preferable Purchasing Tools contains a list of tools that can be used to research and suggest environmentally preferable consumer products.
ORD Industrial Pollution Prevention Modeling is a research program in models that allow communities to assess their pollution prevention options.
Pollution Prevention Tools contains tools used to assess pollution prevention techniques and policy.
Waste Management and Emergency Response
Brownfields Site Assessment and Cleanup Tools contains several tool and other resources that are meant to aid in decision-making for hazardous waste sites.
Emergency Management Tools lists databases and tools used for EPA’s Emergency Management Program.
Modeling Subsurface Petroleum Hydrocarbon Transport contains tools that assess the impacts of groundwater contaminants.
RBCA Fate and Transport Models (PDF) (104 pp, 1 MB, About PDF) lists and describes the models used by OSWER to assess fate and transport factors in their Risk-Based Corrective Action program.
Waste Software and Databases contains a list of tools, databases, and other software that EPA has developed to address waste prevention and management.Pollutant Fate and Transport, Human Exposure, Toxicology and Risk Assessment
Center for Exposure Assessment and Modeling (CEAM) provides models that assess air and water pathways for the spread of organic metals and pollutants.
Ecosystem Research Division creates models that simulate the fate and transport of nutrients, sediments, and pollutants within watershed areas.
Multimedia Integrated Modeling System (MIMS) addresses and simulates a variety of air, water, and soil changes.
NCEA Risk Tools- Human Health lists tools used by the National Center for Exposure Assessment to analyze human health damages from toxin exposure.
NCEA Risk Tools- Ecological lists tools used by the National Center for Exposure Assessment to analyze ecosystem damages from toxin exposure.
ORD Exposure Research Models contains models created by NERL that address chemical exposure to humans and ecosystems.
ORD National Center for Computational Toxicology (NCCT) lists models developed and used by NCCT.
ORD National Exposure Assessment Laboratory (NERL) contains databases and software developed at NERL that examine ecological and human responses to environmental stressors.
Physiologically-based Pharmacokinetic (PBPK) Models develops models that examine how a toxin enters the body, the path a toxin takes as it moves through the body, how it is broken down, and how it exits.
Risk Assessment Tools lists EPA tools and models used for risk assessment.
Risk Management Research Models lists numerous models and databases used by the Risk Management Research Division.
Tool for the Reduction and Assessment of Chemical and Other Environmental Impacts (TRACI) is used to assess the impacts of environmental problems on human health.
Western Ecology Division Models contains models and other tools used for research in the Western Ecology Division.
Economic Enforcement Models contains five models that are used to analyze the economic aspects of policy decisions and enforcement.