Ecosystems Research
EPA’s ecosystems research is working to protect ecosystems and the air and water resources that provide numerous benefits for humans and other living things.
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Ecosystems Services
EPA scientists are developing methods and gathering data to help communities assess how the natural and built environment affects human health and well-being.
Eco-Health Relationship Browser
Tampa Bay Ecosystem Services
National Atlas for Sustainability
Willamette River Valley Research
Ground Water and Ecosystem Restoration Research
Watershed Protection
Researchers work to sustain and restore natural water resources by viewing them as complex watershed systems.
Sustainable Watershed Management
Wetland Restoration
Watershed Management
Riparian Zone and Stream Restoration
Water and Climate
Research examines the impacts of global climate change on water availability, quality, and flow patterns.
Water Resource Adaptation Program
Climate Change and Aquatic Invasive Species
Ecosystems and Air Quality
National air quality standards are designed to protect both human and ecosystem health.
Linking Air Quality to Ecosystem Exposure
Trees and Air Pollution
Nutrients Management
Researchers are exploring innovative solutions to the threat of excess nutrient pollution in the Nation’s waters.
Sustainable Watersheds and Nutrient Pollution
Innovative Treatment Technologies for Wastewater & Water Reuse
Down the Drain: Wetlands as Sinks for Absorbing Reactive Nitrogen
Ecological Risk Assessment
Researchers are evaluating how the environment is impacted by environmental stressors including chemicals, land change, disease, invasive species, and climate change.
Mountaintop Mining Research
Hydraulic Fracturing Research
CADDIS
Biofuels and the Environment
Ecological Risk Assessment Support Center
Models, Databases and Tools
Researchers are developing sophisticated models and tools that are used to protect ecosystems and ecosystem services across the nation.
Eco-Health Relationship Browser
National Atlas for Sustainability
National Ecosystems Goods and Services Classification System (NEGSCS)
Ecosystems Goods and Services Production Function Library
Grants and Funding
EPA provides grants and funding to leading researchers in academia and small businesses to improve the scientific basis for decisions on national environmental issues.
Aquatic Ecosystems Grants
Water and Watersheds Grants
Chesapeake Bay Grants
EPA’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program
Other Research Topics
Top Three Questions/Tasks
News
- Subscribe to Sustainable and Healthy Communities Research Updates
- Coastal and Marine Ecological Classification Standard (PDF) (2 pp, 510K)
- Toward Sustainability: Building a Better Understanding of Ecosystem Services
- Saving our Estuaries: EPA's Climate Ready Estuaries Program Plans Ahead
- Little Streams, Big Impact
- Using Biological Criteria and the Clean Water Act to Protect Coral Reefs
- Streams of Science
