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GEMS:Great Environmental Moments in Science
Air/Climate/Energy
Air
Transforming Paper Mill Pollution into Commercial Resource
EPA-pioneered green chemistry technology that filters toxic pollutants from industrial waste and turns it into a marketable resource has the potential to pay big dividends for paper mills.
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EPA-pioneered green chemistry technology that filters toxic pollutants from industrial waste and turns it into a marketable resource has the potential to pay big dividends for paper mills.
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Mobile Air Monitoring Detects Hard-to-Find Air Pollution Problems
EPA scientists examine nanoparticle impacts on vehicle emissions and air pollution.
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EPA scientists examine nanoparticle impacts on vehicle emissions and air pollution.
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Can Highways Contribute to Asthma?
EPA scientists and partners team up to examine the link between road-related air pollution and susceptibility to asthma.
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EPA scientists and partners team up to examine the link between road-related air pollution and susceptibility to asthma.
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Better Burning, Better Breathing: Cleaner Stoves
EPA researchers are testing performance and emissions of solid-fuel cook stoves.
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EPA researchers are testing performance and emissions of solid-fuel cook stoves.
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EPA Findings Improve Air Quality Modeling Nationwide
EPA-funded scientists make major air pollution discovery, improving models used to protect human health.
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EPA-funded scientists make major air pollution discovery, improving models used to protect human health.
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40 years of EPA research in support of the Clean Air Act.
EPA celebrates 40 years of research in support of clean air
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EPA celebrates 40 years of research in support of clean air
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Understanding What You Breathe
EPA scientists are monitoring and analyzing air pollution to develop ways to trace pollutants to their source, and help air quality managers prioritize action.
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EPA scientists are monitoring and analyzing air pollution to develop ways to trace pollutants to their source, and help air quality managers prioritize action.
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Highway Study Sizes Up Pollution
EPA researchers have discovered that particle pollutants collected from the same "airshed" (the air within a particular geographic area) in the vicinity of a highway target either the lungs or heart depending on their size and associated chemical components.
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EPA researchers have discovered that particle pollutants collected from the same "airshed" (the air within a particular geographic area) in the vicinity of a highway target either the lungs or heart depending on their size and associated chemical components.
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Tracking Air Pollution to Improve Your Health
This summer, EPA scientists began sampling air across Cleveland, Ohio, to better understand the links between sources of air pollution and adverse health effects.
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This summer, EPA scientists began sampling air across Cleveland, Ohio, to better understand the links between sources of air pollution and adverse health effects.
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Science That Takes Your Breath Away
The breath you "see" on a cold winter's day may become a useful diagnostic tool for identifying lung changes or damage from air pollutants. At EPA's Office of Research and Development, scientists are at the forefront of new biomarker research.
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The breath you "see" on a cold winter's day may become a useful diagnostic tool for identifying lung changes or damage from air pollutants. At EPA's Office of Research and Development, scientists are at the forefront of new biomarker research.
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Air Pollutants Under Cover
It was a mystery. Louisiana environmental officials in Baton Rouge wanted to know why ozone levels were spiking above EPA's limits to protect health on days when they should have been lower.
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It was a mystery. Louisiana environmental officials in Baton Rouge wanted to know why ozone levels were spiking above EPA's limits to protect health on days when they should have been lower.
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Along the Road
EPA scientists are developing innovative ways to study how air pollution along major roadways might affect nearby neighborhoods.
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EPA scientists are developing innovative ways to study how air pollution along major roadways might affect nearby neighborhoods.
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Watching Hummingbirds
A team of EPA researchers are keeping an eye on hummingbird feeding activity to gain insights into how air pollution, particularly exposure to elevated ozone levels, might affect hummingbirds and other wildlife.
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A team of EPA researchers are keeping an eye on hummingbird feeding activity to gain insights into how air pollution, particularly exposure to elevated ozone levels, might affect hummingbirds and other wildlife.
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Climate
Saving our Estuaries: EPA's Climate Ready Estuaries Program Plans Ahead
Agency provides direct aid to implement adaption plans for climate change-related disaster.
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Agency provides direct aid to implement adaption plans for climate change-related disaster.
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Teaming Up to Improve Local Ozone Forecasts
EPA and NOAA scientists join forces to test the use of high-tech tools for predicting local ground-level ozone.
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EPA and NOAA scientists join forces to test the use of high-tech tools for predicting local ground-level ozone.
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Climate Change Penalty on Ozone
EPA scientist finds new metric to measure impacts of climate change on ozone air quality.
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EPA scientist finds new metric to measure impacts of climate change on ozone air quality.
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Climate Change and Aquatic Invasive Species
U.S. EPA researchers are helping states incorporate the effects of climate change into plans to manage aquatic invasive species in their waters, coasts, and wetlands by looking at the combined effects of climate change and these organisms.
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U.S. EPA researchers are helping states incorporate the effects of climate change into plans to manage aquatic invasive species in their waters, coasts, and wetlands by looking at the combined effects of climate change and these organisms.
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Climate Change and Ozone
A 2009 EPA report compiles and assesses the latest science on the implications of climate change for ozone formation in the United States.
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A 2009 EPA report compiles and assesses the latest science on the implications of climate change for ozone formation in the United States.
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Allergies Getting Worse?
A recently-released EPA document examines what is known about the impacts of climate change and variability on airborne allergens and associated health effects in the United States.
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A recently-released EPA document examines what is known about the impacts of climate change and variability on airborne allergens and associated health effects in the United States.
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Energy
EPA Scientists Pioneer Methods for Greening Biofuels Production
EPA Researchers combine public and technical input on a study of the potential environmental and human health impacts of natural gas drilling.
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EPA Researchers combine public and technical input on a study of the potential environmental and human health impacts of natural gas drilling.
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Hydraulic Fracturing: Testing the Waters
EPA Researchers combine public and technical input on a study of the potential environmental and human health impacts of a technique used to drill for natural gas.
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EPA Researchers combine public and technical input on a study of the potential environmental and human health impacts of a technique used to drill for natural gas.
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Exploring Nano-sized Fuel Additives
EPA scientists examine nanoparticle impacts on vehicle emissions and air pollution.
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EPA scientists examine nanoparticle impacts on vehicle emissions and air pollution.
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Energy from Waste: Burn or Bury?
EPA researchers have completed the first scientific comparison of whether it is better to burn or bury waste when trying to recover energy and minimize greenhouse gas emissions.
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EPA researchers have completed the first scientific comparison of whether it is better to burn or bury waste when trying to recover energy and minimize greenhouse gas emissions.
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17 Cows per Tank
Sports cars and school buses powered on fuel harvested from cow manure? It could happen, thanks to innovative designs recently awarded EPA's P3 Award for Sustainability.
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Sports cars and school buses powered on fuel harvested from cow manure? It could happen, thanks to innovative designs recently awarded EPA's P3 Award for Sustainability.
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EPA Grantee Brings Solar Power Know-how to White House
EPA STAR Fellow Alum Joins Office of Science and Technology Policy
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EPA STAR Fellow Alum Joins Office of Science and Technology Policy
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Chemical Safety for Sustainability
Greener by Design
Twelve Principles of Green Chemistry
Producing chemical products and processes that reduce or eliminate the use or generation of hazardous substances.
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Producing chemical products and processes that reduce or eliminate the use or generation of hazardous substances.
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Sustainable Chemistry: An Even Darker Shade of Green
Innovative EPA researcher taps everyday tools and plants to develop environmentally friendly ways to make chemicals and nanomaterials.
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Innovative EPA researcher taps everyday tools and plants to develop environmentally friendly ways to make chemicals and nanomaterials.
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Spin Doctors: Reducing Environmental Burdens Through Better Chemistry
EPA scientists and partners develop new spinning methods to "green" chemical production.
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EPA scientists and partners develop new spinning methods to "green" chemical production.
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Q&A with EPA's Dr. John Leazer
Director of EPA's Sustainable Technology Division answers questions about green chemistry.
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Director of EPA's Sustainable Technology Division answers questions about green chemistry.
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Green Research. Green Jobs. Green Future.
EPA will celebrate Earth Day with the 6th Annual National Sustainable Design Expo and EPA's P3 Award Competition on the National Mall in Washington, DC, on April 24 - 25, 2010.
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EPA will celebrate Earth Day with the 6th Annual National Sustainable Design Expo and EPA's P3 Award Competition on the National Mall in Washington, DC, on April 24 - 25, 2010.
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When Students Compete for Sustainability, Everybody Wins!
Student engineers and scientists competed for Best Sustainable Design at the Annual National Sustainable Design Expo.
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Student engineers and scientists competed for Best Sustainable Design at the Annual National Sustainable Design Expo.
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2009 Winners of EPA's P3 Award Announced
Teams of budding scientists and engineers from colleges and universities across the country gathered at the Fifth Annual National Sustainable Design Expo to showcase their innovative designs for advancing environmental sustainability.
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Teams of budding scientists and engineers from colleges and universities across the country gathered at the Fifth Annual National Sustainable Design Expo to showcase their innovative designs for advancing environmental sustainability.
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Students Team Up for Sustainability
Student projects ranging from developing a technology to make natural plastics from wastewater, to electrochemical remediation in rural Bangladesh are among the 2008 EPA P3 Award winners.
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Student projects ranging from developing a technology to make natural plastics from wastewater, to electrochemical remediation in rural Bangladesh are among the 2008 EPA P3 Award winners.
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Winning Ideas
"Green" dorms, biodiesel buses, and new ways to remove arsenic from groundwater are some of the winning projects from this year’s EPA P3 competition.
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"Green" dorms, biodiesel buses, and new ways to remove arsenic from groundwater are some of the winning projects from this year’s EPA P3 competition.
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Field of Dreams
Thanks to EPA supported research, that clear plastic container holding your Brussels sprouts might be made of an edible plant itself — corn.
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Thanks to EPA supported research, that clear plastic container holding your Brussels sprouts might be made of an edible plant itself — corn.
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Tea, Wine, and a Cleaner Environment
EPA scientists have developed innovative ways to produce nanoparticles using green chemistry rather than toxic chemicals.
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EPA scientists have developed innovative ways to produce nanoparticles using green chemistry rather than toxic chemicals.
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New Answers to Old Problems
Providing Answers to Chemical Safety Concerns
EPA brings top scientists together to share information about perfluoroalkyl acids.
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EPA brings top scientists together to share information about perfluoroalkyl acids.
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Testing the Toxicity of Oil Spill Dispersants
EPA scientists support federal response to the BP oil spill.
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EPA scientists support federal response to the BP oil spill.
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Very Small Offers Big Cleanup Potential
EPA scientists are exploring ways to use some very small materials to clean up some very big environmental problems.
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EPA scientists are exploring ways to use some very small materials to clean up some very big environmental problems.
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Sustainable Communities
Green Investments: Supporting Green Chemistry Innovations
EPA's Small Business Innovation Research Program helps bring green chemistry benefits to the marketplace.
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EPA's Small Business Innovation Research Program helps bring green chemistry benefits to the marketplace.
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Toward Sustainability: The True North of EPA Research
The Agency's focus on sustainability brings an integrated approach to research, partnerships, and seeking solutions to help society now—and in the future.
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The Agency's focus on sustainability brings an integrated approach to research, partnerships, and seeking solutions to help society now—and in the future.
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Stimulating a Green and Growing Economy
EPA's Small Business Innovation Research Program supports innovative environmental technologies.
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EPA's Small Business Innovation Research Program supports innovative environmental technologies.
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Sparking Innovation to Meet Environmental and Human Health Challenges
EPA is invigorating its research efforts by tapping the collective vision and energy of its own scientists and engineers, as well as engaging others to join the discussion.
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EPA is invigorating its research efforts by tapping the collective vision and energy of its own scientists and engineers, as well as engaging others to join the discussion.
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Tribal Science Council: From Indian Country to EPA Headquarters
EPA leaders ask Indian Tribes and Alaska Natives to identify their top environmental science priorities for inclusion in Agency science plans and projects.
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EPA leaders ask Indian Tribes and Alaska Natives to identify their top environmental science priorities for inclusion in Agency science plans and projects.
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EPA Co-Hosts National Bed Bug Summit to Address the Return of a Pest
EPA provides citizens with information about how to protect themselves from bed bugs.
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EPA provides citizens with information about how to protect themselves from bed bugs.
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Healthy Ecosystems Support International Peace and Security
EPA researchers played key roles in an international workshop and book on the relationship between the environment and worldwide human welfare.
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EPA researchers played key roles in an international workshop and book on the relationship between the environment and worldwide human welfare.
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Can Rain Barrels and Gardens Help Keep Sewage in the Sewers?
EPA researchers investigate how well rain barrels and rain gardens retain stormwater and how to motivate the public to adopt these "green" practices.
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EPA researchers investigate how well rain barrels and rain gardens retain stormwater and how to motivate the public to adopt these "green" practices.
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Environmental Justice: What's Science Got to Do With It?
EPA researcher describes new research efforts to better understand the link between environmental health and justice.
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EPA researcher describes new research efforts to better understand the link between environmental health and justice.
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Protecting Genetically-Modified Corn Crops with Proactive, High-Tech Monitoring
EPA researchers and collaborators are developing remote observation techniques for monitoring genetically modified crops.
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EPA researchers and collaborators are developing remote observation techniques for monitoring genetically modified crops.
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Human Community
The Research Apprenticeship Program Celebrates 20 Years of Success
EPA and Shaw University team up to engage students in science, math, and engineering.
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EPA and Shaw University team up to engage students in science, math, and engineering.
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The Virtual Embryo Project
EPA researchers are developing a "Virtual Embryo" that will provide insights into how exposures to chemicals in the environment might affect the developing embryo.
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EPA researchers are developing a "Virtual Embryo" that will provide insights into how exposures to chemicals in the environment might affect the developing embryo.
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Children's Environmental Health Centers
EPA and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences support a network of research centers to improve children's health and prevent disease.
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EPA and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences support a network of research centers to improve children's health and prevent disease.
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The National Children's Study
EPA researchers help lead the largest federal study ever undertaken to examine environmental influences on the health and development of children.
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EPA researchers help lead the largest federal study ever undertaken to examine environmental influences on the health and development of children.
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Traditional Lifestyle Meets Modern Problem
EPA researchers work with the Penobscot Indian Tribe to examine the links between traditional practices and health risks from environmental contamination.
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EPA researchers work with the Penobscot Indian Tribe to examine the links between traditional practices and health risks from environmental contamination.
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Biodiversity and Human Health: Exploring the Links.
EPA scientists and partners examine the links between biodiversity and human disease
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EPA scientists and partners examine the links between biodiversity and human disease
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Is Biodiversity Good for Our Health?
EPA scientists and partners examine the links between biodiversity and human disease
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EPA scientists and partners examine the links between biodiversity and human disease
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Environment and Obesity: Looking for Links
EPA releases HERO database, providing transparent access to scientific studies used in making decisions to protect the environment and human health.
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EPA releases HERO database, providing transparent access to scientific studies used in making decisions to protect the environment and human health.
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Natural Community
The Dirt on Contaminated Soil
EPA researchers are working to help environmental managers know when soil exposure is a health risk and not just a cosmetic issue.
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EPA researchers are working to help environmental managers know when soil exposure is a health risk and not just a cosmetic issue.
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Listening to the Loons
The distinctive, almost-haunting call of the common loon is to New England what the howl of the wolf is to the American West: it's the sound of wilderness.
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The distinctive, almost-haunting call of the common loon is to New England what the howl of the wolf is to the American West: it's the sound of wilderness.
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More Green for the Green
With an assist from EPA scientists, officials with the Maryland Department of Natural Resources developed a scientific strategy to protect the state's "green infrastructure."
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With an assist from EPA scientists, officials with the Maryland Department of Natural Resources developed a scientific strategy to protect the state's "green infrastructure."
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Predicting Invasive Species in the Great Lakes
EPA releases new report predicting invasive species in Great Lakes
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EPA releases new report predicting invasive species in Great Lakes
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Safe Harbors
The horror stories are becoming all too common: kudzu covering every tree, power line, and telephone pole.
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The horror stories are becoming all too common: kudzu covering every tree, power line, and telephone pole.
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Reading Flounder
Read any good flounder lately? Scientists at EPA's Atlantic Ecology Laboratory are studying how to "read" winter flounder in order to better protect the species and its habitat.
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Read any good flounder lately? Scientists at EPA's Atlantic Ecology Laboratory are studying how to "read" winter flounder in order to better protect the species and its habitat.
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Tiny Snail, Big Trouble?
EPA researchers recently discovered a potentially troublesome invader in Lake Superior: the New Zealand mudsnail (Potamopyrgus antipodarum).
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EPA researchers recently discovered a potentially troublesome invader in Lake Superior: the New Zealand mudsnail (Potamopyrgus antipodarum).
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Healthy Looking Waterways
Looks can be deceiving. Over the past two decades, waters in many parts of the Northern Hemisphere have become more colored, due to increasing concentrations of dissolved organic carbon, or DOC. Read More
Looks can be deceiving. Over the past two decades, waters in many parts of the Northern Hemisphere have become more colored, due to increasing concentrations of dissolved organic carbon, or DOC. Read More
Old Mines, New Technology
EPA researchers are developing ways to use tiny microbial organisms to clean up old, abandoned mines in the American West.
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EPA researchers are developing ways to use tiny microbial organisms to clean up old, abandoned mines in the American West.
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Built Community
Getting Smarte
EPA's Sustainable Management Approaches and Revitalization Tools-electronic (SMARTe) helps communities plan for the future.
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EPA's Sustainable Management Approaches and Revitalization Tools-electronic (SMARTe) helps communities plan for the future.
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Every Move MTBE Makes
Finding a moving target can be difficult. Such is the case with chemicals from leaking underground storage tanks which can move in many ways into the ground and groundwater.
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Finding a moving target can be difficult. Such is the case with chemicals from leaking underground storage tanks which can move in many ways into the ground and groundwater.
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Over the Top
The green roof on the EPA's regional headquarters in Denver is the focus of a research project exploring the environmental benefits of cultivating green roofs in high, semi-arid climates.
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The green roof on the EPA's regional headquarters in Denver is the focus of a research project exploring the environmental benefits of cultivating green roofs in high, semi-arid climates.
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Network News
What do dental schools, rain gardens, and office parks have in common? They are all part of EPA's Collaborative Science and Technology Network for Sustainability (CNS).
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What do dental schools, rain gardens, and office parks have in common? They are all part of EPA's Collaborative Science and Technology Network for Sustainability (CNS).
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Sustainability: The Next Step
Today's EPA is working to help businesses and consumers become better stewards of the environment.
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Today's EPA is working to help businesses and consumers become better stewards of the environment.
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ReVa: Mapping the Future
Forecasting the future has been made easier for environmental planners thanks to new Web-based tools developed by EPA's Office of Research and Development.
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Forecasting the future has been made easier for environmental planners thanks to new Web-based tools developed by EPA's Office of Research and Development.
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An American Engineer in Jordan
EPA engineer Thabet Talaymet is helping the Kingdom of Jordan end the environmental nightmares associated with the Russeifah landfill.
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EPA engineer Thabet Talaymet is helping the Kingdom of Jordan end the environmental nightmares associated with the Russeifah landfill.
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Sustainable Water
Toward Sustainability: Building a Better Understanding of Ecosystem Services
EPA researchers and partners are conducting a major study of the Tampa Bay estuary and its surrounding wetlands to quantify how natural ecosystems support human welfare.
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EPA researchers and partners are conducting a major study of the Tampa Bay estuary and its surrounding wetlands to quantify how natural ecosystems support human welfare.
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Problems with Pinhole Leaks in Your Copper Water Pipes
EPA scientists document, experiment, and research water chemistry to better understand the nature of pitting corrosion and pinhole leaks in copper water pipes.
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EPA scientists document, experiment, and research water chemistry to better understand the nature of pitting corrosion and pinhole leaks in copper water pipes.
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Little Streams, Big Impact
EPA researchers have been traversing Oregon to develop a small stream classification system that will help states protect water bodies far downstream.
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EPA researchers have been traversing Oregon to develop a small stream classification system that will help states protect water bodies far downstream.
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What's Coming Out of the Tap?
EPA scientist Susan Richardson has received the "Award for Creative Advances in Environmental Science and Technology" for her work exploring disinfection byproducts in the water supply.
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EPA scientist Susan Richardson has received the "Award for Creative Advances in Environmental Science and Technology" for her work exploring disinfection byproducts in the water supply.
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Hydraulic Fracturing: Drilling for Answers
EPA researchers will study key aspects of the potential environmental and human health impacts of a technique used to drill for natural gas.
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EPA researchers will study key aspects of the potential environmental and human health impacts of a technique used to drill for natural gas.
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Water Infrastructure
Aging Water Infrastructure
EPA researchers and engineers work to help communities deal with aging and failing drinking and wastewater systems.
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EPA researchers and engineers work to help communities deal with aging and failing drinking and wastewater systems.
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Parking Lots: Letting It Soak In
EPA researchers are experimenting with “green” parking lot designs and permeable pavement as a way to reduce runoff and improve water quality.
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EPA researchers are experimenting with “green” parking lot designs and permeable pavement as a way to reduce runoff and improve water quality.
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Helping Cities Benefit from Green Infrastructure
EPA provides research and guidance on the incorporation of green infrastructure into Omaha's combined sewer overflow control plan.
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EPA provides research and guidance on the incorporation of green infrastructure into Omaha's combined sewer overflow control plan.
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Stormwater Calculator to Manage Rainfall Runoff
A new tool developed by EPA allows planners and property owners to assess how green infrastructure can be used to reduce rainwater runoff from development sites.
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A new tool developed by EPA allows planners and property owners to assess how green infrastructure can be used to reduce rainwater runoff from development sites.
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Showing Buried Streams the Daylight
EPA researchers compare buried and open-air streams for removing harmful nitrogen
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EPA researchers compare buried and open-air streams for removing harmful nitrogen
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On the Coast
Using Biological Criteria and the Clean Water Act to Protect Coral Reefs
EPA researchers recently published a manual describing how to protect coral reefs from land-based stressors.
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EPA researchers recently published a manual describing how to protect coral reefs from land-based stressors.
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RARE Partnership Explores Delaware Estuary
EPA scientists and collaborators complete the first inventory and characterization of benthic communities in the Delaware estuary.
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EPA scientists and collaborators complete the first inventory and characterization of benthic communities in the Delaware estuary.
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Science to Support EPA's Response to the BP Oil Spill
EPA scientists and engineers are supporting the coordinated response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
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EPA scientists and engineers are supporting the coordinated response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
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Checking the Health of Wetlands: Easy as 1-2-3
To check a patient's health, physicians use simple blood pressure tests to sophisticated and expensive diagnostics. Natural resource managers also have a variety of assessment tools ranging in complexity, accuracy and cost at their disposal to check the health of wetlands.
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To check a patient's health, physicians use simple blood pressure tests to sophisticated and expensive diagnostics. Natural resource managers also have a variety of assessment tools ranging in complexity, accuracy and cost at their disposal to check the health of wetlands.
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EPA Ecology Group Makes Big Splash
To protect and manage coastal areas, home to over half the U.S. population, the Environmental Protection Agency produces the National Coastal Condition Report.
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To protect and manage coastal areas, home to over half the U.S. population, the Environmental Protection Agency produces the National Coastal Condition Report.
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What Story Does Your Waterfront Tell?
Highly degraded urban areas have a story to tell. The actions that drive urbanization create an accumulation of impacts, some irreversible.
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Highly degraded urban areas have a story to tell. The actions that drive urbanization create an accumulation of impacts, some irreversible.
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The Big Picture: The Integrated Ocean Observing System
EPA scientists are partners in this major new effort to monitor and protect our Coastal, Marine, and Great Lakes environments.
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EPA scientists are partners in this major new effort to monitor and protect our Coastal, Marine, and Great Lakes environments.
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Rivers and Streams
What's Wrong with Your Stream? Ask CADDIS!
EPA's on-line tool to help scientists, engineers, watershed managers, and others identify the potential causes of trouble in their local waterways.
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EPA's on-line tool to help scientists, engineers, watershed managers, and others identify the potential causes of trouble in their local waterways.
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Helping Streams Help Themselves
A stream in Towson, Maryland, is where EPA scientists are learning to apply engineering techniques to help urban waterways.
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A stream in Towson, Maryland, is where EPA scientists are learning to apply engineering techniques to help urban waterways.
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EPA Finds a Way
EPA scientists are developing the protocols and tools needed to assess the nation’s large rivers and streams.
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EPA scientists are developing the protocols and tools needed to assess the nation’s large rivers and streams.
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Watersheds
What's Ailing Your Stream? CADDIS Can Help You Find Out
EPA researchers have updated an online tool that helps scientists from states and tribes find out what's harming plant and animal life in streams, rivers, and wetlands.
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EPA researchers have updated an online tool that helps scientists from states and tribes find out what's harming plant and animal life in streams, rivers, and wetlands.
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EPA Science on Mountaintop Mining
Researchers release two scientific reports to support Agency’s new guidance for mountaintop mining.
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Researchers release two scientific reports to support Agency’s new guidance for mountaintop mining.
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Streams of Science
EPA scientists use a unique Experimental Stream Facility to explore the health of stream ecosystems and watersheds.
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EPA scientists use a unique Experimental Stream Facility to explore the health of stream ecosystems and watersheds.
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A Road Runs Through It
Where does your rain fall? EPA engineers are developing a tool for estimating the amount of impervious cover in local watersheds.
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Where does your rain fall? EPA engineers are developing a tool for estimating the amount of impervious cover in local watersheds.
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EPA Scientist Mussels Up
Where does your rain fall? EPA engineers are developing a tool for estimating the amount of impervious cover in local watersheds.
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Where does your rain fall? EPA engineers are developing a tool for estimating the amount of impervious cover in local watersheds.
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Human Health Risk Assessment
Embracing Change: The Next Generation of Risk Assessment
EPA develops new risk assessment practices to match pace of scientific innovations.
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EPA develops new risk assessment practices to match pace of scientific innovations.
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A Helping Hand for Children's Health
EPA's "Highlights of the Child Specific Exposure Factors Handbook" is a great resource for children's health experts.
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EPA's "Highlights of the Child Specific Exposure Factors Handbook" is a great resource for children's health experts.
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New Database Streamlines EPA Science Assessments
EPA STAR Fellow Alum Joins Office of Science and Technology Policy.
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EPA STAR Fellow Alum Joins Office of Science and Technology Policy.
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Putting Communities First
Community-Focused Exposure and Risk Screening Tool, or C-FERST, is a Web-based tool under development that can empower environmental managers and residents of communities to make decisions about environmental issues specific to their area.
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Community-Focused Exposure and Risk Screening Tool, or C-FERST, is a Web-based tool under development that can empower environmental managers and residents of communities to make decisions about environmental issues specific to their area.
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Homeland Security Research
Homeland Security Research Program: Directors' Roundtable
Science Matters (SM) sat down with program leaders from EPA's Homeland Security Research Program to talk about the Agency's scientific and technical roles and responsibilities supporting national security.
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Science Matters (SM) sat down with program leaders from EPA's Homeland Security Research Program to talk about the Agency's scientific and technical roles and responsibilities supporting national security.
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Interagency Collaboration Tests Response to Anthrax Contamination
If millions of lethal and microscopic spores were released in a building, what would we do? How would we clean up such a dangerous mess? A collaborative effort co-led by EPA's Homeland Security Research Program and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) aims to uncover the best answer to that question.
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If millions of lethal and microscopic spores were released in a building, what would we do? How would we clean up such a dangerous mess? A collaborative effort co-led by EPA's Homeland Security Research Program and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) aims to uncover the best answer to that question.
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Post Amerithrax: Advancing the Science and Engineering of Decontamination
EPA scientists are developing and evaluating decontamination technologies to inactivate lethal bacteria such as anthrax.
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EPA scientists are developing and evaluating decontamination technologies to inactivate lethal bacteria such as anthrax.
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From Disaster to Recovery: Waste Management Planning and Response
EPA scientists develop innovative tools to assist decision-makers manage wastes from natural and man-made disasters.
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EPA scientists develop innovative tools to assist decision-makers manage wastes from natural and man-made disasters.
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Standing By: EPA Helps Nation's Laboratories Prepare for Emergency Response Operations
Fast, accurate laboratory analysis can be critical. Determining the type and extent of contamination in the aftermath of a terrorist incident is essential for informing emergency response, recovery and remediation operations.
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Fast, accurate laboratory analysis can be critical. Determining the type and extent of contamination in the aftermath of a terrorist incident is essential for informing emergency response, recovery and remediation operations.
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Enhancing Water Security: EPA Prepares for Intentional Contamination Incidents
EPA scientists make a variety of tools available to drinking water managers to help them keep water safe and secure.
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EPA scientists make a variety of tools available to drinking water managers to help them keep water safe and secure.
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EPA Examines Ways to Treat Biotoxins in Drinking Water
Since 1854, when Dr. Snow first traced a cholera epidemic to a public water supply in London, England health officials and researchers have been working to protect the quality and safety of drinking water.
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Since 1854, when Dr. Snow first traced a cholera epidemic to a public water supply in London, England health officials and researchers have been working to protect the quality and safety of drinking water.
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Developing Advisory Levels to Guide Recovery Actions
EPA researchers are leading the development of health-based emergency exposure advisory levels to help inform and advise communities and emergency response professionals while they recover from a chemical incident or attack.
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EPA researchers are leading the development of health-based emergency exposure advisory levels to help inform and advise communities and emergency response professionals while they recover from a chemical incident or attack.
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EPA Microbiologists Provide Environmental Technology Guidance to Former Soviet Weapons Scientists
Since 2001, EPA scientists have been working through the BioChem Redirect Program to help former Soviet weapons scientists in Kazakhstan pursue more peaceful ends.
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Since 2001, EPA scientists have been working through the BioChem Redirect Program to help former Soviet weapons scientists in Kazakhstan pursue more peaceful ends.
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Building Partnerships for Decontaminating Anthrax
EPA Homeland Security researchers supported Agency efforts to decontaminate buildings affected by anthrax in New England—twice.
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EPA Homeland Security researchers supported Agency efforts to decontaminate buildings affected by anthrax in New England—twice.
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Homeland Security: Keeping an Eye on Our Drinking Water Supply
EPA researchers test commercial, readily-available water sensors for use in early warning systems for detecting biological and chemical contaminants in drinking water.
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EPA researchers test commercial, readily-available water sensors for use in early warning systems for detecting biological and chemical contaminants in drinking water.
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Liberty RadEx Drill Helps Nation Prepare for ‘Dirty Bomb’
EPA scientists helped plan and support major simulation of testing, clean up, and recovery phases following a deliberate radiation attack.
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EPA scientists helped plan and support major simulation of testing, clean up, and recovery phases following a deliberate radiation attack.
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