Region 4

EPA's Region 4 serves Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. The following EPA research and development facilities are available in your region.

Coral Research Facility – Gulf Breeze, Florida
The Coral Research Facility offers scientists the unique capability of assessing multiple stressor effects on coral and their algal symbionts in a controlled laboratory environment.

Environmental Chambers – Athens, Georgia
Two walk-in controlled environmental chambers are available at EPA's research laboratory in Athens.

Environmental and Thermal Engineering Laboratory (ETEL) – Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
The ETEL facility supports research on refrigeration and air-conditioning systems. Uses of the facility include performance evaluations of alternative refrigerants and equipment components for systems using these chemicals.

Facilities for Air Pollution Studies – Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
EPA possesses a suite of state-of-the-art equipment to research and develop methods for the study of emissions that pose a risk to human health and ecology and to support the development of technological solutions for problems caused by emissions.

Human Studies Facility – Chapel Hill, North Carolina
The Human Studies Facility, located on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, offers scientists the ability to study the health effects of airborne pollutants using state-of-the-art exposure chambers.

Meteorological Wind Tunnel – Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
EPA's campus in Research Triangle Park houses a state-of-the-art meteorological wind tunnel for air pollution dispersion studies in both urban and rural settings.

Mobile Source Research Facility – Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
A number of unique, state-of-the-art resources for the characterization and source profiling of motor-vehicle emissions and off-road-engine exhaust are available.

Multipollutant Control Research Facility – Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
The recently constructed multipollutant control research facility (MPCRF) supports development of new flue gas cleaning technologies for stationary sources of air pollution closely simulating full-scale emission sources.

State-of-the-Art Analytical Laboratories – Athens, Georgia
EPA's laboratories in Athens house a suite of instruments to support ecosystems exposure research. For example, researchers can separate complex environmental mixtures and identify unknown environmental contaminants using a high resolution mass spectrometer linked to a gas or liquid chromatograph and/or a mass spectrometer.

Supercomputer for Model Uncertainty and Sensitivity Evaluation (SuperMUSE) – Athens, Georgia
Supporting both Windows and Linux-based models and modeling systems, SuperMUSE is an integrated, supercomputing cluster that researchers can use to determine the uncertainty and sensitivity of complex environmental models.

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