Science & Technology

COVID-19: Electrostatic Sprayers and Foggers for Disinfectant Application Webinar

EPA's ORD offers free public webinars on recent research results. Watch a pre-recorded webinar on the use of electrostatic sprayers and foggers for surface disinfectant applications.

Stormwater Decontamination, Containment, and Diversion Technologies

EPA is involved in stormwater lab, field, and modeling studies that test decontamination technologies and software tools . This website was created to provide several examples of the types of stormwater scenarios EPA homeland security researchers use.

Twenty Years of Homeland Security Research: How it Started and Where We Are Now Webinar

EPA's ORD offers free public webinars on recent research results. Watch a pre-recorded webinar on the 20-year history, development, and current focus of EPA's Homeland Security Research Program.

Meet the Women Behind EPA's COVID-19 Research

U.S. EPA's Office of Research and Development hosted an interactive panel discussion with six female scientists working on COVID-19 research.

Wildfire Impacts on Water Infrastructure

EPA's ORD offers free public webinars on recent research results. Watch a pre-recorded webinar on EPA's emergency response efforts to the Maui wildfires and ongoing research to further understand contamination of water infrastructure.

EPA's Decon Conference

EPA's Decon Conference, a free international conference on decontamination research and development, focuses strongly on matters involving CBR threat agents but also includes all hazard elements.

2023 International Decontamination Research and Development Conference Proceedings

2023 EPA International Decontamination Research and Development Conference Proceedings summarizes presentations from speakers and their biographies.

Risk-Screening Environmental Indicators (RSEI) Data Dictionary V2.3.5

document describing all of the data tables and fields used in the RSEI model and results datasets

Documentation for Risk-Screening Environmental Indicators (RSEI) Geographic Microdata (RSEI-GM) V2.3.5

information on the RSEI Geographic Microdata, which are a unique dataset that provides detailed air model results from the RSEI model at a level of 810 meter square grid cells

Risk-Screening Environmental Indicators (RSEI) Methodology Version 2.3.6

the document for Risk-Screening Environmental Indicators (RSEI) Methodology Version 2.3.6, January 2018

Risk-Screening Environmental Indicators (RSEI) Technical Appendices Version 2.3.6

Technical appendices for the Risk-Screening Environmental Indicators screening tool version 2.3.6

Risk-Screening Environmental Indicators (RSEI) Data Dictionary Version 2.3.6

document describing all of the data tables and fields used in the RSEI model and results datasets

Hydraulic Fracturing Study Research Approaches

This page show the five main types of research approaches, which each serve as a tool for determining the conditions under which HF can impact drinking water resources.

CCL 4 Technical Support Documents

Learn about EPA's technical support documents for Contaminant Candidate List 4 (CCL 4).

KABAM Version 1.0 User's Guide and Technical Documentation - Appendix B - Explanation of Defaults and Alternative Values Representing Abiotic Characteristics of Aquatic Ecosystem

Discussion of values used in KABAM for particulate organic carbon, dissolved organic carbon, dissolved oxygen, suspended solids, water temperature, and % organic carbon content of the sediment.