Science & Technology
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Let's Talk About Heat Challenge
Check out the winners of the Let's Talk About Heat Challenge, launched by EPA and partners to bring attention to the risks of extreme heat and messages on how people can stay safe.
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Explore Projects
This will serve as a landing page on the sidebar navigation menu that will link to relevant internal pages as child links.
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EPA Vision for Participatory Science
EPA page linked to EPA's Vision and Strategy for Participatory Science. Page also includes an infographic highlighting the main takeaways and principles from the vision along with an introduction.
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Resources for Participatory Science Projects
Tools and resources about participatory science and to design and carry out projects.
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Region 8: Risk Assessment Contacts
Region 8 points of contact, resources, and research publication on risk assessment.
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Conducting an Ecological Risk Assessment
This site will be linked off of the risk Microsite and will be where the 3 phase to ERA, the guidelines to ERA, links to models, tools, databases and ERA examples.
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Simulating Metacommunities of Riverine Fishes (SMRF) Model
The EcoService Models Library is an online database for finding, examining and comparing ecological models that may be useful for quantifying ecosystem goods and services.
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Water
The ROE is divided into 5 themes: Air, Water, Land, Human Exposure and Health and Ecological Condition. From these themes, the report indicators address fundamental questions that the ROE attempts to answer. For Water there are 7 questions.
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Coastal Waters
This page explains the connection of the ROE indicators to the chapter themes. This page includes the ROE questions, lists of the related indicators, and additional background information.
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Ecological Processes
This page explains the connection of the ROE indicators to the chapter themes. This page includes the ROE questions, lists of the related indicators, and additional background information.
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Great Lakes Mysis Monitoring
Great Lakes Mysis monitoring program
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Black River AOC Boundary Map
Black River AOC Boundary Map including Lakeview Park Beach, Century Park Beach
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Region 5 Quality Management Plan
This document provides the Region 5 Quality Management Plan for November 2020.
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2015 Version 7.1 Technical Support Document
This TSD describes how the emission inventories were prepared for air quality modeling by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for air toxics and criteria air pollutants that represents the year 2015 based on the 2014 National Emissions Inventory
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2011 Version 6.0 Platform
The 2011v6.0 emissions modeling platform is based on the 2011NEIv1 and was used for preliminary modeling for the Update to the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule.
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2011 Version 6.2 Platform
The 2011v6.2 emissions modeling platform is based on the 2011NEIv2 and was used for the final 2015 ozone NAAQS and the proposed Update to the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule.