Collections and Lists

What If: Ideas for Reducing Transportation Greenhouse Gases

Thought starters about potential ideas for reducing transportation carbon pollution.

Diesel Emission Reduction in Construction Model Contract Specification

This is a example of contract language to promote the use of construction equipment that reduce emissions

Learn About Sources

This is the introductory page to the sources module.

Introduction to urbanization and its effects of streams, a summary of the urban stream syndrome,an overview of the effects of urbanization on biotic integrity, a summary of catchment vs. riparian urbanization vs. reach.

Summary Tables of Types of Evidence

This page includes a summary table to various types of evidence, illustrations, explanations, and their supporting pages.

Stressor-Response Relationships from Ecological Simulation Models

How to derive and evaluate evidence using stressor-response relationships from ecological simulation models

Causal Pathway

How to derive and evaluate evidence of a Causal Pathway

Analogous Stressors

How to derive and evaluate evidence from analogous stressors

Quantifying Uncertainty in Causal Analysis

Overview and details of quantifying uncertainty

Summary Tables of Scores

Summary table of scores

Lists of Stressors from Monitoring Studies

An overview of stressors from studies

Figure: Symptoms

Figure 3-11 illustrates the concept of looking at symptoms of the fish to determine what the impairment might be.

Stressor-Response Relationships from Laboratory Studies

This page shows how to derive the cause using the evidence from laboratory studies.

Explanation of Evidence

This page illustrates and explains how to evaluate whether there is a reasonable explanation for inconsistent evidence.

Figure: Verified Predictions

Figure 3-10 illustrates the concept of using experience and knowledge to verify hypothesis' which can help to strengthen the case too.

Step 1. Define the Case

This page provides an overview of Step 1, defining the case, including more detail of Step 1, examples and the expected output of Step 1, defining the case.

Tips for Listing Candidate Causes

An overview for listing candidate causes

Mechanistically Plausible Cause

This page explain how to derive and evaluate evidence as a plausible mechanism.

Consistency of Evidence

This page shows how when the confidence in the argument for or against a candidate cause is increased even when many types of evidence consistently support or weaken it.

Figures: Spatial/Temporal Co-occurrence

Figures 3-1a through Figure 3-3b illustrate the concept of Spatial/Temporal Co-occurrence