Risk Assessment Information and Tools

Biological Indicators of Watershed Health: Environmental bioindicators and statistics.
Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response - Tools of the Trade: Offers helpful web sites for databases, software, guidance and policy for ecological and human health assessments.
EPA Risk Assessment Forum: Contains risk guidance information and the Risk Assessment Forum which focuses on generic issues fundamental to the risk assessment process and related science policy issues.
U.S. Department of Energy- ORNL Ecological Risk Analysis Tools and Applications Exit: Ecological Risk Analysis: Tools and Applications. Includes screening benchmark reports and guidance documents.
Science Daily Exit: News, articles, press releases related to environmental issues.
EXtention TOXicology NETtwork (EXTOXNET) Exit: A variety of toxicology related information.
EPA Ecological Exposure Research: Software and guidance on used in toxicity testing.
EPA Statistical Analysis for Biological Methods: Statistical software and methods including various LC50 calculations.
ECOSAR: Software used to estimate the toxicity of chemicals used in industry and discharged into water.
NOAA Screening Quick Reference Tables (SQuiRTS) Exit: A resource for initial screening of environmental concentrations.

Related Chemical Websites

Compendium of Pesticide Common Names Exit: Locate common pesticide names and Chemical Abstract Services (CAS) numbers.
ARS Pesticide Properties Database Exit: Compendium of chemical and physical properties of 334 widely used pesticides.
National Institute of Standards and Technology Chemistry WebBook Exit: Search for many physical/chemical properties of chemicals.
EPI (Estimation Program Interface) Suite: U.S. EPA physical/chemical property and environmental fate estimation models software download site.
ChemFinder Exit: Database includes searches on CAS, chemical structures and physical properties.
Daylight Chemical Information System Exit: A variety of chemical information and expert system products are available for purchase.
CompTox Chemicals Dashboard: Suite of databases and web applications on chemical properties and toxicity.

Species 2000 Exit: Locate world species scientific and common names using a world standard index.
Tree of Life Exit: Search on scientific and common organism names. Also contains information about biodiversity and phylogeny.
ITIS - Integrated Taxonomic Information System Exit: Obtain information on taxonomic information used in ECOTOX.
National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Taxonomy database Exit: Organism names and taxonomic information, with links to nucleotide and protein sequence databases.

British Library http://www.bl.uk Exit: Worldwide journals, United Kingdom thesis and translated documents
National Science Library https://nsdl.oercommons.org/ Exit: Canadian journals and government documents
Ingenta http://www.ingentaconnect.com/ Exit: Current issues of common research journals (1995-present)
Linda Hall http://www.lindahall.org/ Exit: Scientific journals
National Technical Information Services www.ntis.gov Exit: U.S. government documents
UC San Diego Library https://library.ucsd.edu/ Exit: Scientific journals
TIB (German) https://www.tib.eu/en/ Exit: German journals and government documents
ProQuest http://disexpress.umi.com/dxweb Exit: U.S. PhD Thesis (generally not master thesis)
U.S. Federal Government Science Accelerator https://www.osti.gov/ Exit: Locate U.S. government agency reports for DOE electronic reports