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San Juan Bay Estuary: Research History and Opportunities
(PUBLISHED REPORT) [Published : May 10, 2024]
(PUBLISHED REPORT) [Published : May 10, 2024]
We reviewed the available social-ecological, hydrological, and geochemical literature for the ecological systems of the San Juan Bay Estuary (SJBE), a site in the Environmental Protection Agency’s National Estuarine Program. The objective of the review is to gather in one place a...
Improving the Resilience of Best Management Practices In A Changing Environment: Urban Stormwater Modeling Studies (Final Report)
(PUBLISHED REPORT) [Published : May 29, 2018]
(PUBLISHED REPORT) [Published : May 29, 2018]
The purpose of this report is to respond to EPA's identified need for an improved understanding of the potential impacts of changes in long term weather conditions on the occurrence and management of urban stormwater runoff. EPA conducted continuous simulation modeling of the hy...
Coastal Integrated Hydro-Terrestrial Modeling: A Multi-Agency Invited Workshop
(PUBLISHED REPORT) [Published : Nov 01, 2020]
(PUBLISHED REPORT) [Published : Nov 01, 2020]
This report summarizes the results of the Coastal Integrated Hydro-Terrestrial Modeling (C-IHTM) Workshop that was co-planned, co-hosted and attended by the MultiSector Dynamics (MSD) community, a collective of university- and national lab-based researchers who work on the modeli...
Sustainable and Resilient Solid Waste Infrastructure: Davenport, Iowa Case Study
(PUBLISHED REPORT) [Published : Jun 29, 2023]
(PUBLISHED REPORT) [Published : Jun 29, 2023]
The goal for this report was to examine current municipal solid waste (MSW) management infrastructure of Davenport, Iowa and provide scenarios with resilience, sustainability, and equity considerations in mind. The City of Davenport, Iowa was selected as the project site through ...
Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks 1990-2021: Chapter 6 Land Use, Land-Use Change, and Forestry
(PUBLISHED REPORT) [Published : Apr 16, 2023]
(PUBLISHED REPORT) [Published : Apr 16, 2023]
Flooded lands are defined as water bodies where human activities have 1) caused changes in the amount of surface area covered by water, typically through water level regulation (e.g., constructing a dam), 2) waterbodies where human activities have changed the hydrology of existin...
Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks 1990-2021: 6.9 Land Converted to Wetlands (CRF Source Category 4D2)
(PUBLISHED REPORT) [Published : Apr 13, 2023]
(PUBLISHED REPORT) [Published : Apr 13, 2023]
Flooded lands are defined as water bodies where human activities have 1) caused changes in the amount of surface area covered by water, typically through water level regulation (e.g., constructing a dam), 2) waterbodies where human activities have changed the hydrology of existin...
ICLUS Tools and Datasets (Version 1.2) and User's Manual: Arcgis Tools and Datasets for Modeling US Housing Density (External Review Draft)
(PUBLISHED REPORT) [Published : Nov 30, 2009]
(PUBLISHED REPORT) [Published : Nov 30, 2009]
This draft Geographic Information System (GIS) tool can be used to generate scenarios of housing-density changes and calculate impervious surface cover for the conterminous United States. A draft User’s Guide accompanies the tool. This product distributes the population project...
STAC Workshop Report: Chesapeake Bay Program Climate Change Modeling 2.0
(PUBLISHED REPORT) [Published : Jul 22, 2021]
(PUBLISHED REPORT) [Published : Jul 22, 2021]
This workshop report describes a workshop sponsored by the Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP) Science and Technical Advisory Committee (STAC) titled “Chesapeake Bay Program Climate Change Modeling 2.0”. The workshop was held in late 2018, and brought together over 40 scientists to give...
Development of a Cumulative Resilience Screening Index (CRSI) for Natural Hazards: An Assessment of Resilience to Acute Meteorological Events and Selected Natural Hazards
(PUBLISHED REPORT) [Published : Aug 03, 2020]
(PUBLISHED REPORT) [Published : Aug 03, 2020]
This report is a revision of the earlier 2017 CRSI report. The report renames the index to the Cumulative Resilience Screening Index to avoid the confusion associated with the earlier moniker Climate Resilience Screening Index. Both retain the CRSI acronym and are the ostensibly ...
Watershed Management Optimization Support Tool Benefits Module: Theoretical Documentation
(PUBLISHED REPORT) [Published : Aug 01, 2020]
(PUBLISHED REPORT) [Published : Aug 01, 2020]
The Watershed Management Optimization Support Tool (WMOST) was developed by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) to facilitate integrated water resources management. The new Benefits Module for WMOST enables stakeholders to calculate the value of additional ...
National Water Infrastructure Adaptation Assessment: Part II, Smart Urban Designer (SUD) and Application Case Studies
(PUBLISHED REPORT) [Published : Oct 08, 2020]
(PUBLISHED REPORT) [Published : Oct 08, 2020]
This report “National Water Infrastructure Adaptation Assessment: Part II, Smart Urban Designer (SUD) and Case Studies” is a part of the research effort undertaken by the EPA Office of Research and Development (ORD) Water Systems Division (WSD) on national water infrastructure as...
A synthesis of case studies from Narragansett Bay (RI/MA, USA) emphasizing implementation of the US Clean Water Act using adaptive management.
(PUBLISHED REPORT) [Published : May 01, 2020]
(PUBLISHED REPORT) [Published : May 01, 2020]
Over the last 40 years, Narragansett Bay has experienced significant water quality improvements in response to reductions in nitrogen, heavy metal and organic contaminants, and bacterial pathogen discharge. The sources of these pollutants stem from the long history of population ...
Simulating Metacommunities of Riverine Fishes (SMRF) Model v 1.0 and User Manual
(PUBLISHED REPORT) [Published : Sep 30, 2019]
(PUBLISHED REPORT) [Published : Sep 30, 2019]
Fish communities in river networks provide significant ecosystem services that will likely decline under future land use, human water demand, and climate variability. Modeling can be used to assess the consequences to multiple populations of one or more fish species from multiple...
User’s Guide for the Fertilizer Emission Scenario Tool for CMAQ (FEST-C) Version 1.4
(PUBLISHED REPORT) [Published : Sep 20, 2018]
(PUBLISHED REPORT) [Published : Sep 20, 2018]
The Fertilizer Emission Scenario Tool for CMAQ (FEST-C v1.4) is a Java-based interface system that facilitates the integration of agriculture, atmosphere, and hydrology simulations at large scales through the current release of the Spatial Allocator (SA v4.3.2) Raster Tools syste...
City-based Optimization Model for Energy Technologies:COMET- New York City Documentation
(PUBLISHED REPORT) [Published : Mar 24, 2020]
(PUBLISHED REPORT) [Published : Mar 24, 2020]
EPA/ORD developed City-based Optimization Model for Energy Technologies (COMET) which is designed to examine energy consumption and management scenarios under various environmental policy scenarios implemented at city- and state-level. Initial application of the COMET is piloted ...
Black Carbon Emissions from Residential Wood Combustion Appliances Feb 2020
(PUBLISHED REPORT) [Published : May 19, 2019]
(PUBLISHED REPORT) [Published : May 19, 2019]
This report covers wood stove testing carried out by ORD during May 2018 to June 2018. Testing and analysis was completed as of October 2018. Three stoves of varying design and certification level were tested using the Black Carbon Protocol developed by the International Cryosphe...
Watershed Hydrologic and Contaminated Sediment Transport Modeling in the Tri-State Mining District
(PUBLISHED REPORT) [Published : Oct 01, 2019]
(PUBLISHED REPORT) [Published : Oct 01, 2019]
The Tri-State Mining District (TSMD) encompassing the Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma conjunction was the center of historic mining activity, ceasing in 1970. Although mining activity ended almost 50 years ago, its legacy as a source of cadmium, lead, and zinc to the environment c...
Global Change Assessment Model (GCAM)
(PUBLISHED REPORT)
(PUBLISHED REPORT)
The Global Change Assessment Model (GCAM) is an integrated assessment model that links the world's energy, agriculture and land use systems with a climate model. The model is designed to assess various climate change policies and technology strategies for the globe over long tim...
Assessment of Surface Water Model Maintenance and Support Status
(PUBLISHED REPORT) [Published : Sep 20, 2018]
(PUBLISHED REPORT) [Published : Sep 20, 2018]
The United States Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Water Modeling Workgroup (WMW) provides support for core surface water quality modeling tools used in Clean Water Act programs. The WMW identified a set of 18 separate surface water modeling applications that are currently...
Climate Change Impacts on Human Health Due to Changes in Ambient Ozone Concentrations (External Review Draft)
(PUBLISHED REPORT)
(PUBLISHED REPORT)
This report uses results from a previous report titled <em>Assessment of the Impacts of Global Change on Regional U.S. Air Quality: A Synthesis of Climate Change Impacts on Ground-Level Ozone</em>, a number of high-resolution, spatially explicit population projections developed ...
Decision Support System for Aquifer Recharge (AR) and Aquifer Storage and Recovery (ASR) Planning, Design, and Evaluation - Principles and Technical Basis
(PUBLISHED REPORT) [Published : Feb 20, 2017]
(PUBLISHED REPORT) [Published : Feb 20, 2017]
Aquifer recharge (AR) is a technical method being utilized to enhance groundwater resources through man-made replenishment means, such as infiltration basins and injections wells. Aquifer storage and recovery (ASR) furthers the AR techniques by withdrawal of stored groundwater at...
Watershed Management Optimization Support Tool (WMOST) v3: Theoretical Documentation
(PUBLISHED REPORT) [Published : Feb 12, 2018]
(PUBLISHED REPORT) [Published : Feb 12, 2018]
The Watershed Management Optimization Support Tool (WMOST) is a decision support tool that facilitates integrated water management at the local or small watershed scale. WMOST models the environmental effects and costs of management decisions in a watershed context, accounting fo...
Advancing Understanding of Emissions from Oil and Natural Gas Production Operations to Support EPA’s Air Quality Modeling of Ozone Non-Attainment Areas; Final Summary Report
(PUBLISHED REPORT) [Published : Sep 27, 2016]
(PUBLISHED REPORT) [Published : Sep 27, 2016]
Executive Summary Environmentally responsible development of oil and gas assets requires well-developed emissions inventories and measurement techniques to verify emissions and the effectiveness of control strategies. To accurately model the oil and gas sector impacts on air qual...
Updates to the Demographic and Spatial Allocation Models to Produce Integrated Climate and Land Use Scenarios (ICLUS) (Version 2) (External Review Draft)
(PUBLISHED REPORT) [Published : Feb 23, 2015]
(PUBLISHED REPORT) [Published : Feb 23, 2015]
EPA announced the availability of the draft report, <em>Updates to the Demographic and Spatial Allocation Models to Produce Integrated Climate and Land Use Scenarios (ICLUS)</em> for a 30-day public comment period. The ICLUS version 2 (v2) modeling tool furthered land change mod...
Updates To The Demographic And Spatial Allocation Models To Produce Integrated Climate And Land Use Scenarios (Iclus) (Final Report, Version 2)
(PUBLISHED REPORT) [Published : Jul 27, 2016]
(PUBLISHED REPORT) [Published : Jul 27, 2016]
EPA's announced the availability of the final report, <em>Updates to the Demographic and Spatial Allocation Models to Produce Integrated Climate and Land Use Scenarios (ICLUS)</em> (Version 2). This update furthered land change modeling by providing nationwide housing developmen...