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Developing an interactive tool to support ecological risk assessment for fish populations
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Pollesch, N., M. Etterson, Sandy Raimondo, AND W. Melendez. Developing an interactive tool to support ecological risk assessment for fish populations. SETAC, Louisville, KY, November 12 - 16, 2023. https://doi.org/10.23645/epacomptox.24526207
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Adoption of mathematical and statistical models to support ecological risk assessment is critical to continue to move this field of environmental protection forward. This incorporation into risk assessment workflows depends on multiple factors. These include sound modeling approaches, usability of model outputs, feasibility of parameterization, and ease of use. Ecotoxicological modeling tools are developed in a variety of programming languages by model developers, and an important step in development is how the model will ultimately be deployed to users and stakeholders. In this talk, I will discuss the development of computational workflows and the current state of a graphical user interface with USEPA’s Fish Toxicity Translator model as a case study. I will discuss the advantages and challenges of deployment of a graphical user interface using the R Shiny programming language, and give a demonstration of its features. The goal of this talk will be to provide insight into the deployment side of model development, and to create a dialogue between model developers, users, and risk assessors surrounding this critical step in tool development to support ecological risk assessment The views expressed in this abstract are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views or policies of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
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