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Using WASP to Simulate Toxicant Concentrations in Surface Waters and Sediments
Citation:
Knightes, Chris. Using WASP to Simulate Toxicant Concentrations in Surface Waters and Sediments. EPA's Surface Water Quality Modeling Training, NA, Virtual, April 21, 2021.
Impact/Purpose:
EPA’s Water Modeling Workgroup (WMW) sponsors an ongoing series of two-hour webinars to help water quality professionals better understand surface water quality models and how they can be used to address water quality problems. This presentation reviews the capabilities of the Water Quality Analysis Simulation Program and specifically the Advanced Toxicant module. EPA's WASP model has been around for 50 years and has undergone continual improvements as science and computer processing power has improved. This presentation covers how one can use WASP to simulate solute concentrations (e.g., metals, pesticides, organic contaminants), nanomaterials (carbon nanotubes, graphene oxide), mercury, and solids. This presentation is open to anyone, with particular focus on EPA offices and regions as well as states so that they may become better informed on EPA's modeling tools and how they may be used to address their environmental management needs (e.g., TMDLs, permits).
Description:
EPA’s Water Quality Analysis Simulation Program (WASP) is a differential, spatially-resolved, mass balance, fate and transport modeling framework structured to allow users to simulate concentrations of environmental contaminants in surface waters and sediments. Specific case-study applications of the WASP Advanced Toxicant Module will be presented to provide real-world examples.