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A Proof-of-Concept Case Study Integrating Publicly Available Information to Screen Candidates for Chemical Prioritization under TSCA

Shipping of goods and commodities is one of the dominant uses of the Great Lakes. Navigation channels in rivers and harbors must be routinely dredged to mandated depths to facilitate this shipping. In practice, there has been a long-term use of open lake disposal or placement in ...

The ECOTOX Knowledgebase is a comprehensive, publicly available application providing chemical environmental toxicity data on aquatic life, terrestrial plants and wildlife. ECOTOX data has been compiled over more than 30 years and currently includes over 51,000 references coverin...

The fish-community objective is to prevent the introduction of any non-indigenous aquatic species that is not currently established in Lake Superior, prevent or delay the spread of non-indigenous aquatic species, where feasible, and eliminate or reduce populations of nonindigenou...

The Lake Superior ecosystem, while near-pristine in comparison to the other Laurentian Great Lakes, has seen significant biological changes over the past two decades. Starting in the mid-2000s, pelagic prey fish biomass has been declining in both nearshore and offshore waters (Vi...

The Sequence Alignment to Predict Across Species Susceptibility (SeqAPASS) Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) has been developed to test all current functionality of SeqAPASS tool. It can be used at any time during development, however it is most critical when testing the code up...

A health impact assessment (HIA) is a systematic process that uses data, analytical methods, and input from stakeholders to determine the potential effects of a proposed policy, plan, program, or project on the health of a population. The HIA examines who will be impacted and pro...

The US Environmental Protection Agency Sequence Alignment to Predict Across Species Susceptibility tool (SeqAPASS; https://seqapass.epa.gov/seqapass/) was developed to comparatively evaluate protein sequence and structural similarity across species as a means to extrapolate toxic...

When determining whether a riparian-wetland area is functioning properly, the condition of the entire watershed, including the uplands and tributary watershed ecosystem, is important. The entire watershed can influence the quality, abundance, and stability of downstream resources...

The ECOTOX Knowledgebase is a comprehensive, publicly available application providing chemical environmental toxicity data on aquatic life, terrestrial plants and wildlife compiled from over 49,000 references covering more than 11,700 chemicals and 12,900 species. ECOTOX data are...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) develops human health and ecological assessments for large numbers of chemicals. Many of these chemicals have little to no toxicity or exposure information available, and may require toxicity testing and exposure analysis before any ...

The SSD Toolbox is a tool for fitting species sensitivity distributions (SSD). It gathers together a variety of algorithms to support fitting and visualization of simple SSDs. The current version of the tool supports five distributions (normal, logistic, triangular, gumbel, and...

The SSD tool is a tool for fitting species sensitivity distributions (SSD). It gathers together a variety of algorithms to support fitting and visualization of simple SSDs. The current version of the tool supports five distributions (normal, logistic, triangular, gumbel, and bu...

User Guide to describe the complete functionality of the Sequence Alignment to Predict Across Species Susceptibility (SeqAPASS) Version 4.0 online tool. The US Environmental Protection Agency Sequence Alignment to Predict Across Species Susceptibility tool (SeqAPASS; https://seqa...

Companion report to OW's NCCA national report

The ECOTOXicology knowledgebase (ECOTOX) is a comprehensive, curated database that summarizes toxicology data from single chemical exposure studies to terrestrial and aquatic organisms. The ECOTOX Knowledgebase provides risk assessors and researchers consistent information on tox...

The ECOTOXicology knowledgebase (ECOTOX) is a comprehensive, curated database that summarizes toxicology data from single chemical exposure studies to terrestrial and aquatic organisms. The ECOTOX Knowledgebase provides risk assessors and researchers consistent information on tox...

Remediation to Restoration to Revitalization (R2R2R) is a place-based practice that requires ongoing communication amongst agencies, local governments, and citizens. Each of these entities have different relationships with and responsibilities to sites where R2R2R progresses. Se...

The ECOTOXicology knowledgebase (ECOTOX) is a comprehensive, curated database that summarizes toxicology data from single chemical exposure studies to terrestrial and aquatic organisms. The ECOTOX Knowledgebase provides risk assessors and researchers consistent information on tox...

The ECOTOXicology knowledgebase (ECOTOX) is a comprehensive, curated database that summarizes toxicology data from single chemical exposure studies to terrestrial and aquatic organisms. The ECOTOX Knowledgebase provides risk assessors and researchers consistent information on tox...

The ECOTOXicology knowledgebase (ECOTOX) is a comprehensive, curated database that summarizes toxicology data from single chemical exposure studies to terrestrial and aquatic organisms. The ECOTOX Knowledgebase provides risk assessors and researchers consistent information on tox...

This report presents multiple lines of inquiry focused on improving the public’s use of ecosystem goods and services (EGS) concepts, data, and tools for addressing environmental, social, and economic problems. The case studies and data tools and models in the report highlight the...

The ECOTOXicology knowledgebase (ECOTOX) is a comprehensive, curated database that summarizes toxicology data from single chemical exposure studies to terrestrial and aquatic organisms. The ECOTOX Knowledgebase provides risk assessors and researchers consistent information on tox...

The ECOTOXicology knowledgebase (ECOTOX) is a comprehensive, curated database that summarizes toxicology data from single chemical exposure studies to terrestrial and aquatic organisms. The ECOTOX Knowledgebase provides risk assessors and researchers consistent information on tox...

As part of the Coordinated Science and Monitoring Initiative (CSMI) in Lake Superior in 2016, a lake-wide benthic survey was conducted to assess the status of the benthic macroinvertebrate community with primary focus on the native amphipod Diporeia, Oligochaeta, Chironomidae, an...