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Background Links between climate change and mental health concerns in the USA are recognised, but research is underdeveloped. Many studies rely on self-reported exposures, non-representative samples, or inconsistent definitions of mental health outcomes, limiting their utility in...

HSRP has been developing a methodology that addresses issues related to using disparate data sets with a diversity of units, data availability limitations, and scales to standardize use to inform gross mitigation of biological/radiological incident impacts. The methodology employ...

3D Sample Design: Current sample design tools utilize a 2D (top-down) approach for designing and implementing the placement of samples. This causes a disconnect between where the sample was intended to be collected vs what is shown on a 2D display or map. Furthermore, these desig...

Growing hazard exposures and deepening social disparities highlight the need for resilience frameworks that capture not only risk and vulnerability but also the processes through which communities adapt. Most existing indices rely on static indicators that describe socioeconomic ...

There is a growing focus in the scientific literature on building community resilience as a pathway to improving human well-being. Community resilience as an outcome for decision making has been defined as both a state to be achieved and a process to be followed. Here the latter ...

Community Hazard-scape and Amenity Placement for Providing Improved Endpoints (CHAPPIE) is designed to characterize community resilience based on the hazards households face and amenities that contribute to their resilience with the aim to identify ways to improve community resil...

The Landfill Gas Emissions Model (LandGEM) is an interactive tool with a Microsoft Excel interface that can be used to estimate generation and emission rates for total landfill gas, methane, carbon dioxide, nonmethane organic compounds (NMOCs), and other hazardous air pollutants ...

This study reports on two full-scale pilot investigations conducted at wastewater treatment facilities in Cincinnati, Ohio (USA).It demonstrates two aspects: first, to assess the comparative disinfection performance of a dual disinfection treatment method employing peracetic acid...

In 2020 the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Research and Development (ORD) and the Educational Partnerships for Innovation in Communities Network (EPIC-N) signed a 5-year Memorandum of Understanding to focus on enhancing and supporting efforts that c...

Background: The risk of developing heat-related illness increases when personal protective equipment (PPE) is worn, especially in hot and humid environments. While cooling strategies are effective, they must be applied preemptively or delivered promptly, which can be difficult if...

Advanced oxidation processes are currently being looked at as potentially better methods for treating organic contaminants found in waters due to industrial accidents, natural, and man-made incidents. Hydrogen peroxide and ozone devices are fairly well-known and guidance is neede...

Reusable PPE has the potential to address waste management concerns generated by the use of single-use, disposable PPE. Reusable respirators could reduce the waste generated by N95 use by 60%. 3D printing of PPE was recently explored by HSRP as a solution to COVID-19 incited cris...

This document includes an overview summary of the Water Network Tool for Resilience (WNTR), a listing of the data requirements to use WNTR, and a list of WNTR tutorials available. It also includes Jupyter Notebooks for these tutorials. These resources can help drinking water util...

To support the city of Crisfield, MD’s coastal community resilience goals and associated decision-making, this climate-smart design assessment evaluates the potential effectiveness of selected nature-based solutions (NBS) in terms of strategic design for long-term robustness in t...

To support the city of Crisfield, MD’s coastal community resilience goals and associated decision-making, this climate-smart design assessment evaluates the potential effectiveness of selected nature-based solutions (NBS) in terms of strategic design for long-term robustness in t...

This subproduct investigates waste management issues and challenges that arise during biological incidents (e.g., disease outbreak, accidental or deliberate release). It presents preliminary findings of qualitative research on the intersection of public health, emergency manageme...

An important piece of building resilience in a community involves access to amenities and information. In coastal communities, flood waters can impact connectivity and leave many areas vulnerable in both the short and long term. The information presented will cover how the model ...

Management of huge quantities of large animal carcasses, due to foreign animal disease outbreaks such as the current African Swine Fever virus (ASFv) outbreak, is particularly challenging. Composting is a disposal option that could be used to inactivate the virus and provide soil...

The compound effects of fluvial flooding, tidal dynamics, and sea-level rise (SLR) have the potential to mobilize pollutants at contaminated sites, which are often situated in flood-prone areas. We assessed the compound effects of these flood drivers on benzo[a]pyrene (B[a]P)-con...

The Crisfield City Council invited EPA Office of Research & Development (ORD) to brief them about the current status of the natural infrastructure coastal resilience research co-development efforts.  This presentation will explain how the current proposed map of nature-b...

Drinking water utilities need to be resilient to all types of disasters. The Water Network Tool for Resilience (WNTR) will be updated to use data projection maps available in Office of Water's Climate Resilience Evaluation and Awareness Tool (CREAT). The inclusion of these maps w...

For the past several years, the U.S Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) Office of Research and Development (ORD), and the Metropolitan Sewer District of Greater Cincinnati (MSDGC) have been investigating the use of peracetic acid (PAA) as an alternative to, or in conjunctio...

The collection of documents include a survey dataset and cover page that describes the survey methods. The survey data was collected in 2020 with EPA staff who work on Superfund, brownfield, emergency response, and other types of cleanup actions. The purpose of the survey was to ...

The EPA flooded homes website is intended to help homeowners, renters, and volunteers safely muck out, clean up, and fix up homes that have been affected by flooding. This presentation describes the research used to develop the website as a risk communication tool. The research p...

Management of waste from radiological incidents is complicated by the fact that decontamination decisions have a profound impact on the characteristics of resulting waste streams. Wide-area radiological incidents could produce massive quantities of waste that may need to be treat...