Links to Related Sites

If you have related sites that you would like to list here, email a brief description and the URL to Rebecca Efroymson (efroymsonra@ornl.gov).

General Links

• Committee on Environment and Natural Resources (CENR) - established to foster a new multi-agency, interdisciplinary approach to environment and natural resources R&D.
• EPA Watershed Ecological Risk Assessments - prototype watershed ecological risk assessment case studies in five different ecological and geographic regions.
• Navy Guidance for Conducting Ecological Risk Assessments - provides guidance for implementing the Chief of Naval Operations ERA policy.
• NCEA's Ecological Assessment Program - EPA National Center for Environmental Assessment's primary page for ecological risk assessment guidance and examples.
• Risk Assessment and Policy Association
• RiskWorld Homepage - an international World Wide Web publication providing news and information on the identification, critical analysis, and management of risks.
• Society for Risk Analysis - provides an open forum for those interested in risk analysis.
• Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) - independent, nonprofit professional society that provides a forum for individuals & institutions concerned with areas of environmental issues, education, and R&D and natural resources.
• U.S. DOE Office of Environmental Policy and Assistance, Dose and Risk Assessment
• National Academy of Sciences

Contaminated Sites and the associated ecological risks

• EPA Guidelines for Ecological Risk Assessment - These Agency-wide guidelines are provided to improve the quality and consistency of EPA's ecological risk assessments.
• EPA Superfund: Ecological Risk Assessment - Provides overview of ecological risk assessment and risk management at CERCLA waste sites.
• ECOTOX - EPA's ECOTOXicology database provides single chemical toxicity information for aquatic and terrestrial life.

Petroleum-Contaminated Sites and the associated environmental risks

• Managing Ecological Impacts at Exploration and Production Sites - project web site Ecological Framework to Evaluate Impacts of Petroleum Exploration & Production (E&P) Sites project. Includes maps and reports.
• Natural Gas and Oil Technology Partnership (NGOTP) Program
• Petroleum Environmental Research Forum (PERF)
• Tallgrass Prairie Preserve

Radionuclides and the associated ecological risks

• Biota Dose Assessment Committee (BDAC) - Primary site for the DOE Technical Standard that provides a graded approach for evaluating radiation doses to aquatic and terrestrial biota.
• International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
• International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) - An independent Registered Charity, established to advance for the public benefit the science of radiological protection.
• International Union of Radioecology (IUR) - a non-political and non-profit scientific organization for professional radioecologists.
• National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements (NCRP)
• Periodic Table of the Isotopes - General resource page on radioactivity
• U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)

Net Environmental Benefit Analysis

• Perspectives on the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill - It was in Prince William Sound that this concept was first used, and it has continued to develop.

Military Training and Testing activities and the associated environmental risks

• Environmental Sciences Division (ESD) & SERDP - work performed by the Environmental Sciences Division (ESD) at Oak Ridge NationalLaboratory (ORNL) for the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP)
• Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP)

Air Pollutants and their environmental fate and effects

• Encyclopedia of the Atmospheric Environment - a one-stop source of information, for younger and older users alike, on a range of atmospheric issues.

Wastewater Treatment Risks for on-site treatment systems

• National Decentralized Water Resources Capacity Development Project (NDWRCDP)
• ORNL onsite wastewater treatment (OWT) - web site for integrated risk assessment of onsite wastewater treatment (OWT) systems.

Biological Uptake of chemicals by plants and animals

• Environmental Residue-Effects Database (ERED) - a compilation of data, taken from the literature, where biological effects (e.g., reduced survival, growth, etc.) and tissue contaminant concentrations were simultaneously measured in the same (aquatic) organism.
• National Sediment Bioaccumulation Conference Proceedings Summary - view or obtain copies of the conference proceedings.