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Title of Listing: | | National Exposure Research Laboratory (NERL) |
Category: | | Research Centers |
Subcategory: | | Government, All Listings |
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Web Site: | | http://www.epa.gov/AthensR/nerlmis.htm |
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The National Exposure Research Laboratory (NERL), with divisions located in, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina; Cincinnati, Ohio; Athens, Georgia; and Las Vegas, Nevada provides scientific understanding, information and assessment tools to reduce and quantify the uncertainty in the Agency's exposure and risk assessments for all environmental stressors. Stressors include chemicals, biologicals, radiation, and changes in climate, land and water use.
NERL Responsibilities
- Characterize the sources of environmental stressors and the compartments of the environment in which they reside or move
- Study the pathways through environmental compartments that lead to exposure of receptors to stressors
- Investigate intra- and intercompartmental stressor transfers and their transformations
- Study and characterize receptors to predict or measure stressor exposure
It provides research information on stressor sources; pollutant transport, transformations and exposure; and source-to-receptor predictive exposure models applicable to the appropriate temporal scales and to site, watershed/regional and global scales. It also provides risk managers with receptor and stressor analyses, and evaluations of alternative mitigation, management or restoration strategies from an exposure perspective.
To accomplish its mission, NERL conducts fundamental and applied research designed to characterize air, soil, surface water, sediment, and subsurface systems.
NERL also demonstrates, field tests, evaluates and transfers scientific information and innovative exposure assessment technologies, and provides educational materials and technical support to Program Offices, Regions, State/Municipal/Tribal governments, and other Federal agencies to help in performing state-of-the-science exposure assessments.
A listing of publications prepared by the laboratory can be viewed at http://www.epa.gov/docs/AthensR/public.htm. Papers published by the laboratory can be obtained by calling the laboratory, the National Technical Information Service (NTIS), or the Government Printing Office (GPO).
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Topics
Risk Assessment
Additional Topics/Tags/Keywords
Chemical Exposure, Risk Assessment, Environmental Stressors
Organization: | | National Exposure Research Laboratory (NERL) |
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| Phone: | Description | Number |
City: | | Athens | | NERL | (706) 369-6376 |
State/Province/Territory: | | GA | 2. | NTIS | (800) 553-6847 |
Zip/Postal Code: | | 30605-2700 | 3. | GPO | (202) 512-0000 |
Country: | | United States | 4. | Fax: | |
Branch Locations: | |
Research Triangle Park, NC; Cincinnati, OH; Las Vegas, NV |
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