Through intramural and extramural funding, the EDRP assists ATSDR by enhancing the agency’s capability in the areas of environmental health and exposure assessment. The EDRP draws on wide-ranging expertise for these analyses. Capabilities include:
- Environmental fate and transport analyses
- Groundwater
- Surface water
- Soil and air
- Water-distribution system analyses
- Field-data collection and system monitoring
- Model calibration and historical reconstruction of system operations
- Numerical analyses
- Uncertainty analysis (Monte Carlo simulation, fuzzy math)
- Genetic algorithm (GA) optimization
- Computational software and graphical user interface development
- GIS and spatial analysis technologies