Research & Applications

The EDRP conducts theoretical and applied research in areas of exposure assessment, environmental health, environmental fate and transport modeling, and numerical analysis. Addition-ally, EDRP staff develop workshops and present graduate-level courses at universities on the aforementioned areas of research. EDRP analyses have also been used and applied to numerous sites at which ATSDR is involved. Selected examples of EDRP research and applications include:

• Study of childhood birth defects and cancer at U.S. Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, NC
• Dover Township (Toms River), New Jersey, water-distribution modeling, support of epidemiologic investigation of childhood cancer
• Probabilistic analysis of pesticide transport at Oatland Island, Georgia
• Osborn Connecticut Correctional Institution, Somers, Connecticut—groundwater modeling, PCE contamination
• Solvents Recovery Services of New England, Southington, Connecticut—water-distribution system modeling, VOC contamination
• Newtown, Gainesville, Georgia—air dispersion modeling, arsenic contamination
• Brush Wellman, Elmore, Ohio—air dispersion modeling, beryllium contamination
• Exposure Investigations short course, ATSDR, March 1999
• Analytical contaminant transport analysis system software (ACTS) workshop, ATSDR, June 1999
• Quantitative exposure assessment, Autonomous University of San Luis Potosi´, Mexico, May 2003
• Environmental and occupational hazards II (EOH 541), Emory University, January–May 2000, 2001, 2002

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