Risk Assessment

The risk of adverse effects to human health or ecological receptors is the primary driver at most environmental sites. The tools presented on this page include:
• Models that are used to evaluate a specific pathway
• Graphically based tools that provide a geospatial basis to calculate exposure point concentrations
• Comprehensive packages that provide a collection of models and databases, that the user may link together based on their conceptual site model (CSM).

ARAMS	Conceptual Site Model	■	I	NA     xls       NA     NA     Yes	√        √       √        √         √         √	√       NA       √        √         √	•Risk Assessor
Software Home Page	Statistical Analysis	□		txt
	Ecological Risk Assessment	□
	Human Health Risk Assessment	□
FIELDS	Visualization	■	F	xls     dbf     dxf      jpg    Yes	√        √       √        √         √         √	√       √        NA      √        √	•GIS Technician
Software Home Page	Initial Sampling	□		txt      shp      tif			• Statistician
	Secondary Sampling	■		wmf			•Staff familiar with
	Geospatial Interpolation	■		eps			interpolation techniques
	Cost-Benefit Analysis	□
	Human Health Risk Assessment	□
	Ecological Risk Assessment	□
GeoSEM	Visualization	■	F	xls     dbf   many^2  shp     No	√        √        √        √         √         √	√        √         √        √         √	•Risk Assessor
Software Home Page	Geospatial Interpolation	■		mdb			•Statistician
	Statisitcal Analysis	■
Johnson-Ettinger model	Human Health Risk Assessment	■	I	NA      xls     NA       NA     Yes	NA       √       NA      NA       √       NA	NA       √          √      NA      NA	•Risk Assessor
Software Home Page	Analytical Modeling	■
RESRAD	Human Health Risk Assessment	□	I	NA     xls      NA      NA     Yes	NA     NA      NA      NA      NA      √	√       NA      √        √          √	•Risk Assessor
Software Home Page	Ecological Risk Assessment	□					•Technical Staff
	Analytical Modeling	□					familiar with
	Uncertainty Analysis	□					using RESRAD
	Sensitivity Analysis	□
SADA	Visualization	■	F	csv     csv      dxf     jpg     Yes	√        √       √        √         √         √	√       √        NA      √        √	•Risk Assessor
Software Home Page	Initial Sampling	□		shp			•Statistician
	Secondary Sampling	■					•Staff Familiar with
	Geospatial Interpolation	■					interpolation techniques
	Statistical Analysis	□
	Human Health Risk Assessment	□
	Ecological Risk Assessment	□
	Cost-Benefit Analysis	□

Notes:

File input and output formats are represented in the matrix by the file extension.ASCII files, for example are indicated by the extension "txt."

EPCRA = Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-know Act

1 ERPIMS data can be imported through an Access file or a series of text files (.tes, .res, .sam, .ldi).

2 GeoSEM uses several GIS vector and raster file formats: DOD vector product format (VPF) , ESRI product files, CAD drawings (dxf), ASCI II grids, and georeferenced image formats such as geoTIFs, bitmaps, GIFs, JPGs, and ERDAS.

Legend:

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