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Advancing Our Nation's Security Through Science
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Rapid Resources
Select a subject to find related documents.
- Air filtration
- Anthrax
- Biological inactivation
- Biotoxin
- Building decontamination
- CANARY
- Chemical risk assessment
- Chemical warfare agents/toxic industrial chemicals
- Decontamination studies
- Decontamination research workshops
- Dirty bomb
- EPANET extensions
- Evaluation of commercial technology for indoor and outdoor decontamination
- Evaluation of commercial technology for water security
- Laser induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS)
- Microbial risk assessment
- Provisional Advisory Levels (PALs)
- Risk communication
- Selected Analytical Methods (SAM)
- Shelter-in-Place
- Support for Rapid Risk Assessment (SERRA)
- TEVA-SPOT
- Ultraviolet light
- Vendor supplied information on commercial homeland security technologies
- Waste treatment
- Water quality sensor
- Water treatment and disposal
What We Do
About EPA’s Homeland Security Research Program
Following the terrorist events of September 11, 2001 and the mailing of anthrax contaminated letters later that year, EPA’s mission broadened to include protecting human health and the environment from the effects of biological, chemical, and radiological contamination due to homeland security events. EPA develops and delivers both expertise and products used to prevent, prepare for, and recover from terrorist threats and incidents. Scientific evaluations of commercially available technologies that have homeland security related applications are also conducted.
Water Security Research
EPA’s water security research focuses on developing tools and applications that can provide contamination warnings to water utilities in the event of terrorist attacks with chemical, biological, or radiological weapons.
Indoor and Outdoor Decontamination Research
EPA’s indoor and outdoor decontamination research focuses on developing and testing tools, applications, and methods to clean up sites contaminated in terrorist attacks with chemical, biological, or radiological weapons.
EPA's Homeland Security Research Program recommends the following tools:
Water Security Tools and Applications
Sensor Placement Optimization Tool (TEVA-SPOT)
Optimize the placement of water quality sensors in water distribution networks.
CANARY Event Detection System
Identify changes in water quality measurements that might indicate potential contamination.
EPANET-MSX
Model complex reactions in pressurized pipe networks.
Message Mapping
Use science-based tools for developing crisis communication.
EPA's Homeland Security Research Program recommends the following tools:
Indoor and Outdoor Decontamination Tools and Applications
Disposal Decision Support Tool
Find resources and information on all aspects of handling, transporting, treating, and disposing of contaminated debris.
Support for Environmental Rapid Risk Assessment (SERRA) Database
Locate risk assessment information retrieved from the world’s scientific literature.
Life-cycle Cost Analysis Tool (LCAT)
Find the most cost-effective way to retrofit and protect facilities.
Pathogen Information Catalog Tool
Information derived from microbial dose-response assessment is being used to support risk-based cleanup goals.
