EPA Tools and Resources Training Webinar Series
Free webinars typically held bimonthly on the first Thursday from 3:00-4:00 PM (ET).
EPA's Office of Research and Development (ORD) hosts this bimonthly public webinar series to provides in-depth overviews and step-by-step tutorials on popular EPA science-based models and tools. In addition, the EPA Tools and Resources Webinar Series translates EPA research and shares research resources and information that are useful, practical/applied and available to meet stakeholders' research needs.
NOTE: Attendees have the option of receiving a certificate of attendance. Acceptance of certificates is contingent on organization requirements—EPA cannot guarantee acceptance. Closed-captioned recordings of the webinars are provided below for later viewing and as a training resource; certificates cannot be provided for viewing webinar recordings. Webinar dates and topics are subject to change.
June 5, 2025 Webinar
Wildfire Smoke Air Monitoring Response Technology and AirNow Fire and Smoke Map
Wildfire Smoke Air Monitoring Response Technology (WSMART)
Wildfires are a major source of poor air quality across the U.S. The regulatory monitoring network is unable to capture the spatial and temporal gradients of many smoke plumes, providing limited information to support emergency response teams and impacted communities. EPA’s Office of Research and Development recognized this monitoring gap and scaled up a research effort to develop and advance air monitoring technologies for wildfire smoke. The Wildfire SMoke Air monitoring Response Technology (WSMART) loan program provides emerging technologies to air quality emergency responders.
This webinar will cover the WSMART technologies, the loan process, highlights from over 50 loans, and insights about using these tools for monitoring wildfire smoke.
EPA and Forest Service AirNow Fire and Smoke Map
The U.S. EPA and the Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service developed the AirNow Fire and Smoke Map to provide the public information on fire locations, smoke plumes, near real-time air quality, Smoke Outlooks for large U.S. wildfires, and protective actions to take – all in one place. The map pulls data from air monitors that regularly report to AirNow, temporary monitors such as those the Forest Service and air agencies have deployed near fires, and crowd-sourced data from nearly 17,000 low-cost sensors in the U.S. and Canada that measure fine particle pollution, the major harmful pollutant in smoke. People across the nation can use this information about wildfire smoke and air quality to reduce their exposure and protect their health.
The webinar will review the key features of the AirNow Fire and Smoke Map and team experience in building trust and familiarity in the map and PM2.5 air quality sensors.
2025 Schedule
| Date | Topic and Presenter(s) |
|---|---|
| June 5 | Wildfire Smoke Air Monitoring Response Technology and AirNow Fire and Smoke Map Amara Holder, EPA ORD and Ron Evans, EPA OAR |
| August 7 | Increasing the Accessibility of Infrastructure Decontamination Data using OW’s Water Contaminant Information Tool Jeff Szabo, EPA ORD and TBD, EPA OW |
| October 2 | EPA Dynamically Downscaled Ensemble (EDDE) Jeff Willison and Tanya Spero, EPA ORD |
| December 4 | Underground Storage Tank Finder 2.0 Fran Kremer, EPA ORD |
Past Webinar Materials
Recordings and presentation slides of past training webinars are available below and are being hosted on EPA's YouTube channel. Certificates cannot be provided for watching the webinar recordings.
| Date | Research Area | Topic and Presenter(s) |
|---|---|---|
| April 3, 2025 | Water | Enhancing Nutrient Reduction Efforts with the National Nutrient Inventory Robert Sabo, EPA ORD |
| February 13, 2025 | Water | Community Water System Service Area Boundaries Andrew Murray, EPA ORD |
| December 5, 2024 | Safer Chemicals | The ECOTOXicology Knowledgebase and PFAS Updates Jennifer Olker, EPA ORD |
| October 3, 2024 | Resiliency | Equitable Resilience Builder Keely Maxwell and Renee Nee, EPA ORD |
| August 1, 2024 | Climate Change | Tools for Adaptation Planning (LASSO and ICLUS) Phil Morefield, EPA ORD |
| June 6, 2024 | Ecosystems | EnviroAtlas Anne Neale and Jeremy Baynes, EPA ORD |
| April 4, 2024 | Program Overview | Report on the Environment Britta Bierwagen and Patricia Murphy, EPA ORD |
| February 8, 2024 | Waste and Materials Management | I-WASTE Paul Lemieux, EPA ORD |
| December 7, 2023 | Safer Chemicals |
Chemical Exposure Knowledgebase (ChemExpo) |
| October 12, 2023 | Safer Chemicals | Computational Toxicology and Exposure Online Tools Jennifer Olker, Carlie Lalone & Nisha Sipes, EPA ORD |
| August 10, 2023 | Emergency Response | Data Management Tools for Emergency Response Presenter: Tim Boe, EPA ORD |
| June 1, 2023 | Safer Chemicals | PFAS Analytic Tools Presenter: Michael Barrette, EPA OECA |
| April 6, 2023 | Waste and Materials Management | Underground Storage Tank Finder Presenter: Alex Hall, EPA ORD |
| February 9, 2023 | Climate Change | Climate Change Adaptation Resource Center (ARC-X) Presenter: Joel Scheraga, EPA OP |
| December 1, 2022 | Air | Sensor Pods for Volatile Organic Compound Fenceline Monitoring and Data Analysis Presenter: Eben Thoma & Megan MacDonald |
| October 13, 2022 | Safer Chemicals | EPA’s Web-ICE Toxicity Extrapolation Tool Presenter: Sandy Raimondo |
| August 4, 2022 | Air | US Remote Sensing Information Gateway – An Air Quality Relevant Case Study Presenters: Jim Szykman & Matt Freeman |
| June 2, 2022 | Ecosystems | Visualizing Ecosystem Land Management Assets (VELMA) Presenter: Bob McKane |
| April 7, 2022 | Waste and Materials Management | Hydrologic Evaluation of Landfill Performance (HELP) model Presenter: Max Krause, EPA ORD |
| February 10, 2022 | Ecosystems |
Final Ecosystem Goods and Services Scoping Tool |
| December 1, 2021 | Climate Change |
Environmental Resilience Tools Wizard |
| October 7, 2021 | Safer Chemicals | Chemical Transformation Simulator: To Predict PFAS Metabolites and Environmental Transformation Products Presenters: Eric Weber and Caroline Stevens, EPA ORD |
| August 5, 2021 | Climate Change | Global Change Explorer Presenter: Philip Morefield, EPA ORD |
| June 3, 2021 | Water | Virtual Beach Presenter: Mike Cyterski, EPA ORD |
| April 29, 2021 | Water |
Watershed Management Optimization Support Tool (WMOST) |
| February 4, 2021 | Safer Chemicals | ECOTOXicology Knowledgebase Presenters: Colleen Elonen and Jennifer Olker, EPA ORD |
| December 3, 2020 | Air | SPECIATE Presenter: George Pouliot, EPA ORD |
| November 19, 2020 | Water | Freshwater Explorer Presenter: Susan Cormier, EPA ORD |
| October 6, 2020 | Safer Chemicals | Causal Analysis/Diagnosis Decision Information System (CADDIS) Presenter: Kate Schofield, EPA ORD |
| August 6, 2020 | Water | PFAS Removal in Drinking Water Treatment Systems Presenters: Thomas Speth and Jonathan Burkhardt, EPA ORD |
| July 23, 2020 | Waste and Materials Management | Incident Waste Decision Support Tool (I-WASTE) Presenter: Paul Lemieux, EPA ORD |
| June 3, 2020 | Safer Chemicals | CompTox Chemicals Dashboard Presenter: Antony Williams, EPA ORD |
| May 20, 2020 | Water | Cyanobacteria Assessment Network (CyAN) Mobile Application Presenters: Blake Schaeffer, John Johnston, and Darryl Keith, EPA ORD |
| April 28, 2020 | Ecosystems | EnviroAtlas Presenters: Anne Neal and Jessica Daniel, EPA ORD |