EPA Tools and Resources Webinar Series
Free webinars typically held the third Wednesday of every month from 3:00-4:00 PM (ET).
EPA's Office of Research and Development (ORD) hosts this monthly public webinar series to translate EPA research and share research resources and information that are useful, practical/applied and available to meet stakeholders' research needs. In addition, the EPA Tools and Resources Training Webinar Series provides in-depth overviews and step-by-step tutorials on popular EPA science-based models and tools.
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.
November 20, 2024 Webinar
Fifth National Climate Assessment: Resources and Interactive Atlas
Register for the Fifth National Climate Assessment: Resources and Interactive Atlas Webinar.
Released in November 2023, the Fifth National Climate Assessment is the US Government’s preeminent report on climate change impacts, risks, and responses. Led by USGCRP and its 14 member agencies, including the US Environmental Protection Agency, NCA5 draws on the expertise of nearly 500 authors and 250 contributors from every state, as well as Guam, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. EPA contributed to chapters on air quality, energy, forests, coasts, ecosystems, social systems and justice, economics, as well as regional and response chapters and the overview.
National Climate Assessments synthesize scientific information and evaluate the state of the science on climate change to inform a broad audience of decision-makers across the country. The report is structured in the following main categories:
- How climate change affects physical Earth systems, with a focus on the United States, including observations and projections of climate change
- Current and future risks related to climate change and what can be done to reduce those risks for a variety of societal and economic sectors of the United States
- Region-specific challenges, opportunities, and success stories for managing risks and impacts
This webinar will provide an introduction and overview of the 5th National Climate Assessment. It will walk through the major findings presented in the Overview chapter and provide a demonstration of how to navigate the online report and resources. It will also highlight some of the new features of NCA5, such as Art × Climate, which is the first art gallery to be featured in the NCA. It will guide users to resources including podcasts, recorded webinars, and Spanish translations of the NCA5 chapters. The webinar will also specifically highlight and demo the NCA Interactive Atlas, which provides access to the data compiled for NCA5 and enables users to do custom analysis and mapping.
2024 Schedule
| Date | Topic and Presenter(s) |
|---|---|
| November 20, 2024 |
Fifth National Climate Assessment: Resources and Interactive Atlas |
| December 11, 2024 | Participatory Science Andrea Clements and Julie Vastine, EPA ORD and Rachael Leta-Graham, EPA Region 2 Register |
Past Webinar Materials
Recordings and presentation slides of past 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) |
|---|---|---|
| October 16, 2024 | PFAS | PFAS Air Emissions Measurement Methods Stephen Jackson, EPA ORD |
| September 18, 2024 | Climate/Waste and Materials Management | Assessing Community Vulnerabilities to Potential Contaminant Releases from Extreme Events Meridith Fry and Lauren Oliver, EPA ORD |
| August 21, 2024 | Safer Chemicals | Innovations in Health Assessments: New Approach Methods and EPA’s Transcriptomics Assessment Product Alison Harrill, EPA ORD |
| July 17, 2024 | Climate |
EPA Dynamically Downscaled Ensemble (EDDE) |
| June 5, 2024 | Air |
Web-Based Data Visualization of Air Sensor Data with RETIGO |
| May 15, 2024 | Air | Prescribed Burning and Smoke Management Planning Bob McKane, EPA ORD |
| April 17, 2024 | Safer Chemicals | Tire Crumb Research Kent Thomas, Jose Zambrana, and Annette Guiseppi-Elie, EPA ORD |
| March 13, 2024 | Nutrients | Nutrient Explorer Michael Pennino, EPA ORD |
| February 14, 2024 | Safer Chemicals |
Chemical Safety for Sustainability Online Tools |
| January 17, 2024 | Waste and Materials Management | Food Waste Shannon Kenny and Max Krause, EPA ORD |
| December 7, 2023 | Resiliency | Equitable Resilience Builder Keely Maxwell, Emily Eisenhauer, Brittany Kiessling, Marissa Matsler, Lauren Oliver, Ian Reilly, and Maureen Shacklette, EPA ORD |
| November 15, 2023 | One Health | One Health Lisa Matthews & Tonya Nichols, EPA ORD & state partners (ECOS, ASTHO & AFWA) |
| October 18, 2023 | PFAS | PFAS and Emerging Contaminant Technology Transfer to States and Tribes Tim Buckley and Jon Sobus, EPA ORD |
| September 27, 2023 | Waste and Materials Management | Renewable Energy Waste Management: Solar Panel Recycling Endalkachew Sahle-Demessie, EPA ORD |
| August 16, 2023 | Cumulative Impacts | Cumulative Impacts: EPA’s Environmental Quality Index (EQI) Alison Krajewski, EPA ORD |
| July 19, 2023 | Water | Tracking Nutrient Trends to Emerging HAB Issues via Estuary Data Mapper Naomi Detenbeck, EPA ORD |
| June 21, 2023 | PFAS | Chemical Risk Assessment for PFAS in Biosolids David Tobias, EPA OW |
| May 27, 2023 | Nutrients | National Nutrient Inventory Robert Sabo, EPA ORD |
| April 26, 2023 | Air | The Enhanced Air Sensor Guidebook Andrea Clements & Rachelle Duvall, EPA ORD |
| March 15, 2023 | Air | Wildland Fire Research to Protect Health and the Environment Bryan Hubbell, EPA ORD |
| February 15, 2023 | Lead | Data Mapping and Analyses to Identify US Locations with High Lead Exposures Valerie Zartarian, EPA ORD |
| January 18, 2023 | Air | The Community Multiscale Air Quality Modeling System (CMAQ) Version 5.4 K. Wyat Appel, EPA ORD |
| December 14, 2022 | Contaminated Site Remediation/Environmental Justice |
Remediation to Restoration to Revitalization as an Approach to Connect Programs, Research, and Societal Needs |
| November 16, 2022 | Health | One Health Tonya Nichols , Lisa Matthews, EPA ORD, and state partners (AFWA, ASTHO, and ECOS) |
| October 26, 2022 | Lead | Identifying Lead Service Lines in the Community Simoni Triantafyllidou, EPA ORD |
| September 22, 2022 | Air | Supporting Air Quality and Climate Change Planning with GLIMPSE Dan Loughlin, EPA ORD |
| August 17, 2022 | PFAS | EPA PFAS Strategic Roadmap: Research Tools and Resources Alice Gilliland, Laura Carlson, Avanti Shirke, and Phillip Potter, EPA ORD |
| July 13, 2022 | Air |
EPA’s Air Sensor Loan Pilot Programs: Successes, New Resources, and Lessons Learned |
| June 15, 2022 | Environmental Justice | Understanding Environmental Justice through two EPA tools: EJSCREEN and EnviroAtlas Tai Lung, EPA OEJECR and Anne Neale, EPA ORD |
| May 18, 2022 | Air | Preparing for Wildland Fire Smoke Amara Holder and Beth Hassett-Sipple, EPA ORD |
| April 20, 2022 | Health | Use of Electronic Health Records to Address Pressing Environmental Health Questions Presenter: Cavin Ward-Caviness, EPA ORD |
| March 16, 2022 | Water |
Advances in Environmental Monitoring – Water Sensors |
| February 16, 2022 | Air |
How to Evaluate Air Sensors for Smoke Monitoring Applications |
| January 19, 2022 | Program Overview |
The Opportunity for Prize Competitions at EPA |
| December 15, 2021 | Program Overview |
Community and Citizen Science: Making your Data Count |
| November 17, 2021 | Waste and Materials Management |
Food Waste Research |
| Oct 20, 2021 | Water |
Freshwater Explorer: An Interactive Map of Water Quality |
|
Sept 15, 2021 |
Air | Strategies for effective health risk communication during wildfire smoke Ana Rappold, EPA ORD |
| August 18, 2021 | PFAS | PFAS Technical Support and Scientific Advancements Kate Sullivan, EPA ORD |
| July 21, 2021 | Program Overview |
Small Business Innovation Research |
| June 16, 2021 | COVID-19 |
Community Exposure for COVID-19 |
| May 19, 2021 | Air | AirNow Fire and Smoke Map: Extension of the US-Wide Correction for PurpleAir PM2.5 Sensors Andrea Clements, Amara Holder, and Karoline Barkjohn, EPA ORD; Ron Evans, EPA OAR; and Sim Larkin, US Forest Service |
| April 21, 2021 | Sustainable and Healthy Communities | Proctor Creek Watershed Story Map Shannon Griffin, EPA ORD |
| March 24, 2021 | Air |
Air Sensor Performance Testing Protocols, Metrics, and Target Values for PM2.5 and Ozone |
| February 17, 2021 | Safer Chemicals | EPA's PFAS Innovative Treatment Team Findings on PFAS Destruction Technologies Brian Gullett, EPA ORD |
| January 27, 2021 | COVID-19 | Effectiveness of Medical and Cloth Masks for COVID-19 Protection James Samet and Steven Prince, EPA ORD |
| December 16, 2020 | COVID-19 |
Detection of SARS CoV-2 in Wastewater to Inform Public Health |
| November 18, 2020 | Water | Drinking Water Models and Tools Regan Murray, EPA ORD |
| October 21, 2020 | Health | Research to Support Lead Exposure Mitigation Andrew Geller, EPA ORD |
| September 16, 2020 | Water |
Water Network Tool for Resilience |
| September 10, 2020 | Waste and Materials Management |
Alternatives for Disposition of Electronics Planning Tool (ADEPT) |
| August 19, 2020 | Health |
Air Pollution and Heart Disease |
| July 15, 2020 | Waste and Materials Management |
Materials Management Wizard (MWiz) |
| June 17, 2020 | Program Overview |
Engaging and Collaborating with States in EPA Research |
| May 21, 2020 | Air |
Wildland Fire Community Engagement and Data Visualization Tools |
| April 15, 2020 | Program Overview |
Citizen Science at EPA |
| March 18, 2020 | Program Overview |
Regional Sustainability and Environmental Sciences (RESES) Research Program |
| February 19, 2020 | Water |
National Stormwater Calculator: Great Lakes Applications |
| January 15, 2020 | Program Overview |
EnviroAtlas Update (January 2020) |
| December 18, 2019 | Air |
Federal Reference Methods/Federal Equivalent Methods and Sensors: Complementary Approaches for Determining Ambient Air Quality |
| November 20, 2019 | Water |
Coastal Nutrient Management: Research Update |
| October 16, 2020 | Waste and Materials Management |
Excess Food Opportunities Map |
| September 11, 2020 | Safer Chemicals | CompTox Chemicals Dashboard Maureen Gwinn, EPA ORD |
| August 6, 2020 | Safer Chemicals |
Recycled Tire Crumb Research |
| June 12, 2019 | Ecosystems |
EPA's Report on the Environment |
| May 22, 2019 | Water |
Nutrient Management in Coastal Communities |
| April 17, 2019 | Air |
Low-Cost Air Quality Sensors |
| March 20, 2019 | Water |
Cost-Effective Treatment Technologies for Removing CECs |
| February 27, 2019 | Air |
Recent Enhancements to the CMAQ Modeling System |
| December 17, 2018 | Contaminated Site Remediation |
Contaminated Sites and Technical Support Centers |
| November 14, 2018 | Contaminated Site Remediation |
Remediation to Restoration to Revitalization (R2R2R) |
| October 17, 2018 | Water |
Non-potable Water Reuse |
| September 19, 2018 | Waste and Materials Management |
Sustainable Materials Management Prioritization Tool |
| July 18, 2018 | Water |
Nutrient Visioneering |
| June 20, 2018 | Contaminated Sites Remediation |
EPA's Environmental Sampling and Analytical Methods for Environmental Remediation and Recovery |
| May 16, 2018 | Human Health Risk Assessment |
Wildfires and the Community Health Vulnerability Index |
| April 30, 2018 | Human Health Risk Assessment |
Multi-media modeling of lead exposure |
| March 28, 2018 | Water |
Cost-Effective Treatment Technologies for Small Drinking Water Systems |
| February 21, 2018 | Water |
Watershed Management Optimization Support Tool (WMOST) |
| January 17, 2018 | Contaminated Site Remediation |
Regional Urban Background Study |
| September 20, 2017 | Water |
Village Blue |
| August 23, 2017 | Water |
Stormwater Calculator |
| July 19, 2017 | Safer Chemicals | ECOTOXicology Knowledgebase Dale Hoff, EPA ORD |
| June 21, 2017 | Air |
Wildfire Smoke Emissions and Smoke Sense App |
| May 17, 2017 | Ecosystems |
Rapid Benefits Indicators (RBI) |
| April 19, 2017 | Water |
Challenging Nutrients Coalition |
| March 22, 2017 | Safer Chemicals | How Safer Choice Applies Science to Promote Safe Chemistry in the Marketplace Clive Davies and Bridget Williams, EPA ORD |
| January 18, 2017 | Human Health RIsk Assessment |
Environmental Quality Index (EQI) |
| December 14, 2016 | Water |
Green Infrastructure Modeling Toolkit |
| November 16, 2016 | Human Health Risk Assessment | Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) Gina Perovich, EPA ORD |
| October 26, 2016 | Safer Chemicals | Prioritizing Contaminants for Monitoring and Management Dan Villeneuve, EPA ORD |
| August 17, 2016 | Human Health Risk Assessment | Health Impact Assessment Florence Fulk, EPA ORD |
| July 27, 2016 | Air | Health Impacts of Near Roadway Air Pollution and Mitigation Strategies Richard Baldauf and Jan Dye, EPA ORD |
| June 29, 2016 | Air | Air Quality Monitoring and Community Science Ron Williams, EPA ORD |
| March 16, 2016 | Air | The Growing Public Health Impact of Wildfire Smoke Emissions Wayne Cascio, EPA ORD |
| February 17, 2016 | Health | EPA Healthy Heart Program Wayne Cascio, EPA ORD |