ENVR 727 : Environmental Risk Assessment

Drexel University: Winter Term 1999/2000

Course Syllabus and Reading List

Term Paper Guidelines

General Class Announcements and Notices (revised 1/21/00)

Link to Problem Set Solutions

If you have problems downloading any Excel Spreadsheets - Read this Help Page

Download Lecture Notes and Handouts

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#1	Lecture Notes for Class #1 Problem Set 0 (HTML file)
#2	Lecture Notes for Class #2 (big file - 512 K) Problem Set 1 Spreadsheet: Fit DDT To Distributions by Maximum Likelihood Spreadsheet: Confidence Limits to 99th Percentile of DDT
#3	Lecture Notes for Class #3 Problem Set 2 Allen Data - Fisher Statistic on Excel Allen Data as a STATA File Allen: Evaluating the Fisher Statistic on STATA
#4	Lecture Notes for Class #4 (another big file - 1 MB) Problem Set 3 Jorgensen Rat Kidney Dose-Response (Excel) Alumot Analysis (Excel) Bulusu Analysis (Excel) Jorgensen data in Stata Jorgensen command file for fitting
#5	Lecture Notes for Class #5 (a really big file - 2.5 MB; I guess the graphics really swell it up) Simple bootstrap example (Excel) Problem Set 4 Likelihood Confidence Regions to Dose-Response (Excel)
#6	Lecture Notes for Class #6 Problem Set 5 Dose-Time Fitting (Larsen) (Excel) Nonmonotonic Fitting (Excel)
#7	Lecture Notes for Class #7 (no problem set -- we are done with problem sets!)
#8	Lecture Notes for Class #8

send an e-mail to Professor Haas (any comments about the web site would be appreciated)

Home Page of Professor Charles N. Haas

Some Interesting Links on Risk Assessment and Environmental Policy

House of Representatives Main Site (Thomas) - good for a large number of links to legislation, regulation, hearings, etc.	Society for Risk Analysis
US EPA main web site	Risk Assessment and Policy Association
Department of Energy Documents	Risk World - an electronic newsletter covering risk managment and risk assessment
Centers for Disease Control - CDC and ATSDR; also contains links to their major publications	Alceon Corp. has a lot of papers on quantitative risk assessment, especially using Monte Carlo methods available to download
US Government Web Directory: master list of all agency web servers
Risk Assessment Links from the National Agricultural Library	Natural Resources Defense Council - an environmental activist organization
Federal Register United States Code (compilation of all statutes)	"Is Health Risk Assessment Unethical", Paper presented at a 1993 ATSDR Conference
US Census Bureau	Rachel's Environmental Health Weekly - a weekly electronic newsletter put out by a very strong environmental activist group, with a heavy orientation towards environmental justice issues
USDA - Office of Risk Assessment and Cost-Benefit Analysis	EPA Carcinogen Risk Assessment Guidelines
Department of Defense Environmental Links	Glossary of terms on chemical safety - United Nations
Primer on Risk Assessment - an interesting book (pdf file) prepared as an introductory primer by the American Chemical Society and Resources for the Future	EPA- Compendium of Drinking Water MCL's and Health Advisories
EPA - Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) - these are the "offical" substance RfD's and cancer potency values	Junk Science Home Page This is a rather rabid page, but contains some interesting links where (allegedly according to the writer) bad science (including risk assessment) has been used to take regulatory or legal action. There are some things here that are clearly wrong, so READER BEWARE.

if you find something else interesting not on the list, please let me know (and give me the URL) so I can update the above.

Some Internet Examples of Risk Assessments

Methylene Chlorine Risk Assessment - Prepared by OSHA

Summary Toxicity Information on Heptachlor - EPA

Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) - this web site contains links to all of their Superfund site risk assessments

Run your own search ("risk assessment") on Infoseek

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