Laboratory Information:
National Exposure Research Laboratory
109 TW Alexander
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
Website: http://www.epa.gov/nerl/
Agency/Department: Environmental Protection Agency
Region: Southeast
FLC Laboratory Representative:
Ms. Beverly McKim
Phone: (919) 541-5056
Email: mckim.beverly@epa.gov
Background/History of the Laboratory:
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's
National Exposure Research Laboratory (NERL) conducts research
and development that leads to improved methods, measurements, and models to assess and predict exposures
of humans and ecosystems to harmful pollutants and other conditions in air, water, soil, and food. NERL
supports
regulatory programs through the development of methods for waste site characterization, computer modeling
of
pollutant transport and fate, monitoring network design, environmental indicator assessments, and design
of
exposure assessment studies.
NERL is one of three national laboratories that conduct research
for EPA's Office of Research and Development.
NERL headquarters and two of its research Divisions are located in Research Triangle Park, N.C. Other
research
Divisions are located in Athens, Ga., Cincinnati, Ohio, and Las Vegas, Nev.
Technology Areas of Expertise:
- Bioinformatics
- Biosensors
- Superfund support
- Surface water testing and monitoring
- Chemical Modeling
- Vacuum distillation
- Waste site restoration
- Water ingestion
- Wildlife exposure detection
- Environmental characterization and apportionment
- Environmental data acquisition
- Environmental quality indicators
- Exposure and dose research
- Exposure and risk
- Exposure measurements and analysis
- Exposure modeling
- Exposure process modeling
- Gas chromatography
- Gaseous and particulate air sample collection
- Gel permeation chromatography
- Genomic and immuno-based method development
- High resolution mass spectrometry
- Human Exposure
- Contamination evaluation
- Culturable methods
- Microbial exposure
- Microbiological and Chemical Assessment
- Micro-environments
- Microscopical evaluation
- Molecular ecology
- Molecular indicators
- Pathogen identification
- Pesticide exposure assessment
- Pollutants
- Pre-enrichment for trace analysis
- Processes and modeling
- Quadrupole mass spectrometry
- Receptor models
