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Founded: 1994
Full Time: 14
Part Time: 0
Budget: 6,915,923.00
Director: Dr. James L. Regens
Tulane Unversity Medical Center--School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
1430 Tulane Ave
New Orleans, LA 70112
Associate Director: Dr. Donald G. Hodges
Tulane University Medical Center--School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
Telephone: 504/586-3824 FAX: 504/585-6954
E-Mail: regens@earth.esarl.tulane.edu
Research Areas:
ESARL develops innovative approaches to link science and policy with the goal of providing decisionmakers with scientifically credible information to develop and defend cost-efficient, riskbased solutions to complex environmental problems.
Health & ECOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT The development and application of methods for health and ecological risk assessment represents one of the key ways to link understanding of the dynamics of pollutant transport and fate within and across environmental media to effects on human health or ecological receptors as the basis for risk management.
ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION: Reliable tools for environmental remediation are necessary to ensure risk-based, cost-effective environmental management decisions about remediation priorities and alternatives.
PUBLIC HEALTH: Applying remote sensing and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to the study of diseases in populations allows for better understanding of the factors that contribute to problems in public health.
NATURAL RESOURCES: Management of our nation's natural resources can benefit greatly from the use of GIS which permit evaluating and displaying data in a cohesive manner.
PROJECTS: Current and past projects include multimedia model comparison, qualitative risk evaluation, modeling resuspension of radionuclides from terrestrial surfaces, technology evaluation framework, Baseline Environmental Management Report, land use and demographic change analysis, use of GIS/GPS(Global Positioning Systems) in a malaria epidemiological and entomological study, malaria vectors in east Africa, infant cogential heart disease, Mississippi River water quality, population density and timber availability, and environmental policies and timber availabilty.
Areas of Expertise:
Special Capabilities and Facilities:
Established in 1994 as a unit of Tulane University Medical Center's School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, the Entergy Spatial Analysis Research Laboratory (ESARL) is directed by Dr. James L. Regens, Freeport McMoRan Professor. ESARL has managed $26 million in extramurally-sponsored funding by public and private sector clients, including the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, NASA, and International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology. ESARL draws on the expertise of multidisciplinary teams with ackgrounds in statistics, modeling, spatial analysis, environmental health sciences, geology, forestry, economics, engineering, and policy analysis. Through this expertise ESARL provides a full range of state-of-the-art modeling, spatial analysis, and relational database management/intergration capabilities to address complex environmental problems. Developing solutions for complex environmental problems requires intergrating knowledge and the input from many technical disciplines. ESARL finds solutions to complex questions using its highly trained and experienced multidisciplinary staff to: Develop and test spatial models to assess exposure scenarios and establish risk ranges for human health. Design and test GIS(Geographic Information System) applications for identifying indicators of and monitoring changes in ecosystem health. Create and maintain environmental information databases. Design and apply spatial analysis applications for communicating risk assessment results. Provide technical expertise and assistance in database design, training, modeling, and statistical analysis. Design 2-D and 3-D data visualization displays.
Research Equipment:
Sun workstations, Hewlett packard plotters, Tektronix Phaser color printer, Calcomp digitizer, and HP scanners. ArcInfo, ArcView, ERDAS, Oracle, FLUENT, THERdbASE, MODFLOW. Versatile spatial analysis tools for 2-D and 3-D data visualization.
Vaiable hardcopy output in color and grayscale draft color plots, high quality color plots, large-scale instant photo print products, and 35mm photo products.
Keywords:
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