Training Workshops

Short Course Materials

A one-day short course on AQUATOX was presented as part of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) North America 31st Annual Meeting, held November 7-11, 2010 in Portland, OR.

The objective of the short course was to familiarize users of diverse backgrounds with the capabilities of AQUATOX for use in a variety of regulatory settings.  The course included comparisons with other dynamic ecosystem models used for risk assessment. Examples of applications covered the impact of nutrient, sediments, and toxic organics on a variety of ponds, lakes, reservoirs, rivers, and an estuary.

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• Slides from Short Course—No Notes (PDF) (190 pp, 10MB)
• Slides from Short Course—With Notes (PDF) (190 pp, 10MB)

Occasionally the US EPA offers a comprehensive three-day course. It is similar in scope to the one-day course except that it covers more aspects of the model in greater depth, with diverse hands-on exercises.  Such a course was held on AQUATOX Release 3.1 beta in December 2010 and November 2011 at US EPA Region 6 in Dallas, TX, and the Columbia River Intertribal Fish Commission in Portland, OR, respectively. Click here for a course syllabus (PDF) (1 pg, 103K).  The course materials are available for download in two formats:

• One very large file for persons with high-speed Internet access 
• Training Final (zip, 223MB)
• Four smaller files for persons with slower access 
• Day 1 (zip, 49MB)
• Day 2a (zip, 91MB)
• Day 2b (zip, 64MB)
• Day 3 (zip, 19MB)