COVID and the Schools: Modeling Openings, Closings, and Learning Loss
Under a cooperative agreement with the EPA, NISS provided the EPA rapid access to the national statistics community, which in turn furnished statistical input and commentary on environmental issues in a timely basis to policy and decision makers, other officials and researchers. This project provided rapid, accurate, and informed responses by statistical experts to inquiries… more
EPA Toxic Release Inventory (Data Quality)
The Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) is used for purposes ranging from estimation of trend to environmental justice. It was created to force public disclosure of releases of toxic chemicals to the air, water and land. Under a cooperative agreement with EPA's Office of Environmental Information, NISS studied the quality of TRI data. NISS was tasked with studying the quality of the data… more
The Indices of Environmental Status and Trend
NISS was asked to develop a case study, specifically of ozone status and trends for the Research Triangle area of North Carolina. The Indices of Environmental Status and Trend project was part of a consortium including American, George Mason, Maryland-Baltimore County and Penn State that was organized by the EPA's Center of Environmental Information and Statistics. NISS worked on… more
Statistical Strategies for Environmental Modeling and Monitoring
NISS was hired by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to develop space-time models that would help estimate the detection and trend of exceedances in air pollution. NISS also looked at the health and pharmacokinetics using predictive models of dose and effect and helped with risk assessment of toxicants, looking at complex, multi-dimensional relations between… more