Agrochemical Fate and Exposure Resources

The following resources are available for you to download. Most are in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. Acrobat Reader is available free from Adobe, if you don't already have it. If you would prefer that we mail a hard copy to you, please e-mail us.

AGRO and PA5

AGRO is the combined Canadian Environmental Modeling Centre Water Quality Model and the Simon Fraser University Food Web Model. Download AGRO as part of the PA5 shell. PA5 (PRZM-AGRO version 5) is a modification of the EPA's PE5 shell. It includes the AGRO model and all the functionality of PE5. Excel graphing tools to examine the AGRO and EXAMS output side by side are included.

Download PA5 Shell

Aldworth-Jackson Fitting Tool

The Aldworth-Jackson Fitting Tool is an Excel-based tool written by Stone Environmental for fitting environmental fate dissipation and degradation data. The method follows that outlined in the paper by Jeremy Aldworth and Scott Jackson in Pest Management Science 64:536-543 (2008). Please see this web page for the latest version and updates.

Download Tool version 1.0.2

Download User Guide (The user guide is also available within the tool).

Please send comments to the paper authors or the tool author: Jeremy Aldworth, or Scott Jackson.

Presentations and Posters

Modeling the Effect of a Riparian Buffer Strip on Off-Field Entrapment of Pesticides Using REMM2008. Tammara Estes, Richard Lowrance, Randall G. Williams, R. Don Wauchope. Presented by Tammara Estes at the American Chemical Society Fall Meeting, Philadelphia, PA. August 20, 2008. (542 KB pdf)

Simulating Hydrology at a Long Island Turf Study Site Using the Model RZWQM98. Tammara Estes, Christopher Stone, John Hanzas, James L. Kunstman. Presented by Tammara Estes at the American Chemical Society Fall Meeting, Philadelphia, PA. August 18, 2008. (144 KB poster)

Brochures and Service Descriptions

Quality Assurance service description (157 KB)

Newsletters

Spring Update 2008 (985 KB)

Spring Update 2007 (699 KB)

Spring Update 2005 (1,178 KB)

Fall Update 2003 (572 KB); also available: the bibliographic references for further reading on Bayesian methods discussed in the lead article on “Moditoring” (48 KB)

Fall Update 2002 (241 KB); also available: the bibliographic references for the lead article on corn herbicides (46 KB)

Winter Update 2002 (641 KB)

Spring Update 2001 (686 KB)

Fall Update 2000 (855 KB)

Spring Update 2000 (529 KB)

Fall Update 1999 (311 KB)