Скачать или смотреть GoMRI RFP-VI: Beach Exposure And Child HEalth Study (BEACHES)

The mission of BEACHES is to evaluate health risks of oil spill chemicals (OSCs) by integrating realistic play activities and distributions of OSCs in the beach environments. BEACHES will accomplish this mission by pursuing the following objectives - Quantify children’s exposure in the beach environment taking into account beach physical factors which influence child play activities and the distribution of OSCs. Utilize historical data from prior oil spills to create, test, and validate algorithms that describe time-space specific concentrations of OSCs in beach zones where children play. These contributions will be used to create an exposure modeling and estimation platform that can guide beach closures in light of health risks and can promote safe beach usage.