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Multimedia Integrated Modeling for Environmental Protection: Introduction to a Collaborative Framework

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The EPA's Office of Research and Development is embarking on a long term project to develop a Multimedia Integrated Modeling System (MIMS). The system will have capabilities to represent the transport and fate of nutrients and chemical stressors over multiple spatial and temporal scales. MIMS will be designed to improve the environmental management community's ability to evaluate the impact of air and water quality and watershed management practices on stream and estuarine conditions. The system will provide a computer-based problem-solving environment for testing understanding of multimedia (atmosphere, land, water) environmental problems, such as the movement of chemicals through the hydrologic cycle, and the response of aquatic ecological systems to land-use change, with initial emphasis on the fish health endpoint. The design will attempt to combine the state-of-the-art in computer science, system design, and numerical analysis (i.e., object-oriented design, parallel processing, advanced numerical libraries including analytic elements) with the latest advancements in process level science (hydrology, atmospheric sciences, chemistry, ecology). The purpose of this paper is to introduce a vision for a MIMS and anticipate the challenges to its development.

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  1. Ecosystems Research Division, 960 College Station Rd., Athens, GA, 30605, USA

    John M. Johnston & Stephen R. Kraemer

  2. Atmospheric Modeling Division, MD-80, RTP, NC, 27711, USA

    Joan H. Novak

  3. National Exposure Research Laboratory, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), USA

    Joan H. Novak

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Johnston, J.M., Novak, J.H. & Kraemer, S.R. Multimedia Integrated Modeling for Environmental Protection: Introduction to a Collaborative Framework. Environ Monit Assess 63, 253–263 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1006464407117

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