Director:
Co-Directors:

Patrick T. O'Shaughnessy, Ph.D.
R. William Field, Ph.D.
Wayne T. Sanderson, Ph.D.

The primary goal of the Environmental Modeling and Exposure Assessment Facility (EMEAF) is to facilitate the research efforts of Center investigators by providing a variety of services and equipment needed to understand the relationship between contaminants found in rural environments and their impact on human health. The EMEAF accomplishes this goal by offering Center investigators:

• A cost-effective instrumentation lending service,
• Guidance on modeling and display of contaminants and affected populations,
• Advice on initiating and conducting population-based studies, and
• Expertise in measuring environmental contaminants.

Specific Aims

The EMEAF has been created to address these and other Center needs through the following specific aims:

• Enhance resources and expertise for modeling of airborne contaminants and exposure assessment.
• Support EHSRC research cores and pilot studies.
• Facilitate multidisciplinary research.
• Serve as a resource to the state and region through outreach activities.
• Provide expertise, as well as facilitate interaction, in the continuum between exposure assessment and epidemiologic investigation.
• Contribute to the training of future agricultural and rural environmental health researchers.