Dive Deeper Into the Science

Stay involved and knowledgeable about the health of the community around you. Check out the resources available to learn more about the science of epidemiology, environmental health and more.

Epidemiology and Public Health Resources

  • Introduction to Epidemiology: An overview of epidemiology investigations, methods, and data collection. Materials include a PowerPoint presentation, eLearning courses, and a webinar presentation.
  • Introduction to Public Health: An overview of public health core functions and essential services. Materials include a PowerPoint presentation, eLearning courses, and a webinar presentation.

Environmental Health Resources

  • Particle Pollution and Health: An explanation on different kinds of air particle pollution and how it may negatively affect health. This site also provides a breakdown of air quality alerts, as well as recommendations on how to reduce exposure to particle pollution.
  • Air Quality Monitoring: Information on how the DEC and its partners are tracking air quality throughout New York State, along with historical ambient air quality reports.
  • Known DEC Superfund Sites: The DEC info locator allows the user to toggle on and off different layers of information such as the remediation sites under Environmental cleanup and the air monitoring sites. Codes and links to databases can be found from the superfund sites when a location is clicked on.
  • Environmental Remediation Database: This page brings the user to three different database search options which are the following: Spill Incidents Database search, Environmental site Remediation database search, and Bulk storage database search. These can be used to find the site codes for a given industry.
  • Site Classifications: Gives a complete definition of the different classification codes for registry and non-registry sites. Along with going into detail about what each classification means, this link details the threat to public health and environment.
  • DEC Index of Site Codes: On this site all of the online documents for each DEC site can be found. This will include remediation plans, any data that has been digitized, and other relevant documents attached to site code. This does not include every document related to the site code.
  • FOIL Requests: On this page you may submit a FOIL request, locate FOIL requests that have already been submitted, and find additional information related to spill incidents, remedial sites, and waste management.

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