Environmental Health Tools – Canadian Environmental Modeling Center

I was looking around for some resources to build a toxicokinetic model in Excel for ingestion exposures to persistent organic pollutants, when I happened upon the Canadian Environmental Modeling Center at Trent University. CEMC is organized around Dr. Donald Mackay who is best known for development of fugacity-based multimedia fate and transport models. Fugacity models potentially provide a way to understand in a graded fashion (from simple to more complex phenomena) how chemicals behave and are transported through the environment.

For those interested in seeing more about multimedia modeling, here is a link to CEMC’s EQC or EQuilibrium Criterion model. EQC uses chemical-physical properties to quantify a chemical's behavior under specific environmental conditions. You need to supply your own physical-chemical properties, but most of those can be found here and here.