Below are a number of useful web resources for those who are related to pesticide fate models in one way or another .
Please do not hesitate to contribute to this section by sending your URL to the including a small description of the site. You may also wish to send a small description of models that have not been covered properly.
Resources are classified into the following categories:
- Pesticide fate models
- Modelling tools
- Working groups
- Workshop reports and proceedings
- Research projects and initiatives
- Pesticide registration authorities
- Scientific journals
- Scientific societies and associations
- Education
Pesticide fate 'models'
| Agdrift | |
| AgriFlux | (pages have been removed) |
| CMLS86 or CMLS94 | Chemical Movement in Layered Soils (pages have been removed) |
| EPIC | Erosion Productivity Impact Calculator |
| EXAMS | EXposure Analysis Modeling System |
| FIRST | Fqpa Index Reservoir Screening Tool |
| GENEEC | GENeric Estimate Exposure Concentration |
| GLEAMS | Groundwater Loading Effects of Agricultural Management Systems (go to the Models section) |
| HYDRUS , HYDRUS-1D , HYDRUS-2D , HYDRUS-2D | |
| LEACHM/LEACHP | Leaching Estimation And CHemistry Model (includes LEACHP, the pesticide version of the model) |
| MACRO, MACRO (FOCUS GW), MACRO (FOCUS SW) | |
| MACRO_DB | |
| OPUS | |
| PEARL, PEARL (FOCUS GW) | Pesticide Emission Assessment at Regional and Local scales |
| PELEP-DSS | PEsticide Leaching Estimator and Predictor - Decision Support System |
| PELMO (FOCUS GW) | PEsticide Leaching MOdel |
| PESTLA | PESTicide Leaching and Accumulation |
| PESTRAS | PESticide TRAnsport aSsessment |
| PRZM (EPA), PRZM (FOCUS GW), PRZM (FOCUS SW) | Pesticide Root Zone Model |
| RZWQM | Root Zone Water Quality Model |
| SCI-GROW | Screening Concentration In GROund Water |
| SIMULAT | |
| SWAN and its instructions | Surface Water Assessment eNabler |
| SWAT | Soil and Water Assessment Tool |
| TOXSWA, TOXSWA (FOCUS SW) |
(first link: go to the Products section)
TOXic substances in Surface WAters |
| WAVE | Water and Agrochemicals in the soil, crop and Vadose Environment |
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Modelling tools
| @Risk | A MS Excel add-on for risk analysis (including Monte Carlo modelling). |
| Crystal Ball 2000 | A MS Excel add-on for risk analysis (including Monte Carlo modelling). |
| Lumenaut | A MS Excel add-on for risk analysis (including Monte Carlo modelling). |
| ModelMaker | A Windows package that lets you create, manage and optimise your own models |
| ModelManager | A Windows package dedicated to the estimation of parameters from kinetic models through their calibration against experimental data. |
| PEST/SENSAN | A universal inverse modelling program (now freeware) |
| SIMLAB | A tool for sensitivity and uncertainty analyses (freeware) |
| SURFER | A contouring, gridding and surface mapping package |
| UCODE | A universal inverse modelling program (freeware) |
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Working groups
| CAMASE | Concerted Action for the development and testing of quantitative Methods for research and Agricultural Systems and the Environment |
| ECOFRAM | Ecological Committee on FIFRA Risk Assessment Methods |
| FEMVTF | FIFRA Exposure Model Validation Task Force |
| FOCUS | Forum for the Co-ordination of Pesticide Fate Models and their Use |
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Workshop reports and proceedings
| EUPRA | EUropean workshop on Probabilistic Risk Assessment for the environmental impacts of plant protection products |
| Proceedings | XII Symposium Pesticide Chemistry. 4-6 June 2003. Piacenza, Italy. |
| Proceedings | XI Symposium Pesticide Chemistry. 12-15 September 1999. Piacenza, Italy. |
| Proceedings | Summer symposium on pesticide sciences - Villasimius, Cagliari (29 May - 3 June 2005). BEWARE: 41-MB document |
| Proceedings | Pesticide behaviour in soils, water and air. Warwick university, 27-29 March 2006. |
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Research projects and initiatives
| APECOP | A proposal supporting the harmonised registration of pesticides in Europe |
| ECOTOX-MODELS | Useful personal web page on Ecotox |
| EUFRAM | Probabilistic approaches for assessing environmental risks of pesticides |
| FOOTPRINT | A European project aimed at developing tools for pesticide risk assessment and management |
| FROGS | French Refinement of Groundwater scenarios |
| KUPA | Koncept for Udpegning of Pesticidfølsomme Arealer |
| PEGASE | Pesticides in European Groundwaters : detailed study of representative Aquifers and Simulation of possible Evolution scenarios |
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Pesticide registration authorities
| Australia | NRA (National Registration Authority) |
| Canada | PMRA (Pest Management Regulatory Agency) |
| Denmark | Danish EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) |
| European Union | Health and Consumer Protection DG |
| Finland | |
| France | Commission d'étude de la toxicité / SSM (Structure Scientifique Mixte) |
| Germany | BBA (Biologische Bundesanstalt für Land- und Forstwirtschaft) |
| Germany | UBA (Umweltbundesamt) |
| Ireland | PCS (Pesticide Control Service) |
| New Zealand | ACVM (Agricultural Compounds & Veterinary Medicines ) |
| Sweden | KEMI (KEMikalieInspektionen) |
| The Netherlands | CTB (College voor de Toelating van Bestrijdingsmiddelen) |
| United Kingdom | PSD (Pesticides Safety Directorate) |
| United States | US-EPA Office of Pesticide Programs |
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Scientific journals which publish papers dealing with pesticide fate modelling
| Agricultural Ecosystems and Environment | Click here |
| Agronomie | Click here |
| Biology and Fertility of Soils | Click here |
| Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology | Click here |
| Chemosphere | Click here |
| Ecological Modelling | Click here |
| Environmental Pollution | Click here |
| Environmental Science and Technology | Click here |
| Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry | Click here |
| Journal of Contaminant Hydrology | Click here |
| Journal of Environmental Quality | Click here |
| Journal of Hydrology | Click here |
| Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering | Click here |
| Nature | Click here |
| Pest Management Science (formerly Pesticide Science) | Click here |
| The Science of the Total Environment | Click here |
| Soil and Tillage Research | Click here |
| Soil Biology and Biochemistry | Click here |
| Soil Science | Click here |
| Soil Science Society of America Journal | Click here |
| Soil Use and Management | Click here |
| Transactions of the ASAE | Click here |
| Vadose Zone Journal | Click here |
| Water, Air and Soil Pollution | Click here |
| Water Research | Click here |
| Water Resources Research | Click here |
| Water Science and Technology | Click here |
| Weed Research | Click here |
| Weed science | Click here |
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Scientific societies and associations
| ACE | European Association of Chemistry and the Environment |
| AFES | French Soil Science Society |
| ASA | American Society of Agronomy |
| BSSS | British Soil Science Society |
| CSSA | Crop Science Society of America |
| DBGES | German Soil Science Society |
| EWRS | European Weed Research Society |
| SCI | Society of Chemical Industry |
| SETAC | Society of Environmental Toxicology And Chemistry |
| SRA | Society for Risk Analysis |
| SSSA | Soil Science Society of America |
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Education
| How to anticipate the fate of pesticides from their physico-chemical properties? (from the Oregon State University) | |
| HTML or PDF | A 60-page introduction to pesticides and water quality which covers water resources, environmental fate, pesticide development, risk assessment and registration procedures (from a US perspective). |
| HTML | Answers to 13 FAQs regarding the environmental fate of pesticides. Designed for the non-expert. |
| A four-page fact sheet regarding the environmental fate of pesticides. | |
| HTML | A chapter of the book "Soil and water quality: an agenda for agriculture", devoted to the fate and transport of pesticides. |
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