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US Navy
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES DIVISION:
The Environmental Sciences Division
is part of the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SPAWARSYSCEN, formerly NRaD) in San
Diego, California. The Division is a leader in marine environmental quality assessment,
sensor development, and remediation. The Division draws on a broad range of in-house
expertise and partnerships with industry, academia, and government to research, develop,
test, and evaluate environmental technology to support the Navy's goals for:
- Environmentally safe ships and shore facilities
- Identification and remediation of hazardous waste disposal sites
- Regulatory compliance
- Compliance cost reduction
- Pollution prevention
- Protection of natural resources
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MISSION:
The Environmental Sciences Division of SPAWAR Systems Center San Diego (SSC SD) is
actively focused on marine environmental quality assessment, sensor development,
environmental data analysis and remediation technologies. Our group has been active in the
field of Ecological Risk Assessment (ERA) and its precursor sciences since the early
1970's. Division personnel bring a multi-disciplinary approach to ERAs and have applied
the knowledge and methodologies developed during this period to the assessment of numerous
Navy Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act/Resource
Conservation and Recovery Act (CERCLA/RCRA) and BRAC sites. Their expertise in the areas
of environmental chemistry/geochemistry, toxicology, oceanography, environmental data
management and analysis have been applied to various ecological risk assessments to
support compliance and NEPA, as well as aquatic hazardous waste sites. The
"EcoRisk" model has also been used by the Division to propose environmental
standards that are both scientifically defensible and acceptable to Fleet operations and
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SERVICES & INFORMATION AVAILABLE:
To meet Navy needs for marine environmental monitoring and risk analysis, SSC SD has
developed a Marine
Environmental Survey Capability (MESC). The MESC integrates state-of-the-art sensors,
computer systems, and navigation equipment to determine spatial and temporal variability
of physical and chemical water quality characteristics from a moving vessel in near
real-time. The MESC system was developed by the Navy to address water quality issues
related to the operation of ships and facilities in the coastal environment. SSC SD has
also been active in RDT&E to support ERA with the development of instruments and
methods to support rapid and cost-effective risk analysis, including:
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