ARCADIS brings top quality scientific expertise and practical experience to a comprehensive package of ecological risk assessment and ecological site assessment services for the regulated community. Our expertise in environmental toxicology, environmental exposure assessment, environmental chemistry and biostatistics allow us to provide ecological assessments at all levels of complexity. We have applied ecological risk assessment strategies on a site-specific and regional basis under a variety of regulatory and trustee programs including CERCLA, RCRA, NEPA (real estate development projects), CWA and Endangered Species Act actions.
ARCADIS has evaluated the environmental fate, effects and risk associated with a wide variety of chemicals in complex ecological systems. Our services include:
- Strategic planning and guidance for regulatory and trustee agency actions
- Identification of chemicals of concern, exposure pathways, and fate and transport processes in a broad range of environmental conditions
- Identification and evaluation of sensitive habitats, potential receptor and indicator species, and threatened and endangered species
- Performance of screening-level ecological assessments to determine potential site hazards
- Performance of site-specific baseline ecological assessments evaluating multiple lines of evidence using weight-of-evidence approaches
- Performance of predictive risk assessments for chemical and pesticide registrations
- Evaluation of organism-level effects, population-level effects, and ecosystem-level effects
- Development of site–and receptor-specific assessment tools to estimate exposure and risk
- Design of environmental monitoring, mitigation and ecosystem recovery programs
Our staff has performed ecological assessments involving a variety of media, chemicals, receptors and habitats.
