Publications and Documents

The work of CRESP researchers has resulted in the publications and documents of CRESP Scholarly Products, that include published peer review manuscripts, books, book chapters, reports, proceedings, presentations, posters and abstracts.

View CRESP II Year 1 Scholarly Products: September 2000 - September 2001.

View CRESP II Year 2 Scholarly Products: October 2001 - January 2003.

View CRESP II Year 3 Scholarly Products: February 2003 - November 2003.

View CRESP II Year 4 Scholarly Products: December 2003- November 2004.

View CRESP II Year 5 Scholarly Products: December 2004- September 2005.

CRESP I
1995 - 2000

View the complete CRESP I Scholarly Products 1995 - 2000 list containing over 1130 entries including 214 published manuscripts appearing in the peer reviewed literature.

View CRESP I: A SUMMARY OF WORK 1995 - 2000

CRESP II ( 2000 - 2006)
Managed by the Institute for Responsible Management
Charles W. Powers, Principal Investigator

Founders
CRESP was Co-founded by Drs. Bernard D. Goldstein, John A. Moore, Gilbert S. Omenn, Charles W. Powers and Arthur C. Upton in 1995. CRESP I was managed by the Environmental Occupational Health Sciences Institute in New Jersey.

The first five year cooperative agreement was renewed in 2000 with the Institute for Responsible Management with Charles W. Powers as Principal Investigator.

CRESP II Consortium Members
The CRESP university consortium members include the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Rutgers University, the New Jersey Environmental Occupational Health Sciences Institute (EOHSI), Vanderbilt University, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, University of Washington and the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

CRESP II Management Board Charles W. Powers, Ph.D. Principal Investigator CRESP II President, IRM, Professor, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Joanna Burger, Ph.D. Professor, Rutgers University Division of Life Sciences Michael Greenberg, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Urban Studies and Community Health Edward Bloustein School Rutgers University	Bernard D. Goldstein, M.D. School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh David Kosson, Ph.D. Professor and Chairman Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Vanderbilt University

About CRESP
CRESP began operation in 1995 after receiving a competitive cooperative agreement from the Department of Energy. A key purpose of CRESP is to test the viability of the 1994 National Academy of Science's conclusion "the Environmental Management Office of DOE needs an independent institutional mechanism to develop data and methodology to make risk a key part of its decision making."

CRESP works to fulfill its mission by improving the scientific and technical basis of environmental management decisions leading to advance protective and cost-effective cleanup of the nation's nuclear weapons; and enhance stakeholder understanding of the nation's nuclear weapons production facility waste sites.

CRESP pursues this mission through a unique institutional model: (1) Its primary mode of operation is an unprecedented program of interdisciplinary university research; (2)It is independent and its beneficiaries are those who have a stake in effective cleanup of federal facilities; (3)It is organized to provide both guidance to and peer review of the evolving effort to utilize risk methods and evaluations to shape cleanup decisions at DOE sites.

RESEARCH:
The CRESP II project will help define and assess the technical and regulatory scope and approaches useful for the DOE as it strives to undertake its cleanup and stewardship responsibilities in a protective and cost-effective manner at contaminated sites. The project effort will focus on supporting independent and collaborative research, reviews, methods, data gathering and stakeholder participation needed for effective evaluation and communication of DOE-related health, environmental and other risks. The project will focus responsively on important cleanup-related challenges at the sites and on the end states which cleanups seek to achieve. The project effort will accomplish the outcomes by:

performing targeted studies on specific risk related issues important to the long-term management of environmental problems;

contributing to risk evaluation and assessment, or to the development of related methodologies, relevant to risk issues at a number of DOE sites;

focusing on the collection and analysis of data needed for effective risk evaluation, and on the definition and assessment of relevant technical and regulatory approaches valuable in resolving risk-related issues;

providing an independent mechanism to support the assessment of DOE's needs for research, to critique current research, and to develop data relevant to the concerns of the public, to support planning and to be responsive to evolving regulatory commitments; and

supporting efforts to improve working relationships and communications with the public and stakeholders at sites and across the DOE complex.

CRESP is seeking to understand the perceptions, dynamics and interests among stakeholders as it responds to their requests for data and technical perspective: CRESP defines its research in response to stakeholder questions; and CRESP strives to explain clearly its own research results and risk evaluation results.

PEER REVIEW:
To ensure the scientific soundness, reliability, and credibility of studies, procedures, or reports of major importance to CRESP and its stakeholders, CRESP organizational plan called at the outset for the establishment of a committee of independent experts who could provide the timely, knowledgeable, and objective peer review needed for the purpose. To this end, nationally recognized leaders in the pertinent disciplines were appointed to a standing Peer Review Committee, which operates independently of all other CRESP units. Thus far, the committee has evaluated a number of selected studies, work plans, research strategies, and issues judged by CRESP scientists or others to be pivotal to the resolution of key questions. The committee has not routinely reviewed individual CRESP research products, since they are generally published in the Peer Reviewed literature.