“…Applications include, but are not limited to, the modelling of environmental processes, such as the emission, dispersion and environmental fate of pollutants in atmospheric (e.g., Vieno et al , 2010, 2014), terrestrial and aquatic environments (e.g., Wu et al , 2014a, b; Perelman and Ostfeld, 2013), the quantification of human exposures to these pollutants (e.g., McKone, 1993; MacIntosh et al , 1995), the risks and public health burdens from exposures to environmental pollutants (e.g., Lim et al , 2012; Schlink et al , 2010, the dynamics of biomarkers in relation to drugs and pathogens, and the efficacy of efforts to control the consequences of these processes on human health (e.g., May et al , 2008; Wu et al , 2014b), and the quantification of stakeholder mental models for optimal decision making (Wood et al , 2012; Voinov et al , 2014; Boschetti, 2015). Models have important uses in examining the accidental or natural release of chemicals, radionuclides, volcanic ash, or pathogens in the environment.…”