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Stanley M. Greenfield
Biography
[EPA press release - February 11, 1971]
Dr. Stanley M. Greenfield, a prominent environmental scientist, has been named Assistant Administrator for Research and Monitoring in the new Environmental Protection Agency. His nomination by President Nixon to the position was confirmed yesterday by the U.S. Senate.
The Environmental Protection Agency, which represents the Nixon Administration's major thrust in environmental affairs, was established December 2, 1970, and inherited organizational units from 15 ongoing Federal programs.
Dr. Greenfield will be responsible for developing a coherent, unified research effort relating to all the interrelated problems of environmental pollution. He will also be guiding a surveillance program that will monitor and report upon the wide variety of contaminants that have been introduced into the environment. The monitoring and research programs will be designed to complement each other, as well as provide essential support for the standard-setting and enforcement efforts of the agency.
Greenfield, 43, of Woodland Hills, California, is coming to the EPA after serving as head of the Department of Environmental Sciences and Manager of the Rand program in Environmental Studies.
Greenfield has served on the National Aeronautics and Space Administration-Department of Defense Space Sciences Committee, and has been a consultant to the Advanced Research Project Agency's Committee on Meteorological Satellites, and to the Committee on Upper Atmosphere Rocket Research of the Space Science Board, National Academy of Sciences.
An expert in the fields of geophysics and the upper atmosphere, Greenfield has conducted research on infra-red radiation, atmospheric physics, and meteorological satellites, as well as on the physical phenomenon of radioactive fallout. In 1961, he was given a special award from the American Meteorological Society for research leading to a meteorological satellite.
From 1959 to 1961, Greenfield was on a leave of absence from Rand to serve as scientific advisor to the Air Force Director of Research and Development. Currently, he is a member of the Geophysics Panel of the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board and a member of the Advisory Group of the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Organization. He is also a member of the Science and Technology Council of the California State Assembly, and is on the panel of the International Environmental Institution Committee of the National Academy of Sciences.
Dr. Greenfield received his undergraduate degree in meteorology and physics from New York University in 1950. He was awarded his Ph.D. in meteorology from the UCLA in 1967.
The author of some 35 technical papers and reports and contributor to two technical books, Greenfield is a member of the American Geophysical Union, the American Meteorological Society, the Honorary Research Society Sigma Xi, and the New York Academy of Sciences. Dr. Greenfield is married and has two children.