Sustainable and Healthy Communities Subcommittee

This subcommittee will be providing advice and recommendations on ORD's Sustainable and Healthy Communities Research Program. This subcommitee is currently being formed. EPA's BOSC Staff Office is seeking nominations of nationally and internationally recognized scientists, engineers, and social scientists to serve as Special Government Employees on this subcommittee. Any interested person or organization may nominate qualified individuals or themselves by using the membership nomination form and will be considered for membership vacancies.

Expertise needed for this subcommittee include:

• Chemistry (environmental chemistry)

• Ecology (aquatic ecology – freshwater/wetland, ecosystem services, hydrology/hydraulics, water resources, system ecology/landscape ecology, urban ecology)

• Engineering (bioenvironmental engineering, chemical engineering, civil engineering, combustion engineering, environmental engineering – decontamination/clean-up/mgt)

• Information Science (communication – research results, information technology, information visualization, spatial analysis, uncertainty analysis)

• Public Health (children’s health, community health, environmental health, epidemiology)

• Risk Assessment (cumulative risk assessment, ecological risk assessment, human health risk assessment)

• Science Policy/Public Policy (environmental justice)

• Sustainability (community/urban level planning and sustainability, industrial ecology, life-cycle analysis, energy)

• Social Science (community disaster recovery and resiliency and environmental issues, ecological/environmental economics/ natural resource economics, human health economics, socioeconomics, sociology)

• Behavioral Science (psychology/social neuroscience/conservation psychology/ecopsychology/environmental psychology/sustainable behavior, risk perception/risk communication/crisis communication, community decision making)