I UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
J WASHINGTON D.C. 20460
OFFICE OF THE ADMINISTRATOR
SCIENCE ADVISORY BOARD
December 17, 2013
EPA-SAB-14-001
The Honorable Gina McCarthy
Administrator
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20460
Dear Administrator McCarthy:
On behalf of the SAB, I thank you for taking time to meet with the chartered SAB last week and
for sharing your vision for the role of science supporting the EPA's mission. Your participation
in the SAB's meeting recognizes in a visible way the importance of science to the EPA's mission
and the value of the Board's activities.
Our discussion with you will help us focus SAB future advice in ways most useful for the
agency. We hope to engage with you soon on several topics that you and your senior leadership
highlighted during the chartered SAB's meeting on December 4-5, 2013, and that we consider to
be areas where the SAB can be particularly helpful to the agency.
The SAB stands ready to serve by providing scientific and technical advice to support the
agency's mission.
Sincerely,
Dr. David T. Allen, Chair
Science Advisory Board
Enclosure
(1) Roster of SAB Members
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Science Advisory Board
CHAIR
Dr. David T. Allen, Gertz Regents Professor of Chemical Engineering and the Director of the
Center for Energy and Environmental Resources, The University of Texas, Austin, TX
MEMBERS
Dr. George Alexeeff, Director, Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, California
Environmental Protection Agency, Oakland, CA
Dr. Pedro Alvarez, Department Chair and George R. Brown Professor of Engineering,
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Rice University, Houston, TX
Dr. Joseph Arvai, Svare Chair in Applied Decision Research, Department of Geography,
University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Dr. Thomas Burbacher, Professor, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health
Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Washington , Seattle, WA
Dr. Ingrid Burke, Director and Wyoming Excellence Chair, Haub School and Ruckelshaus
Institute of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY
Dr. Edward T. Carney, Departmental Senior Science Leader and Director of Predictive
Toxicology Center, Toxicology & Environmental Research and Consulting, The Dow Chemical
Company, Midland, MI
Dr. Peter Chapman, Principal and Senior Environmental Scientist, Golder Associates Ltd,
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Dr. Terry Daniel, Professor of Psychology and Natural Resources, Department of Psychology,
School of Natural Resources, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Dr. George Daston, Victor Mills Society Research Fellow, Global Product Stewardship, The
Procter & Gamble Company, Mason, OH
Dr. Costel Denson, Managing Member, Costech Technologies, LLC, Newark, DE
Dr. Otto C. Doering III, Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University,
W. Lafayette, IN
Dr. Michael Dourson, President, Toxicology Excellence for Risk Assessment, Cincinnati, OH
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Dr. Joel Ducoste, Professor, Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental
Engineering, College of Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
Dr. David A. Dzombak, Walter J. Blenko, Sr. University Professor of Environmental
Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering,
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Dr. T. Taylor Eighmy, Vice Chancellor for Research and Engagement, Office of Research,
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
Dr. Elaine M. Faustman, Professor and Director, Environmental and Occupational Health
Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Dr. R. William Field, Professor, Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, and
Department of Epidemiology, College of Public Health, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Dr. H. Christopher Frey, Distinguished University Professor, Department of Civil,
Construction and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering, North Carolina State
University, Raleigh, NC
Dr. John P. Giesy, Professor and Canada Research Chair, Veterinary Biomedical Sciences and
Toxicology Centre, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Dr. Steven Hamburg, Chief Scientist, Environmental Defense Fund, Boston, MA
Dr. Cynthia M. Harris, Director and Professor, Institute of Public Health, Florida A&M
University, Tallahassee, FL
Dr. Robert J. Johnston, Director of the George Perkins Marsh Institute and Professor,
Economics, Clark University, Worcester, MA
Dr. Kimberly L. Jones, Professor and Chair, Department of Civil Engineering, Howard
University, Washington, DC
Dr. Catherine Karr, Associate Professor - Pediatrics and Environmental and Occupational
Health Sciences and Director - NW Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit, University of
Washington, Seattle, WA
Dr. Madhu Khanna, Professor, Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL
Dr. Nancy K. Kim, Senior Executive, Health Research, Inc., Albany, NY
Dr. Francine Laden, Mark and Catherine Winkler Associate Professor of Environmental
Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, and Channing Division of Network Medicine,
Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
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Dr. Lois Lehman-McKeeman, Distinguished Research Fellow, Discovery Toxicology, Bristol-
Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJ
Dr. Cecil Lue-Hing, President, Cecil Lue-Hing & Assoc. Inc., Burr Ridge, IL
Dr. Elizabeth Matsui, Associate Professor, Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins
University, Baltimore, MD
Dr. Kristina D. Mena, Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and
Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at
Houston, El Paso, TX
Dr. Surabi Menon, Director of Research, ClimateWorks Foundation, San Francisco, CA
Dr. James R. Mihelcic, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of South
Florida, Tampa, FL
Dr. Christine Moe, Eugene J. Gangarosa Professor, Hubert Department of Global Health,
Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Dr. H. Keith Moo-Young, Chancellor, Office of Chancellor, Washington State University, Tri-
Cities, Richland, WA
Dr. Eileen Murphy, Director of Research and Grants, Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy,
Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ
Dr. James Opaluch, Professor and Chair, Department of Environmental and Natural Resource
Economics, College of the Environment and Life Sciences, University of Rhode Island,
Kingston, RI
Dr. Duncan Patten, Director, Montana Water Center, and Research Professor, Hydroecology
Research Program, Department of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences, Montana State
University, Bozeman, MT
Dr. Martin Philbert, Dean and Professor, Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public
Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Mr. Richard L. Poirot, Air Quality Planning Chief, Air Quality and Climate Division, Vermont
Department of Environmental Conservation, Montpelier, VT
Dr. Stephen Polasky, Fesler-Lampert Professor of Ecological/Environmental Economics,
Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN
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Dr. Amanda Rodewald, Director of Conservation Science, Cornell Lab of Ornithology and
Associate Professor, Department of Natural Resources, Department of Natural Resources,
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Dr. James Sanders, Executive Director, Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, University of
Georgia, Savannah, GA
Dr. William Schlesinger, President, Gary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, NY
Dr. Gina Solomon, Deputy Secretary for Science and Health, Office of the Secretary, California
Environmental Protection Agency, Sacramento, CA
Dr. Daniel O. Stram, Professor, Department of Preventive Medicine, Division of Biostatistics,
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Dr. Peter S. Thorne, Director, Environmental Health Sciences Research Center and Professor
and Head, Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, College of Public Health,
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Dr. Paige Tolbert, Professor and Chair, Department of Environmental Health, Rollins School of
Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Dr. Jeanne VanBriesen, Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Dr. John Vena, University of Georgia Foundation Professor in Public Health and
Head, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Georgia Cancer Coalition Distinguished
Scholar, College of Public Health, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
Dr. Peter J. Wilcoxen, Associate Professor, Economics and Public Administration, The
Maxwell School, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
SCIENCE ADVISORY BOARD STAFF
Dr. Angela Nugent, Designated Federal Officer, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,
Washington, DC,
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