Christopher Zarba

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Sponsored Research at U.S. EPAsNational Center
for Environmental Research

• Christopher Zarba
• Deputy Director
• EPA National Center for Environmental Research
• March 13, 2008

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Presentation Outline

• EPAs Office of Research and Development (ORD)
• National Center for Environmental Researchs role
  in (ORD)
• Science to Achieve Results (STAR) grants program
• 2007 Research Announcements
• 2008 Outlook
• STAR and GRO Fellowships
• Small Business Innovative Research
• Communication

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EPAs STRATEGIC GOALS and Primary Enabling
Legislation

• Clean Air and Global Climate Change
• Clean Air Act
• Clean and Safe Water
• Safe Drinking Water Act
• Clean Water Act
• Land Preservation and Restoration
• Solid Waste Disposal Act
• Comprehensive Environmental Response,
  Compensation, and Liability Act
• Healthy Communities and Ecosystems
• Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide
  Act
• Toxic Substances Control Act
• Compliance and Environmental Stewardship
• Pollution Prevention Act

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Research and Development

• 1,880 employees
• 540 million budget
• 56 million extramural research grant program
• 13 lab or research facilities across the U.S.
• Credible, relevant and timely research results
  and technical support that inform EPA policy
  decisions
• FY08 requested levels

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• Office of Research and Development
• Mission
• Advance scientific knowledge to solve the
  environmental problems the Agency faces
• Perform human health and ecological effects
  research that provides scientific discoveries
  responsive to the environmental questions the
  Agency must address
• Support EPA Program Offices, Regions, and other
  governmental and non-governmental organizations
  through scientific and technical advice and
  assistance so that their operations benefit from
  the most up-to-date science
• Provide scientific leadership in identifying,
  studying, and resolving critical environmental
  health and ecological effects issues and in
  shaping the environmental health and ecological
  effects research agenda

NHEERL Organizational Strategy 2000-2005
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Support for EPAs Mission
EPA Mission Protect human health and
safeguard the natural environment air,
water, land upon which life depends
REGIONAL OFFICES Primary Interface with States
and Tribes
PROGRAM OFFICES (Air, Water, Waste,
Pesticides/Toxics)
Policies, Regulations
Congressional deadlines
National Decisions
Implementation
OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
Scientific Foundation
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High Priority Research Areas

• Human Health
• Particulate Matter
• Drinking Water
• Clean Water
• Global Change
• Endocrine Disruptors
• Ecological Risk
• Pollution Prevention
• Homeland Security

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Assistant Administrator DAA Science, DAA
Management
How ORD is Organized
Office of Science Policy
Office of Resources Management and Administration

• National Program Directors
• Air
• Drinking Water
• Water Quality
• Land
• Pesticides and Toxics
• Human Health Risk Assessment
• Global Climate Change, Mercury
• Human Health Research
• Ecological Research

National Health and Environmental Effects
Research Laboratory
National Exposure Research Laboratory
National Center for Environmental Assessment
National Risk Management Research Laboratory
National Center for Environmental Research
National Homeland Security Research Center
National Center for Computational Toxicology
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Office of Research and Development
Immediate Office of the Assistant
Administrator George Gray, Assistant
Administrator Agency Science Advisor Kevin
Teichman, Acting Deputy Assistant Administrator
for Science Lek Kadeli, Deputy Assistant
Administrator for Management Michael Brown,
Associate Assistant Administrator
Office of the Science Advisor William Benson,
Acting
National Program Directors Air
Dan Costa Drinking Water Gregory Sayles,
Acting Water Quality Chuck Noss Pesticides
and Toxics Elaine Francis Land Randy
Wenstel Human Health Hugh Tilson, Acting
Ecosystem Protection Rick Linthurst Global
Change/Mercury Joel Scheraga
Office of Science Policy Jeff Morris, Acting
Office of Resources Management and
Administration Jack Puzak
National Center for Computational Toxicology Robe
rt Kavlock
National Risk Management Research
Laboratory Sally Gutierrez
National Center for Environmental Research Bill
Sanders
National Homeland Security Research Center Jonath
an Herrmann
National Center for Environmental Assessment Pete
r Preuss
National Health and Environmental
Effects Research Laboratory Hal Zenick, Acting
National Exposure Research Laboratory Larry
Reiter
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How ORD Evolves its Research Program
ORD Executive Council Corporate Decisions on
What We Do . . . and . . . How We Do It
Decision Inputs Programs and Regions (RCTs) EPA
Strategic Plan Administrations
priorities Congressional mandates BOSC
Reviews SAB, NAS, other external
advice Stakeholders NPDs, SC, MC, EC
Evaluation Program and Regional Office
Feedback BOSC Program Evaluations NAS, NAPA,
and other advisory bodies PART Reviews
Planning the Program
Implementing the Program
L/C Directors Responsible for Developing ORDs
Research Products
NPDs Decide What Research Area-Specific Work We
Do and When We Do It
L/C Directors Decide How ORD Produces its
Research Products
NPDs Responsible for Communicating Products to
Clients
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ORDs FY 2008 President's Budget, by Goal
539.8M (Total All Appropriations)
Goal 5 Compliance and Stewardship
Goal 1 Clean Air
Goal 2 Clean Water
Goal 4 Healthy Communities and Ecosystems
Goal 3 Land Preservation and Restoration
Includes ST, SF, Oil, and LUST
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ORDs FY 2008 President's Budget, Goal 4298.9M
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What is NCERin ORD?

• ORD provides the leadership in science and
  conducts most of EPAs research and development
• NCER is one of four National Centers that,
  together with three National Laboratories,
  comprise the Office of Research and Development
• NCER is ORDs extramural research arm
• ORDs research budget is approx. 540 million1,
  with approximately 56 million1 for competitive
  extramural grants and 5.91 million for
  fellowships (STAR and GRO)
• ORD in cooperation with other EPA offices (using
  the ORD Strategic Plan, national environmental
  research needs, relevance to Agency mission, and
  research being done in ORDs intramural program)
  selects topics for the STAR program
• 1 FY08 Presidents Budget

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NCER Organizational Structure
Senior Science Advisors Tom Barnwell Roger
Cortezi
Deputy Director for Management
Mission include the countrys universities and
non-profit centers in EPAs research program and
to ensure the best possible quality science in
areas of highest risk and greatest importance to
the Agency.

• 68 full time staff
• located 2 blocks from RRB

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New Directions/NCER Leadership

• Nanotechnology
• Sustainability
• Homeland Security
• Comp Tox
• Ecosystem Services
• Biotechnology

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STAR Program Summary

• Mission include this countrys universities and
  non-profit centers in EPAs research program and
  to ensure the best possible quality of science in
  areas of highest risk and greatest importance to
  the Agency
• Established in 1995 as part of the overall
  reorganization of ORD
• Award about 66 million dollars annually
• Issue about 25 RFAs annually
• Manage about 1000 active research grants and
  fellowships
• Each year receive 3000 grant applications make
  about 200 new STAR awards, 40 awards jointly with
  other Federal agencies, award 140 new fellowships

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NCERs Extramural Programs
Science To Achieve Results (STAR) Targeted
Research Grants through RFAs Exploratory/Futures
Grants Graduate Fellowships Competed
Centers Greater Research Opportunities Earmarked
Centers EPSCoR Small Business Innovation Research
(SBIR) Contracts
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Over 902 Million Awarded through more than 1400
STAR Grants to 402 Academic Institutions across
the US since 1995
Grants Centers
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Over 119 Million Awarded through more than 1300
STAR Fellowships to 205 Academic Institutions
across the US since 1995
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EPA STAR Research Program

• Goal-directed solicitation planning
• Significant cross-agency and interagency
  involvement in solicitation planning, writing,
  and review
• Competitive solicitations award about 66 - 100
  million dollars annually
• Joint solicitations and funding with other
  agencies adds 10 more awards to program
• External peer review
• Internal relevancy review regional and program
  input
• Fund highest priority projects
• Communicate research results through website, ORD
  laboratories, program office and regional
  meetings, and publications (es.epa.gov/ncer)

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STAR Topic Selection

• Exploratory and Futures Grants
• Past General solicitation in broad areas related
  to mission of the Agency
• Recently Focused on nanotechnology
• Requests for Applications (RFAs) - Topics for
  RFAs are selected by ORD together with other
  parts of EPA using criteria in the ORD Strategic
  Plan
• Directed specifically towards national
  environmental science needs as related to the
  mission of Agency
• Topics selected to complement in-house research
  program
• Joint Solicitations with other Agencies/Organizati
  ons -Topics complement partners in-house
  research program and consistent with their
  mission

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NCERs Research Priorities Focus areas for
research supported by funding through grants,
fellowships, and contracts

• Particulate Matter
• Global Change
• Ecological Services
• Human Health Research
• Childrens Health
• Tribal Centers
• Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals
• Computational Toxicology
• Drinking Water
• Economics and Decision Sciences
• Pollution Prevention
• Sustainability
• Nanotechnology
• Exploratory Research

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Funding by Program Area
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2007 STAR Research Announcements - 1

• Air Quality
• Sources, Composition, and Health Effects of
  Coarse Particulate Matter (Closed)
• Sources and Atmospheric Formation of Organic
  Particulate Matter (Closed)
• Innovative approaches to particulate matter
  health, composition, and source questions
  (Closing Sep 11)
• Near Roadway Air Pollution (Oct-07)
• Drinking Water
• Development and Evaluation of Innovative
  Approaches for the Quantitative Assessment of
  Pathogens or Cyanobacteria and their Toxins in
  Drinking Water (Closing July 10)

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2007 STAR Research Announcements - 2

• Global Change
• Ecological Impacts from the Interaction of
  Climate Change, Land Use Change and Invasive
  Species (Closed)
• Ecosystem Protection/Water Quality
• Ecology and Oceanography of Hazardous Algal
  Blooms (EcoHAB) with NOAA, NSF, ONR and NASA
  (Jul-07)
• Enhancing Ecosystem Services from Agricultural
  Lands Developing Tools for Quantification and
  Decision Support (Jul-07)
• Economic, Social and Behavioral Science
• Environmental Behavior and Decision Making
• Valuation for Environmental Policy
• No announcements this year pending final
  appropriation decisions

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2007 STAR Research Announcements - 3

• Human Health
• Issues in Tribal Environmental Research and
  Health Promotion Novel Approaches for Assessing
  and Managing Cumulative Risks and Impacts of
  Global Climate Change (Closed)
• Development of Environmental Health Outcome
  Indicators (Closed)
• Interpretation of Biomarkers using PBDK/PD
  Modeling (Closing Sep 18)
• Research for Outcomes and Accountability
  Development of Novel Environmental Health Outcome
  Indicators (Closing Sep 19)
• Childrens Environmental Health and Disease
  Prevention Research (with NIEHS) (Aug-07)

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2007 STAR Research Announcements - 4

• Endocrine Disruptors/Biotechnology/Computational
  Toxicology
• Computational Toxicology Centers Development Of
  Predictive Environmental And Biomedical
  Computer-Based Simulations And Models. (Closes
  Jun 12)
• Biotechnology Exploratory Investigations in Food
  Allergy (R21) through NIH-NIAID, Jun-07)
• Fellowships
• STAR Graduate Fellowships (Jul-07)
• GRO Graduate and Undergraduate Fellowships
  (Jul-07)
• Pollution Prevention/Sustainability
• 5th Annual P3 Awards People, Prosperity and the
  Planet (Aug-07)

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2007 STAR Research Announcements - 5

• Nanotechnology
• Nanotechnology Research Grants Investigating
  Environmental Effects of Manufactured
  Nanomaterials a Joint Research Solicitation -
  EPA, NSF DOE, (Closing Aug 22)
• NIEHS Manufactured Nanomaterials
  Physico-chemical Principles of Biocompatibility
  and Toxicity (R01) (Closed)
• Greater Research Opportunities (GRO) Grants
• Monitoring And Detection of Engineered
  Nanomaterials in the Environment (Closing Sep 13)
• Exploratory
• Uncertainty Analyses Of Models In Integrated
  Assessments (Closed)
• Biodiversity and Human Health A
  Multidisciplinary Approach to Examining the Links
  (Closed)
• SBIR Phase I
• Closed

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NCERs FY08 Planning Budget64.6M
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FY08 and Beyond
Air Quality

• Near-term
• Source Apportionment integrating Atmospheric
  Science and Health
• Near Roadway Cooperative Agreements
• Continuing PM Epi program
• Far-term
• Dynamic Air Quality Management
• Cardiovascular effects (w/NIEHS)
• PM Research Centers Recompete
• Atmospheric Measurements and Mechanisms
• Reproductive Development Effects
• Accountability - health impacts of air policy
  decisions
• Coarse Particulates RFA - follow up to 2007 RFA

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Human Health
FY08 and Beyond

• Strategic Directions
• Shifting from Centers to individual grants in
  Sensitive Subpopulations
• Continue Health Outcomes Indicators with new RFA
  on exposure
• Focus on Molecular indicators in Biomarkers
  research
• Near-Term
• Integration of Biomarkers and PBPK/PD Modeling in
  Risk Assessment
• Research for Outcomes and Accountability
  Development of Novel Environmental Health Outcome
  Indicators
• Children's Environmental Health and Disease
  Prevention Research (with NIEHS)
• Development of exposure related predictive models
  for environmental risk assessment
• Far-Term
• Integration of Biomarkers and PBPK/PD Modeling in
  Risk Assessment
• Research for Outcomes and Accountability
  Development of Novel Environmental Health Outcome
  Indicators
• Community-based Cumulative Risk Assessment
  Research Using Molecular Approaches
• Children's Environmental Health and Disease
  Prevention Research (with NIEHS)

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FY08 and Beyond

• Ecosystems
• RFA on Ecosystem Services contingent on
  availability of funds
• Focus on collaboration with Ecology/Economics
• Water Quality
• Continue Interagency EcoHAB program
• Drinking Water
• Continue grants emphasis on pathogens and extend
  research focus to include cyanobacteria and
  select high priority toxins
• Continue SBIR emphasis on small systems explore
  research on nano-enabled sensors for DW systems

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FY08 and Beyond

• Safe Products Pesticides
• Continue emphasis on Biotech and Allergenicity
  thru 09 to support OPPTS regulations
• Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals
• Program focus moving from Screening and Testing
  to emphasis on real-life effects and exposure and
  links.
• Global Climate
• Focus on Air Quality and Aquatic impacts of
  Global Change

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FY08 and Beyond

• Mercury
• Nothing specific to mercury although included in
  other areas such as Tribal subpopulations
• Hazardous Waste
• Grants emphasize nanomaterials fate and transport
  work
• SBIR focus on sensors, treatment and remediation
• Sustainability
• People, Prosperity and the Planet (P3) Continues
• Collaborative Network for Sustainability
• Developing synergies across NCER stressing
  systems approaches and prevention

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FY08 and Beyond

• Homeland Security
• SBIR and/or GRO -- Nano-based sensors for
  Drinking Water and Fomites
• Computational Toxicity
• Methods to integrate methods into environmental
  protection
• Evolution of toxicology from animal models to
  cell culture-based models
• Exploratory
• Intersection of Energy and the Environment
• Impact of move the ethanol fuels and hydrogen
  fuels
• GMO issues (plants engineered for fuel
  production)

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Competed Research Centers

• Cooperative Center of Excellence on Microbial
  Risk Assessment (1 Center, 2M/year, with DHS)
• Centers of Excellence in Children's Environmental
  Health and Disease Prevention Research (11
  centers, 9 M/year, with NIEHS)
• Environmental Bioinformatics Research Center (1
  M/year)
• Particulate Matter (PM) Centers (5 centers, 8
  M/year)
• National Statistics Center (1.3 M/year)
• Estuarine and Great Lakes (EaGLes) Program (5
  programs, 6 M/year)
• Hazardous Substances Research Centers (4 centers,
  2.2 M/year)

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STAR Research Partners Examples

• Nutrient Fate and Transport Through a Watershed
  (USDA)
• Ecology and Oceanography of Harmful Algal Blooms
  (NOAA, NSF, ONR, NASA)
• Estuarine and Great Lakes Program (NASA)
• Technology for a Sustainable Environment (NSF)
• Centers for Childrens Environmental Health and
  Disease Prevention (NIEHS)
• Phytoremediation (NSF, ONR, SERDP, DOE)
• Endocrine Disruptors (NIEHS, NCI, NIOSH, NOAA)
• Exposure Analysis (ACC)
• Arsenic (AWWARF, ACWA)
• Nanotechnology (NIOSH, NIEHS)

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STAR Partnerships
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Partnerships
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NAS STAR Program Excels

• EPA requires a strong and balanced research
  program to fulfill its mission and the STAR
  program is an important part of the overall EPA
  research program
• STAR program fills a unique niche by supporting
  important research that is not conducted or
  funded by other agencies and is directly relevant
  to the mission of EPA
• STAR processes compare favorably and in many
  cases substantially exceed those in other
  research-supporting organizations
• STAR research results have already improved the
  scientific foundation for decision making even
  though the program is young and many of the
  projects have not yet been completed

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NAS STAR Program Excels

• STAR researchers are leaders in their fields and
  are attracted to STAR from fields outside EPAs
  mission
• Editors of journals, officers in societies,
  awards of distinction such as the National Medal
  of Science, Guggenheim Fellowship and Nobel
  prizes in chemistry, engineering, and economics
• STAR grant program successfully leverages funds
  by establishing research partnerships with other
  agencies
• STAR fellowship program is a valuable mechanism
  for enabling a continuing supply of graduate
  students in environmental sciences and
  engineering to help build a stronger scientific
  foundation for the Nations environmental
  research and management efforts
• STAR program has developed innovative approaches
  to communicating the results of its research

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P3 Student Award(People, Prosperity, and the
Planet)

• Innovation in science and technology for
  sustainability Teams of university students to
  design, research, and develop a scientific,
  policy, or technical solution to a sustainability
  challenge in developing and developed world
• Building capacity in the Next Generation
  integrating sustainability concepts into
  fundamental education creating a future workforce
  with an awareness of the impacts of their work on
  economy, society, and the environment, to work in
  a multi-disciplinary framework, and to make
  collaborative, interdisciplinary decisions.
• Team Partnerships Interdisciplinary teams are
  encouraged. Teams are encouraged to partner with
  industry, nonprofits, and government
• Program Partners over 40 partners including
  industry, NGOs, professional societies, other
  government

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P3 Program Results

• All projects must quantify benefits of their
  results to the environment, economy, and society
• For example, Oberlins Dorm Energy Competition,
  which spanned 2 weeks in March, resulted in
• Electricity savings of 68,500 kWh, saving the
  college 5,120 ?
• Water savings of 20,500 gals, saving the college
  260 Pollutants NOT released into the atmosphere
  as a result of the energy savings148,000 lbs of
  CO2, 1,360 lbs of SO2, 520 lbs of Nox
• P3 projects resulted in the founding of 4
  start-up companies
• For example, University of Michigan students
  starting a consulting company Urban Catalyst
  Associates working with other cities in Michigan
  based on lessons learned during P3 project in Ann
  Arbor
• Projects must also report on using P3 as an
  educational tool
• For example, Cornell University developed a
  dedicated senior/grad-level 3 credit course
  focused on P3 project

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Greater Research Opportunities Research Grants
Started in 2004 received 47 proposals in initial
solicitation, will fund 3-4 per year

• Tenable at Institutions Receiving Less that 35M
  Federal Funding including most HBCUs,
  Hispanic-Serving Institutions, Tribal Colleges,
  Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions, Alaska
  Native Serving Institutions
• 2004 Persistent, Bioaccumulative Chemicals
• 2005 Nanotechnology
• 2006 Remediation and Treatment
• Competitive!

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NCER Educational Support Activities

• STAR Graduate Fellowships
• GRO Graduate and Undergraduate Fellowships
• American Association for the Advancement of
  Science (AAAS) Fellowships
• American Schools of Public Health (ASPH)
  Fellowships
• Marshall Scholars Program
• 3 scholarships to US students to pursue graduate
  environmental programs in the UK.
• ORD Post Doc Term Appointments
• ORD Research Triangle Park Labs ranked 1 by
  post docs in survey by The Scientist

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2008 Fellowship Programs Announcements
Mid-Summer, 2007 Deadlines November 2007

• STAR Graduate Fellowships
• Greater Research Opportunity (GRO) fellowships
  for graduate environmental study
• Greater Research Opportunity (GRO) undergraduate
  student fellowships

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STAR Graduate Fellowships For Study In The
Environmental Sciences
Started in 1995 as part of STAR program Received
1732 applications in 2005, fund 125 per year

• Tenable at any accredited U.S. College or
  University
• Fellowship for two-year Masters or three-year
  Doctoral Degrees
• Environmental Management, including Physical,
  Biological, and Social Sciences, and Engineering
• Stipend 37,000 per year Tuition allowance
  Stipend 5000 Expenses
• Competitive!

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Comparison Federal Fellowship Programs 2004
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Federal Fellowships Support Comparison 2004
Name/Agency Duration Tuition Stipend Allowances
NSF 3 yrs (5 yr period) 10.5K 27.5K
DOD 3 yrs All 1-27.5K 2-28.0K 3-28.5K
Dept. of Education 3 yrs 11.5K 30K
NIH 5 yrs 20.7K 1650-2200
EPA STAR 2 yrs MS 3 yrs PhD (4yr pd) 12K 20K 5K
DHS 3 yrs 31.1K
DOE 4 yrs All 28K 2500
NASA 1yrs renewable for up to 3 years 18K 3K student 3K university
Note More current data are available
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Greater Research Opportunities Graduate
Fellowships For Environmental Study
First year 1998 Received 232 applications in
2005, fund 20 per year

• Tenable at Institutions Receiving Less that 35M
  Federal Funding including most HBCUs,
  Hispanic-Serving Institutions, Tribal Colleges,
  Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions, Alaska
  Native Serving Institutions
• Fellowships for two-year Masters or three-year
  Doctoral Degrees
• Environmental Sciences, including Economics and
  Social Science, Mathematics, and Computer Science
• Stipend 37,000 per year Tuition allowance
  Stipend 5000 Expenses
• Competitive!

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Greater Research Opportunities Undergraduate
Fellowships
Started in 1983 On average receive 50
applications, fund 15 per year

• Tenable at Institutions Receiving Less that 35M
  Federal Funding including most HBCUs,
  Hispanic-Serving Institutions, Tribal Colleges,
  Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions, Alaska
  Native Serving Institutions
• Two-year Fellowship for last two years of
  undergraduate study
• Major in environmental science, physical or
  biological sciences, computer science,
  environmental health, social science,
  mathematics, or engineering
• Stipend 17,000 per year
• Summer Paid Internship at EPA Laboratory (7,500)
• Competitive!

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Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)

• Created in 1982 to strengthen the role of small
  businesses in federally funded RD and develop a
  stronger national base for technical innovation.
• Eligibility U.S. For-Profit Firms with less than
  500 employees
• EPA Budget 6M set-aside (2-1/2 of extramural
  RD)
• 2-Phase Program
• Phase I Feasibility/Proof-of-Concept
• 6 Months, 70K contract
• Phase II Full Research/Commercialization
• 15 Months, 255K-320K contract
• EPA Regions and Programs
• Identify Topics
• Region 7 - Agriculture
• Recommend Awards based Program Relevancy
• Mentor
• Annual Phase I and Special Solicitations

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SBIR - Phase 1 (2006) Proposals Received 
A. Great Lakes Environmental Problems 99
A1. Improving the Great Lakes 15
A2. Control of Air Pollution 28
A.3 Monitoring and Remote Sensing 38
A4. Green Buildings 18
B. Env. Probs. In America's Heartland 66
B1. Mining and Mine Waste Mgt 8
B2. Lead Paint Detection and Removal 2
B3. Ag. Rural Community Improvement 30
B4. Management of Animal Feeding Ops 26
C. Drinking Water and Wastewater Management 78
C1. Drinking Water Treatment and Monitoring 31
C2. Poll. Indicators for Beaches and Rec. Waters 10
C3. Water and Waste Management 37
D. Critical Research Areas 158
D1.. Innov. In Manufac. For Env. Prot 31
D2. Nanotechnology 27
D3. Engine and Vehicle Emission Reductions 28
D4. Solid and Haz. Waste 22
D5. Homeland Security 50
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Communicating STAR Progress and Results
Online Access and Resources Solicitations
(RFAs) Abstracts, Progress Reports, Final
Reports, Bibliographies Topical Research
Summaries and Research Capsules STAR
News Applications Research Summaries STAR
(Research in Progress) Reports STAR
Bulletins State-of-Science Reports SBIR abstracts
and summaries Annual Science Progress Review
Workshops Workshop Proceedings External Reviews
of ORDs Research Programs Board of Scientific
Councilors Scientific Conferences Special
sessions/symposia Email Announcements Web HTML
mail Web Updates mail Annual EPA Science
Forum Regional Conferences
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We Communicate with Grantees, Students, Fellows
and the Public
http//es.epa.gov/ncer
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Thank You! Questions?