Environmental Scientists

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Environmental scientists work within a multidisciplinary area of scientific investigation. Their purview cuts across the physical, chemical, biological, health, ecological, engineering, economic and social sciences. As integrative scientists, they focus on the scientific bases for identifying environmental challenges and opportunities, and for mitigating or solving environmental problems, impacts, or issues.

Kenneth Olden, Ph.D., Sc.D., L.H.D., pictured, is an Environmental scientist and the founding Dean of the School of Public Health on the Hunter College campus of the City University of New York.

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    Gretchen C. Daily is Associate Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, Director of the Tropical Research Program of the Center for Conservation Biology, and a Senior... More »
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    Speaker: Wangari Maathai Date: December 10, 2004 Location: Oslo City Hall, Oslo, Norway. Copyright: © The Nobel Foundation 2004 EDITOR'S... More »
  • Hsieh, Paul A. Featured Article Hsieh, Paul A. Hsieh, Paul A.
    Honored for Role in Ending Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Dr. Paul Hsieh, a research hydrologist for the Department of the Interior’s U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), has... More »
  • Lubchenco, Jane Featured Article Lubchenco, Jane Lubchenco, Jane (Environmental Scientists)
    On March 20, 2009, Dr. Jane Lubchenco, a marine ecologist and environmental scientist, was sworn in as the ninth and first woman Administrator of NOAA. Her scientific expertise... More »
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Birnbaum linda s.jpg Birnbaum, Linda S. Last Updated on 2012-07-03 00:00:00 Linda S. Birnbaum, Ph.D., D.A.B.T., A.T.S., is Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and National Toxicology Program Division. As NIEHS and NTP director, Dr. Birnbaum oversees a budget that funds multidisciplinary biomedical research programs, prevention, and intervention efforts that encompass training, education, technology transfer, and community outreach. The NIEHS supports more than 1,000 research grants. Dr. Birnbaum has received numerous awards, including the Women in Toxicology Elsevier Mentoring Award, the Society of Toxicology Public Communications Award, EPA’s Health Science Achievement Award and Diversity Leadership Award, and 12 Science and Technology Achievement Awards. She is the author of several hundred peer-reviewed publications, book chapters, abstracts, and reports. Dr.... More »
Paul A Hsieh USGS .jpg Hsieh, Paul A. Last Updated on 2011-09-16 00:00:00 Honored for Role in Ending Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Dr. Paul Hsieh, a research hydrologist for the Department of the Interior’s U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), has earned the Federal Employee of the Year Medal for providing critical scientific information during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Dr. Hsieh’s calculations were key in helping senior federal officials and scientists conclude that the containment cap on the ruptured well was working and did not need to be removed, thus ensuring no additional oil leaked into the Gulf of Mexico. "Dr. Hsieh’s swift work and creative thinking was critical to the successful kill of the Macondo well,” said Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, who will present Hsieh with the award during a ceremony this evening. “Paul’s brilliance and determination in the face of a national crisis are to be... More »
KennethOlden NIEHS.jpg Olden, Kenneth (Environmental Scientists) Last Updated on 2011-09-02 00:00:00 Kenneth Olden, Ph.D., Sc.D., L.H.D., is Professor and Dean of the City University of New York's School of Public Health. His research interests extend to translation of fundamental discoveries into public health practice and policy; gene-environment interactions; and cancer etiology and prevention. He was the named the third director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) in 1991, and in the same year he became the second director of the National Toxicology Program (NTP). Olden is a cell biologist and biochemist by training, and has been active in cancer research for almost three decades. He was director of the Howard University Cancer Center and professor and chairman of the Department of Oncology at Howard University Medical School (1985–1991) in Washington, D.C., before coming to the NIEHS. Olden joined Howard in 1979 as associate director ... More »
Field alley963.jpg Alley, Richard (Environmental Scientists) Last Updated on 2011-07-27 00:00:00 Richard Alley (1957 - ) is the Evan Pugh Professor of the Department of Geosciences and EMS Environment Institute at Pennsylvania State University. His current research interests include glaciology; ice sheet stability; paleoclimates from ice cores; physical properties of ice cores; and erosion and sedimentation by ice sheets. Along with his many teaching accomplishments, Dr. Alley has authored many publications with several papers in the journals Nature and Science, chaired the National Academy of Sciences and National Council's panel on abrupt climate change, has been involved with advisory groups to improve national and international research, and has been active with media outreach translate research findings to a broad audience with appearances on television, radio and print outlets. In 1999, Alley was invited to testify about climate change by Vice President Al... More »
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