The EPA’s Office of Research and Development (ORD) is developing a draft report synthesizing the peer reviewed scientific literature pertaining to biological, chemical, and hydrologic connectivity of waters, and the effects that small streams, wetlands, and open waters have on larger downstream waters such as rivers, lakes, estuaries, and oceans. ORD has asked the SAB (independent Scientific Advisory Board) to conduct a peer review of the agency’s draft report. The SAB Staff Office is forming an expert panel under the auspices of the Chartered SAB to conduct this review.
The SAB Staff Office requests nominations of recognized experts in one or more of the following disciplines: (a) Hydrologists, geologists, and fluvial geomorphologists with expertise in the hydrology and formation of large rivers, small streams, wetlands, surface-groundwater interactions, sediment transport, or hydrologic connectivity of waters; (b) Ecologists with expertise in stream ecology or wetland ecology, particularly with respect to freshwater stream wetland connectivity, or wetland ecosystem function; (c) Biologists with expertise in population dynamics and dispersal of freshwater organisms, fisheries, aquatic entomology, amphibian biology, or the biologic connectivity of freshwater systems; and (d) Water chemists and biogeochemists with expertise in nutrient dynamics or pollutant fate and transport in watersheds. Additional context for this request may be found in the following popular press article published by Greenwire on Friday, March 08,2013: http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/2013/03/08/3 This is the link to the official request for nominations, which are due by March 29, 2013: http://yosemite.epa.gov/sab/sabproduct.nsf/0/270D97607F146B3685257B1F00563C 3D?OpenDocument For questions on the SAB nomination process, please contact: Thomas Armitage Ph.D. Designated Federal Officer EPA Science Advisory Board Office 202-564-2155 (phone/voice mail) [email protected]
