Themes of Environmental Assessment

Dr. Glenn Suter, U.S. EPA (retired):

Dr. Glenn Suter is retired from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Research and Development where he was Science Advisor in the National Center for Environmental Assessment, Cincinnati, and Chairman of the Risk Assessment Forum’s Ecological Oversight Committee. He has more than 300 publications over his 43-year career including 8 books. He was one of the founders of both ecological risk assessment and ecological causal assessment. He pioneered the development of formal processes for weight of evidence in ecological assessments. He developed a toxicity test protocol for soil processes that was adopted by the U.S. EPA and OECD. He has received the Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry’s Founder’s Award and Exceptional Service Award, the Association for Environmental Health and Science’s Career Achievement Award, and he is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of SETAC. He has served in various advisory capacities including International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis Task Force on Risk and Policy Analysis Under Conditions of Uncertainty, Scientific Auditor of Risk Assessment and Policy Advice on Chemical Substances for the RIVM, WHO’s Steering/Working Group on Integrated Risk Assessment, the Clean Air Act Science Advisory Committee, committees of the National Academies of Science.