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About the Center for Environmental Measurement and Modeling (CEMM)

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What We Do

The Center for Environmental Measurement and Modeling (CEMM) conducts research to advance the Agency’s ability to measure and model contaminants in the environment, including research to provide fundamental methods and models needed to implement environmental statutes. Our research involves:

  • Occurrence, fate, and transport in the natural environment
  • Regulatory methods and models
  • Tools to inform and evaluate environmental management practices and policies
  • Environmental indicators
  • Contaminants of emerging concern

 

Management

Alice Gilliland, Acting Director   

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  • Phone: 513-569-7852
  • Email: gilliland.alice@epa.gov

Lara Phelps, Acting Deputy Director   

  • Phone: 919-541-5544
  • Email: phelps.lara@epa.gov

Gayle Hagler, Associate Director for Environmental Measurement

 Andy Gillespie, Associate Director for Environmental Modeling

 

Divisions 

  • Air Methods and Characterization Division
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Systems Modeling Division
  • Atlantic Coastal Environmental Sciences Division
  • Gulf Ecosystem Measurement and Modeling Division
  • Watershed and Ecosystem Characterization Division
  • Ecosystem Processes Division

 

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  • Athens, Georgia
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