Robert J. Huggett

Biography
[EPA press release - May 3, 1994]

The White House announced today that President Clinton intends to nominate Robert J. Huggett to be Assistant Administrator for Research and Development of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Huggett is recognized as an expert in environmental chemistry and ecosystem management and chairs the Department of Environmental Sciences, Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences at the College of William and Mary. He has held several other environmentally related management positions there since 1972, including chairman of the Department of Ecology and Pollution and the Department of Chemical Oceanography within the School of Marine Sciences.

Huggett is familiar with EPA as a member of its Science Advisory Board and the Committee on Reducing Risks, and through his work with several National Academy of Sciences environmental committees.

EPA Administrator Carol M. Browner said, "Dr. Huggett's highly recognized expertise in the environmental field will add great depth to EPA's essential research."

Since 1960, he has been involved in research in academia and industry, almost completely in environmental research. He has been a lecturer at the Brookings Institution since 1978, was a consultant to the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment and was recognized for his work on the Chesapeake Bay by the Izaak Walton Leage and DuPont Corp.

Huggett, 52, received a doctoral degree in marine science in 1977 from the College of William and Mary, where he also studied as an undergraduate, and a master's degree in marine chemistry from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in 1968.

Huggett is married, has two children and resides in Seaford, Va.

Robert J. Huggett

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