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Office of Environmental Information & Analysis
Mid-Atlantic Env'l Assessment & Innovation Division - Organizational Information
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Responsibilities
Through assessments of the environmental health of the Region, the Office fulfills a wide range of data needs for a variety of customers including Regional programs, state agencies, local governments, and the general public.
The Office's major responsibilities are:
- to assess, characterize, and report on the health of the public and ecosystems
- and to develop protection strategies based on the characterizations
The Office is the lead for environmental planning in the Region. It works in conjunction with Regional programs to develop strategies for dealing with cross-cutting and emerging environmental issues. The strategies and associated action plans target the Region's environmental protection efforts, develops cost estimates of different strategies, and conducts cost/benefit analyses of the strategies.
The Office leads efforts to develop performance measures that use environmental outcomes to measure progress toward achieving environmental goals.
- develops environmental indicators to assist in the characterization of the health of the environment; identify current and future ecological, human health and quality of life issues; evaluate progress in attaining environmental goals; and estimate and compare the relative impacts of environmental issues addressed by Regional activities
- identifies other sources of environmental information to analyze and evaluate potential uses of environmental information by the public, other external groups, and the regulated community
- develops comprehensive plans and strategies for using state-of-the-art technology to meet the demand for information
The mission of our Geospatial Analysis function is to develop geospatial displays of environmental information to support all regional staff and programs.
- operational and technical support for hardware and software used by program staff
- developing maps and other graphic displays and arrays for the Regional user community
- technical assistance for the development of cross-media and/or data integration projects to Regional programs and to other federal, state and local users
- provides support to convert data to digital formats
- operates the Region’s Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and maintains the Regional repository of GIS data
Programs
Contact
Bill Jenkins (jenkins.bill@epa.gov)
Associate Division Director
Office of Environmental Information and Analysis (3EA10)
Environmental Assessment and Innovation Division
US EPA Region 3
1650 Arch St.
Philadelphia, PA 19103-2029
215-814-2911
Don Evans (evans.don@epa.gov)
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Team Leader
Office of Environmental Information and Analysis (3EA10)
Environmental Assessment and Innovation Division
US EPA Region 3
1650 Arch St.
Philadelphia, PA 19103-2029
215-814-5370