SIDNEY DRAGGAN
Sidney Draggan is Senior Science and Science Policy Advisor to the
Assistant Administrator for Research and Development at the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency. He joined the staff of the Immediate
Office of the Assistant Administrator in 1997 after serving for two
years as Special Assistant for Science to the Administrator and Deputy
Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
He is an Ecologist (Ph.D. in Systems Ecology) with special
interests in science policy research and analysis; toxic chemical
testing and control; and international environment policy and
management. His undergraduate degree is in Biological Science
(Genetics) and his Masters degree is in Zoology (Clinical Parasitology).
Prior to working in the Administrator's Office, he was Associate
Director of Office of Research and Development's Environmental
Monitoring and Assessment Program (EMAP). His work with the EMAP
focused on program policy formulation, information management issues,
and strengthening the scientific-defensibility, reliability and
credibility of all EMAP activities and products.
He has served as Research Ecologist at Oak Ridge National
Laboratory's Environmental Sciences Division; Senior Research Fellow at
the Monitoring and Assessment Research Centre in London, UK; and,
Ecological Effects Team Leader with the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency's Office of Toxic Substances. The EPA is the second Federal
agency where Dr. Draggan has worked. Between 1978 - 1985, he was
Ecologist and Policy Analyst at the National Science Foundation's (NSF)
Division of Policy Research and Analysis. Also, he served as Associate
Program Manager for Polar Biology and Medicine in NSF's Office of Polar
Programs; and in 1989, he was named Environmental Officer of the NSF's
Office of Polar Programs and of the U.S. Antarctic Program.
During 1987, Dr. Draggan became the first NSF staff member to
winterover on the Antarctic Continent, managing activities at McMurdo
Station of the U.S. Antarctic Program. The following year he served as
NSF Representative, New Zealand. Dr. Draggan has published in the
peer-reviewed ecological and science policy literatures. He is on the
Editorial Advisory Boards of the International Journal of Environmental
Studies, and Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. He is the U.S.
EPA's Liaison to the U. S. National Committee for CODATA. Also, he
chairs the Partnership of Science and Technology Advisors of the
international collaboratory, The Consortium for Advancing the Monitoring
of Ecosystem Sustainability in the Americas. Dr. Draggan is a member of
the Network for Science and Technology for Sustainability.
Significantly, he has edited four volumes on setting priorities for
long-term Federal environmental research and development activities,
requested by the President's Council on Environmental Quality.
Dr. Draggan received NSF's highest award, the Superior
Accomplishment Award, in 1988. In 2001, he received the EPA Office of
Research and Development's Bronze Medal Award for work on information
management issues.
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