David Lodge, Ludmilla F. and Stephen J. Galla Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Notre Dame and a planet-renowned skilled on invasive species, has accepted a nomination to join the Nationwide Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Science Advisory Board (SAB).
Established in 1997, the SAB is the only federal advisory committee with responsibility to advise the Undersecretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere on methods for analysis, training and the application of science to operations and information providers. The guidance is an work to support NOAA carry about its mission to greater understand and predict alterations in the Earth’s setting and conserve and manage coastal and marine resources to meet the nation’s economic, social and environmental requirements.
The SAB is composed of 15 members with balanced representation amongst preeminent scientists, engineers, educators and science policy authorities, reflecting the total breadth of NOAA locations of obligation as well as the ethic and gender diversity of the United States.
Lodge serves as director of Notre Dame’s Environmental Adjust Initiative. He has comprehensive investigation expertise on a wide assortment of invasive species, including rusty crayfish, zebra mussels, quagga mussels and Asian carp. His analysis focuses on ecological forecasting to far better inform environmental threat assessment, policy development and natural assets management.
He has testified just before the U.S. Congress on quite a few occasions about invasive species and has served as an professional witness in federal court. He served as the very first chair of the U.S. government’s national Invasive Species Advisory Committee, led analysis on freshwater biodiversity as element of the Millennium Ecosystem Evaluation sponsored by the United Nations and led an expert team delivering advice to the U.S. Environmental Protection Company on lowering invasions from the ballast water of ships.
Biologist David Lodge appointed to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Science Advisory Board
