Bill Hogsett

Bill Hogsett is a senior research biologist for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with the Western Ecology Division of the National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory. Most recently he served as acting branch chief for the Watershed Ecology Branch. Over the past 27 years, he has led national/international research programs studying the impacts of air pollutants, including tropospheric ozone, acid rain, nitrate loading, nitrogen dioxide and sulfur dioxide, on crops and forests. He serves as technical consultant for EPA in the criteria review process for setting the national air quality standards to protect forests and crops. He currently participates in projects to determine the impact and valuation of anthropogenic stressors on ecosystem services, e.g. carbon sequestration, nutrient regulation, and water quality. He has published numerous scientific papers, served on review panels for the European Union Environmental Effects Council, the UN ECE Convention on Long Range Transboundary Air Pollutants, the Swedish Environmental Research Institute, the Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment: Vegetation Effects Work Group, the U.S. Forest Service Global Change Program, and contributed to several science advisory groups including the National Research Council. He has been working for the EPA since 1980, earning his BS in Biology from Texas Christian University and his PhD from Baylor College of Medicine in Biochemistry in 1972.