Janetos to Chair NSF Advisory Committee on Environmental R&E
Pardee Center director will lead interdisciplinary group of senior scientists
Anthony Janetos, director of Boston University’s Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future. Photo by Cydney Scott
Anthony Janetos, director of Boston University’s Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and a BU professor of earth and environment, has been appointed chair of the National Science Foundation’s Advisory Committee for Environmental Research and Education (AC-ERE). The appointment begins October 1, 2016. As chair, Janetos will lead the 16-member interdisciplinary group of senior scientists from universities and other institutions that oversees NSF support for environmental research and education programs on a wide range of topics across many scientific disciplines.
Janetos has been a member of the committee since 2011. He was the co-author of a report the committee issued in September 2015 called America’s Future: Environmental Research and Education for a Thriving Century, which stressed the need for support of fundamental scientific research in the next decade to enable efforts to understand the potential future impacts of environmental challenges and begin to address those challenges.
The NSF announcement of his appointment notes Janetos’ “long and distinguished career focused on high-impact global change science and policy” and his extensive record of service on scientific advisory panels and committees for the National Academy of Sciences and the Department of Energy.
“This is an important advisory committee for environmental science and education, and I’m privileged to be asked to chair,” Janetos says.
Janetos also currently serves the Committee to Advise the US Global Change Research Program. His appointment as chair of the NSF AC-ERE is for a three-year term.
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