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What We Do

The Homeland Security Materials Management Division (HSMMD) conducts an applied, customer-driven, national-scale research program to improve the nation’s preparedness for and response to environmental emergencies and materials management challenges.  HSMMD’s mission includes:

• Understanding fate and transport of contaminants 
• Developing innovative characterization tools and strategies
• Developing analytical methods 
• Developing wide-area cleanup technologies
• Developing water treatment and related sensors
• Developing water infrastructure decontamination methods
• Management of oil spills, wastes, and other materials

HSMMD studies help in the development of systems-based decision support tools.  This research also supports the regulatory and non-regulatory scientific needs of EPA; water utilities; and state, local, territorial, and tribal agencies.

Relevant Research

• Water Infrastructure Resilience and Incident Response
• Contaminant Detection and Sampling and Analysis
• Contaminant Fate, Transport, and Exposure
• Wide Area Remediation
• Waste Management
• Oil Spill Research
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 Learn more at Homeland Security Research

Management

Shawn Ryan, Director

• Phone: 919-541-0699
• Email: ryan.shawn@epa.gov

Sarah Taft, Associate Director

• Email: Taft.Sarah@epa.gov
• Phone: 513-569-7037

Branches

• Disaster Characterization Branch
• Systems Tools and Materials Management Branch
• Wide-Area and Infrastructure Decontamination Branch

Main Office Location

US EPA Center for Environmental Solutions and Emergency Response
Homeland Security and Materials Management Division

Mailing Address:

109 T.W. Alexander Drive
Mail Code: E343-06
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709

Courier Address:

4930 Old Page Road
Rm # E311I
Durham, NC 27703