Donna Schwede

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research

Term: 2020 - 2023

Action Team Assignment: Contaminant Management

Monitoring and Assessment Team Assignment: Air Resources (Lead)

STAC Member Since: September 2019

Title: Supervisory Physical Scientist

Department: Office of Research & Development

Education: MS Geology, Duke University (1985); BS Geology, State University of New York at Courtland (1982)

Primary Focus Area: Atmospheric Deposition

Secondary Focus Area(s): Air quality modeling; atmospheric chemistry

Career Experiences: Donna began her career as a contractor for NOAA’s Air Resources Laboratory in 1987 with a focus on dispersion modeling. In 1993, she joined NOAA and continued to work on atmospheric model development.  Several years later, she became involved with NOAA’s work to validate and support deposition modeling for the EPA’s Clean Air Status and Trends Network. In 2008, the NOAA group transitioned to EPA and Donna’s work has since focused primarily on deposition modeling both at the field scale and in the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) modeling system.  Donna has been very active in the National Atmospheric Deposition Program and is on the steering committee for the Total Deposition Science Committee.  She is also on the World Meteorological Organization Global Total Atmospheric Deposition committee.  In 2018, Donna became branch chief of EPA’s Atmospheric Model Development Branch and in 2019 became the chief of the Atmospheric Chemistry and Aerosols Branch.