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Environmental Management Division

NASA’s Environmental Management Division (EMD) provides leadership and guidance on environmental issues at NASA. EMD manages NASA programmatic and institutional requirements to advance environmental stewardship and sustainability. Additionally, EMD develops and disseminates policies for environmental planning, compliance, restoration, pollution prevention, energy and water conservation; as well as natural, cultural, and historic resource preservation.

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Charlotte Bertrand

Director

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Brendan Deyo

Deputy Director

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Joan Hughes

Energy & Water Management

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Jennifer Flavin

Environmental Compliance/Environmental Management System

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Rebecca Klein

Cultural Resources Management

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Tina Norwood

NEPA/Natural Resources Management

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Nicholas Murdock

Sustainability

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Michael Deliz

Environmental Cleanup/Restoration

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National Historic Preservation Month

The Oak Grove Revitalization Project in the Burro Flats Cultural District of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL) highlights NASA’s commitment to partnering with local entities to support the responsible stewardship of cultural resources. These entities include Native American tribes, whose cultural heritage and sacred places are not always obvious to non-Native people. Click below to learn more!

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The oak grove in the Burro Flats Cultural District shortly after the Woolsey Fire, November 2018.
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EMD Programs

Active restoration site with construction equipment working

Restoration

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desert tortoise

Natural Resource Management

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This illustration shows a concept of what a rover fetching rock and soil samples on Mars for return to Earth could look like. The sample tube in this image would have been left on the surface by a previous mission, NASA's Mars 2020 rover.

National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)

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Waterfall, wind turbine and solar panels

Energy and Water Management

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Climate Control Heat Map

Greenhouse Gas Management

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A view of a blue ocean from space

Sustainability

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Photo of people working at Mission Control Center

Cultural Resource Management

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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsulation Facility -2 (SAEF-2), Chris Voorhees (left) and Satish Krishnan (right), from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, remove the second Mars microprobe from a drum. Two microprobes will hitchhike on the Mars Polar Lander, scheduled to be launched Jan. 3, 1999, aboard a Delta II rocket. The solar-powered spacecraft is designed to touch down on the Martian surface near the northern-most boundary of the south pole in order to study the water cycle there. The lander also will help scientists learn more about climate change and current resources on Mars, studying such things as frost, dust, water vapor and condensates in the Martian atmosphere. The Mars microprobes, called Deep Space 2, are part of NASA's New Millennium Program. They will complement the climate-related scientific focus of the lander by demonstrating an advanced, rugged microlaser system for detecting subsurface water. Such data on polar subsurface water, in the form of ice, should help put limits on scientific projections for the global abundance of water on Mars

Environmental Compliance

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Environmental Management Systems/Risk Management

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Center Environmental Offices

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Armstrong Flight Research Center

Location

Edwards

Founded

September 30th, 1946

People

1,100

Director

Bradley C. Flick

Glenn Research Center

Location

Cleveland, Ohio

Founded

January 23rd, 1941

People

3,200

Director

Dr. James Kenyon

Goddard Space Flight Center

Location

Greenbelt

Founded

May 1st, 1959

People

10,000

Director

Makenzie Lystrup

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Location

Pasadena, California

Founded

October 31st, 1936

People

6,000

Director

Dr. Laurie Leshin

Johnson Space Center

Location

Houston

Founded

November 1st, 1961

People

11,000

Director

Vanessa E. Wyche

Kennedy Space Center

Location

Kennedy Space Center, Florida

Founded

July 1st, 1962

People

10,000

Director

Janet Petro

Marshall Space Flight Center

Location

Huntsville, AL

Founded

July 1st, 1960

People

7,000

Director

Joseph Pelfrey

Stennis Space Center

Location

Stennis Space Center, Mississippi

Founded

October 25th, 1961

People

5,000

Director

Dr. Richard Gilbrech

Wallops Flight Facility

Location

Wallops Island, Virginia

Founded

May 7th, 1943

People

1,000

Director

David Pierce

White Sands Test Facility

Location

Las Cruces, New Mexico

Founded

July 6th, 1963

People

300

Director

Jason E Noble

Featured Documents

FY 21-23 NASA “Preserve America” Triennial Report

Nov 7, 2023

PDF (7.50 MB)

Tree with mountains in the backdrop and birds flying above

2022 OMB Scorecard for Sustainability

Jan 9, 2024

PDF (242.21 KB)

energy fact sheet

Energy and Water Management Fact Sheet

Jan 29, 2024

PDF (1.44 MB)

CEQ Emblem

NASA NEPA Final Rule Update: 14 CFR 1216.3

Apr 11, 2024

PDF (258.75 KB)

Blue Marble Awards

NASA’s Environment and Energy “Blue Marble” Awards recognizes groups and individuals demonstrating exceptional environmental leadership in support of NASA’s missions and goals.

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2022 Blue marble award Winners

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Shari Miller (GSFC/WFF)

NASA Environmental Quality Individual Award

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DEVELOP National Program Team (LaRC)

NASA Environmental Quality Group Award

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Fleet Management and Transportation Team (GRC)

NASA Excellence in Resilience or Climate Change Adaptation Group Award

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Evelyn Baskin, Ph.D., (GSFC)

NASA Excellent in Energy or Water Management Individual Award

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Utility Energy Services Contract (UESC) Phase 1 Team (KSC)

NASA Excellence in Energy or Water Management Group Award

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John Matthews (KSC)

NASA EMD Director’s Environmental and Energy Group Award

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Radioisotope Power Systems (RPS) NEPA Improvement Team (HQ/GRC/MSFC)

NASA EMD Director’s Environmental and Energy Group Award

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Stennis Space Center Sustainability Team

NASA EMD Director’s Environmental and Energy Group Award

Additional Resources

NASA Earth Science Division Director Michael Freilich shows meteorologists a model of the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory during a media event for the release of the Third U.S. National Climate Assessment, South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, May 6, 2014. NASA Earth-observing satellite observations and analysis by the NASA-supported research community underlie many of the findings in the new climate change assessment. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Policies, Regulations, and Guidance

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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- A pair of breeding ospreys have taken up residence in a nest constructed on a speaker pole in the lower parking lot of the KSC Press Site. Eggs have been sighted in the nest. The NASA logo in the background is painted on an outer wall of the 525-foot-tall Vehicle Assembly Building nearby. Known as a fish hawk, the osprey selects sites of opportunity in which to nest -- from trees and telephone poles to rocks or even flat ground. In North America, it is found from Alaska and Newfoundland to Florida and the Gulf Coast. Osprey nests are found throughout the Kennedy Space Center and surrounding Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge.

Other Environmental Resources

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