Rich Batiuk is the Associate Director for Science at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Chesapeake Bay Program Office located in Annapolis, Maryland. He is responsible for providing state-of-the-science environmental monitoring, multi-media modeling, distributed data/information management, and technical data analysis and interpretation support to the Chesapeake Bay Program partners. Rich has been with the Chesapeake Bay Program Office since 1985, having previously coordinated the expansion and institutionalization of the baywide monitoring program and oversaw development and implementation of a comprehensive basinwide toxics reduction and prevention strategy.