Do you want to use your voice, lived experience, and perspectives to support Puget Sound recovery? Well, now’s your opportunity to apply for one of three Strategic Initiative Advisory Teams, called “SIATs”, to guide Puget Sound recovery.
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Advisory Teams support the Habitat, Shellfish, and Stormwater Strategic Initiatives.
Check out the recruitment notice for more details, time commitment, and application instructions.
These teams are standing two-year commitments to help shape approaches and policies, link science to action, and address important issues related to Tribal Treaty Rights, environmental justice, climate change, and the ability of humans to positively shape our local environment. Participation is through meetings, phone calls, document/approach reviews, and decisions regarding project funding.
The Strategic Initiative Leads use EPA’s Puget Sound Geographic Program funds to achieve recovery under the National Estuary Program. As the second-largest estuary in the United States, Puget Sound is a complex ecosystem that embodies a spectacular physical, social, cultural, and economic mosaic. By joining a SIAT, you can help shape the approaches, technical interventions, policies, and innovations that move us all in the right direction.
Recruitment at-a-glance
Seeking diverse scientific, policy, geographic, social science, and organizational perspectives and experience to serve on Habitat, Stormwater, or Shellfish SIATs.
- Full notice and information
- Two-year terms (January 2024-December 2025)
- Tasks include advising on use of annual EPA Puget Sound Geographic Program Funds and advising on key issues and barriers in Puget Sound recovery
- Deadline: Thursday, November 30, 2023
- Application
This recruitment is open to anyone willing to serve a two-year term as a policy or technical expert on one of the SIATs to advise the Strategic Initiative Lead teams under the EPA Cooperative Agreement.
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Why SIAT?
The SIATs were developed in 2016 to guide the work of the Strategic Initiative Leads. This includes developing investment priorities and funding recommendations, guiding Implementation Strategy development, and advising SILs in operationalizing recovery approaches.
Stormwater SIAT member testimonials
"I am a founding member on the Stormwater Strategic Initiative Advisory Team and have had the opportunity to share my expertise and learn from the diverse membership. I have been able to share my 30+ years of expertise in stormwater quality, management, source control and treatment and learn new perspectives from Tribal communities, Regulators (Growth Management Act, State, Tribal, Federal and local) and community groups. As part of the SIAT, we were able to influence the distribution of stormwater funding where there is a need and where there is a greater benefit. I recommend other stormwater professionals to participate on the Stormwater SIAT”.
"I’ve served on Stormwater Strategic Initiative Advisory Team for many years. It’s been a great opportunity to share how land use planning can positively affect stormwater and has led to greater appreciation for how cross disciplinary approaches can be so effective. It’s also a convivial, supporting community of practice I appreciate on a personal basis".