| Academic degree: | PhD |  | | Last name: | Curran | | First name: | Mary Ann | | Responsible for: | Environmental management and policy | | Organization/Institute: | US Environmental Protection Agency | | Department: | Office of Research and Development | | Position: | LCA Research Program Manager | | Street, Number, POB: | 26 West-Martin-Luther-King-Drive | | Postal code, City: | 45268 Cincinnati | | State: | Ohio | | Country: | USA | | Phone: | +1 (513) 569-7782 | | Fax: | +1 (513) 569-7111 | | E-mail address: | curran.maryann@epa.gov | | Url: | http://www.epa.gov/ORD/NRMRL/lcaccess | | Curriculum vitae: | Mary Ann Curran directs the System Analysis Branch´s Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) research program which includes the development of LCA methodology, the performance of life-cycle case studies, life-cycle workshops and conferences, and the development of a life cycle data directory website (www.epa.gov/ORD/NRMRL/lcaccess).
As an expert in LCA, she provides technical support to several EPA offices in developing policy and regulations including guidelines for the federal procurement of environmentally-preferable products.
Ms. Curran provides technical review and assistance to outside groups on green product and process design and development. She has participated in the technical peer review of industry-sponsored life-cycle studies, including electricity, diapers, cleaners, plastics, coal ash, and building products.
Ms. Curran works closely with the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC), which has been instrumental in advancing LCA awareness worldwide, and actively participates in the UNEP/SETAC Life Cycle Initiative.
Ms. Curran serves on the SETAC North America LCA Working Group. In addition, Ms. Curran is on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, Environmental Progress, and Management of Environmental Quality and serves as subject editor (Cleaner Production Tools) for the Journal of Cleaner Production.
Since 1990, Ms. Curran has authored and co-authored numerous papers which address LCA concepts and applications. She has presented EPA’s activities in LCA-related research at technical meetings across the U.S. and in Europe. She co-authored and edited a book entitled ´Environmental Life Cycle Assessment´ which was published by McGraw-Hill in July 1996.
Ms. Curran has been with the EPA´s Office of Research and Development since 1980. She holds a PhD from Erasmus University, Rotterdam, the Netherlands (2008), a Masters degree in Environmental Management and Policy from the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE) at Lund University, Lund, Sweden (1996) and a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering, from the University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio (1980).
Mary Ann Curran is one of the ´godfathers´ of Int J LCA and belongs to the Editorial Board since 1996. | | Areas of interest: | | data availability | | LCA | | biofuels | | allocation, wood-based products | | biobased industrial products through LCA | | Nanotechnologie | | |
| | Articles: | 12 LCA Special (1) 4 (2007), The InLCA/LCM Conferences - How they came about
12 LCA_Special (1) 65-78 (2007), Co-Product and Input Allocation Approaches for Creating Life Cycle Inventory Data: A Literature Review (14 pp)
11 LCA (4) 284-289 (2006), Report on Activity of Task Force 1: Data Registry - Global Life Cycle Inventory Data Resources
9 LCA (6) 343 (2004), Connecting the International LCA Community - Selected Papers from the InLCA/LCM 2003 Conference, September 23 – 25, 2003 in Seattle/WA, USA
6 LCA (2) 69 (2001), The International Conference on Life Cycle Assessment (InLCA)
6 LCA (2) 124 (2001), InLCA: Tools for Sustainability Hyatt Regency Crystal City, Arlington, Virginia, 25-27 April, 2000
5 LCA (3) 160 (2000), The International Conference & Exhibition on Life Cycle Assessment (InLCA):
4 LCA (3) 123-124 (1999), The Status of LCA in the USA
2 LCA (1) 39-43 (1997), Life-Cycle Based Government Policies
1 LCA (1) 57-60 (1996), Report from the EPA Conference on Streamlining LCA
1 LCA (2) 79-85 (1996), Streamlining Life Cycle Assessment
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