About Us
The Beyond Compliance Network facilitates the (re-)design of environmental data systems to strengthen data’s application in environmental governance, acting collectively to make our data and infrastructure more open, accessible, and interoperable. Our goals are to open up regulatory data and processes that integrate this data to enable its broader use in answering questions about environmental health and climate change, and to facilitate the integration of community-level and other kinds of research data in this process.
This network comprises environmental data stewards, researchers, and policy professionals from across the US. We work to address the fragmented ways in which environmental monitoring and compliance data have been collected, aggregated, stored, managed, and shared by government agencies. This fragmentation prevents researchers—both within and beyond government—from accessing and using this data, and ultimately, exploring critical environmental questions.
We convene virtually as a large group every other month to share information and project updates. Between these meetings, members also work in sub-committees to advance specific projects. To read more about our initial findings, see our 2022 Synthesis Report.
Join Us
The Beyond Compliance Network is open to new members and ideas to support our goal of strengthening data’s application in environmental governance. This is a self-organized network, and members engage in agenda-setting, meeting facilitation, and leading new and existing projects. We welcome anyone who is interested in collaborating on this work and willing to follow our Code of Conduct to join our convenings.
The network comprises environmental data stewards, researchers, and policy professionals from across the United States. We virtually convene as a large group every 2-3 months to share information and project updates, and to build new strategies. Members also participate in working groups to advance specific projects.
If you’re interested in joining the Network, please fill out this form and we will be in touch. Or contact Katie Hoeberling at katie@openenvironmentaldata.org with questions.
For Beyond Compliance members, we’ve written up a short blurb you can use when inviting new members to join us. Please feel free to use this text in crafting invitations to new potential members.
Who We Are
Network Members
- Alan Walts, EPA Region 5 (Midwest)
- Alison Parker
- Ana Hoffman, CREATELab
- Carole Braverman, EPA Region 5 (Midwest)
- Cyatharine Alias, Center for Neighborhood Technology
- Dante Mack, Environmental Integrity Project
- Elizabeth Murphy, EPA Region 5 (Midwest)
- Emily McGovern, NEPAccess
- Evan Isaacson, Chesapeake Legal Alliance
- Faith Savaiano, Federation of American Scientists
- Gabriel Watson, Environmental Policy Innovation Center
- Greg Gearheart, California State Water Resources Control Board
- Helena Pliszka, TD Environmental Services
- Jamie San Gabriel, NEPAccess
- Julie Vastine, ALLARM, Dickinson College
- Kaitlin Throgmorton, Yale School of Medicine
- Kate Hoag, Bay Area Air Quality Management District
- Keene Kelderman, Environmental Integrity Project
- Manuel Salgado, WE ACT
- Oscar Espino-Padron, Earthjustice
- Rafael Maestu, California State Water Resources Control Board
- Reed Van Beveran, Environmental Policy Innovation Center
- Russ Biggs, OpenAQ
- Tim Dye, TD Environmental Services
- Toby Mahar, Northwest Clean Air Agency
About the Conveners
The Open Environmental Data Project (OEDP) leverages the spirit of collaboration to create multi-sector strategies that strengthen the role of data in environmental and climate governance. Through pilots, workshops, research, and narrative building, OEDP works to (re)build trust between communities, government, civil society, and science.
The Fair Tech Collective, Professor Gwen Ottinger's research group at Drexel University, leverages social science theory and methods to foster social and environmental justice (EJ) in science and technology. As part of this work, the Collective experiments with new approaches to interpreting environmental data and making it more widely available for EJ activism; recent examples include Refinery Air Watch.
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