Mr. Joel Hansel
U.S. EPA Region 4

Mr. Hansel serves at the EPA Region 4 Fish Advisory Coordinator, Regional BEACH Coordinator, Regional Human Health Criteria Expert, and Water Quality Standards Coordinator. He also serves on the EPA Gulf of Mexico Program's Public Health Focus Team and as chairman of the Laboratory Quality Assurance and Education Committees for the Interstate Shellfish Sanitation Conference. Mr. Hansel has a B.S. in Biology with subspecialties in Human Physiology and Microbiology from the University of Akron in Akron, Ohio and is currently completing a Master's of Public Health in Epidemiology and Environmental/Occupation Health from the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.