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CIPI's goal is to provide scientific advice and expertise in the biological and physical sciences for not-for-profits, university research groups, governments, citizen groups, plaintiffs' attorneys, and green businesses. With a long-standing and deep network of scientific contacts in the environmental, conservation, and academic communities, CIPI can put together a team -- large or small -- to meet any challenge.

For instance, CIPI is the scientific advisor to attorneys who brought two of the largest environmental exposure cases in the country. CIPI advises the National Audubon Society on forest habitat research. It has advised Columbia University and Mount Sinai Medical School on chemical exposures related to breast cancer. CIPI staff have set up numerous research and other partnerships between businesses and environmentalists, particularly those dealing with sustainability and biodiversity. CIPI staff have negotiated technically based legislation that has been signed into law in 18 states.

The easiest tasks for CIPI to perform are critical reviews of environmental impact studies, wildlife management plans and technical legal documents -- and the preparation of reports on alternatives. CiPI staff have been doing such work throughout their careers for twenty years and more.

Founded in 1984 by Jan Beyea, Ph.D., CiPI is now a web-based, "virtual" organization that puts together public-interest scientists with people and institutions that need them. CiPI has a core team of six scientific consultants (CiPI associates)who have worked together regularly on projects that interest them, and a network of twelve other scientists who join in projects sporadically. Since problems of ecology and environmental impacts respect no scientific boundaries, CiPI maintains a still larger network within the academic community that allows us to tap whatever expertise is needed to solve a problem. CiPI regulary identifies and recruits scientific experts to assist injured plaintiffs who are involved in complex litigation. And we are always on the look out for top scientists who are interested in part-time consulting opportunities matched to noble causes.

CIPI associates have no formal connection to each other, beyond working together on interesting projects from time to time.

Please follow the links below for further details about ways that CiPI can help you ...

• if you are an attorney practicing public-interest law.
• if you are an architect doing green architecture.
• if you are an individual or group with a question about a hazardous exposure.
• if you are an individual or group concerned about the adequacy of efforts to protect threatened and endangered species

Please follow this link for more details of CiPI's Background and Services.

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Contacting Us

If you want to learn more about CiPI -- as either a potential client or expert -- please complete our contact information page and one of our staff will contact you. You may also contact us directly at the address or telephone number listed below. References to current and former CiPI clients are available upon request.

Consulting in the Public Interest
Box 220
Lambertville, NJ 08530
(609) 397-2370
(609) 397-1209 FAX

This page was last updated on 05/19/06.