The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), as part of its Science to Achieve Results (STAR) program, is asking the scientific community to propose transdisciplinary research with an approach that integrates the following research questions: (1) How may certain natural disasters (e.g., wildfires, severe storms, flooding, hurricanes,tornadoes,volcanic eruptions,earthquakes or tsunamis) or changing environmental conditions (e.g., rising sea…