James Grieger, associate director of the research and radiation safety section in Environmental Health and Safety at Cornell, is contributing to an international effort to develop standardization in the field of nanotechnologies.

Grieger is serving on a U.S. technical advisory group that will formulate positions and proposals on nanotechnologies for the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) on behalf of the United States.

Grieger, a certified industrial hygienist, will contribute his expertise in developing recommendations for standardized science-based health, safety and environmental practices. The ISO is also working on developing standardization in terminology and nomenclature, measurement and instrumentation, modeling and simulation, and science-based health, safety and environmental practices.

Cornell is one of some 50 sponsors of an upcoming international meeting on nanotechnology standardization to be held June 8-12 in Seattle, hosted by the advisory group.