Environmental assessment and remediation are becoming increasingly important in the changing world. Such assessment often requires the combined talents of professionals in many disjoint fields and that they communicate with one another in a common language. Located at the University of Washington, The National Research Center for Statistics and the Environment was created to provide a platform for such multi-disciplinary interaction with respect to statistical analysis of environmental concerns. It was the goal of the Center to facilitate research in these areas, and to ensure that this work be made available to the public as well as to the scientific community through seminars, workshops, and electronic media.