The Office of Scientific Quality Review

(OSQR)

The Office of Scientific Quality Review is a congressionally mandated entity, independent and objective within the Agricultural Research Service (ARS), tasked with ensuring the highest scientific quality for the Agency’s People, Projects, and Programs.

OSQR VISION    

To be a trusted contributor to the value, safety, and integrity of American agricultural research, and to ensure that ARS remains a leader in delivering effective and innovative scientific solutions that address domestic and international agricultural needs.

OSQR MISSION

Our mission is to promote effectiveness and integrity as a staff to administer quality peer reviews of USDA’s people, projects and programs; to ensure accountability of the Agency’s research and the scientists who conduct it; to achieve greater efficiency, and program improvement by providing unique expert perspective on the science foundation of ARS.

Research Position Evaluation System

(RPES)

Project Plan Peer Review

(PPPR)

National Program Retrospective Assessment

(NPRA)

Coordinates classification of ARS Category 1 research scientists positions

Coordinates peer review of ALL ARS funded intramural research project plans 

Coordinates the retrospective evaluation of ALL ARS National Programs

STAFF

Kent Amott 
(acting) Director
 Kent.Amott@usda.gov

Kent Amott
Lead Program Management Specialist (RPES)
 Kent.Amott@usda.gov  

Linda Daly-Lucas
Program Analyst (PPPR)
linda.dalylucas@usda.gov

Michele Shaw
Program Analyst (PPPR)
michele.shaw@usda.gov

Dana Lamberti
Program Management Specialist (RPES)
dana.lamberti@usda.gov

Kim Melton
Program Support Assistant (RPES)
kim.melton@usda.gov

Shawn Dowd
Secretary
Shawn.Dowd@usda.gov

 John Luchansky, Ph.D.
Scientific Quality Review Officer (SQRO)
John.Luchansky@usda.gov