Bethany Kunz, PhD

Bethany Kunz is the Restoration Ecology Section Chief at the Columbia Environmental Research Center. She coordinates a research team providing science to support ecological restoration efforts, particularly through the Department of the Interior’s Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Restoration (NRDAR) program. She also works closely with several teams within the USGS Environmental Health Program, seeking to understand exposure pathways and biological effects of contaminants such as metals, salts, and road dust. Prior to her current position, she worked primarily in amphibian ecotoxicology and conservation, road ecology, and with the USGS Species Management Research Program, and she maintains active ties to those groups.