Kristen Keteles

Education

Ph.D. in Biological Sciences (Zoology), Louisiana State University, 2001

B.S. in Marine Science, Coastal Carolina University, 1995

Biography

Kristen is a toxicologist in the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) environmental forensics lab in Denver, Colorado, where she provides support to environmental crime investigations and prosecutions. As part of her job at the EPA, she conducts human health and ecological risk assessments and serves as a technical expert on the adverse effects of exposure to pesticides and toxics. She came to the EPA from the National Park Service (NPS) where she was a contaminants specialist, coordinating natural resource condition assessments at coastal National Parks, and prior to that she was faculty in the Department of Biology at the University of Central Arkansas. Although she works for the government, she remains active in academia through adjunct appointments. In addition to teaching at Miami University through Project Dragonfly, she also serves on graduate committees at Colorado State University and the University of Colorado Denver, and she teaches online biology classes at Colorado Christian University. Her research includes the investigation of the use of new approach methods such as transcriptomic and metabolic markers for detecting exposure to contaminants of emerging concern in aquatic life. In her spare time she enjoys mountain biking, backcountry telemark skiing, and whitewater stand-up paddle boarding.