The Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences Seminar Series presents Dr. Kevin Reynolds, the Department of the Interior’s Case Manager for the Deepwater Horizon Natural Resource Damage Assessment.
Reynolds will speak at The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga on Friday, November 7, at 3 p.m. in the Benwood Auditorium of the Engineering, Math and Computer Science Building located at Vine and Palmetto Streets.
“Natural Resource Damage Assessment and the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill” will be offered as a free event. It is open to the public.
Reynolds serves on the Regional Directorate Leadership Team for the Fish and Wildlife Service’s Southeast Region. He provides leadership, direction, and coordination for the Department on all aspects of both assessment and restoration for the largest Natural Resource Damage Assessment in the history of the United States.
One of the primary missions of the U.S. Department of the Interior is to protect America’s natural resources. Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA) is the scientific and legal process used by the Department to restore natural resources injured as a result of oil spills or hazardous substances released into the environment. The Deepwater Horizon oil spill was the largest and most prolonged offshore oil spill our country has ever experienced.
Reynolds will discuss how science, the law and public input influence and drive the NRDA process towards the ultimate goal: restoration and conservation of our nation’s natural resources.
Reynolds earned a B.A. in Neuroscience from Hamilton College, and a Masters and Ph.D. in Environmental Toxicology from Clemson and Texas Tech University, respectively.
He began his career with the Fish and Wildlife Service as an environmental contaminant specialist in an Arizona field office and he has enjoyed working for the Federal Government ever since. Before the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Reynolds served as the national Damage Assessment and Spill Response Coordinator in the Service’s Headquarters Office in Washington, D.C.
