Ronald J. Kendall is a professor of environmental toxicology at Texas Tech University (TTU), Lubbock, and is leading a new major initiative in wildlife toxicology. He is director emeritus and founding director of The Institute of Environmental and Human Health (TIEHH), a joint venture between TTU and the TTU Health Sciences Center. He was also the founding department chair of the Department of Environmental Toxicology at TTU. For over a decade, he has served as Principal Investigator of the Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr. National Program for Countermeasures to Biological and Chemical Threats at Texas Tech University. He earned his PhD from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He is a former president of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry and has been an editor and/or on the editorial board of the scientific journal Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry since 1986. He has more than 200 publications and technical articles in wildlife and environmental toxicology, has received numerous awards, has addressed the United Nations Committee on sustainable development, and has consulted with many foreign countries on environmental issues.
Steven M. Presley is a professor and director of the Biological Threat Research Laboratory at Texas Tech University. He earned his PhD from Oklahoma State University, studying medical/veterinary entomology, after which he served as a Medical Service Corps officer in the United States Navy. His research and teaching focus on risks and threats associated with and the potential impact of biological pathogens naturally or intentionally introduced into military and civilian populations and the agricultural industry. He has led malaria control operations and research efforts in Africa, Asia, and South America, as well as Rift Valley fever, Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever, and cutaneous leishmaniasis studies in Africa and Asia. He has published numerous scientific and tech
