2025-2026
| Position | Duties | Name | Term Expiration | Picture | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| President | • Plan annual RM SETAC meeting • Attend national SETAC • Transition to Ex Officio in the next term • Host three virtual board meetings | Andrea Kingcade (Colorado Dept of Public Health and Environment) | 5/2026 |  | Dr. Kingcade is a toxicologist focusing on human exposure to inorganics in the environment, community engagement, risk assessment, and policy support. |
| Vice President1 | • Support the President with RM SETAC planning • Transition to President in the next term • Attend three virtual board meetings | Olivia Arnold (Colorado State University) | 5/2026 |  | Dr. Arnold teaches environmental health, occupational health, and toxicology courses at CSU and Colorado School of Public Health and is a DVM/MPH advisor. |
| Secretary/Treasurer | • Webmaster • Maintain membership records • Fiscal officer • Attend three virtual board meetings | Stephanie Baker (Colorado Dept of Public Health and Environment) | 5/2027 |  | Stephanie is a Water Quality Scientist developing protective water quality standards and policy in Colorado. |
| Government | • Assist with RM SETAC meeting • Attend three virtual board meetings | Juliane Brown (US Geological Survey) | 5/2026 |  | Dr. Brown is an environmental research chemist specializing in non-targeted analysis of PFAS and related contaminants. She has conducted research on plant uptake of PFAS and the human health risk associated with consuming PFAS-impacted food crops. |
| Government1 | • Assist with RM SETAC meeting • Serve on nominating committee • Attend three virtual board meetings | Brian Sanchez (Federal government agency in Denver) | 5/2027 |  | Dr. Sanchez is an ecotoxicologist with experience conducting ecological risk assessments at Superfund sites, water quality investigations, and Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Restoration cases. |
| Academia | • Assist with RM SETAC meeting • Manage job boards on rm.setac.org • Encourage student participation at RM SETAC meeting • Attend three virtual board meetings | Paula Schaffer (Colorado State University) | 5/2028 |  | Dr. Shaffer is a board certified anatomic veterinary pathologist with focuses on infectious conditions, noninfectious conditions, and toxic exposures. |
| Academia | • Assist with RM SETAC meeting • Manage job boards on rm.setac.org • Encourage student participation at RM SETAC meeting • Attend three virtual board meetings | Will Clements (Colorado State University) | 5/2026 |  | Dr. Clements teaches fish, wildlife, and conservation biology with research interests in community and ecosystem responses to contaminants. |
| Business | • Assist with RM SETAC meeting • Recruit sustaining members • Attend three virtual board meetings | Jeff Morris (Biodiversity Research Institute) | 5/2026 |  | Dr. Morris is an ecotoxicologist and environmental consultant focusing on Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA) and applied research on the impacts of contaminants on aquatic organisms and climate change on salmonid development. |
| Business | • Assist with RM SETAC meeting • Recruit sustaining members • Attend three virtual board meetings | Shaun Roark (Jacobs) | 5/2026 |  | Dr. Roark is a principal technologist and environmental toxicologist with training and experience in ecological risk assessment, aquatic ecology, ecological genetics, and toxicology. |
| Student | • Assist with RM SETAC meeting • Encourage student participation at RM SETAC meeting • Attend three virtual board meetings | Maricela Alaniz (Colorado State University) | 5/2026 |  | Maricela is a PhD student currently studying compounding effects of wildfire and mining on freshwater macroinvertebrates in Rocky Mountains streams. |
| Student | • Assist with RM SETAC meeting • Encourage student participation at RM SETAC meeting • Attend three virtual board meetings | Shelby Andersen (Adams State University) | 5/2027 |  | Shelby is passionate about environmental chemistry. She is currently a double major in Cellular and Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, with a minor in Business Administration. |
| Ex Officio President1 | • Attend RM SETAC meeting • Serve on nominating committee • Attend three virtual board meetings | David Bertolatus (Adams State University) | 5/2026 |  | Dr. Bertolatus is an Assistant Professor of Biology with research interests in stream microbiomes and PFAS. |
1 Nominating Committee