Richard “Hunter” Anderson, Ph.D., is an environmental scientist at the U.S. Air Force Civil Engineer Center in San Antonio, Texas. Following his doctoral work at Ohio State University, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in the Cincinnati, Ohio, division of the National Center for Environmental Assessment in the Office of Research and Development. Anderson has helped pioneer programmatic surveillance of emerging contaminants and issues, as well as provide technical expertise to the U.S. AF Environmental Restoration Program in the areas of soil science, environmental toxicology, and quantitative data analyses. He also serves as the U.S. AF restoration liaison to the U.S. DOD’s Strategic Environmental Research and Development and Environmental Security Technology Certification Programs.