Kenneth Beard is the Chief of the Technical Investigations Section in the Remediation Services Division of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources (PA DEP). Ken has been with the PA DEP since 1983 where he conducts site inspections, oversees site remediation and restoration activities, and manages Pennsylvania's Multi-Site Agreement program. He has a life-long interest in ecosystem management and restoration and the propagation and establishment of native plants. Since 2004, he has been an active member of the ITRC Ecological Reuse team. Ken earned a bachelor's degree in biology from Elizabethtown College in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania in 1980 and master's degree in environmental pollution control from Pennsylvania State University in University Park, Pennsylvania in 1983.