Natalie Smith has worked at GLEC as a laboratory and field technician and researcher since 2010. She plays a key role with GLEC’s contract supporting USEPA’s Unregulated Contaminant Regulation. Natalie has been a crew member on several of USEPA’s National Aquatic Resource Surveys and has extensive field sampling and laboratory experience including aquatic and sediment toxicity testing, groundwater sampling, sediment sampling and interpretation and water quality assessments. In addition to working in the toxicology laboratory, Natalie regularly processes and analyzes samples in GLEC's Molecular Ecology Laboratory. Natalie holds a B.S. in Natural Resource Management from Grand Valley State University.