Dr. John C. Munday Jr. began his career as a research scientist, developed policy interests as a result of environmental research, and has taught environmental and science policy courses during 35 years of teaching and research. He served in graduate school administrative roles for 12 years. He has built small businesses in health-nutrition consulting and telecommunications services, and presently is writing and editing books on science and environment while serving as a university professor .

Dr. Munday grew up in Cranford, New Jersey, benefiting from its excellent public schools, and enjoying extracurricular sports, Scouting (Eagle Scout) and music activities locally and in the region including nearby New York City. He was valedictorian of his senior class. He graduated from Cornell University majoring in physics, which defined his fundamental scientific and technological approaches to all the activities which have followed.

His Ph.D. is in biophysics from the University of Illinois (1968), and his dissertation was on fluorescence transients of photosynthetic algae. During a postdoctoral year as a physicist working for the Air Force Missile Development Center at Holloman Air Force Base, Alamogordo, New Mexico, he improved techniques for remote detection of spectral radiation from reentry vehicles. In his research career following the Ph.D. and the postdoctoral year, he applied his knowledge of biophysics and remote sensing to environmental and natural resource issues, eventually leading to involvement with local, state and federal government, and finally to his joining Regent University's new thrust in government and public policy. During his career he has published more than 40 research articles and contributed to numerous books on remote sensing and its applications.

His present full-time academic appointment is as Professor of Natural Science at Regent University, Virginia Beach, Virginia, in the School of Undergraduate Studies, teaching biology, earth science, and mathematics courses. He was recently named Chairman of a new Department of Natural Science and Mathematics. Previously he was full Professor of Public Policy specializing in environmental, resource, and science policy in the Robertson School of Government, Regent University, Virginia Beach, Virginia, during the years 1983-1999. In recent years he also taught physics and physical science in a home school coop.

In the Robertson School of Government at Regent University, he served as Assistant Dean (1985-88), Associate Dean (1988-93, 1996-1997), and Interim Dean (1993-96). He served as Adjunct Professor during 1999-2001. His teaching responsibilities included courses on Biblical foundations of natural science with applications to science and technology issues, natural resource and environmental policy, war and peace issues, and policy analysis and quantitative methods. One theme in his writing has been Bible-science issues with application to science education policy (for a picture of his theological viewpoints, see "Creature Mortality: From Creation or the Fall?," J. Evangelical Theological Society 35/1 (March 1992) 51-68, and "Eden's Geography Erodes Flood Geology," Westminster Theological Journal 58 (1996) 123-154). Another theme has been inalienable rights and their relation to environmental and natural resource issues.

Before joining Regent University in 1983, as a charter member of the faculty of the School of Public Policy (as the Robertson School of Government was then called), Dr. Munday for a total of 10 years was a faculty member and research scientist at the School of Marine Science (Virginia Institute of Marine Science), College of William and Mary. His work there focused on remote sensing of environment, particularly water quality in the coastal zone. Like other scientists at VIMS, a state-funded research and educational facility, Dr. Munday performed grant and contract research with significant government policy applications. Among other projects, he was principal investigator on contracts from NASA and the Virginia Commonwealth Data Base applying remote sensing to land use and water quality issues in the coastal zone, including oil spill behavior, outfall siting in Hampton Roads, algal blooms in the Chesapeake Bay, and land use mapping for several planning district commissions.

Dr. Munday also spent 4 years with the Department of Geography, University of Toronto. His research focused on remote sensing of water quality. With support from the (then) Canada Centre for Inland Waters and the Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, he developed the chromaticity method for determining suspended sediment concentrations using Landsat data. The method was implemented as a standard utility at CCRS, and has been used by investigators both at CCRS and at other remote sensing centers around the world.

In 2003-2004, he edited for authors Hutton and Eagle a 598-page book on "Earth's Catastrophic Past and Future," available through http://www.uPublish.com. He is presently working on a book concerning a well-known environmental activist.

In 1994 he was appointed by Governor Allen of Virginia to the Governor's Advisory Council on Self-Determination and Federalism. He drafted the report of the Council's Subcommittee on Unfunded Mandates. In the 1990s he was a member of the Advisory Committee of the National Council on Bible Curriculum in Public Schools (Greensboro, North Carolina). He was appointed to the Wetlands Board in Chesapeake, Virginia, in 1995 (elected Vice-Chairman in 1998; elected Chairman in 2003). He retired from the Wetlands Board in 2005.In 1996 he was appointed by Governor Allen to the Virginia Pesticide Control Board, and re-appointed by Governor Gilmore in 2001, and chaired the Awards Committee and the Enforcement Committee. He retired from the Pesticide Control Board in 2004.

He is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Scientific Affiliation. His memberships have included the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, the Association of American Geographers, and the International Association for Energy Economics. He is a member of Sigma Xi, a national scientific honorary society.

Dr. Munday has been married for 42 years to Judith Berrien Munday, an educator with a specialty in learning disabilities and special educational needs. She taught in the Chesapeake, Virginia public shools for 10 years. Mrs. Munday also has taught in Hampton Christian Schools and Mary Atkins Christian School in Hampton, Virginia, and in other private schools in Gloucester County, Virginia, serving as Headmistress and teacher. For information concerning her special education consulting and tutoring services, see http://www.helpinschool.net (Dr. Munday is the webmaster). She is devoted to the Lord, her husband and family, and to school children with learning disabilities and special educational needs.

In 1988 Dr. and Mrs. Munday jointly authored "Exploring Creation Life Science" (CBN Publishing), an instructional manual used by homeschoolers, teachers and students at elementary and junior high levels. Dr. and Mrs. Munday live in Chesapeake, Virginia, and presently attend Great Bridge Presbyterian Church. Over the years as a Christian he has served as an elder, teacher, worship leader, organist and pianist, and led home groups. They have 3 children (all married), and 6 grandsons and 4 granddaughters.