Dr. Michael Kunz

Fresno Pacific University
Professor of Biology
Environmental Program Director

INTERESTS

Backpacking and hiking, distance running, travel, sustainable living, science and faith, hearing and telling stories, California native plants in the wild or in the garden. Anything Sierran.

 

SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT/BRIEF LIFE SYNOPSIS

Raise Lutheran; Tolkein, Lord of the Rings, & life as a quest; existential doubt; Kierkegaard & leap of faith; Bonhoffer & cost of discipleship; Intervarsity Christian Fellowship, bible study & mission; Thomas Merton & Catholic mysticism; Peace Corps & ...

 

FORMAL EDUCATION

Tarpey Elementary, Clovis, CA. Mt. Whitney High, Visalia, CA. A.A in Science, College of Sequoias, Visalia, CA. B.S. in Zoology, University of California, Davis. Science Teaching Credential & M.A. in Biological Scienes, California State University, Sacramento. Ph.D. in Ecology (emphases in Plant Ecology, Physiological Ecology & Community Ecology), University of California, Davis.

 

PERSONAL

Married with two children and two grandchildren.

 

PERSONAL MISSION STATEMENT

Live in shalom and encourage others to join me in the journey.

 

PUBLICATIONS

Muir's Temples: A Natural History of Sequoia Grove Plants (2017); Sequoia Parks Conservancy, Three Rivers, CA.