Career Area: Watershed Hydrology and Modeling.
Degree earned at CU Boulder and year: MS (2004) and PhD (2008) - both in Environmental Engineering.
Title and name of the company you currently work for: U.S. Geological Survey, Research Hydrologist.
A little about my career path: After completing my PhD at CU, I worked for one year as a postdoc at Penn State University studying the variability in organic matter quantity and quality across multiple Critical Zone Observatory watersheds. I then accepted a position as a hydrologist with the USGS Utah Water Science center where I worked for four years in Moab and four years in Salt Lake City. During my time in Utah, I worked on a diverse set of projects including, for example, modeling salinity and baseflow sources and transport in the Upper Colorado River Basin and interpreting high-frequency nitrate data to quantify groundwater loading of nitrate to streams in the Chesapeake Bay watershed and the Upper Midwest. In 2019 I transferred to a Water Mission Area headquarters position in Boulder where I continue my work as a Research Hydrologist. I am currently serving as the Branch Chief for the Earth Systems Modeling Branch of the Integrated Modeling and Prediction Division and team lead for a project assessing and predicting water availability in the Upper Colorado River Basin.
List of topics students can ask me about: Watershed and water quality modeling, navigating graduate school, career planning, working with the USGS.