Water Scientist Cards

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• Ph.D., University of Mississippi
• USDA Forest Service Scientist
• An aquatic ecologist studies the interactions between aquatic animals and their environment and an astacologist studies crayfish. I focus on how the changes humans make in aquatic ecosystems and their surrounding watersheds impact aquatic animals, expecially crayfish.

• Ph.D., Arizona State University
• USDA Forest Service Scientist
• Avalanche scientists study all aspects of snow and avalanches.  My specialty involves looking at how the snowpack on slopes varies and changes over time.

• M.S., Alabama A&M University
• USDA Forest Service Scientist
• As a biological scientist, I study environmental processes related to how human and forest management activities will impact water and air quality. 

• Ph.D., University of Michigan
• USDA Forest Service Scientist
• A wetlands ecologist studies land based ecosystems that often flood or ponds with water, such as swamps and marshes.  My specialty is wetland plant communities.

• M.S., University of Montana
• USDA Forest Service Scientist
• An ecologist studies interactions between living things and their environment.  As an ecologist, I often focus on streams, rivers, and riparian ecosystems. 

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• Ph.D., University of Georgia
• USDA Forest Service Scientist
• Aquatic ecologist study how forest and other environmental factors influence the plants, animals, and ecological processes in aquatic ecosystems. This knowledge helps resource managers better manage land and aquatic habitats so they provide clean water for people and wildlife.

• Ph.D., North Carolina State University
• USDA Forest Service Scientist
• As a biological and agricultural engineer, I explore, design, and study interactions among all aspects of biological systems.

• M.S., University of Connecticut
• USDA Forest Service Scientist
• A hydrogeologist is a person who studies the ways that groundwater (hydro) moves through the soil and rock of the earth (geology). Hydrogeologists evaluate the quantity, quality, reliablity, and sustainability of groundwater.

• Ph.D. candidate, Portland State University
• USDA Forest Service Scientist
• As a hydrologist, I study water in streams, soils, and plants.

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• Ph.D., University of Oklahoma
• USDA Forest Service Scientist
• A research ecologist studies streams and lakes to explore both who lives in the water and how forestry and year to year climatic variability impact the water quality and water as habitat for biota.

• M.S., University of Georgia 
• USDA Forest Service Scientist
• A forest hydrologist studies the water cycle.  Where does water go after it falls as a raindrop?  We study how it travels through a forest, into the soil, and eventually to a stream.

• Ph.D., Northern Arizona University
• USDA Forest Service Scientist
• I seek to understand how different parts of an ecosystem, such as plants, rocks, water, and human uses, interact and change.  My research strives to help people take care of their environment, especially after damaging events.

• Ph.D., Utah State University
• USDA Forest Service Scientist
• Hydrologists study how water moves around the world, whether as streamflow, groundwater, precipitation, or transpiration.  Water is important to all life.

• University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee
• USDA Forest Service Scientist
• An aquatic ecologist studies plants and animals that live in streams, lakes, and wetlands.  We try to understand the roles these organisms play in aquatic ecosystems and how stressors such as land use change, climate change, and exotic species influence those roles.

• Ph.D., Michigan State University
• USDA Forest Service Scientist
• A soil scientist studies the physical, chemical, and biological aspects of soils, how they are classified, how they function, and how water moves through them.  A hydrologist studies all the aspects of the quantity and quality of water cycle from precipitation to streamflow to groundwater.

• Ph.D., Utah State University
• USDA Forest Service Scientist
• An ecologist studies the dynamics and interactions between the environment and its organisms.  I conduct research on tropical forests, watersheds, and streams.

• Ph.D., University of Florida
• USDA Forest Service Scientist
• Hydrologists study the water cycle.  Studying the water cycle means tracking water movement from raindrops falling from sky to the ground, going into the soils, flowing through the rivers, and eventually moving to the ocean.