For official business, please contact meredith.albers@usda.gov

Technical Soil Services for NRCS Vermont

Assisted with public outreach, attended training, participated in technical and programmatic meetings.

Resource Soil Scientist - Utah State Office - Salt Lake City, Utah - 08/2015-09/2018As a consulting soil scientist, I provided assistance to government agencies, private companies, and the general public regarding soil information, specifically soil suitability and limitations for different land uses and applications, and potential regulatory compliance issues.Significant achievements: Acting State Soil Scientist for Utah - 05/2017-08/2018Served as the lead specialist for soil… Show more Resource Soil Scientist - Utah State Office - Salt Lake City, Utah - 08/2015-09/2018As a consulting soil scientist, I provided assistance to government agencies, private companies, and the general public regarding soil information, specifically soil suitability and limitations for different land uses and applications, and potential regulatory compliance issues.Significant achievements: Acting State Soil Scientist for Utah - 05/2017-08/2018Served as the lead specialist for soil information and technical expertise.- Researched, developed and implemented oversight, quality control, and direction of compliance program regarding customer eligibility for government programs under federal laws and regulations. Coordinated trainings and logistics for agency staff to address weaknesses.- Researched and worked with contracting officers to secure private contractors for field projects during staffing shortage. Served as Level I certified Contracting Officers Representative.- Liaison between agency operations and members of the National Cooperative Soil Survey, a public-private cooperative establishing standards of soil resource inventory methods and science. * Served on National Strategic Planning Team and Communications Team. Contributed to new branding efforts and adoption of first logo.- Certified and published annual updates to soil surveys at websoilsurvey.nrcs.usda.gov Show less

- Consulting soil scientist on agricultural improvement projects. - Provided geographic information system (GIS) and enterprise software support.

- Field scientist inventorying soil resources.- Collected, analyzed, interpreted, and published technical data and maps.

Soil survey update work in southeast Iowa and northeast Missouri, ensuring accurate soil maps and database information for internal users and the public.- Field scientist inventorying soil resources.- Collected, analyzed, interpreted, and published technical data and maps.

Graduate research project in environmental soil chemistry to elucidate residual effects of forest harvest management on solid phase soil nutrient chemistry in highland Ozark soils ten years after timber removal.Thesis - Forest harvest effects on soil chemical properties and nutrient concentrations in Ozark Highland soils. Link:https://mospace.umsystem.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10355/8081/research.pdf?sequence=3

Undergraduate research project in molecular biology. Conducted genetic sequence manipulation in bacteria and yeast.

Conducted soil and leaf litter testing for standard characterization analyses.