Daniel Deeds, Phd Email & Phone Number

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Supervising the Hydrologic Studies unit in the USGS Pittsburgh field office [PA Water Science Center].Seven direct reports (6 hydrologists, 1 hydrotech) working on routine water quality monitoring across PA, the development of sediment-nutrient regression models for select watersheds and machine learning tools to predict groundwater levels, PFAS monitoring.

Sacramento, California, United States

Serving voluntarily on Reclamation's Peer Review Council. Duties include attending Reclamation-wide peer review meetings and providing guidance to peer review team leads on Reclamation peer review policy (CMP P14). - Moderator/facilitator for day-2 case study breakout room in a 3-day peer review virtual workshop -Served as team leader for a peer review of.

I managed ~14 direct-reports in environmental monitoring, quality assurance, data management and hazardous materials teams. The branch works with Federal and State clients to meet their monitoring needs for regulatory compliance and best management of limited resources (e.g. refuge water). HazMat staff regularly audit area offices to ensure compliance and.

Sacramento, California Area

- Principal water quality (WQ) contact for the California-Great Basin region of the USBR- Subject matter expert for watershed WQ and California/Federal WQ policy- Organized/moderated Reclamation-led stakeholder meetings on controversial WQ subjects- Advised management on potential impact of new state/federal WQ regulations - Represented Reclamation.

Second 60-day (2 month) detail as a branch chief, this time with the Environmental Monitoring and Assessment branch. The EMA branch contains 14 employees divided into environmental monitoring, hazardous materials, quality assurance and data management teams. Regional water quality and invasive species monitoring is planned, coordinated and undertaken.

Sacramento, California, United States

60-day (2 months) detail/duty promotion. - Supervised 2 staff managing water re-use and climate change adaptability projects.- Supervised USBR's program manager for Federal involvement in the multi-billion dollar North of Delta Off-river Storage (NODOS) project.- Represented Planning division at region-wide meetings with upper management.- Acted as.

Montreal, Canada Area

I helped with groundwater and soil sampling for phase II assessments. I occasionally provided expert insight into geochemical trends in PAHs and VOCs and on groundwater flow fields. We were developing a method for environmental remediation of organic contaminants in soil (initial tests indicated >99% reduction in select PAHs!), but the project was ongoing.

Montreal, Canada Area

I was offered a GS-11 position with the USGS California Water Science Center in late 2016 but I turned it down for family reasons. In order to stay afloat financially I took up landscaping and renovation work around town. I've learned a great deal about safe and effective power tool use, aesthetics, safe construction practices, and efficient time usage to.

Montreal, Canada Area

I took over homeschooling of my two daughters while their mother pursued an exciting career opportunity. I was responsible for developing curriculum and scheduling activities.

Montreal, Quebec

I was the lead scientist on a project studying the production of inorganic mercury in indoor pool air and water. I established connections with staff at McGill University's Memorial Pool and with the City of Montréal's public pool system, getting access to both networks for sample collection. I provided management (PI) with budgeting and logistics. I.

California Water Science Center, San Diego

I was a research hydrologist brought into the CWSC as part of the USGS Groundwater Ambient Monitoring and Assessment Priority Basin Project (GAMA PBP). My work was independent with periodic debriefing of supervising scientists (Drs. Justin Kulongoski, Kenneth Belitz and Wes Danskin). Under GAMA, I used semi-parametric statistics to assess groundwater.

My postdoctoral research at McGill University focussed on the development of a mass spectrometric method to measure picogram per cubic meter concentrations of mercury halides in air. I successfully identified both mercury chloride and mercury bromide in Montreal urban air in 2013-2014 using sorbent trapping coupled with soft ionization mass spectrometric.

La Jolla

At SIO I developed a method to strip and preconcentrate dissolved gases from groundwater samples for GC-MS analysis. I lead or co-led eight sampling trips to collect groundwater, seawater and volcanic gases from Mammoth Mountain, Mojave Desert, the deep North Pacific (in collaboration with the University of Hawaii) and the summit of Kilauea Volcano (in.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Geological And Earth Sciences/Geosciences

Analysis of long-lived greenhouse gases CF4 and SF6 in ancient groundwaters, volcanic gases and deep North Pacific seawater to constrain.

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Chemistry

Minor in Earth Science. I worked as an undergraduate researcher with Professor Ron Cohen for the last two years of the degree. I was.