Daniel Graf Email & Phone Number

Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Austin, Texas, United States

• Lead development of groundwater flow model of the source water area (springshed) of the Hamilton Pool and Reimers Ranch spring complexes in Western Travis County, Texas
• Support Comparing Electricity Options (CEO) project with technical assistance in life cycle assessment (LCA) modeling, focused on combined cycle natural gas (CCGT), wind, and solar technologies
• Develop LCA and BES manuscript for publishing in peer-reviewed journal

Austin, Texas, United States

• Member of Comparing Electricity Options (CEO) team, a data-driven study of the environmental impacts associated with the supply chain and lifecycle of our main electricity options (CCGT, solar, wind, and battery storage)
• Used InVEST model suite to harmonize biodiversity and ecosystem services (BES) into life cycle impacts of utility-scale electricity generation for 33 county, 10.5 million hectare region of west Texas
• Developed Python-based workflow to automate pre- and post-processing of data (rasters, vectors, text) and execute models using libraries including rasterio, geopandas, numpy, shapely, seaborn, matplotlib, and pandas

• Developed and updated LCAs of minerals necessary for lithium-ion battery (LIB) production using data from industry specialists, peer-reviewed literature, and existing databases
• Produced polished slide decks summarizing key findings and internal reports detailing limitations and avenues for future work
• Collaborated with internationally based colleagues across time zones and digital platforms as member of the ESG team

Santiago Province, Chile

• Facilitated the development of a wide range of water resources projects for private and public sector clients throughout Chile with technical analysis, field support, client reports, and new proposals
• Developed studies including site characterization, conceptual and numerical models, as well as remedial action plans approved by the national environmental authority in the context of Environmental Impact Assessments
• Collaborated with multidisciplinary, multicultural teams across various organizations

Fitchburg, Wisconsin

• Administered geologic and hydrogeologic oversight for investigation and remediation projects within the Remediation and Redevelopment (RR) program
• Provided technical expertise and support to responsible parties, consultants, RR and other DNR program regional staff, members of the public, and other agencies
• Worked on a variety of sites, with primary focus on Petroleum Environmental Cleanup Fund Award (PECFA) projects

Madison, Wisconsin

• Maintained, measured, and performed data entry for lab falling head permeameter tests
• Performed chemical analysis of permeameter effluent, including EC, pH and ICP-MS
• Verified and helped develop experimental procedures

Master Of Science - Ms, Energy And Earth Resources

Multidisciplinary program offering study in areas of geosciences, engineering, management, finance, economics, law and policy. Graduate.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Geological/Geophysical Engineering And Geoscience

Activities and Societies: Association of Environmental and Engineering Geologists (AEG), UW-Madison Geological Engineering Club.