I've mostly taken the first part of 2016 off work to spend time with my young children and make the move to Canada. On the side, I'm translating and editing some river-related proposals and manuscripts (French to English) and open to opportunities to assist with river management, project design and planning, and community-based restoration projects.

* Worked Dr. Herve Piegay's team to better understand how to maintain and restore Rhone River side-channels and habitat complexity. * Digitized and mapped changes in historic braided river morphology over time using GIS for two sections of the French Upper Rhone River. * Researched and implemented a pilot study to source riverine driftwood provenance using portable X-Ray fluorescence analysis of recovered Fraxinus logs. * Assisted with field measurements of sedimentation in restored… Show more * Worked Dr. Herve Piegay's team to better understand how to maintain and restore Rhone River side-channels and habitat complexity. * Digitized and mapped changes in historic braided river morphology over time using GIS for two sections of the French Upper Rhone River. * Researched and implemented a pilot study to source riverine driftwood provenance using portable X-Ray fluorescence analysis of recovered Fraxinus logs. * Assisted with field measurements of sedimentation in restored side channels and antenna detection of PIT-tagged pebbles in the Rhone and Ain Rivers Show less

Coordinated 'River Restoration: Fluvial-Geomorphic & Ecological Tools' shortcourse with Drs. Matt Kondolf, Herve Piegay, Pete Downs and Jeff Haltiner for professionals in river management and research, held in June in Provence, France. institutbeaumont.wordpress.com

- Coordinated restoration of Portland’s only free-flowing salmon stream and tributaries with five cities, two counties, Metro, numerous state and federal agencies, and others. - Supervised the four-person Restoration Program plus several interns, including weekly check-in meetings, budget tracking (approx. 20 grants), on-going fundraising, and project management. - Developed effective partnerships to implement collaborative restoration and monitoring efforts. Projects include… Show more - Coordinated restoration of Portland’s only free-flowing salmon stream and tributaries with five cities, two counties, Metro, numerous state and federal agencies, and others. - Supervised the four-person Restoration Program plus several interns, including weekly check-in meetings, budget tracking (approx. 20 grants), on-going fundraising, and project management. - Developed effective partnerships to implement collaborative restoration and monitoring efforts. Projects include streamside reforestation, instream habitat enhancements, fish passage restoration, community outreach, and water quality, temperature, bacteria, mussel, salmon spawning, photopoint, macroinvertebrate, and project-effectiveness monitoring.- Managed complex habitat enhancement projects. Coordinated and lead work parties with volunteers and school groups.- Wrote grant proposals, technical memos, and project reports. Successfully raised over $1,000,000 in grant funds for watershed enhancement. - Led the collaborative development of a 2015-25 Watershed Restoration Action Plan. In 2011, mapped and compiled case studies for 180 restoration projects in the watershed (jcwc.conservationregistry.org), published a State of the Watershed report and Riparian Reforestation Strategy in 2012, coordinated watershed action planning workshops attended by 20 watershed councils in 2013, and completed a basin-wide fish passage assessment and prioritization for 273 culverts in 2014. - Gave presentations and wrote articles and press releases about the science of watershed restoration, the excellent inter-jurisdictional coordination in our watershed, and project results for the public, our Board, and at regional and national-level conferences, and the keynote address at the May 2015, 20th Anniversary Johnson Creek Celebration.- Organized first annual Johnson Creek Science Symposium at Reed College to share current research among academic, jurisdictional and other non-profit, citizen, and agency partners. Show less

Walked and rafted all the tributaries to and mainstem White Salmon River to assess fish passage and survey habitat quality. This was done to identify which upstream barriers should be first prioritized for removal as anadromous fish moved back into the basin following the Condit Dam removal.Great fun!

I have worked on-and-off for Inter-fluve over the years conducting stream habitat surveys, conceptualizing restoration approaches, crunching data, and writing reports. I love these guys.

- Assisted watershed groups and tribes in developing, funding, and carrying out long-term monitoring and adaptive watershed restoration programs. - Presented complex monitoring data and river restoration concepts in easy-to-understand posters, published articles, national conference presentations, and video.- Helped develop innovative Water Restoration Certificates to provide market-based incentives to restore streamflow to depleted Northwest rivers. - Researched river… Show more - Assisted watershed groups and tribes in developing, funding, and carrying out long-term monitoring and adaptive watershed restoration programs. - Presented complex monitoring data and river restoration concepts in easy-to-understand posters, published articles, national conference presentations, and video.- Helped develop innovative Water Restoration Certificates to provide market-based incentives to restore streamflow to depleted Northwest rivers. - Researched river management related to climate change impacts on Northwest rivers.I am profoundly grateful for BEF and truly enjoyed the work for its intellectual and networking opportunities, but sadly there was no field time, so I resigned and spent the next summer surveying habitat in the White Salmon watershed (see above). Show less

Rafting the Clackamas and snorkeling for juvenile fish counts was one of my favorite jobs. In late summer, I drafted some technical memos for PGE on restoring the lower Clackamas River, and I also met my husband there, when he was a senior scientist with CFS.

Gathered data and mapped historic herring spawning areas in GIS. Also cooked for a week on the ADFG research vessel, the MV Kestrel, while helping with a sea lion research trip.

Float-planed in to remote Kupreanof Island to assess forest vegetation responses to different logging techniques and densities, spending 10 days at a time at the camp and out in the woods. I never thought I'd get paid for hiking and counting huckleberry leaves, among other great adventures!In the fall and winter, back at the S.O. in Petersburg, I dug into GIS. I attributed then modelled salmonid presence and habitat in rivers throughout the Tongass National Forest in order to prioritize… Show more Float-planed in to remote Kupreanof Island to assess forest vegetation responses to different logging techniques and densities, spending 10 days at a time at the camp and out in the woods. I never thought I'd get paid for hiking and counting huckleberry leaves, among other great adventures!In the fall and winter, back at the S.O. in Petersburg, I dug into GIS. I attributed then modelled salmonid presence and habitat in rivers throughout the Tongass National Forest in order to prioritize fish barrier (i.e. culvert) removal projects. By using Network Analyst, I could show exactly how much habitat would be opened by fixing specific culverts. The following summer and fall, I maintained an array of pit-tag antennae (read lugged giant batteries in on a trail I built and maintained) and captured and pit-tagged salmonids in Hobo Creek on Mitkof Island. The biggest payoffs were the extensive beds of golden chanterelles, bagfuls! Show less

Best summer job ever! I rode my motorcycle around north Idaho and eastern Washington, photographing wild edible and medicinal plants for the Coeur d'Alene Tribe's online database of traditional knowledge.

Riding my Yamaha 250 around the Northwest, I visited over 20 restoration projects and interviewed restoration project managers, then wrote essays about the experiences which were posted by American Rivers on their website.

I got my start with this incredible non-profit in 1995, as a 16-year-old Water Quality Intern, where I helped plant a sewage treatment wetland, tabled at our Farmer's Market with a hand-built mini-wetland and baby BioLog, and organized all sorts of volunteer events. Adam Thornbrough was a great mentor, at it was then and there that I committed to being a watershed restoration professional someday.After graduating from UW, I moved back to Moscow, Idaho and was hired on. While working… Show more I got my start with this incredible non-profit in 1995, as a 16-year-old Water Quality Intern, where I helped plant a sewage treatment wetland, tabled at our Farmer's Market with a hand-built mini-wetland and baby BioLog, and organized all sorts of volunteer events. Adam Thornbrough was a great mentor, at it was then and there that I committed to being a watershed restoration professional someday.After graduating from UW, I moved back to Moscow, Idaho and was hired on. While working with PCEI, I: - Designed, managed, and installed stream restoration projects to improve water quality and secured over $400,000 in grant funding. - Coordinated volunteers and taught environmental education curricula in the classroom and onsite at restoration projects. - Evaluated project effects on aquatic macroinvertebrates and water quality, and developed photopoints for the restoration projects. Show less

In summer, 1998, I skied across the glaciers between Juneau and Atlin with 20 other students from around the country, studying geology, glaciology, meteorology, and botany, with a special focus on arctic lichen ecology. I'll never forget the noctaluscent clouds, the paper-wrapped chocolate icecream dropped to us from a tiny yellow biplane, or the sheer enormity of the snowfields and jagged nunataks. They invited me back as a paid logistics coordinator in 1999, where I spend a lot of… Show more In summer, 1998, I skied across the glaciers between Juneau and Atlin with 20 other students from around the country, studying geology, glaciology, meteorology, and botany, with a special focus on arctic lichen ecology. I'll never forget the noctaluscent clouds, the paper-wrapped chocolate icecream dropped to us from a tiny yellow biplane, or the sheer enormity of the snowfields and jagged nunataks. They invited me back as a paid logistics coordinator in 1999, where I spend a lot of time on the radio with the different camps, getting to know Juneau, loading helicopters (and occasionally riding along), and enjoying the small town of Atlin, BC. Thank you Dr. Maynard Miller -- the Science Director of the first American Ascent of Mt. Everest and an inspirational explorer. Show less

After realizing that the Rio Grande of childhood fantasy was bulldozed, nearly dry, and trapped behind levees and chain-mail fences on my drive into Las Cruces to spend a semester at New Mexico State University, I quickly called the Southwest Environmental Center and offered to join them as an intern to help develop streamside restoration and water quality projects. Concurrently, I took a great honors technical writing course at NMSU. By combining the two and working with environmental… Show more After realizing that the Rio Grande of childhood fantasy was bulldozed, nearly dry, and trapped behind levees and chain-mail fences on my drive into Las Cruces to spend a semester at New Mexico State University, I quickly called the Southwest Environmental Center and offered to join them as an intern to help develop streamside restoration and water quality projects. Concurrently, I took a great honors technical writing course at NMSU. By combining the two and working with environmental engineering prof Walter Zachritz, I combed the libraries, met with Bureau of Reclamation, Dept of Game & Fish, and other agency folks, took soil samples to map a wetland along an agricultural return ditch to the Rio, developed preliminary designs for a cottonwood gallery restoration project and a naturalistic treatment wetland to remove sediment and chemicals from the runoff, and submitted and was awarded an EPA 319 grant to support the Southwest Environmental Center in further developing the "Picacho Bosque Wetlands. It was finally built in 2002! "http://www.wildmesquite.org/what-we-do/desert-waters/restoration-projects Show less