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Burlington, Washington, United States

Seattle, Wa

Data validation chemist of primary and secondary data validation and wrote data validation reports for clients. Monitored and maintained an offsite walk in freezer containing archive soil, sediment, and tissue samples. Populated and maintained an access database of the archived samples.* Primary and secondary validation chemist, reviewing laboratory chemistry data for sediment, soil, surface water, pore water, storm water, and groundwater samples collected in the Gulf of Mexico, Hawaii, Texas, and Washington State.* Project manager, coordinated staff, budgets, and report writing for projects valued upwards of $250k.* Analyzed soil samples for real time diesel and gasoline results on Tatoosh Island, WA. Samples were also analyzed by a chemistry laboratory for lead.

Seattle, Wa

Prepared Sampling and Analysis Plans (SAPs), Quality Assurance Project Plans (QAPPs), Work Plans, and Health and Safety Plans (HASPs) for field sampling efforts. Analyzed chemistry data to generate reports on nature and extent of contamination at sites slated for environmental cleanup.* Collected surface and subsurface sediment and water samples for chemical analyses from an oil refinery run off pond in Wyoming.* Validated chemical and geotechnical datasets.* Reviewed and evaluated sediment, pore water, groundwater, and plant tissue data for reporting.* Managed chemistry datasets using EQuIS, an environmental database.

Newport, Rhode Island

Served as a principal technician for collection and analysis of sediment vertical profile images and technical reporting of images from across the United States. Mobilized and participated in field sampling events collecting sediment cores, interpreting the cores, and sub-sampled the cores for chemical analysis and then preparing the technical report of findings. Was responsible for the quality assurance/quality control (QA/QC) and reporting of dioxin and other chemistry datasets.* Participated in field sampling events to collect sediment cores and collect sediment vertical profile images at the New York Mud Dump Site (MDS), New York Historic Area Remediation Site (HARS), Los Angeles, Port Angeles, WA, and various off-shore sediment disposal sites in the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)-New England District.* Collected and analyzed sediment vertical profile images from the New York MDS, New York HARS, Los Angeles, Port Angeles, WA, and various off-shore disposal sites in the USACE-New England District.

Ms, Oceanography

Thesis title: Estuarine measurements of chlorophyll fluorescence with high temporal resolution and analysis of its influence on chemical.

Ba, Chemistry

Senior thesis project involved developing a technique for determining the concentration and speciation of organo-mercury compounds in fish.