Erin Leahy

Project management: Independently manage multiple projects with various associated tasks and goals. Interview, onboard and train new staff. Develop and manage budgets. Manage and coordinate 10+ staff members to ensure efficient workflow and workload. Plan and coordinate site construction including obtaining proper permitting and site design. Create project schedules and monitor status to ensure project goals are met. Plan and lead sampling teams. Review various long-term datasets to ensure high quality. Develop and maintain working relationships with federal, state and local government agencies along with non-profit organizations. Maintain consistent and clear communication with partners.

Hydrologic data: Metadata specialist for the ORWSC. Review and create metadata for various types of datasets and shepherd them through the data release process. Interpret patterns and trends in continuous datasets to better understand instream processes. Audit continuous water quality records to ensure the highest quality data.

Fieldwork: Operated multiple long-term, continuous water-quality sites. Responsibilities included maintaining and calibrating water-quality equipment, processing data to ensure high-quality standards. Coordinate and participate in suspended-sediment sampling efforts during storm-events for multiple projects. Manage and participate in temperature synoptics assessing spatial variability in surface-water temperature in urban ponds. Investigate spatial and temporal temperature and streamflow variation in beaver-effected stream reaches. Collect and process discrete water-quality data, including sampling for the National Water-Quality Assessment Program using parts-per-billion protocols. Install and maintain continuous surface water and groundwater gaging stations. Collect bathymetric and surface elevation data using both total station and real-time kinematic (RTK) instruments.

Communication: Accomplished at developing presentations for a variety of audiences. Successfully delivered over a dozen presentations. Coauthored multiple papers that will be published in 2025. Created numerous maps for publication.