Marie C Peppler
Marie C. Peppler serves as the Bureau Emergency Management Coordinator; her scope of work includes all hazards and missions.
Marie's primary responsibilities include unifying USGS response teams to support the sharing of resources and skills, ensuring our science is used in the decision-making process, coordinating safe access for our scientists and technicians into hazard zones, updating continuity and preparedness plans, and training USGS staff to interact with the emergency management community.
Marie previously worked as the Deputy Director of the Integrated Information Dissemination Division in the Water Mission Area, the Federal Agency Liaison for the Office of Surface Water, and the National USGS Flood Inundation Mapping Coordinator. Marie started her career at the Wisconsin Water Science Center as a Fluvial Geomorphologist and project coordinator for Web Informatics and Mapping.
Education and Certifications
M.S. in Geography (Fluvial Geomorphology), University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2006
B.S. in Geography (Physical Processes), University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2003
Honors and Awards
2022 - Meritorious Service Award
2020 - Team Leadership Award
2017 - Shoemaker Excellent in Communications Award
2012 - Superior Service Award
Science and Products
Monitoring channel morphology and bluff erosion at two installations of flow-deflecting vanes, North Fish Creek, Wisconsin, 2000-03
Methods for monitoring the effects of grazing management on bank erosion and channel morphology, Fever River, Pioneer Farm, Wisconsin, 2004
Sedimentation and sediment chemistry, Neopit Mill Pond, Menominee Indian Reservation, Wisconsin, 2001
Non-USGS Publications**
**Disclaimer: The views expressed in Non-USGS publications are those of the author and do not represent the views of the USGS, Department of the Interior, or the U.S. Government.
Science and Products
Monitoring channel morphology and bluff erosion at two installations of flow-deflecting vanes, North Fish Creek, Wisconsin, 2000-03
Methods for monitoring the effects of grazing management on bank erosion and channel morphology, Fever River, Pioneer Farm, Wisconsin, 2004
Sedimentation and sediment chemistry, Neopit Mill Pond, Menominee Indian Reservation, Wisconsin, 2001
Non-USGS Publications**
**Disclaimer: The views expressed in Non-USGS publications are those of the author and do not represent the views of the USGS, Department of the Interior, or the U.S. Government.