Meredith B. Nevers
Meredith B. Nevers is a Bureau Approving Official with the U.S. Geological Survey, Office of Science, Quality, and Integrity, stationed in Chesterton, Indiana.
Nevers received her Bachelor’s in Biology and English from Wittenberg University and her Master’s in Marine Biology from University of North Carolina – Wilmington, where she was inspired by the influence and diversity of algal communities. Nevers has been with USGS since 1997 in multiple appointments, recently including research aquatic ecologist. Nevers is an expert in beach water quality and human health, and she served as President of the Great Lakes Beach Association. Nevers interests include aquatic ecology of the Great Lakes including drivers of nuisance and harmful algal blooms, restoring, and improving urban waterways, detecting invasive species, and improving ecosystems assessments using advanced technology and genomics and continues to encourage science application for improving ecosystem function. In her role as Bureau Approving Official, Nevers now guides science integrity and communication throughout USGS to help maintain scientific excellence.
Science and Products
Identifying and eliminating sources of recreational water quality degradation along an urban coast
Environmental DNA (eDNA): A tool for quantifying the abundant but elusive round goby (Neogobius melanostomus)
Fecal indicator organism modeling and microbial source tracking in environmental waters: Chapter 3.4.6
Freshwater wrack along Great Lakes coasts harbors Escherichia coli: Potential for bacterial transfer between watershed environments
Comparative evaluation of statistical and mechanistic models of Escherichia coli at beaches in southern Lake Michigan
Application of a microfluidic quantitative polymerase chain reaction technique to monitor bacterial pathogens in beach water and complex environmental matrices
Prototypic automated continuous recreational water quality monitoring of nine Chicago beaches
Wildlife, urban inputs, and landscape configuration are responsible for degraded swimming water quality at an embayed beach
Evidence for free-living Bacteroides in Cladophora along the shores of the Great Lakes
Beach science in the Great Lakes
Routine screening of harmful microorganisms in beach sands: implications to public health
Developing and implementing the use of predictive models for estimating water quality at Great Lakes beaches
Predictive models have been used at beaches to improve the timeliness and accuracy of recreational water-quality assessments over the most common current approach to water-quality monitoring, which relies on culturing fecal-indicator bacteria such as Escherichia coli (E. coli.). Beach-specific predictive models use environmental and water-quality variables that are easily and quickly measured as s
Science and Products
Identifying and eliminating sources of recreational water quality degradation along an urban coast
Environmental DNA (eDNA): A tool for quantifying the abundant but elusive round goby (Neogobius melanostomus)
Fecal indicator organism modeling and microbial source tracking in environmental waters: Chapter 3.4.6
Freshwater wrack along Great Lakes coasts harbors Escherichia coli: Potential for bacterial transfer between watershed environments
Comparative evaluation of statistical and mechanistic models of Escherichia coli at beaches in southern Lake Michigan
Application of a microfluidic quantitative polymerase chain reaction technique to monitor bacterial pathogens in beach water and complex environmental matrices
Prototypic automated continuous recreational water quality monitoring of nine Chicago beaches
Wildlife, urban inputs, and landscape configuration are responsible for degraded swimming water quality at an embayed beach
Evidence for free-living Bacteroides in Cladophora along the shores of the Great Lakes
Beach science in the Great Lakes
Routine screening of harmful microorganisms in beach sands: implications to public health
Developing and implementing the use of predictive models for estimating water quality at Great Lakes beaches
Predictive models have been used at beaches to improve the timeliness and accuracy of recreational water-quality assessments over the most common current approach to water-quality monitoring, which relies on culturing fecal-indicator bacteria such as Escherichia coli (E. coli.). Beach-specific predictive models use environmental and water-quality variables that are easily and quickly measured as s