Sheree J. Watson, PhD

Sheree’s research interests include the co-production of applied ecosystem science, translation of science into data-driven planning for natural and cultural resource management with historically marginalized people and communities. Sheree’s experiential work includes promotion, teaching, and mentoring of historically underserved students in the STEM fields. Her disciplinary research includes using microbial ecology and biogeochemistry in aquatic ecosystems as indicators of environmental and human health. Sheree’s current work includes building capacity and collaborations for USGS scientists to work with Tribal Nations and Tribal Colleges and Universities in the Midcontinent region. She is very interested and has experience doing convergence research with Indigenous land and water managers, merging ideas, and approaches from widely diverse ways of knowing to solve global grand challenges such as sustaining water resources.