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SHANNON HERSTEIN

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Water Quality Specialist

Ms. Herstein is a water quality specialist at BIO-WEST. During her seven years here, she has worked on a wide variety of projects relating to water quality, hydrology, river and stream restoration, and wetlands. Some of her other responsibilities include maintaining field equipment, training other staff in use of field equipment (e.g., total station, Hydrolab, ISCO samplers, GPS units) managing the section safety program, and advising other staff on water quality issues. She has eight years of experience, and she holds an M.S. in Watershed Science from Utah State University and a B.S. in Watershed Science from Colorado State University.

Skills & Qualifications
  • Field surveying and conducting geomorphologic measurements

  • Water column sampling

  • Water quality data compilation and analysis

  • Flow data compilation and analysis

  • Stream discharge measurements

  • Bankfull width and depth determination

  • Macroinvertebrate sampling

  • Wetland delineations

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