Contacts for Beach Monitoring Research

Donna Francy
Phone: (614) 430-7769
E-Mail: dsfrancy@usgs.gov

• General questions about beach monitoring and research issues
• Predictive modeling at beaches
• Source tracking at beaches
• Designing beach monitoring research projects

Rob Darner
Phone: (614) 430-7756
E-Mail: radarner@usgs.gov

• Predictive modeling and data management—spreadsheets and computer software
• Operation and maintenance of wave-height measuring buoy, turbidity probe, PAR sensor, and piezometers

Rebecca Bushon
Phone: (614) 430-7783
E-Mail: rnbuson@usgs.gov

• Rapid analytical methods
• Microbial source tracking markers

Amie Brady
Phone: (614) 430-7760
E-Mail: amgbrady@usgs.gov

• Bed sediment sampling techniques
• Membrane filtration technique for E. coli
• Predictive modeling at beaches
• Equipment and supplies for microbiological monitoring
   

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Erin Stelzer
Phone: (614) 430-7730
E-Mail: eastelzer@usgs.gov

• Rapid analytical methods
• Microbial source tracking markers

 

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