Water Operations Branch Staff
Gary Rosenlieb: Branch Chief (Acting), Water Quality Program
Team Leader, MS in Water Resources. Specialty areas include water quality
(chemistry and microbiology), ground-water quality, and hazardous materials
management.
Gary Smillie: Hydrology Program Team Leader, MS in Civil Engineering.
Specialty areas include flood-frequency analysis, open-channel hydraulics,
floodplain management, and sediment transport.
Dean Tucker: Information Management Program Leader, Natural Resource
Specialist, PhD in Forestry. Specialty areas include data management
and reporting, hydrographic analysis, computer graphics, and water resources
applications in GIS.
Rick Inglis : Hydrologist, BS in Watershed Science. Specialty
areas include field hydrologic data collection and analysis, watershed
condition and riparian zone assessment and management, and stream restoration.
Roy Irwin : Senior Contaminants Specialist, PhD in Biology. Specialist
in environmental contaminants and ecological/biological aspects of water
quality. Specialist in monitoring study design and development, measurement
uncertainty, and QA/QC issues.
Barry Long: Hydrologist, BS in Watershed Sciences, MS in Forest
Hydrology. Specialty areas include physical-chemical aspects of water
quality.
Larry Martin: Hydrogeologist, MS in Hydrology. Specialty areas
include ground-water management, groundwater modeling, surfacewater/groundwater
interactions, water supply development, and source-water protection.
Mike Martin: Hydrologist, BS in Environmental Geology, MS in
Watershed Science. Specialty areas include open channel flow, geomorphology,
flood analysis, wetlands hydrology, geochemistry, and water quality.
Pete Penoyer: Hydrogeologist, Associate in Hazardous Materials,
MS in Geology, Professional Degree in Hydrogeology. Specialty areas
include groundwater analysis, groundwater contamination, site assessments
under CERCLA, and water quality monitoring.
Jeff Albright: Hydrologist; Coordinator, Watershed Condition
Assessment Program. MS in Watershed Management. Specialty areas include
Hydrology data collection and data management protocols; watershed assessments;
integration of science and policy in resource protection/restoration
programs.
Mike Matz: Colorado State University Research Associate. Water
Quality Database Manager, MS in Civil Engineering. Specialty areas include
water quality planning and management, inventory and monitoring, and
data analysis.
Caroline Goughis: Colorado State University Research
Associate. STORET Database Project, MS in Marine Sciences.
Pat Wiese: Colorado State University Administrative Assistant,
BS in Biology.
Nathan Elder: Colorado State University Research Associate, STORET Database Project, BS in Watershed Science.
Paula Galloway: Colorado State University Research Associate, NPSTORET Database Project, PhD in Chemical Engineering.
Jia Ling: Colorado State University Graduate Research Assistant, Designated Uses & Water Impairment Database Project, BS in Wildlife Biology.