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Abby L Keith

Abby is a Chemist and Local Database Manager (LDM) for the USGS Colorado Water Science Center (COWSC) in Lakewood, CO. She also supports the USGS Water Mission Area as a National Water Information System (NWIS) Structure Data Support Specialist.

As an LDM for Colorado data users, I provide moral and technical support in all things NWIS - including database tools, workflows and best practices. I also support the COWSC by serving as the lab manager in Lakewood and analyze our Rocky Mountain Snowpack Chemistry Monitoring samples each summer. I support the Water Mission Area by overseeing the operations in Colorado for the National Water Quality Network (NWQN) as well as a few select sites across the Western U.S. which were formerly part of the Hydrologic Benchmark Network. I'm also a member of the Water Quality Integration and Liaison Support (QWILS) Advisory Team, where I serve as the final arbiter for the parameter and method code reference dictionaries for NWIS. In recent years, I have been involved with the modernization effort of our discrete database to AQ Samples as well as the NWIS reference list content known as the Reference List Management System (RLMS).
 

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