Amarys Acosta

Amarys serves on the Quality Assurance and Quality Control (QAQC) team and is a Local Data Manager (LDM). She joined the USGS in 2008 with the Florida Water Science Center in Fort Lauderdale, where she worked on the construction, programming, calibration, maintenance, and monitoring of remote tidal index-velocity and water-quality monitoring stations in south Florida and along the southwest coast.

Since transferring to the Oregon Water Science Center in 2015, Amarys has led the Oregon DECODES team and supported hydrologic data operations. She has served as an instructor for SW1321 Streamflow Measurements Using ADCPs since 2017 and provides training in hydroacoustics, index-velocity methods, and surface-water techniques. Since 2019, she has served as a Subject Matter Expert for the USGS Decoding Application (DECAP), supporting application testing, training development, troubleshooting, and instruction for Local Data Managers. Amarys currently serves as the Product Owner for Decoding Application (DECAP), Telemetry Ingest Dataflow (TID) and Configuration Depot. Her work focuses on hydrologic data collection, data management, and technical training.