Andrea Stewart Medenblik is a Hydrologist at the Upper Midwest Water Science Center.
Andrea is a software developer for Web Informatics and Mapping (WIM). She develops software to support water science initiatives. Her research background includes watershed modeling, stormwater monitoring, water quality, geospatial analysis, ecohydrology, and isotope hydrology.
Current Projects
- StreamStats: web-based Geographic Information Systems (GIS) application that provides users with access to analytical tools that are useful for water-resources planning, management, engineering, and design purposes.
- WaveLab: Python-based application that calculates storm-tide water level and wave statistics for deployed instrument data.
Professional Experience
2021 - present, Hydrologist, USGS Upper Midwest Water Science Center
2019 - 2021, Hydrologist, USGS South Atlantic Water Science Center
2018 - 2019, Student Trainee (Hydrology), USGS South Atlantic Water Science Center
Education and Certifications
M.S. Natural Resources, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC - 2019
B.S. Environmental Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC - 2016
Science and Products
Estimated daily mean streamflow in Iowa using the Flow-Duration Curve Transfer Method StreamStats application
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South Carolina Streams Stats: Phase 2
Waterbody Rapid Assessment Tool (WaterRAT): 3-dimensional Visualization of High-Resolution Spatial Data
StreamStats: Streamflow Statistics and Spatial Analysis Tools for Water-Resources Applications
SPARROW Modeling for North Carolina Watersheds
Quantifying Floodplain Ecological Processes and Ecosystem Services in the Delaware River Watershed
Science and Products
- Publications
Estimated daily mean streamflow in Iowa using the Flow-Duration Curve Transfer Method StreamStats application
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) operates many streamgages throughout the country that provide historical and real-time daily streamflow information. Accurate estimates of daily streamflow and the percentage of time that a certain volume of streamflow occurs or is exceeded in a stream is crucial information for structure design and other activities conducted by federal, state, and local officialsAuthorsMackenzie K. Marti, Harper Nicole Wavra, Andrea Medenblik - Science
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South Carolina Streams Stats: Phase 2
This project will enhance the USGS StreamStats web application in South Carolina (Phase II) by incorporating additional tools and functionality into the current (2019) application. In addition, a separate application, Floodplain Width and Indirect Determination of Extent (Flood WIDE), will be developed to incorporate functions that will provide additional tools for the SCDOT and other engineers...Waterbody Rapid Assessment Tool (WaterRAT): 3-dimensional Visualization of High-Resolution Spatial Data
Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) are instruments that collect water-quality, depth, and other data in waterbodies. They produce complex and massive datasets. There is currently no standard method to store, organize, process, quality-check, analyze, or visualize this data. The Waterbody Rapid Assessment Tool (WaterRAT) is aPython application that processes and displays water-quality data withStreamStats: Streamflow Statistics and Spatial Analysis Tools for Water-Resources Applications
StreamStats provides access to spatial analytical tools that are useful for water-resources planning and management, and for engineering and design purposes. The map-based user interface can be used to delineate drainage areas, get basin characteristics and estimates of flow statistics, and more. Available information varies from state to state.SPARROW Modeling for North Carolina Watersheds
In North Carolina, excessive nutrient and sediment loadings have contributed to the degradation of surface-water quality across the state as a result of agricultural activities and population growth increases. To further understand the influences of human activities and natural processes on surface-water quality, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) developed the SPARROW (SPAtially Referenced...Quantifying Floodplain Ecological Processes and Ecosystem Services in the Delaware River Watershed
Floodplain and wetland areas provide critical ecosystem services to local and downstream communities by retaining sediments, nutrients, and floodwaters. The loss of floodplain functionality due to land use conversion and degradation reduces the provisioning of these services. Assessing, quantifying, and valuing floodplain ecosystem services provide a framework to estimate how floodplain systems... - News
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