Brenda Densmore is the Associate Director for Hydrologic Investigations for the U.S. Geological Survey Nebraska Water Science Center in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Brenda Densmore (Woodward) has worked as a hydrologist for the USGS Nebraska Water Science Center since 2003 and previously as a student trainee starting in 2001. She has an undergraduate degree in fisheries and wildlife and a graduate degree in Natural Resources with emphasis in Aquatic Ecology, both from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She has participated in and lead water-quality and biological monitoring programs as part of the USGS National Water-Quality Assessment Program, EPA’s Environmental Monitoring and Assessment program, and EPA’s National Rivers and Streams Assessment. Brenda has taken the lead on GPS surveying for the Nebraska Water Science Center and has collected and worked with both aerial and tripod-mounted LiDAR. Since early 2007 Brenda has lead several Missouri River surveying projects, which incorporate bathymetric surveying. Surveys prior to 2008 were completed using singlebeam echosounding equipment along with GPS and an Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler to measure depth, position, water-surface elevation, and velocity. Recently, Brenda and other scientists at the USGS have used a multibeam echosounder to survey the river bed and structures of the Missouri River.
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Surveying and Monitoring Constructed Chutes on the Missouri River
Missouri River Water-Quality Monitoring in Relation to Combined Sewer Overflow Systems near Omaha, Nebraska
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Surveying and Monitoring Constructed Chutes on the Missouri River
The construction of side-channel chutes has emerged as one method for restoring Missouri River habitat through the introduction of slow velocity and shallow depth water areas. To better understand the processes that create and maintain this habitat, the USGS Nebraska Water Science Center in partnership with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, has completed hydrographic and topographic surveys of...Missouri River Water-Quality Monitoring in Relation to Combined Sewer Overflow Systems near Omaha, Nebraska
In 2012, the USGS Nebraska Water Science Center, in cooperation with the City of Omaha, began monitoring the Missouri River near Omaha to document water-quality changes in the river as the City improved their combined sewer overflow (CSO) system. The monitoring program includes both discrete and continuous data collection at four sampling sites on the Missouri River. Monitoring at each site... - Data
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