Cory L. Kavan

Cory Kavan has worked for the USGS Central Plains Water Science Center since May of 2011 when he was first hired as a part-time student employee. After graduating from UNL with a water science degree in 2012 with an emphasis in hydrology, Cory was converted to a full-time employee and quickly started working multiple projects for the center. Throughout his career projects include surface water quality and ecology including City of Omaha Combined Sewer Overflow, USGS National Water-Quality Assessment Program, EPA’s Environmental Monitoring and Assessment program, and EPA’s National Rivers and Streams Assessment and bathymetric surveying (including projects using bathymetric LiDAR and singlebeam and multibeam echosounders). Currently Cory is leading field efforts for discrete groundwater collection programs and furthering the core science missions of the Department of the Interior.