Elizabeth Nystrom
Elizabeth (Liz) Nystrom is a Hydrologist with the New York Water Science Center.
Liz began her career with the USGS in 1999 as a student in the Illinois District working with acoustic Doppler current profilers. Her research interests are broad and are currently focused on research to operations, and include using cameras and imagery for hydrologic measurements, harmful algal blooms, hydraulic modeling, inundation mapping, bathymetry, and hydroacoustics.
Education:
2001 - M.S., Civil and Environmental Engineering, Environmental Hydrology and Hydraulic Engineering, University of Illinois
1999 - B.S., Civil and Environmental Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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Analytes 2018
Samples are analyzed for a wide range of constituents, including physical parameters (such as pH and temperature), nutrients, major ions, trace elements including mercury and arsenic, Coliform bacteria, radon, total organic carbon, volatile organic compounds, and pesticides
Groundwater Sample Collection Methods
Collecting groundwater samples from a typical homeowner well...
Surface-water Quality in the Mohawk River Basin (Pilot RIBS/TMDL)
Problem The quality of surface water has important effects on human and ecological health. Surface water is an important drinking water source and is used for swimming, fishing, and recreation, and the quality of surface water can have profound effects on the health, diversity, and resilience of ecological communities. The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC)...
Flood-Inundation Maps for Four Stream Reaches, Ithaca, Tompkins County, New York
Problem The City of Ithaca, Tompkins County, N.Y., is in the process of developing a flood management plan for the streams that flow through the City. Flooding in the City is an annual problem caused by a variety of distinct and sometimes interconnected reasons. Flooding often is a result of snowmelt and rain during the winter and spring. Slow ice-melt and breakup can lead to ice jams...
Bathymetry of New York City's West of Hudson Reservoirs
Background Every day, the New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) supplies more than one billion gallons of drinking water to more than nine million people. To do this, the DEP maintains an extensive network of reservoirs and aqueducts. A major part of this system, the West of Hudson (WOH) network, in the Delaware and Hudson River drainages, includes six reservoirs...
Ambient Groundwater Quality Monitoring in New York
Introduction Relatively little data describing the quality of groundwater in New York State exists, yet groundwater is used as a source of drinking water by approximately one quarter of the population of the state. The objective of the Ambient Groundwater Quality Monitoring project is to quantify and report on ambient groundwater quality from bedrock and glacial-drift aquifers in upstate...
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Filter Total Items: 13
Analytes 2018
Samples are analyzed for a wide range of constituents, including physical parameters (such as pH and temperature), nutrients, major ions, trace elements including mercury and arsenic, Coliform bacteria, radon, total organic carbon, volatile organic compounds, and pesticides
Groundwater Sample Collection Methods
Collecting groundwater samples from a typical homeowner well...
Surface-water Quality in the Mohawk River Basin (Pilot RIBS/TMDL)
Problem The quality of surface water has important effects on human and ecological health. Surface water is an important drinking water source and is used for swimming, fishing, and recreation, and the quality of surface water can have profound effects on the health, diversity, and resilience of ecological communities. The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC)...
Flood-Inundation Maps for Four Stream Reaches, Ithaca, Tompkins County, New York
Problem The City of Ithaca, Tompkins County, N.Y., is in the process of developing a flood management plan for the streams that flow through the City. Flooding in the City is an annual problem caused by a variety of distinct and sometimes interconnected reasons. Flooding often is a result of snowmelt and rain during the winter and spring. Slow ice-melt and breakup can lead to ice jams...
Bathymetry of New York City's West of Hudson Reservoirs
Background Every day, the New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) supplies more than one billion gallons of drinking water to more than nine million people. To do this, the DEP maintains an extensive network of reservoirs and aqueducts. A major part of this system, the West of Hudson (WOH) network, in the Delaware and Hudson River drainages, includes six reservoirs...
Ambient Groundwater Quality Monitoring in New York
Introduction Relatively little data describing the quality of groundwater in New York State exists, yet groundwater is used as a source of drinking water by approximately one quarter of the population of the state. The objective of the Ambient Groundwater Quality Monitoring project is to quantify and report on ambient groundwater quality from bedrock and glacial-drift aquifers in upstate...