Abby L Keith
Abby is a Chemist and Local Database Manager (LDM) for the USGS Colorado Water Science Center (COWSC) in Lakewood, CO. She also supports the USGS Water Mission Area as a National Water Information System (NWIS) Structure Data Support Specialist.
As an LDM for Colorado data users, I provide moral and technical support in all things NWIS - including database tools, workflows and best practices. I also support the COWSC by serving as the lab manager in Lakewood and analyze our Rocky Mountain Snowpack Chemistry Monitoring samples each summer. I support the Water Mission Area by overseeing the operations in Colorado for the National Water Quality Network (NWQN) as well as a few select sites across the Western U.S. which were formerly part of the Hydrologic Benchmark Network. I'm also a member of the Water Quality Integration and Liaison Support (QWILS) Advisory Team, where I serve as the final arbiter for the parameter and method code reference dictionaries for NWIS. In recent years, I have been involved with the modernization effort of our discrete database to AQ Samples as well as the NWIS reference list content known as the Reference List Management System (RLMS).
Science and Products
Rocky Mountain Regional Snowpack Chemistry Monitoring Study
Science and Products
- Science
Rocky Mountain Regional Snowpack Chemistry Monitoring Study
Snowpacks collect atmospheric deposition throughout the snowfall season and offer a unique opportunity to obtain a composite sample of the chemistry of most of the annual precipitation at high elevations [> 1,800 meters]. The purpose of the snowpack network is to determine annual concentrations and depositional amounts of selected nutrients and other constituents in snow resulting from atmospheric... - Data
- Publications