Scientists from the National Water Census team (Shirley Leung, Kaycee Faunce, and Alice McCarthy) attend a conference to discuss USGS water data and products with USGS water data users.
Kaycee E. Faunce
Kaycee Faunce is a geographer at the Virginia and West Virginia Water Science Center.
Kaycee is a geographer with interests in decision support tools, graphic design and illustration, scientific communication, and geospatial analysis.
Much of her work with the USGS has focused on the mapping and visualization of USGS water data; creating engaging web content to promote and explain USGS science to wide audiences; designing and developing interactive decision support tools; supporting the development of automated and reproducible scientific workflows; and developing modeling approaches for assessing the presence and distribution of emerging contaminants in rivers from discharges of treated wastewater.
Professional Experience
2019 to present - Geographer, U.S. Geological Survey, Virginia and West Virginia Water Science Center
Education and Certifications
M.S., Environmental Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University
Post-baccalaureate graduate certificate, Geographic Information Systems, Virginia Commonwealth University
B.S., Biology, University of Mary Washington
Science and Products
National Water Availability Assessment Data Companion
Integrated Assessments of Potential Risks to Aquatic Organisms and Public Water Supply from Wastewater-Derived Chemical Mixtures in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
USGS develops tool to further examine nutrient and sediment trends in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
Cruising to Improve the Detection of Burmese Pythons in Everglades National Park
Upper Colorado River Basin Accumulated Wastewater Ratios
Accumulated wastewater calculations for smallmouth bass sampling sites in the Shenandoah River Watershed, USA
Water withdrawal data of selected public water systems in West Virginia, 2014 - 2020
Potomac River Watershed Accumulated Wastewater Ratios and Predicted Environmental Concentrations
Topobathymetric Digital Elevation Model (TBDEM) of the Eastern Shore Peninsula of Virginia and adjacent parts of Maryland with a horizontal resolution of 1 meter and vertical resolution of 1 centimeter
Scientists from the National Water Census team (Shirley Leung, Kaycee Faunce, and Alice McCarthy) attend a conference to discuss USGS water data and products with USGS water data users.
Hydrologic Unit and National Hydrography Dataset Plus Medium Resolution Spatial Scales Example
Hydrologic Unit and National Hydrography Dataset Plus Medium Resolution Spatial Scales Example
Factors contributing to pesticide contamination in riverine systems: The role of wastewater and landscape sources
The effects of wastewater reuse on smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieu) relative abundance in the Shenandoah River Watershed, USA
Drought-vulnerability assessment of public water systems in West Virginia
Wastewater reuse and predicted ecological risk posed by contaminant mixtures in Potomac River watershed streams
Watershed-scale risk to aquatic organisms from complex chemical mixtures in the Shenandoah River
Temporal variations of de facto wastewater reuse and disinfection by-products in public water systems in the Shenandoah River watershed, USA
Fairfax Water Quality Dashboard
The Fairfax Water Quality Dashboard provides access to water quality data from 6 intensive monitoring stations and 15 trend monitoring stations in Fairfax County.
Hampton Roads Water Quality Dashboard
The Hampton Roads Water Quality Dashboard displays data from 12 water-quality monitoring stations across the cities of Chesapeake, Hampton, Newport News, Norfolk, Portsmouth, and Virginia Beach. This application provides access to current conditions at each monitoring station and visualize timeseries plots for continuously monitored parameters collected at each monitoring stations.
Nitrogen Loading from Selected Long Island Sound Tributaries from 1995 to 2021
This dashboard application displays nitrogen concentrations and loads in selected Long Island Sound tributaries.
Interactive Map: West Virginia Public Water System Drought Risk
This application is intended to help emergency, environmental, and public health managers at the federal, state, and local levels in West Virginia evaluate, plan for, and respond to potential drought conditions in at-risk communities. It uses estimated public water supply withdrawal rates to symbolize modeled drought conditions once every hour using National Water Model streamflow estimates.
Geonarrative: How and why are conditions changing in Fairfax streams?
This interactive narrative summarizes a new U.S. Geological Survey report wherein monitoring data collected between 2007 and 2018 are used to provide insights into the changing water quality of urban streams in Fairfax County and the potential role of water-quality management practices.
Interactive Map: Potomac Wastewater Mapper
The Potomac Wastewater Mapper is intended to help identify streams with elevated wastewater conditions or predicted ecological risk posed by municipal effluent-derived wastewater mixtures that may require further attention by resource managers, either through targeted contaminant monitoring and sampling or wastewater treatment plant upgrades to improve contaminant removal.
Interactive Map: Virginia and West Virginia Groundwater Levels and Trends
The Virginia and West Virginia Groundwater Levels and Trends web application provides access to groundwater level data from continuous groundwater wells across Virginia and West Virginia. Continuous wells include real time and non-real time wells. Data update daily and are compared to long-term monthly statistics.
Interactive Map: Virginia and West Virginia PFAS Sampling Locations
This interactive map shares locations where per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) have been sampled by the Virginia and West Virginia Water Science Center in collaboration with partner agencies.
Geonarrative: Nontidal Network Mapper
The Nontidal Network Mapper geonarrative is a data-driven, interactive narrative that shares the short-term water-year nutrient and suspended-sediment load and trend results for the Chesapeake Bay Program’s non-tidal network (NTN). The mapper provides the primary findings for nitrogen, phosphorus and suspended-sediment trends, and gives the user tools to further examine results.
Geonarrative: Coastal Resilience Initiative
The Coastal Resilience Initiative geonarrative is a data-driven, interactive narrative that shares information about the USGS-led Coastal Resilience Initiative while allowing viewers to explore past and ongoing work and access coastal science tools. The Initiative's mission is to provide information to protect lives, property, resources, and the economic well-being of coastal communities in the No
Interactive Map: Kentucky Drought Condition Monitor
This dynamic web application provides daily updates for precipitation, streamflow, and groundwater levels for each county in Kentucky and weekly updates of crop moisture index values for each of the four climate divisions in Kentucky.
The effects of wastewater reuse on smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieu) relative abundance in the Shenandoah River Watershed, USA
Science and Products
National Water Availability Assessment Data Companion
Integrated Assessments of Potential Risks to Aquatic Organisms and Public Water Supply from Wastewater-Derived Chemical Mixtures in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
USGS develops tool to further examine nutrient and sediment trends in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
Cruising to Improve the Detection of Burmese Pythons in Everglades National Park
Upper Colorado River Basin Accumulated Wastewater Ratios
Accumulated wastewater calculations for smallmouth bass sampling sites in the Shenandoah River Watershed, USA
Water withdrawal data of selected public water systems in West Virginia, 2014 - 2020
Potomac River Watershed Accumulated Wastewater Ratios and Predicted Environmental Concentrations
Topobathymetric Digital Elevation Model (TBDEM) of the Eastern Shore Peninsula of Virginia and adjacent parts of Maryland with a horizontal resolution of 1 meter and vertical resolution of 1 centimeter
Scientists from the National Water Census team (Shirley Leung, Kaycee Faunce, and Alice McCarthy) attend a conference to discuss USGS water data and products with USGS water data users.
Scientists from the National Water Census team (Shirley Leung, Kaycee Faunce, and Alice McCarthy) attend a conference to discuss USGS water data and products with USGS water data users.
Hydrologic Unit and National Hydrography Dataset Plus Medium Resolution Spatial Scales Example
Hydrologic Unit and National Hydrography Dataset Plus Medium Resolution Spatial Scales Example
Factors contributing to pesticide contamination in riverine systems: The role of wastewater and landscape sources
The effects of wastewater reuse on smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieu) relative abundance in the Shenandoah River Watershed, USA
Drought-vulnerability assessment of public water systems in West Virginia
Wastewater reuse and predicted ecological risk posed by contaminant mixtures in Potomac River watershed streams
Watershed-scale risk to aquatic organisms from complex chemical mixtures in the Shenandoah River
Temporal variations of de facto wastewater reuse and disinfection by-products in public water systems in the Shenandoah River watershed, USA
Fairfax Water Quality Dashboard
The Fairfax Water Quality Dashboard provides access to water quality data from 6 intensive monitoring stations and 15 trend monitoring stations in Fairfax County.
Hampton Roads Water Quality Dashboard
The Hampton Roads Water Quality Dashboard displays data from 12 water-quality monitoring stations across the cities of Chesapeake, Hampton, Newport News, Norfolk, Portsmouth, and Virginia Beach. This application provides access to current conditions at each monitoring station and visualize timeseries plots for continuously monitored parameters collected at each monitoring stations.
Nitrogen Loading from Selected Long Island Sound Tributaries from 1995 to 2021
This dashboard application displays nitrogen concentrations and loads in selected Long Island Sound tributaries.
Interactive Map: West Virginia Public Water System Drought Risk
This application is intended to help emergency, environmental, and public health managers at the federal, state, and local levels in West Virginia evaluate, plan for, and respond to potential drought conditions in at-risk communities. It uses estimated public water supply withdrawal rates to symbolize modeled drought conditions once every hour using National Water Model streamflow estimates.
Geonarrative: How and why are conditions changing in Fairfax streams?
This interactive narrative summarizes a new U.S. Geological Survey report wherein monitoring data collected between 2007 and 2018 are used to provide insights into the changing water quality of urban streams in Fairfax County and the potential role of water-quality management practices.
Interactive Map: Potomac Wastewater Mapper
The Potomac Wastewater Mapper is intended to help identify streams with elevated wastewater conditions or predicted ecological risk posed by municipal effluent-derived wastewater mixtures that may require further attention by resource managers, either through targeted contaminant monitoring and sampling or wastewater treatment plant upgrades to improve contaminant removal.
Interactive Map: Virginia and West Virginia Groundwater Levels and Trends
The Virginia and West Virginia Groundwater Levels and Trends web application provides access to groundwater level data from continuous groundwater wells across Virginia and West Virginia. Continuous wells include real time and non-real time wells. Data update daily and are compared to long-term monthly statistics.
Interactive Map: Virginia and West Virginia PFAS Sampling Locations
This interactive map shares locations where per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) have been sampled by the Virginia and West Virginia Water Science Center in collaboration with partner agencies.
Geonarrative: Nontidal Network Mapper
The Nontidal Network Mapper geonarrative is a data-driven, interactive narrative that shares the short-term water-year nutrient and suspended-sediment load and trend results for the Chesapeake Bay Program’s non-tidal network (NTN). The mapper provides the primary findings for nitrogen, phosphorus and suspended-sediment trends, and gives the user tools to further examine results.
Geonarrative: Coastal Resilience Initiative
The Coastal Resilience Initiative geonarrative is a data-driven, interactive narrative that shares information about the USGS-led Coastal Resilience Initiative while allowing viewers to explore past and ongoing work and access coastal science tools. The Initiative's mission is to provide information to protect lives, property, resources, and the economic well-being of coastal communities in the No
Interactive Map: Kentucky Drought Condition Monitor
This dynamic web application provides daily updates for precipitation, streamflow, and groundwater levels for each county in Kentucky and weekly updates of crop moisture index values for each of the four climate divisions in Kentucky.