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Kaycee E. Faunce

Kaycee Faunce is a geographer at the Virginia and West Virginia Water Science Center.

Kaycee is an early-career 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 web content to promote and explain USGS science to wide audiences, and developing modeling approaches for assessing the presence and distribution of emerging contaminants in rivers from discharges of treated wastewater.

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

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Watershed-scale risk to aquatic organisms from complex chemical mixtures in the Shenandoah River

River waters contain complex chemical mixtures derived from natural and anthropogenic sources. Aquatic organisms are exposed to the entire chemical composition of the water, resulting in potential effects at the organismal through ecosystem level. This study applied a holistic approach to assess landscape, hydrological, chemical, and biological variables. On-site mobile laboratory experiments were
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Ecosystems, Water Resources, Contaminant Biology, Environmental Health Program, Toxic Substances Hydrology, California Water Science Center, Chesapeake Bay Activities, Kansas Water Science Center, Virginia and West Virginia Water Science Center

Temporal variations of de facto wastewater reuse and disinfection by-products in public water systems in the Shenandoah River watershed, USA

Temporal variations of de facto wastewater reuse are relevant to public drinking water systems (PWSs) that obtain water from surface sources. Variations in wastewater discharge flows, streamflow, de facto reuse, and disinfection by-products (DBPs – trihalomethane-4 [THM4] and haloacetic acid-5 [HAA5]) over an 18-year period were examined at 11 PWSs in the Shenandoah River watershed, using more tha
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Ecosystems, Contaminant Biology, Environmental Health Program, Toxic Substances Hydrology, Virginia and West Virginia Water Science Center
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Image: Eastern Shore of Maryland Coastal Wetland

USGS develops tool to further examine nutrient and sediment trends in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has developed the nontidal network mapper to share the short-term (2009-2018) water-year nutrient and suspended-sediment load and trend results for the Chesapeake Bay Program’s (CBP) non-tidal network (NTN). The network is a cooperative effort by USGS, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA), and agencies in the states of the Chesapeake watershed and the...
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Core Science Systems, Chesapeake Bay Activities
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USGS develops tool to further examine nutrient and sediment trends in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has developed the nontidal network mapper to share the short-term (2009-2018) water-year nutrient and suspended-sediment load and trend results for the Chesapeake Bay Program’s (CBP) non-tidal network (NTN). The network is a cooperative effort by USGS, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA), and agencies in the states of the Chesapeake watershed and the...
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USGS intern Jillian Josimovich displays a recently captured Burmese python, an invasive species in Everglades National Park.

Cruising to Improve the Detection of Burmese Pythons in Everglades National Park

It is not uncommon to see researchers cruising around Everglades National Park (ENP) on what has been a routine basis for the past ten months. Every evening, interns pack into a Chevy Volt for their shift assisting the U.S. Geological Survey in conducting Burmese Python (Python molurus bivittatus) nighttime surveillance through observational surveys. This effort to detect non-native snakes, namely...
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Ecosystems, Biological Threats and Invasive Species Research Program, Fort Collins Science Center
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Cruising to Improve the Detection of Burmese Pythons in Everglades National Park

It is not uncommon to see researchers cruising around Everglades National Park (ENP) on what has been a routine basis for the past ten months. Every evening, interns pack into a Chevy Volt for their shift assisting the U.S. Geological Survey in conducting Burmese Python (Python molurus bivittatus) nighttime surveillance through observational surveys. This effort to detect non-native snakes, namely...
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Image: How Much Water is Available?

National Water Census

The National Water Census is a USGS research program on national water availability and use that develops new water accounting tools and assesses water availability at the regional and national scales. Through the Water Census, USGS is integrating diverse research on water availability and use and enhancing the understanding of connection between water quality and water availability.
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Water Availability and Use Science Program
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National Water Census

The National Water Census is a USGS research program on national water availability and use that develops new water accounting tools and assesses water availability at the regional and national scales. Through the Water Census, USGS is integrating diverse research on water availability and use and enhancing the understanding of connection between water quality and water availability.
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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

This topobathymetric digital elevation model (TBDEM) represents the topography and bathymetry for the Eastern Shore peninsula of Virginia, including Accomack and Northampton counties, and extending into Worcester and Somerset counties in Maryland. The TBDEM has a horizontal grid spacing of 1 meter and vertical units of 1 (integer) centimeter. This dataset combines U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Ear
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Virginia and West Virginia Water Science Center
Kaycee Faunce, a USGS intern, measures a mud snake, a native but uncommon species in Everglades National Park.
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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.

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Virginia and West Virginia Water Science Center

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.

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Chesapeake Bay Activities, Virginia and West Virginia Water Science Center

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

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Virginia and West Virginia Water Science Center

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.

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Virginia and West Virginia Water Science Center

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