Lee Stanish

Prior to this work, Lee was a Product Owner on the Internet of Water Team for the USGS Water Mission Area where she was responsible for the development of open-source software and web tools that allow the public to access and use water data from sources including the USGS National Water Information System (NWIS), the Water Quality Portal (WQP), and the National Groundwater Monitoring Network (NGWMN). Lee was also involved in efforts to modernize USGS data flows in a way that follows FAIR data principles (findable, accessible, interoperable, reproducible). She continues to support the WQP as part of a project team developing a public-facing status dashboard to help users track API performance.

Lee has expertise in microbiology, aquatic ecology, data science, analytics and R programming and is excited to find opportunities to apply these skills to advance the USGS mission. Prior to joining the USGS, Lee earned a PhD in Environmental Studies where her research focused on algal communities – including her favorite algal group, diatoms - aquatic ecology and hydrologic variability in polar streams. Her later work focused on applying ecological principles to understand the processes controlling aquatic microbes in the built environment, including bioreactors, drinking water, and groundwater.