Mark Spindler
Mark leads the Colorado Water Science Center’s (COWSC) safety and health program, providing coordination, guidance and safety course instruction to hydrologic field studies and scientific support teams.
Mark began his career with the USGS in the student employment programs as a field and lab assistant for the Alaska Water Science Center. In 2010, he became a full-time hydrologic technician for the Anchorage Field Office, mentoring under Alaska’s lead motorized watercraft (MOCC) instructor. He eventually co-lead several field trips, collecting streamflow and water quality data throughout the remote areas of south central and western Alaska. In 2013, he transferred to the Southern Nevada Networks Unit, stationed near Las Vegas, where he revitalized a field trip in western Nevada and eastern California to provide critical data collection in remote areas of the Mojave Desert. Mark transferred to Colorado in 2014 and subsequently became a lead trainer of water quality records processing and surface water data collection techniques. He took on additional duties by becoming Western Colorado’s collateral duty safety officer (CDSO) in 2019. Beginning in FY2024, Mark waived his tenure as a hydrologic technician to join the COWSC’s safety program.