Mary is a Data Manager and Records Manager at the USGS Eastern Ecological Science Center at the Patuxent Research Refuge in Laurel, MD.
Mary has been working at the Patuxent Refuge since 1991. She has worked on a range of projects from environmental contaminants, endangered species, migratory birds and more. Currently she is a data manager and records manager. She reviews the Data Management Plans as well as completes data reviews. She is responsible for the Center Photos page and uploads the photos onto the USGS web page. Mary runs the weekly IPDS reports for BAO approved records for reports. She disseminates all products in IPDS. She updates End Note Database with published journal articles for Center Archive. She maintains the Study Plan Record Inventory for records management and uses DMP and file schedule to populate.
Professional Experience
USGS Eastern Ecological Science Center - April 2020 - present
USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center - October 1995- April 2021
The Nature Conservancy - sabbatical April 1995- August 1995 - coastal steward
National Biological Survey - October 1993 - October 1995
USFWS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center - May 1991 - October 1993
Education and Certifications
B.S., University of Georgia, zoology
Honors and Awards
STAR Award – Containment Hazard Review – CD-ROM
Group STAR Award – Executive Leadership Team Field Trip
STAR Award – Chesapeake Bay Food Web Study
STAR AWARD – Weekly avifauna surveys - Anacostia
Science and Products
Avian comparisons between Kingman and Kenilworth Marshes: Final report 2001-2004
Failure of tetracycline as a biomarker in batch-marking juvenile frogs
Contaminant Hazard Reviews (compilation)
Science and Products
- Publications
Avian comparisons between Kingman and Kenilworth Marshes: Final report 2001-2004
In 2001 avi-fauna was added as a parameter to be monitored as an indicator of the status and relative success of the two reconstructed freshwater tidal wetlands residing in the Anacostia River estuary in Washington, D.C. at that time. They were Kenilworth Marsh which was reconstructed in 1993 and Kingman Marsh seven years later in 2000. Other studies were already underway looking at vegetation,AuthorsM. Paul, C. Krafft, D. HammerschlagFailure of tetracycline as a biomarker in batch-marking juvenile frogs
Recent widespread amphibian declines call for better techniques to assess population dynamics. Tetracycline as a biomarker in capture-recapture studies is one technique used successfully in fish, reptiles, and mammals. A two-phase experimental study was conducted to evaluate tetracycline as a biomarker in green frogs (Rana clamitans) and pickerel frogs (Rana palustris). In the first experimental pAuthorsJeffrey S. Hatfield, Paula F.P. Henry, Glenn H. Olsen, M.M. Paul, Richard S. HammerschlagContaminant Hazard Reviews (compilation)
This compact disc (CD) contains the 35 reports in the Contaminant Hazard Reviews (CHR) that were published originally between 1985 and 1999 in the U.S. Department of the Interior Biological Report series. The CD was produced because printed supplies of these reviews--a total of 105,000--became exhausted and demand remained high. Each review was prepared at the request of environmental specialistsAuthorsR. Eisler, R. E. Munro, L.M. Loges, K. Boone, M.M. Paul, L.J. Garrett - Multimedia