In this episode, high school students from Rosemary Anderson High School in Portland, Oregon, visit the USGS Oregon Water Science Center for a ‘Science Career Day‘ event. Scientists work with the students and try to promote the appeal and benefits of a career in science.
Micelis C Doyle
Micelis Doyle is a hydrologist at the USGS Oregon Water Science Center.
Micelis Doyle has been a Hydrologic Technician and hydrologist at the USGS Oregon Water Science Center in Portland, Oregon since 1990.
Professional Experience
Served as Supervisory Hydrologic Technician for Oregon Water Science Center (ORWSC) Field Studies Team from 2018 to 2023.
Served as Interim Oregon Water Science Center Studies Chief August 2021 through October 2021.
Write proposals, research, and publish U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigation reports, based on field research projects.
Extensive experience assisting, developing, and maintaining hydrologic research projects in coordination with Project Chiefs and multiple cooperators, for water-quality studies.
Strong working knowledge and experience using statistical software to explore and analyze hydrologic data: ArcGIS, R programming language, and Microsoft Excel.
Install, program, monitor, and repair water-quality research instrumentation. Collect water, sediment, fish, and aquatic insect samples for lab analysis based on changing protocols, according to specific project objectives.
Selected for special research project deployments in Northern California in cooperation with the USGS California District and the North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board of California; similar detail with the USGS Caribbean District in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico.
Fabricate, modify, and operate sediment-oxygen demand (SOD) chambers and associated hydrologic data-collection instrumentation for SOD studies conducted in Oregon, California and St. Thomas U.S. Virgin Islands.
Served as Lead Technician for the Willamette Basin National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) and Columbia Basin National Stream Quality Accounting Network (NASQAN) projects in the OR WSC.
Oversee quality-control/quality-assurance (QA/QC) program for inter-lab comparisons. Oversee quality-control/quality-assurance (QA/QC) program for inter-lab comparisons.
Education and Certifications
Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, M.S. Environmental Sciences and Management; June 2017. Thesis: “Turbidity Dynamics during High-Flow Storm Events in the Clackamas River, Oregon.
Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, B.S. Anthropology, 1991. Coursework in Sciences: General Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Biology, and Ecology.
Affiliations and Memberships*
Served as a community member on the Oregon Health Science University Institutional Biosafety Committee.
Co-Instructor: Portland State University, Geology Department, Portland, Oregon, Spring 2008. Water quality portion of the Geology Field Methods Course (GEO 485).
Adjunct Faculty: Portland State University, Center for Science Education Department, Portland, Oregon, 2003-2004, Co-instructed Capstone course “Pharmaceuticals in the Environment”.
Science and Products
Evaluation of restoration alternatives using water-budget tools for the Wapato Lake National Wildlife Refuge, northwestern Oregon
Reconnaissance of pharmaceutical chemicals in urban streams of the Tualatin River Basin, Oregon, 2002
Sediment oxygen demand in Lake Ewauna and the Klamath River, Oregon, June 2003
Water-quality data from 2002 to 2003 and analysis of data gaps for development of total maximum daily loads in the Lower Klamath River Basin, California
The effect of chamber mixing velocity on bias in measurement of sediment oxygen demand rates in the Tualatin River basin, Oregon
Water-temperature, specific-conductance, and meteorological data for the Tualatin River basin, Oregon, 1994-95
Sediment oxygen demand in the lower Willamette River, Oregon, 1994
Water-quality monitoring during reservoir drawdowns
Tualatin River Basin Water Quality Assessment
In this episode, high school students from Rosemary Anderson High School in Portland, Oregon, visit the USGS Oregon Water Science Center for a ‘Science Career Day‘ event. Scientists work with the students and try to promote the appeal and benefits of a career in science.
Science and Products
Evaluation of restoration alternatives using water-budget tools for the Wapato Lake National Wildlife Refuge, northwestern Oregon
Reconnaissance of pharmaceutical chemicals in urban streams of the Tualatin River Basin, Oregon, 2002
Sediment oxygen demand in Lake Ewauna and the Klamath River, Oregon, June 2003
Water-quality data from 2002 to 2003 and analysis of data gaps for development of total maximum daily loads in the Lower Klamath River Basin, California
The effect of chamber mixing velocity on bias in measurement of sediment oxygen demand rates in the Tualatin River basin, Oregon
Water-temperature, specific-conductance, and meteorological data for the Tualatin River basin, Oregon, 1994-95
Sediment oxygen demand in the lower Willamette River, Oregon, 1994
Water-quality monitoring during reservoir drawdowns
Tualatin River Basin Water Quality Assessment
In this episode, high school students from Rosemary Anderson High School in Portland, Oregon, visit the USGS Oregon Water Science Center for a ‘Science Career Day‘ event. Scientists work with the students and try to promote the appeal and benefits of a career in science.
In this episode, high school students from Rosemary Anderson High School in Portland, Oregon, visit the USGS Oregon Water Science Center for a ‘Science Career Day‘ event. Scientists work with the students and try to promote the appeal and benefits of a career in science.
*Disclaimer: Listing outside positions with professional scientific organizations on this Staff Profile are for informational purposes only and do not constitute an endorsement of those professional scientific organizations or their activities by the USGS, Department of the Interior, or U.S. Government