Looking upstream from the bridge at the sampling site on the Second River above Washington Ave at Belleville, NJ (USGS Downstream order number 01392518)
Pamela Reilly
Pamela Reilly is a Hydrologist working with the New Jersey Water Science Center Water-Quality Processes Investigation Team
Her work at the USGS is centered on broad, interdisciplinary studies of water quality, hydrology, geochemistry and ecology. Her present research involves characterizing contaminant sources and mobility in streams and subsurface environments to inform NJ regulatory and remediation actions. Other research interests include understanding urbanization effects on water resources and using innovative tools for contaminant monitoring. She is passionate about taking complex scientific findings and communicating them in way that water-resource managers can use to make public health and regulatory decisions.
Professional Experience
Landslide Monitoring in the Atlantic Highlands, NJ.
Background Soil Arsenic Concentrations in the NJ Coastal Plain
Mercury Variability and Sources in the NJ Coastal Plain
Researching innovative monitoring techniques for HABs
NAWQA SW lead for NJ WSC
1998-1999. Environmental Consultant with RMC Environmental at Lakehurst Naval Base, NJ.
1999-2000. Intern in the Field Operations Unit, USGS New Jersey Water Science Center
2000-Current. Hydrologist in the Water Quality and Biological Research Studies Section at the USGS New Jersey Water Science Center
Education and Certifications
B.S. Biology, Monmouth University, 1998
M.S. Environmental Science, Rutgers University, 2004
Science and Products
Capturing the transient hydrological response in sandy soils during a rare cloudburst associated with shallow slope failures; A case study in the Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey, USA
Virginia flow-ecology modeling results—An initial assessment of flow reduction effects on aquatic biota
Landslide monitoring in the Atlantic Highlands area, New Jersey
Characterizing meteorological and hydrologic conditions associated with shallow landslide initiation in the coastal bluffs of the Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey
An assessment of mercury in estuarine sediment and tissue in Southern New Jersey using public domain data
Urban development and stream ecosystem health—Science capabilities of the U.S. Geological Survey
Biogeochemical environments of streambed-sediment pore waters with and without arsenic enrichment in a sedimentary rock terrain, New Jersey Piedmont, USA
Method to support Total Maximum Daily Load development using hydrologic alteration as a surrogate to address aquatic life impairment in New Jersey streams
Occurrence and mobility of mercury in groundwater: Chapter 5
Arsenic in groundwater: a summary of sources and the biogeochemical and hydrogeologic factors affecting arsenic occurrence and mobility
Variable contributions of mercury from groundwater to a first-order urban coastal plain stream in New Jersey, USA
Arsenic in New Jersey Coastal Plain streams, sediments, and shallow groundwater: effects from different geologic sources and anthropogenic inputs on biogeochemical and physical mobilization processes
Downstream Fate and Transport of Cyanobacteria and Cyanotoxins in the Raritan Basin Water Supply Complex, New Jersey
Baseline Water-Quality Inventory for Paterson Great Falls National Historic Park, New Jersey
Microbial Source Tracking in the Lower Passaic River Basin Study Area, New Jersey
Landslide Monitoring and Research in the Atlantic Highlands area, New Jersey
Concentrations of 1,4-Dioxane, Per- and Polyfluorinated Substances (PFAS), Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), Methyl Tert-Butyl Ether (MTBE), and Trihalomethanes (THMs) in Groundwater, Nassau County, New York, 2019-2022
Surrogate regression models for computation of time series suspended-sediment, Delaware River Basin NGWOS, 2019 through 2022
Geochemical and mineralogic investigation of elevated arsenic and trace element concentrations in glauconitic soils and sediments of the New Jersey Inner Coastal Plain
Hydrologic, slope movement, and soil property data from the coastal bluffs of the Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey, 2016-2018
Groundwater levels, soil moisture, precipitation, and slope movement in the coastal bluffs of the Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey, 2015-2016
Fish and Benthic Macroinvertebrate Flow-Ecology Regression Summary Statistics for Virginia
Looking upstream from the bridge at the sampling site on the Second River above Washington Ave at Belleville, NJ (USGS Downstream order number 01392518)
USGS Scientists, Jonathan Kennen, Molly Schreiner, and John Cohl, shocking and collecting fish in the McDonald's Branch in Byrne State Forrest for NAWQA studies.
USGS Scientists, Jonathan Kennen, Molly Schreiner, and John Cohl, shocking and collecting fish in the McDonald's Branch in Byrne State Forrest for NAWQA studies.
Science and Products
Capturing the transient hydrological response in sandy soils during a rare cloudburst associated with shallow slope failures; A case study in the Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey, USA
Virginia flow-ecology modeling results—An initial assessment of flow reduction effects on aquatic biota
Landslide monitoring in the Atlantic Highlands area, New Jersey
Characterizing meteorological and hydrologic conditions associated with shallow landslide initiation in the coastal bluffs of the Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey
An assessment of mercury in estuarine sediment and tissue in Southern New Jersey using public domain data
Urban development and stream ecosystem health—Science capabilities of the U.S. Geological Survey
Biogeochemical environments of streambed-sediment pore waters with and without arsenic enrichment in a sedimentary rock terrain, New Jersey Piedmont, USA
Method to support Total Maximum Daily Load development using hydrologic alteration as a surrogate to address aquatic life impairment in New Jersey streams
Occurrence and mobility of mercury in groundwater: Chapter 5
Arsenic in groundwater: a summary of sources and the biogeochemical and hydrogeologic factors affecting arsenic occurrence and mobility
Variable contributions of mercury from groundwater to a first-order urban coastal plain stream in New Jersey, USA
Arsenic in New Jersey Coastal Plain streams, sediments, and shallow groundwater: effects from different geologic sources and anthropogenic inputs on biogeochemical and physical mobilization processes
Downstream Fate and Transport of Cyanobacteria and Cyanotoxins in the Raritan Basin Water Supply Complex, New Jersey
Baseline Water-Quality Inventory for Paterson Great Falls National Historic Park, New Jersey
Microbial Source Tracking in the Lower Passaic River Basin Study Area, New Jersey
Landslide Monitoring and Research in the Atlantic Highlands area, New Jersey
Concentrations of 1,4-Dioxane, Per- and Polyfluorinated Substances (PFAS), Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), Methyl Tert-Butyl Ether (MTBE), and Trihalomethanes (THMs) in Groundwater, Nassau County, New York, 2019-2022
Surrogate regression models for computation of time series suspended-sediment, Delaware River Basin NGWOS, 2019 through 2022
Geochemical and mineralogic investigation of elevated arsenic and trace element concentrations in glauconitic soils and sediments of the New Jersey Inner Coastal Plain
Hydrologic, slope movement, and soil property data from the coastal bluffs of the Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey, 2016-2018
Groundwater levels, soil moisture, precipitation, and slope movement in the coastal bluffs of the Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey, 2015-2016
Fish and Benthic Macroinvertebrate Flow-Ecology Regression Summary Statistics for Virginia
Looking upstream from the bridge at the sampling site on the Second River above Washington Ave at Belleville, NJ (USGS Downstream order number 01392518)
Looking upstream from the bridge at the sampling site on the Second River above Washington Ave at Belleville, NJ (USGS Downstream order number 01392518)
USGS Scientists, Jonathan Kennen, Molly Schreiner, and John Cohl, shocking and collecting fish in the McDonald's Branch in Byrne State Forrest for NAWQA studies.
USGS Scientists, Jonathan Kennen, Molly Schreiner, and John Cohl, shocking and collecting fish in the McDonald's Branch in Byrne State Forrest for NAWQA studies.