Rachel Volentine Bryan is a usability specialist for the USGS Water Resources Mission Area.
Rachel is responsible for implementing a user-centered design strategy for the design and development of Water public-delivery products, including Water Data for the Nation. She is actively involved in conducting user research and usability testing to ensure the products are discoverable, accessible, and usable for everyone. Rachel lives in Minneapolis, MN with her family.
Science and Products
The water cycle
An illustrated diagram of the water cycle. This is a modern, updated version of the widely used diagram featured on the USGS Water Science School. Notably, this new water cycle diagram depicts humans and major categories of human water use as key components of the water cycle, in addition to the key pools and fluxes of the hydrologic cycle. This product targets an 8th grade audience and is designe
Authors
Hayley R. Corson-Dosch, Cee S. Nell, Rachel E. Volentine, Althea A. Archer, Ellen Bechtel, Jennifer L. Bruce, Nicole Felts, Tara A. Gross, Dianne Lopez-Trujillo, Charlotte E. Riggs, Emily K. Read
Accessibility of environmental data for sharing: The role of UX in large cyberinfrastructure projects
Incorporating user experience (UX) testing when creating research cyberinfrastructure is often overlooked, but if left too late, the cost of retrofitting is considerable, and the very clients the cyberinfrastructure was built to serve may be lost. Successfully integrating UX testing into the product development cycle can be difficult but rewarding. This paper describes how UX evaluations were inco
Authors
Rachel Volentine, Alison Specht, Suzie Allard, Mike Frame, Rachael Hu, Lisa Zolly
Changes in liquefaction severity in the San Francisco Bay Area with sea-level rise
This paper studies the impacts of sea-level rise on liquefaction triggering and severity around the San Francisco Bay Area, California, for the M 7.0 “HayWired” earthquake scenario along the Hayward fault. This work emerged from stakeholder engagement for the US Geological Survey releases of the HayWired earthquake scenario and the Coastal Storm Modeling System projects, in which local planners an
Authors
Alex R. R. Grant, Anne Wein, Kevin M. Befus, Juliette Finzi-Hart, Mike Frame, Rachel Volentine, Patrick L. Barnard, Keith L. Knudsen
Non-USGS Publications**
Volentine, R., Specht, A., Allard, S., Frame, M., Hu, R., Zolly, L., 2021, Accessibility of environmental data for sharing: The role of UX in large cyberinfrastructure projects, Ecological Informatics, Volume 63, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2021.101317.
**Disclaimer: The views expressed in Non-USGS publications are those of the author and do not represent the views of the USGS, Department of the Interior, or the U.S. Government.
Science and Products
- Publications
The water cycle
An illustrated diagram of the water cycle. This is a modern, updated version of the widely used diagram featured on the USGS Water Science School. Notably, this new water cycle diagram depicts humans and major categories of human water use as key components of the water cycle, in addition to the key pools and fluxes of the hydrologic cycle. This product targets an 8th grade audience and is designeAuthorsHayley R. Corson-Dosch, Cee S. Nell, Rachel E. Volentine, Althea A. Archer, Ellen Bechtel, Jennifer L. Bruce, Nicole Felts, Tara A. Gross, Dianne Lopez-Trujillo, Charlotte E. Riggs, Emily K. ReadAccessibility of environmental data for sharing: The role of UX in large cyberinfrastructure projects
Incorporating user experience (UX) testing when creating research cyberinfrastructure is often overlooked, but if left too late, the cost of retrofitting is considerable, and the very clients the cyberinfrastructure was built to serve may be lost. Successfully integrating UX testing into the product development cycle can be difficult but rewarding. This paper describes how UX evaluations were incoAuthorsRachel Volentine, Alison Specht, Suzie Allard, Mike Frame, Rachael Hu, Lisa ZollyChanges in liquefaction severity in the San Francisco Bay Area with sea-level rise
This paper studies the impacts of sea-level rise on liquefaction triggering and severity around the San Francisco Bay Area, California, for the M 7.0 “HayWired” earthquake scenario along the Hayward fault. This work emerged from stakeholder engagement for the US Geological Survey releases of the HayWired earthquake scenario and the Coastal Storm Modeling System projects, in which local planners anAuthorsAlex R. R. Grant, Anne Wein, Kevin M. Befus, Juliette Finzi-Hart, Mike Frame, Rachel Volentine, Patrick L. Barnard, Keith L. KnudsenNon-USGS Publications**
Volentine, R., Specht, A., Allard, S., Frame, M., Hu, R., Zolly, L., 2021, Accessibility of environmental data for sharing: The role of UX in large cyberinfrastructure projects, Ecological Informatics, Volume 63, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2021.101317.**Disclaimer: The views expressed in Non-USGS publications are those of the author and do not represent the views of the USGS, Department of the Interior, or the U.S. Government.