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Sarai Piazza

Sarai Piazza serves as a Branch Chief for Science Support at the USGS Wetland and Aquatic Research Center.

Sarai began working at the Wetland and Aquatic Research Center (WARC) in 2006 with a group of field ecologists interested in monitoring and assessment of coastal restoration projects. After many years of fieldwork in coastal Louisiana, she became the program manager for Louisiana’s Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS) focusing on the implementation of the CRMS program to support design and evaluation of coastal restoration projects. In 2023, she began serving as a Branch Chief and works with a team of scientists who conduct fieldwork, laboratory work, and data analyses for research projects and monitoring programs largely in the southeastern U.S.