ELISABETH EVANS
Elisabeth has been at ERI since 1991, when she was brought on as a temporary receptionist. At that point in her life, she was simply trying to find a steady paycheck, having recently graduated with an incredibly useful degree in Piano Performance. She began her career by working nearly every job the company offered and adding a few that it didn't (she never did learn how to drip a nitrate column, however). With a history of organizing everything in sight, a penchant for databases and data analysis was soon discovered and she was put in charge of all the company data.
Though field work still shows up on her plate occasionally (she surveys with the company's historical Lietz Set 4A Total Station), most of her time is spent in front of her computer, as her duties include data analysis and visualization, GIS analysis and mapping, and anything else that might show up at her office door. Her spare time is usually spent chasing the newest hobby/obsession and hanging out with her family.
- Maintenance of laboratory QA program and management of client results reporting.
- Creation and management of company website and all marketing elements.
- Development of inventory/sampling procedure tracking database for the in-house water quality laboratory.
- Management of all tabular and GIS project related data for company.
- Analysis of hourly water quality data for Island Park Hydroelectric Project. Summarize database yearly and author required monitoring report for FERC.
- Analysis of water quality data for Bear Lake, oversite of contract requirements and preparation of yearly summary report for the Bear Lake Regional Commission.
- Geographical analysis and summary of standard State and Federal environmental records for all Phase I Environmental Site Assessments performed by the company.
- Analysis of 15-minute instantaneous water quality data on the Bear River for PacifiCorp to determine project's influence on water quality, co-author of final report submitted to IDEQ.
- Subsurface and groundwater analysis of TPH as diesel and subsequent map creation for LeGrand Johnson property in Logan, Utah.
- Digitization and analysis of forebay and associated vegetation type mapping efforts for the Chester Dam Hydroelectric project.
- Analysis of invertebrate density and biomass data to assist Bioenergetics model development on the San Juan River.
- Creation of website and interactive database for accessing up–to-date information on FERC preliminary permit projects managed by Symbiotics LLC. (http://www.symbioticsenergy.com)
- Development and analysis of flow model to predict flooding conditions in Mill Creek, Utah.
- Wetland boundary surveying using a Lietz Set4A surveyor and subsequent map creation for property in Cache County, Utah.
- Analysis of several biometrics on aquatic macroinvertebrate data spanning three years for the Applegate Dam Hydroelectric project and creation of graphical representations for final report.
- Loading analysis and preliminary waste allocations for Idaho Department of Environmental Quality's TMDL on the Upper Bear River.
- Chester Dam water's edge surveying using a Lietz Set 4A surveyor and subsequent map and database creation for use in the hydrodynamic model, River 2D.
- Water quality loading improvement analysis for the Thomas Fork Streambank Stabilization Project in Idaho.
- Water quality criteria exceedence analysis for Navajo Gallup Pipeline project.
