Kathleen Doering

• Prepared detailed reports on findings from environmental studies, effectively communicating results to stakeholders.
• Prepared detailed scientific reports or presentations based on findings.
• Gathered environmental data detailing water, air and soil contaminations.
• Conducted water and soil pollution monitoring to maintain a safe living environment for communities.
• Formulated and implemented long-range plans for environmental programs.
• Process, filter, analyze, and count bacterial colonies from microbial water samples for Beaches program, Coastal Water Quality Improvement Plan, Ambient bacteria monitoring, Compliance and Microbial Source Tracking (Enterococcus and E.coli)
  • Process, filter, and perform qPCR for Microbial Source Tracking Project through RESTORE for non-point source pollution.
  • Calculate colonies for primary water contact and post results to Beaches web page for public consumption.
  • Operate, maintain, and troubleshoot complex laboratory equipment.
  • Enter results into LIMS program and verify projects in LIMS.
  • Maintain Quality Assurance/Quality Control logbooks and laboratory notebooks.
  • Supervise new employees on lab procedures.
  • Purchasing and maintaining supply volume for all laboratory procedures.
  • Present and coordinate with fellow coworkers on microbiological and molecular testing results for projects.
  • Assist supervisor in providing technical, scientific, and policy analysis for Restore projects.
  Write and review internal SOP's for new projects as we expand our Coastal Monitoring Lab.
  • Review and monitor results for Beaches program.
• Enhanced project efficiency by streamlining processes and utilizing state-of-the-art technology in data analysis and reporting.
• Maintained up-to-date knowledge of industry trends and best practices through continuous professional development activities.
• Collaborated with government agencies to monitor compliance with environmental regulations, addressing any violations promptly and efficiently.

Projects:
Turkey Creek Regionally Applied Research Effort with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency team involving field work under extreme conditions and laboratory processing on the University of Southern Mississippi Gulf Coast campus
• Every two weeks from March 2017 to September 2018
• Duties include: Collect hydrographic profile data; Collect and filter water for PhyloChip, quantitative polymerase chain reaction, nutrient, viral, and IDEXX bacterial testing; Read and record most probable number for E. coli and Enterococcus samples.

Quarterly oyster report for MS Department of Marine Resources with MS Department of Environmental Quality in MS coastal waters aboard water vessels
• Quarterly from July 2017 to 2021
• Duties include: Collect hydrographic profile data; Determine the photic zone with secchi; Collect and filter water for nutrient and chlorophyll processing and assist captain of the vessel with launch, recovery and navigation.

Mississippi Coastal Assessment with MS Department of Environmental Quality in MS coastal waters aboard water vessels
• August 2017, August 2018, August 2019, August 2020
• Duties include: Collect hydrographic profile data; Determine the photic zone with secchi; Collect and filter water for nutrient and chlorophyll processing; Collect and identify sediment samples for benthic, organic and metal testing and assist captain of the vessel with launch, recovery and navigation.

2018 and 2019 Shelf-wide Hypoxia Cruise with Dr. Nancy Rabalais (Louisiana State University and Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium)
• July 2018 and July 2019 week long cruise aboard the R/V Pelican
• Duties include: 12-hour night shifts; Collect and filter water for nutrient, chlorophyll and suspended particulate matter; Process filtered chlorophyll and read results with a fluorometer.

Conferences and symposiums:
• Mississippi Environmental Education Training
o Presentation on Turkey Creek Regionally Applied Research Effort and participated on panel for youth leaders involvement in environmental projects.
• Society for Ecological Restoration Symposium

Daily Duties include entering field data and streamlining excel spread sheets, prepping for field projects, train new employees on basic field and lab techniques, assist field and chief scientist on future projects.