Meet the SWAMP Team!
The SWAMP Team is composed of multiple team members at the State Water Board within the SWAMP Unit, SWAMP Information Management and Quality Assurance Center (SWAMP IQ), and others in the Office of Information Management and Analysis (OIMA).
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SWAMP Unit
| Name | Title | Program Area(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Ali Dunn | Unit Supervisor | SWAMP Unit |
| Elena Suglia | California Sea Grant Fellow | Data science, data visualization (R) Science communication |
| Michelle Tang | Environmental Scientist |
Data science, data visualization and programming (JavaScript, Python) |
| Shuka Rastegarpour | Environmental Scientist | SWAMP Statewide Bioassessment Program Coordinator |
Vacant [Anna Holder acting until filled] |
Environmental Scientist | SWAMP Statewide Bioaccumulation Program Coordinator & Safe to Eat Workgroup Co-Chair |
SWAMP IQ
| Name | Title | Program Area(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Tessa Fojut | Unit Supervisor SWAMP QA Officer |
SWAMP IQ Unit |
| Candace Levesque | Environmental Scientist | Bioassessment (algae) Data Manager |
| Cui (Scarlett) Li-Gherman | Scientific Aid | |
| Delany Broome | Environmental Scientist | Chemistry Data Manager |
| Jennifer Salisbury | Environmental Scientist | Tissue Data Manager CEDEN Vocabulary Manager |
| Kimberly Pham | Environmental Scientist | Chemistry Data Manager |
| Lindsey Metz | Environmental Scientist | Microbiology Data Manager SWAMP eDNA Metabarcoding Monitoring and Analysis Project (SeMMAP) |
| Toni Marshall | Environmental Scientist | Bioassessment (benthic macroinvertebrates) Data Manager |
| Tony Gill | Environmental Scientist | Toxicity Data Manager SWAMP Statewide Toxicology and Contaminants Program Coordinator |
For more information, visit the SWAMP IQ Wiki
OIMA
| Name | Title | Program Area(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Greg Gearheart | Deputy Director | OIMA |
| Andrew Hamilton | Assistant Deputy Director | OIMA |
| Anna Holder | Senior Specialist | Open Data Science, Equity & Tribal Coordinator Racial Equity Trainer |
| Carly Nilson | Senior Specialist | SWAMP Statewide Freshwater and Estuarine Harmful Algal Bloom (FHAB) Program Coordinator, OIMA Procurement Lead |
| Chad Fearing | Associate Governmental Program Analyst | Contracts |
| Devan Burke | Associate Governmental Program Analyst | Contracts Racial equity data projects and communication |
| Erick Burres | Citizen Science Coordinator | SWAMP Clean Water Team |
| Kevin Song | Stanford Fellow |
Tribal Water Data Map & User Manual |
| Marisa VanDyke | Senior Specialist | SWAMP Statewide Freshwater and Estuarine Harmful Algal Bloom (FHAB) Program Coordinator |
| Nick Martorano | Executive Director | California Water Quality Monitoring Council |
Former Fellows & Interns
| Name | Title | Year | Primary Project Area(s) & Products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leah Benton | CivicSpark Fellow | 2023-2024 |
Tribal Water Data Map & User Manual |
| Sydney Rilum | California Sea Grant Fellow | 2023 | SWAMP Data Dashboard - Bioaccumulation Data |
| Josh Davenport | Stanford Fellow | 2023 |
Tribal Water Data Map & User Manual |
| Badhia Yunes Katz | CivicSpark Fellow | 2022-2023 |
Tribal Water Data Map & User Manual |
| Lindsey Metz* | California Sea Grant Fellow | 2022 | |
| Gabriella Moran | CivicSpark Fellow | 2021-2022 | Tribal Data Initiatives |
| Brook Thompson | Stanford Fellow | 2021 | Tribal Data Initiatives |
| Corey Clatterbuck* | California Sea Grant Fellow | 2021 | Healthy Watersheds Trash |
| Ross Cooper | California Sea Grant Fellow | 2020 | Trash Datathon Bioaccumulation CASG Article: The Predicament of Subsistence Fishing and Seafood Contaminants |
| Maraid Jimenez | CivicSpark Fellow | 2020-2021 | Tribal Data Initiatives |
| Anna Holder* | California Sea Grant Fellow | 2019 | Healthy Watersheds Open Data & Science Trash CA Water Data Science Symposium CASG Article: Lean into Your Professional Swerves |
| Nicole Hack | California Sea Grant Fellow | 2018 | Trash CASG Article: Being a Datahead |
| Andrew Hill* | California Sea Grant Fellow | 2017 | Trash CASG Article: Tracking Trash |