Katherine (Kit) D. Sheehan

Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Environmental and Watershed Research
5710 Norman Smith Hall
University of Maine
Orono, Maine 04469-5710
207/581-3233
katherine.sheehan@umit.maine.edu

EDUCATION

M.S. Ecology and Environmental Science, University of Maine. 2005 expected
Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, NY. Winter 2003

B.S. Water Resources, summa cum laude, SUNY College at Brockport, Brockport, NY. 2002

A.A.S. Math/Science, Onondaga Community College, Syracuse, NY. 1999

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Graduate Research Assistant
Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Environmental and Watershed Research, University of Maine, Orono, ME (2002-present)

Secretary (2003) / Grant Reviewer (2002-2004)
Association of Graduate Students, University of Maine, Orono, ME (2002-present)

Biological Technician
Acadia National Park, Resource Management Division, Air and Water Monitoring Program, Bar Harbor, ME (2003-2004)

Senior Crew Chief (2002) / Crew Chief (2001)
Forest Inventory Team, NASA / SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY (2001-2002)

Research Assistant
Earth Science Department, SUNY Brockport, Brockport, NY (1999-2001)

Laboratory Assistant
Chemistry Laboratory, SUNY Brockprot, Brockport, NY (2000)

Program Assistant
USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, Oswego County Office, Mexico, NY (2000)

AWARDS

First Place, University of Maine Graduate Research Exposition Poster Competition (2003)
Soil & Water Conservation Society Scholarship (2000)
SUNY Brockport Faculty Scholar-in-Residence Award (2000, 2001)
New York State Merit Scholarship (1997)

PUBLICATIONS

K.B. Johnson, T.A. Haines, J.S. Kahl, S.A. Norton, A. Amirbahman, K.D. Sheehan. 2004. Controls on Mercury and Methyl mercury Deposition for two watersheds in Acadia National Park, Maine. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, accepted for publication.

Sperber, S. T., K. Sheehan, H. Natel, E. Natel, W.J. Autin, J. Zollweg, and M.R. Noll.  2001. Quaternary geologic map of the Holley, New York 7.5-minute quadrangle: U. S. Geologic Survey, Educational Geologic Mapping Program, USGS-EDMAP #00HQAG0129, 33 p. plus 2 plates.

Natel, H. H., W.J.  Autin, S. Sperber, and K. Sheehan.  2001. Quaternary geologic mapping of integrated ice stagnation, glacio-fluvial and glacio-lacustrine landforms, western New York: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 33, p. A-269.

GRANTS AWARDED

2003: Association of Graduate Students Research Grant, University of Maine
2002: Association of Graduate Students Research Grant, University of Maine
2001: SUNY Brockport Student Research Grant

TECHNICAL, FIELD, AND LABORATORY SKILLS

Limnological sampling techniques.
Air quality and meteorological monitoring.
Litterfall sampling and analysis.
Field surveying with Global Positioning Systems, including Leica and Trimble.
Orienteering, including compass and pacing techniques.
Paddling and operation of small outboards.
Aerial photography interpretation.
Forest inventory techniques.
ArcView GIS mapping and spatial modeling.
Flow injection mercury system (cold vapor atomic absorption).
Auto-analyzing (phosphorus).
Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometry (graphite furnace and flame).
Gas chromatography.