Linda Gwen Waters

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Edit manuscripts for publication in scientific journals

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Field assistant on 3 research cruises on the FOODBANCS project. 02-03/2008, 07-08/2008, 02/03/2009. (This was not related to my graduate research at the same university.) Responsible for Kasten core deployment and collection, Box coring, Tucker plankton trawl collection, and collection of sediment from benthic organisms (dissection) for 14C analysis. Assisted with all other collections, primarily Megacore collection. The Food for Benthos on the Antarctic Continental Shelf (FOODBANCS) project was a time series analysis of the effect of the boom-bust primary productions cycle along the Western Antarctic Peninsular Shelf on the benthic community.

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Laboratory course instructor and Field assistant Instruction Introduction to Oceanography (lab), Coastal Field Processes (field), Marine Biology (field), Graduate and Undergraduate Training cruises (field) Key elements taught: Computer biophysical modeling instruction, flux chamber collection and sampling, 12C/13C ratio analysis, instrumentation deployment and collection instruction: CTD, ISUS, HyperSAS, trawling, tube coring, marsh habitat assessment, mammal necropsy (basic procedures - dolphin and turtle).

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Construction of miniature CTD datalogging instruments that were mounted on the backs of blue crabs for monitoring and later collection. Development and construction of a behaving Lagrangian drifter for use on my dissertation project. Responsible for circuit board assembly and repair, machining of hardware components and troubleshooting the software as it was developed.

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? Oceanography: processed ADCP, Sea and Micro-Cat data for errors for deep water near oil rigs and to track pollutants near California beaches. Projects: Desoto Canyon Eddy Intrusion Study, an oil spill trajectory analysis in the Gulf of Mexico, and the Orange County Sanitation project, a trajectory analysis of effluence emitted from sanitation pipes off the coast of southern CA. ? Air Quality Modeling for the Environmental Protection Agency (OAQPS): Programmed a predictive software system within GIS to identify potential SO2, PM-10, and PM-2.5 problem areas. I incorporated climatology data sets into this national inventory to examine seasonal meteorological influences, added the ability to examine individual monitor sites, examine wind frequencies, land use, and county business patterns, developed a graphical user interface (GUI) for particulate matter pollutants, composite variables (sulfate, nitrate, etc.), and a visibility index (deciviews or aerosol light extinction) allowing approximations of PM concentrations at unmonitored sites. I developed the national f(RH) weighting factors for use in the calculation of Regional Haze visibility conditions by incorporating rural relative humidity information. I created an AMP350 user interface that displays estimated concentrations of pollutants. I performed some of the initial development for the HazeCalc program which reports monthly relative humidity values for Class I areas and any location in the United States for the purpose of calculating visibility ? Air Quality Modeling for the Department of Defense: I modeled potential emissions from proposed additional power plants at a U.S. Army base and then determined what modifications to the design would keep the base within allowable emissions levels and supported annual air emission inventories, I worked with the National Exposure Research Laboratory, to program help software for the Multimedia Modeling System that predicts transport and the fate of nutrients.

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? At a non-invasive behavioral research facility attached to Duke University, was responsible for 35 endangered primates (primary) and 70 additional primates (secondary) ? Provided natural habitat environments, designed behavioral enrichment objects, tracked animals using biotelemetry in the free-range wooded areas on the property, captured animals outdoors for examination and emergencies, trained lemurs to return to enclosures using behavioral cues, assisted with both biotelemetry and behavioral research studies, surgical procedures, medical care, and necropsy

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Citicorp Team and McGraw Hill Team, AT&T Solutions via Randstad Corp, Durham, NC ? Oversight through statistical analysis of performance data of a large group of network engineers repairing a global network of CISCO and Bay network routers. Processed network response data from the Remedy ticketing system, extracted summary statistics, and traced and removed country-specific hardware issues (natural disasters, country-wide power outages, etc). Created statistical and graphical reports that were then used to assign financial rewards and penalties to various divisions of the network teams.

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Duke University: Dept. of Physics, Supervisor: Dr. Stephen Teitsworth, http://phy.duke.edu/ Assistant Instructor, 4 courses: Physics for Non-Majors (1 term) , Electrodynamics (1 term), General Mechanics (2 terms) Website design for teaching science: I designed the website for a physics course at Duke University to teach physics graphically through demonstration tools. I was also the assistant teacher for two basic Mechanics courses and one Electromagnetism course for undergraduate students in the Physics department. I also presented two nonlinear dynamics research experiments by modeling two disparate nonlinear systems: the double pendulum and a nonlinear circuit with a double feedback loop.

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Analyzed solar flare data received from the Owens Valley Radio Telescope for Solar Physics division project. Extracted solar flare events from data set. Responsible for some program codes written in AWK and Interface Data Language (IDL) related to that project.

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Computer Graphics Unit, Manchester Computing Centre, England ? Worked on a guide to rapidly convert code from FORTRAN77 to FORTRAN90 while assisting with other computer projects. Its intent was to suggest basic conversions and explain the benefits and disadvantages of each change. The two codes being processed to test the various conversion possibilities and options both dealt with mathematical modeling of nonlinear systems. One eventual goal was to improve the code conversions by using Advanced Visual Systems (AVS) to examine the data graphically and thus see the ranges in which speed still needed improvement via parallel processing for effective data examination

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Research Assistant, Van de Graaff Lab., Dept of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL ? Worked on an independent project in surface physics, accelerating alpha particles to examine metal diffusion into silicon and accumulation of carbon on silicon surfaces. n the Van de Graaff Accelerator Laboratory. I studied the accumulation of carbon on silicon surfaces as a result of exposure to an alpha particle beam. Data analysis was done using a Rutherford Backscattering Chamber attached to the accelerator beam line. The project was a tangent to my previous research experiments in that laboratory that studied the diffusion on metals into silicon as a result of heat exposure.