Education: KRISTINE STAIR

Name and Address if Institution	Major	Degree, Diploma, Year
William Palmer High School, Colorado Springs, CO		Diploma 1984
Garden City Community College, Garden City, KS	Biology	A.S. 1996
Wichita State University, Wichita, KS	Geology	B.S. 2000

Program of Instruction, License, Certification, or Registration:

Name and Address if Institution	Program Title	Degree, Certificate, Year
NAUI & USF	Advanced Scuba Diver & Scientific Diver-in-Training	Certification 2004
PADI Diving Society	Open Water Diver	Certification 2000
Tekmar-Dohrmann	12 hour Phoenix TOC Training	Certificate 2002
Kansas Laboratory Education Association	5 hour Water & Wastewater 19^th Annual KLEA Conference	2003

Laboratory and Field Experience:

Name and Address of Employer	Period of Employment		Position(s) Held	Experience
U.S. Geological Survey, Water Resources Division, Wichita, KS	June-99	Sept-02	Hydrologic Technician	Field sampling, ground water and surface water collection & processing, stream discharge measurements, alkalinity titration, bacteriological sample collection, agar preparation, membrane filtration, & cleaning/maintenance of YSI/scientific equipment.
Wichita Municipal Water & Waste Water Laboratory, Wichita, KS	Sept-02	July-03	Water Quality Laboratory Technician	Titration (Alk, Calcium, Hardness, Chloride), Solids, pH, Specific Conductivity, Turbidity, Limes, Ammonia, Total Phosphate, Phenols, bacteria sample collection with chlorine testing, and field sampling.
University of South Florida, Paleoclimate Laboratory, St. Pete, FL	Aug-03	Present	Research Assistant	ICP-OES, Mass Spec, and research cruise field experience with CTD casts, plankton tows, and in-situ seawater filtration.

Other Qualifications or Skills:

Activity and Location	Year	Experience
1-week Water Studies Course along a 60-mile stretch of the Current River, MO	1994	Assessment of odor, color, turbidity, flow, bottom sediments, organisms, and sources of local contaminants. Performed tests for ammonia, carbon dioxide, nitrate, pH, phosphate, & silica.
University of TX Marine Science Institute, TX	1996	Gulf Coast bay systems’ cruise included a collecting & investigating experience using a Secchi disc, Van Dorn bottle, refractometer, plankton tow, otter trawl, and Peterson mud grab.
1-week Tropical Marine Environment Course, Belize	1999, 2001	Field exercises at near-shore stations along Ambergis Caye included determining sea water parameters using a pH meter, refractometer, thermometer, and an iron rod (for water depth).
2-week Graduate Research Team study of the “Mexico Rocks” patch reef system, Belize	2000	Work included locating specific coral reefs using a map from aerial photos, setting up tag lines to divide reefs into 1m segments, and snorkeling across intervals to identify live coral and est. percentage of individual species in addition to identifying algal and spongal species present.
6-week Field Course in Geology, NM and CO	2000	Geologic and hydrogeologic projects included constructing maps, cross-sections, and topographic profiles. Stream discharge measurements utilized USGS procedures & equipment such as a pygmy meter, v-notch weir, and Parshall flume.