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 19th 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.