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usgs_staff_profile:

 meta:
   url: https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/johanna-m-blake
   timestamp: '2024-01-31T04:36:39.614645'
   status_code: 200
 profile:
   name: Johanna M. Blake, Ph.D.
   name_qualifier: null
   titles:
   - Research Hydrologist (Geochemist)
   organizations:
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     - New Mexico Water Science Center
     - https://www.usgs.gov/centers/new-mexico-water-science-center
   email: jmtblake@usgs.gov
   orcid: 0000-0003-4667-0096
   intro_statements:
   - Dr. Johanna Blake is a Research Hydrologist with geochemical expertise at the
     USGS New Mexico Water Science Center.
   expertise_terms:
   - geochemistry
   - surface water
   - mining
   - water quality
   - wildfires
   - water-rock interactions
   - lake sediment coring
   - geochemical modeling
   - tribal engagement
   professional_experience:
   - 2017 to present, Research Hydrologist (geochemist), U.S. Geological Survey,
     New Mexico Water Science Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico
   - 2015 to 2017, Hydrologist (geochemist), U.S. Geological Survey, New Mexico Water
     Science Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico
   - Post-doctoral fellow, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, University
     of New Mexico, 2014-2015
   - 2009 to 2014, Teaching Assistant, Lehigh University
   - 2008 to 2009, Research Assistant, Lehigh University
   - 2007 to 2008, Chemist; Radiochemistry
   education:
   - Ph.D., Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lehigh University, 2014
   - M.S., Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lehigh University, 2010
   - B.S., Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of New Mexico, 2007
   - B.A., Psychology, Washington College, 1999
   affiliations:
   - 2016 to present, Adjunct Faculty, Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of
     New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico
   - 2015 to present, Geochemical Society
   - 2009 to present, Geological Society of America
   honors: []
   abstracts: []
   personal_statement: Johanna Blake has devoted her career to understanding geochemical
     processes that may effect surface water and groundwater especially related to
     rock-water, sediment-water, and ash-water interactions. She focuses her research
     on inorganic geochemistry related to mining, sediment, and wildfires and specializes
     in elements including uranium, arsenic, molybdenum, selenium, lead, chromium,
     and rare earth elements. Johanna has worked on issues related to uranium mining
     in the Grants Mineral Belt, New Mexico, on the Navajo Nation, and along the
     Texas Gulf Coast. She has been the lead scientist in New Mexico working on post-Gold
     King Mine spill research in the Animas and San Juan Rivers and has worked on
     understanding potential effects of mining on two drinking water reservoirs along
     the Animas River. She is the co-lead for a large project working to track the
     source(s) of metals to the San Juan River through Navajo Nation. In addition,
     Johanna works on wildfires and water quality including identifying mechanisms
     of element mobility from ash especially related to systems with multi-stressors
     including drought, flood, wildfire, and mining. More recently, Johanna has joined
     a multi-disciplinary team to understand the effects of coal mining on a transboundary
     reservoir in Canada and Montana.