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usgs_staff_profile:

 meta:
   url: https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/daniel-m-wagner
   timestamp: '2024-01-30T18:33:09.060935'
   status_code: 200
 profile:
   name: Daniel M Wagner
   name_qualifier: null
   titles:
   - Hydrologist
   organizations:
   - !!python/tuple
     - Lower Mississippi-Gulf Water Science Center
     - https://www.usgs.gov/centers/lower-mississippi-gulf-water-science-center
   email: dwagner@usgs.gov
   orcid: null
   intro_statements:
   - Staff
   expertise_terms:
   - floods
   - streamflow
   - surface water (non-marine)
   professional_experience: []
   education: []
   affiliations: []
   honors: []
   abstracts: []
   personal_statement: 'Began working for USGS June 2006 as a student hydrologic
     technician while attending graduate school at University of Arkansas Dept.
     of Geosciences. Completed graduate school December 2007.  Started working full-time
     for USGS February 2008 as a hydrologist in the Northwest Arkansas Project Office.I
     became interested in the geosciences when I took a geology course while attending
     community college in my hometown of Kansas City, Missouri.  I transferred to
     the University of Arkansas in August 2001 to pursue a Bachelor of Science Degree
     in Geology.  I completed the undergraduate program in May 2004 and was accepted
     to the graduate school at the University to pursue a Master of Science in Geology.In
     graduate school, I first worked as a Research Assistant for Dr. Ralph Davis
     from August 2004 to May 2005 on a sedimentation project involving the local
     303(d) listed stream West Fork of White River, the objective of which was to
     quantify the sediment contributed to the river from the extensive network of
     gravel roads in the watershed.  I switched gears in August of 2005 and became
     a Teaching Assistant, teaching general geology labs.  At that time, I quit working
     for Dr. Davis and began working for Dr. Phil Hays on a project at the Universitys
     Savoy Experimental Watershed that would become my Masters Thesis.  The focus
     of the project was looking at stable oxygen and nitrogen isotopes of nitrate
     in a swine facilitys waste lagoon in the local karst landscape.  Water samples
     from the lagoon were compared with samples from shallow groundwater interception
     trenches dug nearby to the lagoon and from springs and surface water in the
     watershed of the lagoon.  I completed the Masters Thesis in December 2007.I
     had started working for the USGS as a student hydrologic technician in June
     2006 after the Ft. Smith, Arkansas field office had been moved to Fayetteville.  I
     made hundreds of discharge measurements, occasionally using current meters but
     more often using hydroacoustics:  SonTek Flow Trackers, OTT ADC, and RDI RioGrande
     and StreamPro ADCPs.  DCP installations and troubleshooting were among my tasks,
     as well as running station levels and water quality sampling.  I ran a surface-water
     and a water-quality field trip, and worked numerous storm sampling events and
     flood events.  After completing graduate school, I started full-time with USGS
     in February 2008 in the Northwest Arkansas Project Office as a hydrologist.Since
     becoming a hydrologist, Ive done testing on the OTT ADC (Acoustic Digital
     Current meter) and written a HIF instrument news article documenting the test
     results, developed a discharge-based float guide for the Buffalo National River
     in north-central Arkansas in cooperation with the National Park Service, helped
     with field work for and co-authored a repor'