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USGS Staff Profile:

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   abstract: Research Hydrologist Emeritus with the Water Resources Mission Area
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   abstract: Nancy Rybicki is an Emeritus Research Hydrologist with the USGS Water
     Resources Mission Area.
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   abstract: I received my Bachelor of Science degree in Biology in 1980, my Master
     of Science degree in 1986 and my PhD in 2000 in Environmental Biology from George
     Mason University (GMU).  I am an affiliate professor in the Environmental Science
     and Policy Department at GMU as well as a hydrologist in the USGS Water Resources
     Mission Area in Reston, Virginia.  I was with the USGS Nation Research Program
     from 1979 until 2016 and am currently a member of the Vegetation and Hydrogeomorphic
     Relations Project where I lead the submersed aquatic vegetation (SAV) task.   I
     am an aquatic plant ecologist and have designed and conducted studies directed
     toward the recognition and understanding of processes that affect estuarine,
     riverine, floodplain, and wetland ecosystems.  This included fundamental research
     on the factors affecting diversity and the distribution of aquatic vegetation
     in estuaries and the effects of vegetation on water quality and flow.  I have
     studied factors influencing distribution and abundance of submersed aquatic
     macrophytes in estuaries and worked with the Environmental Protection Agency
     and other members of the Chesapeake Bay Program to set water-quality goals and
     habitat restoration targets for submersed aquatic vegetation in the Chesapeake
     Bay.  I also participated in USGS multidisciplinary studies in the south Florida
     Everglades focusing on determining vegetative resistance to flow to improve
     surface water models. In addition, I quantified the uptake of nutrients in plant
     material relative to other nutrient cycling processes in order to better define
     the important role of vegetation in nutrient and sediment trapping in a Piedmont
     floodplain.
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 email: nrybicki@usgs.gov
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