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USGS Staff Profile:

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 affiliation:
 - '@type': Organization
   name: American Geophysical Union (AGU)
 - '@type': Organization
   name: Geological Society of America (GSA)
 - '@type': Organization
   name: National Association for Interpretation (NAI)
 - '@type': Organization
   name: International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the .Earth's Interior
     (IAVCEI)
 - '@type': Organization
   name: Chair of the Cities and Volcanoes Executive Committee, 2017-present
 - '@type': Organization
   name: International Glaciological Society (IGS)
 - '@type': Organization
   name: Volcano hazard interagency-working groups (Baker, Glacier Peak, Rainier,
     St. Helens/Adams, Hood, Central Oregon)
 award:
 - Department of Interior Meritorious Service Award 2023
 - USGS Shoemaker Lifetime Achievement Award 2016
 - Mount St. Helens Response Achievement Award 2005
 - USGS Shoemaker Communications Award 2001
 - National Park Service Achievement Award for promoting inter-agency cooperation
   1992
 description:
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   abstract: Emeritus/USGS-CVO Outreach Coordinator (1995-2022) with the Cascades
     Volcano Observatory
   additionalType: short description
 - '@type': TextObject
   abstract: Addressing volcano hazards effectively entails more than doing good
     science. It requires ongoing and long-term conversations with communities at
     risk. Much of my job has involved the development and maintenance of inter-agency
     partnerships that are comprised of scientists, emergency officials, news media,
     educators, and park staffs in WA and OR.
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   abstract: "My science career began in 1978 at the USGS\u2014Project Office Glaciology\
     \ research group in Tacoma, WA, where my first task was to oversee photogrammetry\
     \ for the remapping of long-term study glaciers, as designated during the International\
     \ Geophysical Year (1957-1958).  During the early 1980s, I participated in a\
     \ multi-faceted study of drastic recession at Alaska\u2019s Columbia Glacier,\
     \ and its hydrologic environment.  By the mid-1980s, rapid thinning had commenced\
     \ at some Cascade Range glaciers, and for most of a decade thereafter, I co-led\
     \ a study of glacier-related floods and debris flows that ravaged regions of\
     \ rapid glacier recession, principally at Mount Rainier.  The May 18, 1980 catastrophic\
     \ eruption of Mount St. Helens killed 57 people and caused more than $1 Billion\
     \ in damages. Involvement in that eruption response inspired projects that assessed\
     \ impacts of volcanic ash on snowmelt, and the potentially hazardous hydrologic\
     \ contributions of glaciers.  However, the most far-reaching impact of the eruption\
     \ on me came from being present to observe and reflect upon the necessary roles\
     \ of researchers as scientific investigators, and as effective communicators\
     \ and advisors to public officials.  This realization was a career changer.\
     \  In 1995, then domiciled at the USGS Cascades Volcano Observatory, I made\
     \ a switch from scientific projects to establishing the Cascades \u2018Living\
     \ with a Volcano in your Backyard Outreach Program.\u2019  Emergency managers\
     \ were creating inter-agency Volcano Hazard Working Groups in volcanic areas\
     \ of Washington and Oregon.  Since the mid-1990s and continuing to today, these\
     \ working groups prepare and exercise emergency coordination plans and address\
     \ issues of pertinence to policy makers, planners and infrastructure specialists.\
     \  My role has been aiding the working groups and creating venues for educating\
     \ communications professionals who can disseminate hazard information efficiently\
     \ through their professional communication pathways.  These groups include educators,\
     \ park interpreters, public information officers, and the news media. Between\
     \ 2013 and 2020 a new career dimension opened with co-developing a \u2018binational\
     \ exchange program\u2019, whereby groups of public officials learn about volcanically\
     \ devastated or at-risk regions of Colombia and the USA through interactions\
     \ with visiting professional counterparts.  Some earlier career experiences\
     \ have informed my career, including several years of teaching in a US public\
     \ school and a private school in Kathmandu, Nepal, and working as an Interpreter\
     \ at two National Park facilities.  These experiences helped me to understand\
     \ elements of effective science communication that are common to multiple professions.\
     \  Now in status as a Scientist Emerita, I am completing writing projects that\
     \ provide documentation about ongoing interagency efforts and pathways forward\
     \ on behalf of volcano hazard mitigation in the Cascade Range."
   additionalType: personal statement
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   abstract: '"Mount St. Helens Revisited: Lives Changed, Lessons Learned and Legacies
     of the 1980 Eruptions" June, 2021 USGS Public Lecture https://www.usgs.gov/news/state-news-release/media-advisory-mount-st-helens-revisited-live-online-public-lecture"Mount
     St. Helens Revisited: Lives Changed, Lessons Learned and Legacies of the 1980
     Eruptions" June, 2021 USGS Public Lecture'
   additionalType: staff profile page abstract
 email: cmastin@usgs.gov
 hasCredential:
 - '@type': EducationalOccupationalCredential
   name: M.S. Shippensburg State University of Pennsylvania, 1978
 - '@type': EducationalOccupationalCredential
   name: B.S. Bloomsburg State University of Pennsylvania, 1975
 - '@type': EducationalOccupationalCredential
   name: Secondary School Teaching Credentials, 1977
 hasOccupation:
 - '@type': OrganizationalRole
   affiliatedOrganization:
     '@type': Organization
     name: Cascades Volcano Observatory
     url: https://www.usgs.gov/observatories/cvo
   roleName: Emeritus/USGS-CVO Outreach Coordinator (1995-2022)
   startDate: '2024-05-10T21:08:11.350385'
 - '@type': Occupation
   additionalType: self-claimed professional experience
   name: 'USGS Professional History USGS Cascades Volcano Observatory, Vancouver,
     WA 1990 - present

     -Urban Hazards Initiative

     -Volcano hazards communications, with current focus on inter-agency partnerships
     and community outreach

     -Mount Rainier curriculum development and ongoing teacher workshops

     -Volcano Science Center Communications Work Group'
 - '@type': Occupation
   additionalType: self-claimed professional experience
   name: 'USGS Washington Water Resources District Office, Tacoma, WA 1987 - 1990

     -Mount Rainier debris flow studies.'
 - '@type': Occupation
   additionalType: self-claimed professional experience
   name: 'USGS National Research Program Project Office - Glaciology, Tacoma, WA
     1978 - 1987

     -Photogrammetric remapping of IGY long-term study glaciers

     -Field mapping of IGY study glaciers for glacier-climate studies

     -Columbia Glacier ice-marginal and sub-glacial hydrology

     -Response at Mount St. Helens eruptions

     -Snowmelt-volcanic ash interactions

     -Ice-radar studies at Cascade volcanoes'
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 jobTitle: Emeritus/USGS-CVO Outreach Coordinator (1995-2022)
 knowsAbout:
 - '@type': Thing
   additionalType: self-claimed expertise
   name: communication
 - '@type': Thing
   additionalType: self-claimed expertise
   name: volcano hazards
 - '@type': Thing
   additionalType: self-claimed expertise
   name: volcanic activity
 - '@type': Thing
   additionalType: self-claimed expertise
   name: surface water (non-marine)
 - '@type': Thing
   additionalType: self-claimed expertise
   name: lahars
 - '@type': Thing
   additionalType: self-claimed expertise
   name: Mount St Helens
 - '@type': Thing
   additionalType: self-claimed expertise
   name: Mount Rainier
 memberOf:
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   member:
     '@type': Organization
     name: U.S. Geological Survey
   name: staff member
   startDate: '2024-05-10T21:08:11.346817'
 name: Carolyn  Driedger
 url: https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/carolyn-driedger-mastin