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 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: - '@type': TextObject

 abstract: Emeritus/USGS-CVO Outreach Coordinator (1995-2022) with the Cascades Volcano
   Observatory
 additionalType: short description

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 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."
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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: '2024-05-10T20:43:17.291504'

- '@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

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 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: '2024-05-10T20:43:17.282867'

name: Carolyn Driedger url: https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/carolyn-driedger