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usgs_staff_profile:

 meta:
   url: https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/nancy-rybicki
   timestamp: '2024-01-30T17:09:29.194270'
   status_code: 200
 profile:
   name: Nancy Rybicki
   name_qualifier: null
   titles:
   - Research Hydrologist Emeritus
   organizations:
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     - Water Resources Mission Area
     - https://www.usgs.gov/mission-areas/water-resources
   email: nrybicki@usgs.gov
   orcid: null
   intro_statements:
   - Nancy Rybicki is an Emeritus Research Hydrologist with the USGS Water Resources
     Mission Area.
   expertise_terms:
   - water quality
   - aquatic ecosystems
   - biodiversity
   - biogeography
   - ecological competition
   - ecological processes
   - ecosystem diversity
   - ecosystem functions
   - ecosystems
   - environmental assessment
   - estuarine ecosystems
   - forest ecosystems
   - freshwater ecosystems
   - wetland ecosystems
   professional_experience: []
   education: []
   affiliations: []
   honors: []
   abstracts: []
   personal_statement: 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.