usgs_staff_profile:
meta: status_code: 200 timestamp: '2023-09-30T15:18:22.868936' url: https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/thomas-j-williams profile: abstracts: [] affiliations: [] education: - "Bachelor\u2019s Degree in Geography and Geosciences from the University of\ \ Missouri" - "Master\u2019s Degree in Physical Geography from the University of Iowa" email: tjwilliams@usgs.gov expertise_terms: [] honors: [] intro_statements: - Thomas Williams is a hydrologist at the U.S. Geological Survey - Kansas Water Science Center in Lawrence, Kansas. His work focuses on collecting, analyzing, and interpreting water-quality data in streams throughout eastern Kansas, with an emphasis on the Kansas River. name: Thomas J Williams name_qualifier: null orcid: 0000-0003-3124-3243 organization_link: https://www.usgs.gov/centers/kansas-water-science-center organization_name: Kansas Water Science Center personal_statement: 'Research objectives include: (1) characterizing current and historic water-quality conditions in the Kansas River related to sediment, nutrients, major ions, bromide, fecal indicator bacteria, cyanobacteria, and associated toxins and taste-and-odor compounds; and (2) developing and evaluating surrogate models that use water-quality samples and continuously measured physiochemical properties to estimate concentrations or probability of occurrence of water-quality constituents that are not easily measured in real time.' professional_experience: [] title: Hydrologist