usgs_staff_profile:
meta: url: https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/joseph-vrabel timestamp: '2024-01-30T22:23:49.141417' status_code: 200 profile: name: Joseph Vrabel name_qualifier: null titles: - Hydrologist organizations: - !!python/tuple - Oklahoma-Texas Water Science Center - https://www.usgs.gov/centers/oklahoma-texas-water-science-center email: jvrabel@usgs.gov orcid: null intro_statements: - Senior application developer with the Oklahoma-Texas Water Science Center expertise_terms: - bathymetry - geologic structure - lithostratigraphy - environmental assessment - contamination and pollution - groundwater quality - surface water quality - water quality - geospatial analysis - spatial analysis - groundwater flow - runoff - sediment transport - computational methods - field methods - mathematical modeling - mathematical simulation - statistical analysis professional_experience: - Performed computer modeling and data analysis using industry-standard software in the areas of surface- and groundwater flow, watershed simulation, contaminant/sediment transport, and surface geophysical data acquisition. - Developed mathematical methods and wrote custom software when commercially available tools were inadequate or nonexistent. - Collected pertinent field data to evaluate developed software and obtain critical results. Authored and published technical papers detailing the methods, results, and findings. - Prepared user manuals for the software and maintained a web-based central repository for distribution within the USGS scientific community. Actively maintained and enhanced the software based on feedback from the user community. education: - Bachelor of Science, Mathematics with Physics minor (2000) Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University affiliations: [] honors: [] abstracts: [] personal_statement: null