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   status_code: 200
   timestamp: '2023-09-30T15:18:14.507623'
   url: https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/scott-t-prinos
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   email: stprinos@usgs.gov
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   name: Scott T Prinos
   name_qualifier: null
   orcid: 0000-0002-5776-8956
   organization_link: https://www.usgs.gov/centers/cfwsc
   organization_name: Caribbean-Florida Water Science Center (CFWSC)
   personal_statement: Scott Prinos is a supervisory hydrologist with the U.S. Geological
     Survey (USGS) at the Caribbean-Florida Water Science Center in Davie, Florida
     and head of the Hydrogeology and Groundwater Modeling unit. He has been the
     lead investigator or co-investigator on many interdisciplinary projects.EducationM.S.,
     Northern Illinois University, Geology, 1995Work ExperienceScott Prinos began
     his career as a hydrologic Technician with the USGS in the early 1990s in the
     Dekalb Sub-District Office, in Illinois where he collected hydrologic data and
     assisted in hydrogeologic examinations of EPA Super Fund sites. In the mid-1990s
     Prinos transferred from Illinois to Florida, were he served as the Groundwater
     Data Collection Program Coordinator in south Florida for 12 years and also as
     a supervisory hydrologist for 9 years. During this period Prinos worked closely
     with the partners of the USGS and the Data Section Chief to evaluate the groundwater
     level and salinity monitoring networks of the USGS in south Florida and to implement
     the monitoring changes necessary. He conducted numerous informal network evaluation
     assessments, so that USGS partners could better understand the effects of proposed
     network changes and how those changes might impact resource-management decision
     making. He was lead investigator in the project Design of a Real-Time Groundwater
     Level Monitoring Network and Portrayal of Hydrologic Data in Southern Florida.
     This was a precursor to, and inspiration for, the USGS Groundwater Watch webpage.Prinos
     transferred to the Hydrologic Investigations Unit in 2009. He developed the
     concept of correcting individual electromagnetic induction logs into time-series
     electromagnetic induction log (TSEMIL) data sets which improved the ability
     to identify changes in bulk resistivity through time. He has collaborated with
     other USGS hydrologists on projects in southern Florida that have included geospatial
     salinity network evaluations, mapping the inland extent of saltwater intrusion,
     creation of potentiometric maps, collection, analysis, and publication of geophysical
     surveys, design of improved monitoring well designs to maximize the geophysical
     and geochemical information that can be gathered, and hydrostratigraphic analyses.
     Prinos oversaw continued advancements to the 2000 prototype website to include
     various types of groundwater and surface water data which most recently led
     to collaboration on the Water Level and Salinity Analysis Mapper.Prinos became
     a Supervisory Hydrologist in the Hydrologic Investigations Unit in 2020.
   professional_experience: []
   title: Hydrologist