Item talk:Q49411

usgs_staff_profile:

 meta:
   status_code: 200
   timestamp: '2023-09-30T17:13:59.050289'
   url: https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/erik-smith
 profile:
   abstracts: []
   affiliations: []
   education:
   - Doctor of Philosophy, Water Resources Science, University of Minnesota-Twin
     Cities, 2012
   - Master of Science, Geology and Geophysics, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities,
     2005
   email: easmith@usgs.gov
   expertise_terms:
   - groundwater quality
   - land use change
   - CE-QUAL-W2
   - water cycle
   - water budget
   - water-quality modeling
   - EFDC
   - SWB
   - R
   - harmful algal blooms
   honors: []
   intro_statements:
   - Dr. Smith constructs predictive hydrodynamic and water-quality models (CE-QUAL-W2;
     EFDC) to better understand land-use and hydrologic modification effects on nutrient
     fate/transport for inland lakes, estuaries, and reservoir systems. He also has
     a strong interest in improving the predictive capacity of these models to simulate
     harmful algal blooms.
   name: Erik Smith, Ph.D.
   name_qualifier: null
   orcid: 0000-0001-8434-0798
   organization_link: https://www.usgs.gov/centers/oklahoma-texas-water-science-center
   organization_name: Oklahoma-Texas Water Science Center
   personal_statement: Erik Smith has been a hydrologist with the U.S. Geological
     Survey since 2005. Other hydrodynamic modeling interests include applied models
     to better serve water resource managers, such as the timing of harmful algal
     blooms and water-quality changes from large interbasin water transfers. Aside
     from hydrodynamic and water-quality modeling, Erik has applied experience with
     machine learning techniques (such as boosted regression trees) and Geographic
     Information Systems (including all ESRI products and QGIS).Erik started his
     career as a supporting scientist and full-time hydrologist on the NAWQA program's
     Agricultural Chemicals Transport (ACT) team (South Fork Iowa River). Building
     on this experience, he has spent much of his career leading studies to better
     understand agricultural impacts on groundwater recharge from both subsurface
     tile drainage and crop irrigation.
   professional_experience: []
   title: Hydrologist