Dakota Keene

Environmental Specialist I

Office of Water Programs, California State University, Sacramento, 2019–present

• Conducts stormwater monitoring and characterization, stormwater runoff toxicity evaluations, and similar projects
• Performs quality assurance/quality control for sample collection and reporting activities

Junior Environmental Assistant

Redhorse Corporation, Sacramento, CA, 2019

• Assisted California State Water Resources Control Board (State Water Board), Division of Financial Assistance, staff in processing administrative and technical information needed to reimburse eligible costs associated with the cleanup of leaking underground storage tank cases
• Prepared technical reports containing financial, hydrologic, and geochemical data on a site-specific basis to determine eligibility for case closure against the State Water Board Low-Threat Closure Policy

Researcher

Sacramento State Water Resources Group, California State University, Sacramento, 2016–2019

• Ensured concise and consistent data entry of well construction data and geophysical well logs including characteristics such as depth, producing perforations, porosity, conductivity, and resistivity as well as the digitization of geophysical well logs using Neuralog digitization software
• Contributed to the development of new databases and data categories to improve data collection

Professional Interests

Water resources and environmental modeling; climate change; stormwater sampling, isotope geochemistry