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Powell, Susan
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Email: spowell@usgs.gov
Ph: 541-750-1048; Fax:
777 NW 9th St., Suite 400
Corvallis, OR 97330-6169
M.S. Biology (Neuroscience), University of Oregon 1982
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, Neural Systems and Behavior 1981
B.S. Biology, University of Oregon 1979
Translation and communication of research science
- Session Chair, Estuarine Water Quality, Nutrients, and Organic Loading, Session 7 of Pacific Estuarine Research Society annual meeting, March 2005, Charleston, OR
Exhibits
2005 Natural history exhibit writer, The Discovery Center, Reedsport, OR
1999 Exhibit Coordinator (geology, human history, natural history, recreation), USFS Oregon Dunes NRA - permanent and seasonal exhibits, 5 brochures, 7 interpretive signs, website
1994 Exhibit Coordinator (weather, multimedia map, geology, elk, natural history), The Discovery Center, Reedsport, OR
1993 Exhibit Coordinator (temporary exhibits), The Discovery Center, Reedsport, OR
1992 Exhibit Designer - coastal birds, whales
Wildlife biology; estuarine monitoring - water quality, meteorology, nutrients, bacteria, sea grass, invasive species; intertidal invertebrate zoology; herpetofauna, snowy plover nesting; matsutake mushroom monitoring
Biologist
Selected Publications
- Monitoring Short-Term Variability and Change in the South Slough NERR's Water Quality. Earth System Monitor, NOAA, March 2001
- Tidepool Guide to Cape Arago, Oregon, Coast to Crest Interpreters' League, 2001
- Fishing Guide to the Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area, USFS, 1996
- Waves, Tides, and Currents, ODNRA brochure, USFS, 1995
- Absence of Competitive Interactions among Axon Terminals of Regenerating Motor Neurons. Denburg, J. L., Powell, S. L., et al., J. Neurobiol. 1988, 19: 656-665
- Intravenous Cyclosporine Activates Afferent and Efferent Renal Nerves and Causes Sodium Retention in Denervated Kidneys in Rats. Moss, N. G., Powell, S. L., et al. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 1985, 82: 8222-8226
- The Absence of Specific Dye-Coupling among Frog Spinal Neurons. Powell, S. L., and Westerfield, M, Brain Res. 1984, 294: 9-14
- Selective Reinnervation of Limb Muscles by Regenerating Frog Motor Axons. Westerfield, M., and Powell, S.L.,
Selected Presentations
- FRESC Highlights: A Full Spectrum of Scientific Information Management, USGS National Communications Conference, Baltimore, MF, June 2007
- South Slough NERR: past, current, and future water quality projects, Region 10 EPA site visit, Coos Bay, OR, Oct. 2005
- Hydrodynamic transport of bacterial contaminants to commercial and recreational shellfish areas with the South Slough Estuary, OR, Pacific Coast Shellfish Growers Association meeting, Hood River, OR, Sept. 2005
- Unifying disparate sources of time-series data: The development of dynamic data analysis at South Slough NERR, Pacific Estuarine Research Society meeting, Charleston, OR, March 2005
- System-Wide Monitoring Program 2005 Report: Issues, Goals, and New Calibration Template, NOAA NERRS Research Coordinators annual meeting, Gulfport, MS, Feb. 2005
- Clean Water: Can It Be Scarce in a Northwest Rainforest? Pacific Fisheries Legislative Taskforce, Charleston, OR, June 2003
Hiking, photography, travel
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